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Max Hopp (born 20 August 1996) is a German darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. ==Career== Hopp reached the final of the 2011 WDF World Cup boys' singles, and won the boys' singles event at the 2012 WDF Europe Youth Cup. He also reached the last 16 of the 2012 Dutch Darts Masters, defeating Terry Jenkins and Steve Beaton before losing to Paul Nicholson. Hopp qualified for the 2013 PDC World Darts Championship by winning the Central European Qualifier in Bielefeld and in doing so became the second-youngest player ever to compete at the championships after Mitchell Clegg. Hopp played Charl Pietersen of South Africa in the preliminary round winning by 4 legs to 1 to set up a first round match against Denis Ovens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2013 PDC World Championship Fixtures )〕 Hopp took the first and third sets to lead the match 2–1, but then lost six legs in a row to bow out of the tournament with a 2–3 defeat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ladbrokes WDC Day Two )〕 Hopp entered Q School in an attempt to win a PDC Tour Card to play the full circuit in 2013,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Q School Set For Record Field )〕 but could not get past the last 64 in any of the four days. He qualified for the second European Tour event of the year, the European Darts Trophy and beat Dragutin Horvat 6–1 in the first round, before losing 3–6 to Dean Winstanley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2013 PDC European Darts Trophy Results )〕 Hopp also qualified for the European Darts Open and the Austrian Darts Open, but lost in the first round in both.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2013 PDC European Darts Open Results )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2013 PDC Austrian Darts Open Results )〕 These results helped him to qualify for the European Championship for the first time through the European Order of Merit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=PartyPoker.net European Championship Update )〕 He faced Paul Nicholson in the first round and led 3–1, but would lose 4–6.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=partypoker.net Euro Champs - Day Two )〕 Hopp beat Mark Walsh 6–4 in the opening round of the German Darts Championship and was then defeated 6–3 by Jamie Caven.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2013 PDC German Darts Championship Results )〕 Hopp lost in the semi-finals of the German World Championship Qualify to Andree Welge, but reached the tournament anyway due to finishing the year eighth on the European Order of Merit which saw him claim the first of four spots available to non-qualified players.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2014 PDC World Championship Qualifiers )〕 Hopp played ninth seed Robert Thornton in the first round and won the first set, before going on to be defeated 3–1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pdc.tv/news/article/1lxp2r9p7fgm71vbzcjaa9jidg/title/ladbrokes-world-championship-day-two )〕 Hopp began 2014 ranked world number 76, outside of the top 64 who guarantee themselves entry into every event for the year ahead. He entered Q School in an attempt to win a two-year tour card but was not successful and only had PDPA Associate Member status for 2014 which gave him entry to UK Open and European Tour qualifiers as well as the Challenge Tour.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2014 PDC Qualifying School Day Four )〕 He qualified for six of the eight European Tour events losing in the first round in five of them, with the exception coming at the European Darts Grand Prix by eliminating Mike de Decker, but then lost 6–1 to Dave Chisnall.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2014 PDC European Darts Grand Prix Results )〕 He also lost two finals on the Youth Tour and the final of the 10th Challenge Tour event 5–4 to Jay Foreman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Tabern & Foreman's Challenge Tour Joy )〕 In the German Qualifier for the 2015 World Championship, Hopp beat Sascha Stein 10–8 in the final but subsequently qualified through the Pro Tour Order of Merit to begin the tournament in the first round, instead of the preliminary round.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Final International Qualifiers Win Spots )〕 He produced a superb performance against Mervyn King to beat him 3–2, sealing his place in the second round with a 161 finish. Hopp hit 10 180s during the match, the most of all the first round players in the event.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=William Hill World Championship Day Six )〕 He was comfortably defeated 4–0 by Vincent van der Voort in the second round.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=William Hill World Championship Day Nine )〕 However, his play during 2014 and at the World Championship saw him rise 14 places in the rankings during the year to start 2015 62nd, the first time Hopp has been inside the top 64 who gain their PDC tour cards. At the first UK Open Qualifier he eliminated Kevin Painter, Ian White and Michael Smith to play in his first quarter-final in the PDC, where Brendan Dolan beat Hopp 6–5.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lethal Lewis Triumphs In Wigan )〕 This result helped him enter the UK Open at the third round stage where Kim Huybrechts beat him 9–7 after Hopp had been 7–5 up.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Coral UK Open Third Round )〕 Hopp played in his first World Cup of Darts this year. He partnered Jyhan Artut and they saw off India and Austria to make the quarter-finals, where they lost both their singles matches against England to exit the tournament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=2015 PDC World Cup of Darts Results )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Hopp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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