Rowby-John Rodriguez | |||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||
Full name | Rowby-John Rodriguez | ||||||||||
Nickname | Little John | ||||||||||
Born |
Austria |
27 March 1994 ||||||||||
Darts information | |||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||
Walk-on music | Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs | ||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||
BDO | 2010–2013 | ||||||||||
PDC | 2013– | ||||||||||
Current world ranking | 41 | ||||||||||
BDO majors - best performances | |||||||||||
World Masters | Last 80: 2013 | ||||||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2015, 2016, 2017 | ||||||||||
Grand Slam | Group Stages: 2014, 2015 | ||||||||||
European Ch'ship | Last 16: 2015 | ||||||||||
UK Open | Last 96: 2016 | ||||||||||
Players Ch'ship Finals | Last 32: 2016 | ||||||||||
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 |
Rowby-John Rodriguez (born 27 March 1994) is an Austrian darts player currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation.
In 2010, as a 16-year-old Rodriguez won the Austrian National Championship by beating Franz Thaler 5–0 in the final.
At the second event of Q School in January 2014 he stood one win away from joining the PDC but lost 5–3 to Gerwyn Price. However, after all four events had been played Rodriguez had done enough to finish ninth on the Q School Order of Merit and earn a two-year tour card. His first PDC major was the UK Open where he was knocked out 5–1 by Tony Randall in the first round.
In May, Rodriguez reached the final of the PDC World Youth Championship where he lost 6–4 to Keegan Brown at the O2 Arena in London as part of the Premier League finals night. Reaching the final secured him a place in the 2014 Grand Slam of Darts. Rodriguez was now Austria's number two player behind Mensur Suljović and they teamed up at the World Cup of Darts, but lost both their singles matches in the second round against the Belgium brothers of Kim and Ronny Huybrechts. Rodriguez reached the quarter-finals of a Pro Tour event for the first time at the 14th Players Championship defeating the likes of Gary Anderson, Paul Nicholson and Jamie Caven, before losing 6–1 to Ian White. His play throughout the year earned him a debut in the European Championship where he lost 6–2 to Robert Thornton in the opening round. At the Grand Slam, Rodriguez beat world number three Adrian Lewis 5–2 in his opening group game before losing 5–1 to Dave Chisnall. He went into his final group game knowing a win over Brown would see him qualify for the last 16 and, despite coming back from 3–0 down to level at 3–3, he lost 5–3.