PDC World Youth Championship: Bradley Brooks reaches the final

Yesterday 8 of our Elite 1 players competed in the PDC World Youth Championship where 96 of the brightest prospects in darts battled it out to be crowned champion.

Elite1's rising star Bradley Brooks fought his way through an incredibly high quality field to reach the PDC World Youth Championship final.

The 20 year old from Blackburn, who won his PDC Tour Card back at the start of this year, cruised through the group stages only dropping 1 leg in the process. He then overcame Rhys Griffin 6-2 in the first knockout round, before seeing-off three fellow members of the senior PDC Tour to reach the final for the first time in his career.

Bradley joins fellow Target pros Ricky Evans, Nathan Aspinall and Corey Cadby in reaching the final of the event, and he is set to take on English talent Joe Davis in November - with the winner receiving the title and £10,000.

"This is what we're all here for, to qualify for the final," said Brooks. "It's been really tough, everyone is a great standard and I've had ups and downs.

The rest our Elite 1 competitors also had some very strong performances in the tournament with Keane Barry & Jarred Cole both reaching the final 16.

Elite 1 World Youth Championship performance overview:

Keane Barry - running average - 92.95

• Group match: 5-2 91.9 Thomas Cromwell
• Group match: 5-0 93.9 John Brown
• Last 32: 6-3 90.9 Dom Taylor
• Last 16: 5-6 95.1 Martin Schindler

Sebastian Bialecki - running average - 83.47

• Group match: 5-2 90.6 Thomas Lovely
• Group match: 5-1 79.7 Mikey Rees
• Last 32: 0-6 80.1 Ryan Meikle

Lewy Williams - running average - 85.90

• Group match: 5-1 86.0 Micheal Poole
• Group match: 4-5 85.8 Jack Male

Daan Bastiaansen - running average - 77.25

• Group match: 5-3 73.7 Cameron Boyle
• Group match: 2-5 80.8 Jeffrey de Zwann

Jarred Cole - running average - 86.95

• Group match: 5-2 88.8 Adam Paxton
• Group match: 5-2 83.2 Harry Ward
• Last 32: 6-5 91.2 Rusty Jake Rodriguez
• Last 16: 2-6 84.6 Nathan Rafferty

Bradley Brooks - running average - 89.32

• Group match: 5-0 87.4 Sam Coenders
• Group match: 5-1 89.1 Henry Cutting
• Last 32: 6-2 87.3 Rhys Griffin
• Last 16: 6-4 94.0 William Borland
• Quarter Final: 6-5 84.4 Martin Schindler
• Semi Final: 6-1 93.7 Niels Zonneveld

John Brown - running average - 78.45

• Group match: 5-4 79.1 Thomas Cromwell
• Group match: 0-5 77.8 Keane Barry
• Nathan Girvan - running average - 81.35
• Group match: 3-5 84.8 Liam Meek
• Group match: 2 3-5 77.9 Jitse van der Wal

Nathan Girvan - running average - 81.35

• Group match: 3-5 84.8 Liam Meek
• Group match: 2 3-5 77.9 Jitse van der Wal

This brings an end to a phenomenal weekend of darts for Elite 1 on the Development Tour as well as the World Youth Championship.