Jermaine Wattimena

Jermaine Wattimena (born 9 March 1988) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. A PDC Tour Card holder since 2015; he reached his first major final in 2024, finishing as runner-up at the European Championship. He won his first ranking PDC title at 2025 Players Championship 23.

Jermaine Wattimena
Wattimena at the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts
Personal information
Nickname	"The Machine Gun"
Born	(1988-03-09) 9 March 1988 (age 37) Netherlands
Home town	Den Helder, Netherlands[1]
Darts information
Playing darts since	2006
Darts	22g Bull's Signature
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"Bella Ciao" by Gunz For Hire
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2008–2014
PDC	2014– (Tour Card 2015–)
Current world ranking	(PDC) 26 4 (30 July 2025)[2]
WDF major events – best performances
World Masters	Last 24: 2009
PDC premier events – best performances
World Championship	Last 32: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2025
World Matchplay	Last 16: 2025
World Grand Prix	Quarter-final: 2019
UK Open	Last 16: 2018, 2019
Grand Slam	Quarter-final: 2024
European Championship	Runner-up: 2024
Premier League	Challenger: 2020
PC Finals	Last 16: 2017, 2023, 2024
Masters	Last 32: 2025
World Series Finals	Last 16: 2019
Other tournament wins
German Gold Cup 2014 Malta Open 2008 Players Championships (x1) 2025 PC23

Wattimena represented the Netherlands in the 2019 PDC World Cup of Darts, reaching the semi-finals alongside Michael van Gerwen.

Career

Wattimena won the first event he entered as he claimed the 2008 Malta Open by beating Vincent Busuttil in the final.^[3] He made his British Darts Organisation debut in a major event at the World Masters and won four games to reach the last 24 where he lost 3–0 to Steve Douglas.^[4] In 2014, Wattimena won the German Gold Cup courtesy of defeating Jan Dekker 3–2 in the final.^[5] Later in the year he qualified for the 2015 PDC World Championship by winning the Central European Qualifier, concluding with a 6–3 victory over Kenny Neyens.^[6] Wattimena entered the event in the preliminary round and narrowly lost 4–3 to Robert Marijanović, missing three match darts in the final leg.^[7]

He entered PDC Qualifying School in January 2015 and was eliminated in the final round of the third day by Steve Douglas. However, Wattimena had already done enough through the Order of Merit to not even need to play on the fourth day as he finished joint second on the Order of Merit to earn a two-year PDC tour card.^[8] He qualified for the UK Open and defeated Jonny Clayton 5–1 in the first round, but then lost to Kevin McDine 5–4.^[9] Wattimena twice lost in the last 16 of Players Championship events during the year and beat Robert Marijanović 6–5 at the European Darts Grand Prix, but was then knocked out 6–3 by Peter Wright in the second round.^[10][11]

In the first round of the 2016 World Championship, Wattimena lost 3–1 to Mensur Suljović.^[12] He overcame Andy Smith 6–5 and Kevin Dowling 6–1 at the UK Open, before losing 9–7 to Alan Norris in the third round.^[13] At the 15th Players Championship wins over Jonny Clayton, David Pallett, Peter Wright, Simon Stevenson and Jelle Klaasen ensured Wattimena played in his first PDC semi-final and he was defeated 6–3 by Michael van Gerwen.^[14] He qualified for seven European Tour events during the season and, although he didn't get past the second round in any of them, his consistent play saw him make his debut in the European Championship, where he lost 6–1 to Mensur Suljović in the first round.^[15][16]

He lost 3–1 in the opening round of the World Championship for the second year in a row in the 2017 event, this time to Daryl Gurney.^[17] He knocked out Mick Todd, Dave Chisnall, Robert Thornton, Kyle Anderson and Benito van de Pas at the seventh Players Championship to reach his second PDC semi-final, where he was defeated by Kim Huybrechts 6–3.^[18] He reached third PDC semi-final at Players Championship 17, where he beat Alan Tabern, Berry van Peer, Peter Hudson, Steve Beaton and Justin Pipe, before losing to Kevin Painter 6–3.^[19] He qualified for five European Tour events over 2017, failing to make it past the Last 32 in any of them, meaning he did not qualify for the 2017 European Championship. He made a third Players Championship semi-final of the year in the final weekend in Barnsley, at Players Championship 21, where he knocked out Ross Twell, Ian White, Kevin Painter, Peter Jacques and Michael Smith, before a 6–2 defeat to Adrian Lewis.^[20] This was enough for him to qualify for the Players Championship Finals, as the 29th seed. Wattimena started off with a 6–0 whitewash win against Keegan Brown. He saw off Mickey Mansell 6–3 in the second round. However, in the last 16, he was defeated 10–9 by Steve Beaton in a deciding leg, having levelled from 9–5 down. He picked up £8,000 from the Players Championship Finals.

