Karel Sedláček

**Karel Sedláček** (born 17 February 1979) is a Czech professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). He is the most successful Czech darts player. He represented his country during EDU European Darts Championship, WDF Europe Cup and PDC World Cup of Darts. He participated in the BDO World Darts Championship and PDC World Darts Championship.

## Career

Sedláček qualified for the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship playing Paul Hogan in the preliminary round, losing 1–3. He qualified for the 2014 BDO World Trophy, won in the first round 6–1 over Robbie Green, then lost in the last 16 to Paul Jennings 2–7. He qualified for the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship, playing Paul Coughlin in the preliminary round; he won 3–2. He lost 1–3 to Glen Durrant in the first round, with the highest average (99.58) in all the first round matches, and the third-highest average for a match loser in Lakeside history.

In 2018, Sedláček qualified for the 2018 Dutch Darts Championship. He won the East European qualifier to qualify for the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, his first qualification for that event. Following a 3–0 defeat to Keegan Brown at the World Championship, he went on to qualify for the 2019 German Darts Grand Prix in Munich. Wins over Diogo Portela, Ian White and Darren Webster saw Sedláček reach the quarter-finals, where he went down 5–6 to Max Hopp. Sedláček was also able to qualify for his home tournament, the 2019 Czech Darts Open, where he was eventually beaten by Ian White in the second round.

On 18 January 2020, he beat Berry van Peer in the final of day three at European PDC Q-School to win a PDC Tour Card for the first time. Sedláček will play on the PDC Pro Tour in 2020 and 2021. Since 2017, he has been representing his country at the PDC World Cup of Darts. The Czech national team has never advanced to the second round of these tournament. From 2017 to 2019, his teammates were František Humpula, Roman Benecký and Pavel Jirkal. From 2020, his companion is Adam Gawlas. In the first round doubles during 2020 PDC World Cup of Darts Czech team faced Belgium (Dimitri Van den Bergh and Kim Huybrechts) and lost only by 4–5 in legs.

During 2021 PDC World Cup of Darts, they lost to Poland (Krzysztof Ratajski and Krzysztof Kciuk) in the first round doubles match. At the 2022 PDC World Cup of Darts they lost in the first round match to England team (Michael Smith and James Wade) by 1–5 in legs. In the 2023 PDC World Cup of Darts they failed in the group-stage by lost match to Philippines team within Lourence Ilagan and Christian Perez.

He is qualified for the inaugural 2023 Poland Darts Masters.

## World Championship results

### BDO

* 2014: Preliminary round (lost to Paul Hogan 1–3)
* 2015: First round (lost to Glen Durrant 1–3)

### PDC

* 2019: First round (lost to Keegan Brown 0–3)
* 2021: First round (lost to Ryan Joyce 2–3)
* 2023: Second round (lost to Dirk van Duijvenbode 2–3)

## References

1. ↑ ET Qualifying Double for Ratajski.
2. ↑ Sedlacek Seals World Championship Debut. PDC. Retrieved on September 22, 2018.
3. ↑ Major secures Poland Darts Masters spot at Hungarian Qualifier. Professional Darts Corporation.