Max Hopp | |||||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Nickname | Maximiser | ||||||||||||||
Born |
Idstein, Germany |
20 August 1996 ||||||||||||||
Home town |
Idstein Germany |
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Darts information | |||||||||||||||
Playing darts since | 2008 | ||||||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Walk-on music | Yaya Kolo by Ikke Hüftgold | ||||||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||
BDO | 2011–2012 | ||||||||||||||
PDC | 2012– | ||||||||||||||
Current world ranking | 38 | ||||||||||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 32: 2015, 2017 | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam | Group Stage: 2016 | ||||||||||||||
European Ch'ship | Last 16: 2016 | ||||||||||||||
UK Open | Last 64: 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||||||||||
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Other achievements | |||||||||||||||
2015 Breaks into the top 64 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time |
Max Hopp (born 20 August 1996) is a German darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events.
Hopp reached the final of the 2011 WDF World Cup boys' singles, and won the boys' singles event at the 2012 WDF Europe Youth Cup. He also reached the last 16 of the 2012 Dutch Darts Masters, defeating Terry Jenkins and Steve Beaton before losing to Paul Nicholson.
Hopp qualified for the 2013 PDC World Darts Championship by winning the Central European Qualifier in Bielefeld and in doing so became the second-youngest player ever to compete at the championships after Mitchell Clegg. Hopp played Charl Pietersen of South Africa in the preliminary round winning by 4 legs to 1 to set up a first round match against Denis Ovens. Hopp took the first and third sets to lead the match 2–1, but then lost six legs in a row to bow out of the tournament with a 2–3 defeat.
Hopp entered Q School in an attempt to win a PDC Tour Card to play the full circuit in 2013, but could not get past the last 64 in any of the four days. He qualified for the second European Tour event of the year, the European Darts Trophy and beat Dragutin Horvat 6–1 in the first round, before losing 3–6 to Dean Winstanley. Hopp also qualified for the European Darts Open and the Austrian Darts Open, but lost in the first round in both. These results helped him to qualify for the European Championship for the first time through the European Order of Merit. He faced Paul Nicholson in the first round and led 3–1, but would lose 4–6. Hopp beat Mark Walsh 6–4 in the opening round of the German Darts Championship and was then defeated 6–3 by Jamie Caven. Hopp lost in the semi-finals of the German World Championship Qualify to Andree Welge, but reached the tournament anyway due to finishing the year eighth on the European Order of Merit which saw him claim the first of four spots available to non-qualified players. Hopp played ninth seed Robert Thornton in the first round and won the first set, before going on to be defeated 3–1.