Wattimena reached a career-high of 17th in the PDC Order of Merit in November 2019.^[21]

Wattimena's consistent improvement and progression up the rankings was rewarded with a 'challenger' spot for the 2020 Premier League in Rotterdam.^[22]

On the PDC European Tour Wattimena reached the quarter-finals at both the 2024 Belgian Darts Open and the 2024 German Darts Grand Prix. He lost at the quarter-final stage to Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen respectively, each 6–2 in legs. Wattimena also reached the quarter-finals at the 2024 Czech Darts Open, losing to Kim Huybrechts 6–4.

At the 2024 European Championship, Wattimena reached a first major televised final, losing 11–3 to fellow maiden finalist Ritchie Edhouse.^[23] After five runner-up finishes in PDC ranking finals, he claimed his first title at Players Championship 23 on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour by defeating Lukas Wenig 8–5.^[24]

World Championship results

PDC

• 2015: Preliminary round (lost to Robert Marijanović 3–4) (legs)
• 2016: First round (lost to Mensur Suljović 1–3)
• 2017: First round (lost to Daryl Gurney 1–3)
• 2018: Second round (lost to Steve West 1–4)
• 2019: Third round (lost to Gary Anderson 3–4)
• 2020: Second round (lost to Luke Humphries 2–3)
• 2021: Third round (lost to Dimitri Van den Bergh 0–4)
• 2022: First round (lost to Boris Koltsov 0–3)
• 2023: First round (lost to Nathan Rafferty 2–3)
• 2024: Second round (lost to Martin Schindler 1–3)
• 2025: Third round (lost to Peter Wright 2–4)

Career finals

PDC major finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
European Championship (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Championship	Opponent in the final	Score[N 1]
Runner-up	1.	2024	European Championship	Ritchie Edhouse	3–11 (l)

1. (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets.

Performance timeline

BDO

Tournament	2009	2014
Winmau World Masters	5R	2R

PDC

Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
World Championship	Prel.	1R	1R	2R	3R	2R	3R	1R	1R	2R	3R
World Masters	Did not qualify										1R
UK Open	2R	3R	4R	5R	6R	4R	4R	4R	4R	3R	5R
World Matchplay	DNQ			1R	1R	1R	1R	DNQ			2R
World Grand Prix	DNQ			2R	QF	1R	DNQ
European Championship	DNQ	1R	DNQ	1R	2R	DNQ				F
Grand Slam	Did not qualify					RR	DNQ	2R	DNQ	QF
Players Championship Finals	DNQ	2R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	3R
Non-ranked televised events
Premier League	Did not participate					C	DNP
World Cup	Did not participate				SF	DNP
World Series Finals	DNQ				1R	DNQ
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	70	49	40	29	23	26	36	39	51	36

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
2015	Did not qualify								EDG 2R
2016	DDM 1R	GDM 2R	GDT 2R	EDM DNQ	ADO 2R	EDO DNQ	IDO 2R	EDT 2R	EDG 2R	GDC DNQ
2017	GDC 2R	DNQ		EDG 1R	DNQ			EDO 1R	DDM DNQ	GDG 2R	IDO DNQ	EDT 2R
2018	EDO 2R	GDG 1R	GDO 2R	ADO DNQ	EDG 3R	DDM 3R	GDT 3R	DDO 2R	EDM 1R	GDC 1R	DDC DNQ	IDO 2R	EDT 1R
2019	EDO 3R	GDC 3R	GDG DNQ	GDO 2R	DNQ		DDM 3R	DDO QF	CDO 3R	ADC 1R	DNQ		GDT 3R
2020	BDC 2R	GDC 2R	DNQ
2022	IDO 1R	GDC 1R	GDG 1R	ADO 1R	EDO 1R	DNQ		DDC 2R	EDM 2R	Did not qualify
2023	BSD 1R	EDO 1R	DNQ			DDC 1R	BDO 1R	CDO DNQ	EDG 1R	DNQ		HDT 2R	GDC DNQ
2024	BDO QF	GDG QF	DNQ			BSD 2R	DDC 3R	DNQ		FDT 2R	HDT DNQ	SDT 2R	CDO QF
2025	BDO 2R	EDT 3R	IDO 1R	GDG 2R	ADO 3R	EDG 1R	DDC 1R	EDO 2R	BSD 2R	FDT	CDO	HDT	SDT	GDC

