James Hurrell
{{short description|English darts player (born 1984)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{BLP sources|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox darts player
| name = James Hurrell
| image = James Hurrell.png
| fullname =
| nickname = "Hillbilly"
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|7|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
| hometown = Moreton-in-Marsh, England
| since = 2008
| darts = 23g Mission
| laterality = Right-handed
| music = "Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll" by The Woolpackers
| BDO = 2010–2020
| PDC = 2024–
(Tour Card 2024–)
| WDF = 2010–2023
| currentrank = {{PDC Rankings|James Hurrell}}
| BDO World = Quarter Final: 2022
| World Masters = Quarter Final: 2017
| World Darts Trophy = Last 16: 2017
| Zuiderduin Masters = Group Stages: 2015
| Dutch Open = Last 16: 2022
| PDC World = Last 64: 2025
| Matchplay =
| Grand Prix =
| Grand Slam =
| UK Open = Last 128: 2024
| European =
| Premier League =
| results = {{aligned table|leftright=y|fullwidth=y|class=nowrap
| BDO International Open | 2017
| Belfry Open | 2022
| British Internationals | 2015, 2017, 2022
| British Pentathlon | 2013
| Finnish Masters | 2015
| Isle of Man Classic | 2022
| Italian Grand Masters | 2022
| Police Masters | 2016, 2017
| Scottish Open | 2022
| PDC Challenge Tour | 2023
}}
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's Darts}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}}}}
{{MedalCompetition | WDF World Cup}}
{{MedalSilver | 2023 Esbjerg | Men's team}}
{{MedalCompetition | WDF Europe Cup}}
{{MedalGold | 2016 Egmond aan Zee | Men's team}}
{{MedalGold | 2022 Gandía | Men's team}}
{{MedalGold | 2022 Gandía | Men's overall}}
|caption=Hurrell at the 2025 World Championship}}
James Hurrell (born 7 July 1984) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the final Challenge Tour event of 2023.
Hurrell formerly competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) tournaments; reaching the quarter-finals at the 2017 World Masters. He also competed in World Darts Federation (WDF) events; where he was ranked world number from January to November 2022. He reached the quarter-finals at the 2022 WDF Lakeside World Championship and is a WDF World Cup silver medalist and a WDF Europe Cup gold medalist.
Career
=BDO=
Hurrell reached the Last 32 of the 2015 World Masters, where he played Martin Phillips and lost 3–2 in sets. He qualified for the 2016 BDO World Darts Championship and was beaten by Larry Butler in the preliminary round. In November 2016, he hit a 9-dart finish against Daniel Day at the Jersey Classic.
He qualified for the 2018 BDO World Darts Championship but withdrew before the tournament started.{{cite web|title=James Hurrell withdraws from Lakeside|url=http://www.bdodarts.com/worldpro18.php|publisher=BDO|access-date=1 January 2018|archive-date=21 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121232843/http://www.bdodarts.com/worldpro18.php|url-status=dead}}
Hurrell came back to form and was ranked world number 1 in the World Darts Federation world rankings between January and November 2022. He reached the final of the Welsh Open, losing to Cameron Menzies in October 2021, and the Italian Masters, losing to Richard Veenstra in November. In March 2022, he won the Isle of Man Classic, beating Luke Littler in the final. He was the number 6 seed in the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship, which took place in April 2022, where he lost 4–0 in sets to Cameron Menzies in the quarter-finals. However, Hurrell picking up the Italian Masters and Scottish Open later in 2022.
=PDC=
Hurrell competed for a PDC Tour Card at the 2020 Qualifying School (Q-School), but finished outside the rankings needed to get a PDC Tour Card.
He earned a Tour Card for the first time at the 2024 Q-School by finishing fourth on the UK Q-School Order of Merit. {{cite web|url=https://www.pdc.tv/news/2024/01/14/tour-cards-confirmed-final-day-2024-q-school|title=Tour Cards confirmed on final day of 2024 Q School|website=www.pdc.tv|date=14 January 2024|accessdate=8 March 2024}}
World Championship results
=BDO=
- 2016: Preliminary round (lost to Larry Butler 2–3)
- 2017: First round (lost to Mark McGeeney 1–3)
=WDF=
- 2022: Quarter-finals (lost to Cameron Menzies 0–4)
- 2023: Second round (lost to Dennis Nilsson 2–3)
=PDC=
- 2025: Second round (lost to Michael van Gerwen 0–3)
Performance timeline
| class=wikitable style=text-align:left;font-size:88% | |||||||||
| Tournament | 2010 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| colspan="28" style="text-align:left" |BDO/WDF Ranked televised events | |||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | {{nowrap|BDO/WDF World Championship}}
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|Did not qualify | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | Prel. | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 1R | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |WD | style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;" | QF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 2R | |||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | World Masters
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 1R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | Prel. | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 5R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 5R | style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;" | QF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | 2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;" | RR | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |NH | |||||||||
| style="background:#efefef;" | World Trophy
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |Did not qualify | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"| 2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"| 1R | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |NH |
PDC
| class=wikitable style=text-align:left;font-size:88% | ||
| Tournament | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| colspan="28" align="left" |PDC Ranked televised events | ||
| style="background:#efefef;" | World Championship
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |WDF | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R | ||
| style="background:#efefef;" | World Masters
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;" |DNQ | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|Prel. | ||
| style="background:#efefef;" | UK Open
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R | ||
| style="background:#efefef;" | {{nowrap|Players Championship Finals}}
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R | | ||
| colspan="28" align="left" |Career statistics | ||
| bgcolor="efefef"
| align="left" |Season-end ranking | style="text-align:center;|79 | style="text-align:center;| |
PDC European Tour
| class="wikitable" style="width:50%; margin:0" | ||||||||||||||
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="text-align:center;"background:#efefef;" | 2024
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BDO | colspan="12" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
| style="text-align:center;"background:#efefef;" | 2025
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BDO | colspan="3" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|DNQ | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|ADO | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|EDG | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|DDC | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|EDO | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|BSD | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|FDT | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|CDO | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|HDT | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|SDT | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|GDC |
PDC Players Championships
| class="wikitable" style="width:28%; margin:0; font-size:84%"
! Season !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! 11 !! 12 !! 13 !! 14 !! 15 !! 16 !! 17 !! 18 !! 19 !! 20 !! 21 !! 22 !! 23 !! 24 !! 25 !! 26 !! 27 !! 28 !! 29 !! 30 |
| style="text-align:center;"background:#efefef;" | 2023Not a Tour card holder
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|DNP | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BAR | colspan="3" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|DNP | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | colspan="7" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|Did not participate | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI | colspan="8" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|Did not participate | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BAR | style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"|BAR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BAR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BAR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BAR | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|BAR |
| style="text-align:center;"background:#efefef;" | 2024
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI | style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|HIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|MIL | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|WIG | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI | style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|LEI |
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References
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External links
- {{DartsOrakel|James Hurrell}}
- {{Dartsdatabase|id=10595}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurrell, James}}
Category:English darts players
Category:British Darts Organisation players
Category:Professional Darts Corporation current tour card holders