Jermaine Wattimena | |||||||
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Personal information | |||||||
Full name | Jermaine Wattimena | ||||||
Nickname | The Machine Gun | ||||||
Born |
Netherlands |
9 March 1988 ||||||
Home town | Westervoort | ||||||
Darts information | |||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||
Walk-on music | Enter Sandman by Metallica | ||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||
BDO | 2008–2014 | ||||||
PDC | 2014– | ||||||
Current world ranking | 49 | ||||||
BDO majors - best performances | |||||||
World Masters | Last 24: 2009 | ||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2016, 2017 | ||||||
European Ch'ship | Last 32: 2016 | ||||||
UK Open | Last 32: 2017 | ||||||
Players Ch'ship Finals | Last 32: 2016 | ||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||
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Jermaine Wattimena (born 9 March 1988) is a Dutch darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments.
Wattimena won the first event he entered as he claimed the 2008 Malta Open by beating Vincent Busuttil in the final. 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. In 2014, Wattimena won the German Gold Cup courtesy of defeating Jan Dekker 3–2 in the final. 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. Wattimena entered the event in the preliminary round and narrowly lost 4–3 to Robert Marijanović, missing three match darts in the final leg.
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. He qualified for the UK Open and defeated Johnny Clayton 5–1 in the first round, but then lost 5–4 against Kevin McDine. 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.
In the first round of the 2016 World Championship, Wattimena lost 3–1 to Mensur Suljović. 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. 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. He qualified for seven European Tour event 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.