PDC Players Championships

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
2015	Did not participate					COV 4R	COV 1R	COV 4R	CRA 1R	CRA 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	DUB 2R	DUB 2R	COV 2R	COV 1R
2016	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 4R	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	COV 1R	COV 2R	BAR 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR SF	BAR 2R	DUB 1R	DUB 4R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R
2017	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	DNP		BAR SF	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 4R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	WIG 2R	WIG 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR SF	BAR 2R	DUB 2R	DUB 2R	BAR SF	BAR 3R
2018	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	MIL 3R	MIL 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	WIG 3R	WIG 2R	MIL 3R	MIL 2R	WIG SF	WIG SF	BAR 1R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	DUB QF	DUB 4R	BAR 3R	BAR 4R
2019	WIG F	WIG 3R	WIG 2R	WIG 3R	BAR 3R	BAR QF	WIG QF	WIG 2R	BAR 3R	BAR QF	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	HIL 4R	HIL F	BAR QF	BAR QF	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	DUB 4R	DUB QF	BAR 1R	BAR QF
2020	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	WIG 2R	WIG 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 4R	BAR 4R	BAR 1R	MIL 1R	MIL 4R	MIL 4R	MIL 3R	MIL 3R	NIE 1R	NIE 3R	NIE 3R	NIE 4R	NIE 3R	COV F	COV 2R	COV 2R	COV QF	COV 3R
2021	BOL 1R	BOL 3R	BOL 2R	BOL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 3R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	NIE 4R	NIE 4R	NIE 2R	NIE 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	COV 2R	COV 1R	COV 1R	COV 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R
2022	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 4R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	WIG 1R	WIG 1R	NIE 1R	NIE 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR QF	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 1R	BAR 2R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR QF	BAR QF
2023	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 2R	BAR 4R	HIL 3R	HIL 1R	WIG 1R	WIG 4R	LEI 3R	LEI 3R	HIL 1R	HIL 1R	LEI 1R	LEI 1R	HIL 2R	HIL 1R	BAR 1R	BAR QF	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R	BAR 1R	BAR 1R	BAR 3R	BAR 2R
2024	WIG 1R	WIG 2R	LEI 2R	LEI 3R	HIL 2R	HIL 3R	LEI 1R	LEI 3R	HIL 2R	HIL 1R	HIL 4R	HIL 2R	MIL 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 3R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	MIL 3R	MIL 2R	WIG QF	WIG 2R	MIL 1R	MIL 2R	WIG 3R	WIG 3R	WIG 3R	WIG 3R	WIG 3R	LEI 1R	LEI 3R
2025	WIG QF	WIG 2R	ROS QF	ROS 2R	LEI 1R	LEI 4R	HIL 3R	HIL 1R	LEI 2R	LEI 2R	LEI 3R	LEI 2R	ROS 4R	ROS 3R	HIL 4R	HIL 3R	LEI 2R	LEI F	LEI 3R	LEI 4R	LEI 4R	HIL 3R	HIL W	MIL	MIL	HIL	HIL	LEI	LEI	LEI	WIG	WIG	WIG	WIG

Performance Table Legend
W	Won the tournament	F	Finalist	SF	Semifinalist	QF	Quarterfinalist	#R RR Prel.	Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round	DQ	Disqualified
DNQ	Did not qualify	DNP	Did not participate	WD	Withdrew	NH	Tournament not held			NYF	Not yet founded