2025 Baltic Sea Darts Open

The 2025 Baltic Sea Darts Open, known as the 2025 Elten Safety Shoes Baltic Sea Darts Open for sponsorship reasons, is an ongoing professional darts tournament that is taking place at the Wunderino Arena in Kiel, Germany, from 11 to 13 July 2025. It is the ninth of fourteen PDC European Tour events on the 2025 PDC Pro Tour.^[1] It features a field of 48 players and £175,000 in prize money, with £30,000 going to the winner.

Rob Cross is the defending champion after defeating Luke Humphries 8–6 in the 2024 final.^[2][3][4]

The prize fund remained at £175,000, with £30,000 to the winner:^[5]

• Pre-qualified players from the Orders of Merit who lose in their first match of the event shall not be credited with prize money on any Order of Merit. A player who qualifies as a qualifier, but later becomes a seed due to the withdrawal of one or more other players shall be credited with their prize money on all Orders of Merit regardless of how far they progress in the event.^[6]

In a change from the previous year, the top 16 on the two-year main PDC Order of Merit ranking are now seeded and enter the tournament in the second round, while the 16 qualifiers from the one-year PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit ranking enter in the first round.^[7][8][9] In another change, the 16 Pro Tour Order of Merit qualifiers are drawn against one of the 16 other qualifiers in the first round.

The seedings were confirmed on 14 June.^[10] The remaining 16 places went to players from four qualifying events – 10 from the Tour Card Holder Qualifier (held on 20 June),^[11] four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 17 May),^[12] one from the Nordic & Baltic Associate Member Qualifier (held on 10 May),^[13] and one from the East European Associate Member Qualifier (held on 16 February).^[14]

Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Ryan Joyce, Michael Smith and Andrew Gilding all withdrew from the event. They were replaced by five players from the reserve list. Martin Schindler and Ryan Searle moved up to become the 15th and 16th seeds respectively.^[15]

The following players will take part in the tournament:

The first round was played on Friday 11 July. Daryl Gurney made his first appearance on stage after winning the World Cup of Darts for Northern Ireland, beating Martin Lukeman 6–4. Gurney said he was "very pleased" to get the win after initially going 3–1 down. Reigning World Grand Prix champion Mike De Decker hoped to bring his "A-game" with him to the rest of the tournament after seeing off Mensur Suljović 6–2.^[16] Cameron Menzies survived a potential early exit against 18-year-old European Tour debutant Yorick Hofkens. After missing double 12 for a nine-dart finish in the ninth leg, Menzies completed a comeback from 5–3 down to win 6–5.^[17] Gian van Veen achieved the only whitewash win of the first round as he defeated Johan Engström 6–0. Dirk van Duijvenbode defeated Ryan Meikle 6–2 with a 105 three-dart average, the highest of the first round. Jermaine Wattimena recorded an average of 103 in his 6–1 victory over Callan Rydz, who himself averaged over 100. Wessel Nijman produced a 150 checkout on his way to beating Germany qualifier Martin Kramer 6–3. Andy Baetens eliminated five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld, while Justin Hood made a successful European Tour debut through a 6–3 victory over Joe Cullen.^[16]

The draw was announced on 10 July.^[15] Numbers to the left of players' names show the seedings for the top four in the tournament. The figures to the right of a player's name state their three-dart average in a match. Players in bold denote match winners.^[18]