Amit Gilitwala (born 11 October 1995) is an Indian professional darts player who currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is an Indian Champion and first player from India who played at the PDC World Youth Championship. He represented his country during the PDC World Cup of Darts, WDF World Cup and WDF Asia-Pacific Cup. His biggest achievement to date was a start in the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship.[1]
| Amit Gilitwala | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Nickname | "The Shakti" | ||
| Born | 11 October 1995 Surat, India | ||
| Home town | Cardiff, Wales | ||
| Darts information | |||
| Playing darts since | 2011 | ||
| Darts | 24g Unicorn | ||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||
| Walk-on music | "Jai Ho" by Allah Rakha Rahman | ||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||
| BDO | 2012–2018 | ||
| PDC | 2018– | ||
| WDF | 2012–2018 | ||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||
| World Ch'ship | Last 96: 2021 | ||
| Other tournament wins | |||
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Career
editIn 2011, Gilitwala won the Indian Championship just a few months after he started playing darts, by beating Ankit Goenka in the final by a 4–3 scoreline in legs. In the same year, he took part in the 2011 WDF World Cup, competing in the youth competitions. In the singles competition, he was eliminated in the group-stage, after two losses against Jake Jones and Max Hopp. In the mixed pairs competition he played for India with Amita-Rani Ahir, but they lost in the group-stage.[2]
A year later, he was selected by the national federation to represent India during the WDF Asia-Pacific Cup. In the pairs and team competition he was eliminated, taking the last place in the group. In the singles competition, he was eliminated in the group-stage. In 2014, Gilitwala took part in the PDC Development Tour competition and qualified for the 2014 PDC World Youth Championship.[3] In the first round match, he lost to Jake Patchett by 0–6 in legs.
In June 2014, he represented his home country at the 2014 PDC World Cup of Darts together with Nitin Kumar. In the first round match they competed against Belgium (Kim Huybrechts and Ronny Huybrechts), but lost by 0–5 in legs. After a longer break with international starts, Gilitwala took part in the PDC Q-School in 2018, but was not successful there.[4] In 2021, he was nominated by Indian Darts Federation for the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship. In the first round match, he lost to Steve West by 0–3 in sets. He played an average over 80 points, but had problem on the doubles.[5]
World Championship results
editPDC
edit- 2021: First round (lost to Steve West 0–3) (sets)
Performance timeline
edit| Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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| PDC Ranked televised events | |||||||||||
| World Championship | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | ||||||||
| PDC Non-ranked televised events | |||||||||||
| World Cup of Darts | 1R | DNQ | RR | ||||||||
| World Youth Championship | 1R | DNQ | |||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||
| Year-end ranking (PDC) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 125 | – | – | ||
References
edit- ^ "Ukraine's Omelchenko seals Cazoo World Championship qualification". Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
- ^ "Amit Gilitwala". World Darts Federation. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ "4 reasons why India should take up darts". sportskeeda.com. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ "Amit Gilitwala". mastercaller.com. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ "Wright brings festive cheer and opens title defence on a high, Meath teenager bows out at Ally Pally". the42.ie. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2022.