Baltic Sea Darts Open 2025 LIVE SCORES: Van Barneveld features on day 1, Humphries and Van Gerwen made to wait
Dutch star Raymond van Barneveld features on day 1 in a tricky test against Belgian Andy Baetens.
World No1 Luke Humphries, flying Dutchman Michael van Gerwen and defending champion Rob Cross will have to wait until Saturday to kickstart their tournament.
While Luke Littler misses out as the teen sensation continues his European tour boycott.
Start time: 12pm BST
Live stream / TV: PDCTV / DAZN
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2 minutes ago By Laurence Ryan
Order of play - afternoon sessions
Mickey Mansell v Miroslaw Grudziecki
Luke Woodhouse v Liam Maendl-Lawrance
Cameron Menzies v Yorick Hofkens
Gian van Veen v Johan Engstrom
Jermaine Wattimena v Callan Rydz
Richard Veenstra v Krzysztof Ratajski
Wessel Nijman v Martin Kramer
Kim Huybrechts v Ian White
3 minutes ago By Laurence Ryan
Welcome to the Baltic Sea Darts Open!
Welcome to SunSport's coverage of the Baltic Sea Darts Open!
A huge weekend of darting action awaits at the Wunderino Arena in Kiel, as some of the best in darts head over to compete.
World No 1 Luke Humphries will return to action, after missing last weekend's Polish Darts Masters - but Luke Littler does not feature.
The teenage sensation misses the tournament, after a string of disappointing exits in the World Cup of Darts, US Darts Masters and Polish Darts Masters.
Rob Cross returns to the tournament, having won the 2024 iteration of the competition.
Voltage aims to win the tournament yet again, with the action this weekend set to be cracking!
SunSport will keep you covered for all the action this weekend.
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