Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Austrian darts player (born 2000)
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez (born 24 December 2000) is an Austrian professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
In his youth career, he won the 2017 Junior Darts Corporation (JDC) World Championship. He also won seven PDC Development Tours.
01Career
Rodriguez won a PDC Development Tour event in 2017, as well as the WDF Europe Youth Cup boys' pairs event with Thomas Langer in the same year. Rodriguez and his brothers Rowby-John and Roxy-James qualified for the 2017 Austrian Darts Open. This was his PDC European Tour debut. He was eliminated in the second round. Rodriguez was the first player to win the JDC World Darts Championship in 2017 after he defeated Owen Roelofs 5-4 in legs.
Rodriguez won five titles on the 2021 European Development Tour, finishing top of the Order of Merit which granted him qualification for the 2021 Grand Slam of Darts and a two-year PDC Tour Card. At the Grand Slam, he played in Group B but went winless in matches against Jonny Clayton, Mervyn King and Bradley Brooks.
Rodriguez made his PDC World Darts Championship debut at the 2022 World Championship, winning his first match 3-1 against Ben Robb. In the second round, he went 2-0 up against Chris Dobey but ultimately lost the match 3-2.
Rodriguez won his seventh Development Tour title in 2023, defeating Dominik Grüllich 5-3 in the final of Event 21. In November 2023, he secured qualification for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship through the Tour Card Holder Qualifier. He lost 3-0 against Cameron Menzies in the first round.
Rodriguez lost his Tour Card after two years, but following a one-year absence from the PDC Pro Tour, he regained his Tour Card at 2025 Q-School after finishing sixth in the European Q-School Order of Merit.
On 16 September 2025, the Darts Regulation Authority (DRA) confirmed that Rodriguez had been provisionally suspended for a failed drugs test during Players Championship 24. The following month, Rodriguez revealed on Facebook that he was free to return to competition. Issuing a statement on the matter, the DRA stated that Rodriguez had been subjected to a one-month ban for the ingestion of a non-performance-enhancing substance out of competition.
02Personal life
Two of his brothers, Rowby-John and Roxy-James, are also darts players. They are of Filipino heritage.
03World Championship results
PDC
- 2022: Second round (lost to Chris Dobey 2-3)
- 2024: First round (lost to Cameron Menzies 0-3)
04Performance timeline
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDC Ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||
| World Championship | Did not qualify | 2R | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | |||||||||
| UK Open | Did not participate | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 1R | |||||||
| Grand Slam | Did not participate | RR | Did not qualify | |||||||||||
| Players Championship Finals | Did not participate | 1R | Did not qualify | |||||||||||
| PDC Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup | Did not qualify | RR | ||||||||||||
| World Youth Championship | 2R | 2R | 2R | 2R | QF | RR | RR | RR | DNP | |||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
| PDC Year-end ranking | - | 149 | 187 | - | 77 | 112 | 84 | - | 147 | |||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Did not qualify | ADO 2R |
Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| 2018 | Did not qualify | DDO 2R |
DNQ | DDC 1R |
DNQ | ||||||||
| 2019 | Did not qualify | ADC 2R |
Did not participate | ||||||||||
| 2022 | Did not qualify | HDT QF |
GDO DNQ |
BDO 3R |
GDT 2R | ||||||||
PDC Players Championships
| 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 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 |
BOL 1R |
BOL 4R |
BOL 1R |
BOL 2R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 3R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 4R |
NIE 1R |
NIE 2R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 2R |
MIL 4R |
MIL 4R |
COV DNP |
COV 2R |
COV 2R |
COV 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 4R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR DNP | |||||
| 2022 | BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
NIE 3R |
NIE 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 2R |
NIE 2R |
NIE 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R | ||||
| 2023 | BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
HIL 3R |
HIL 3R |
WIG 1R |
WIG 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 4R |
LEI 4R |
LEI 3R |
HIL 2R |
HIL 4R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 3R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 1R |
BAR 2R |
BAR 1R | ||||
| 2025 | WIG 2R |
WIG 3R |
ROS 1R |
ROS DNP |
LEI 2R |
LEI 2R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
ROS 1R |
ROS 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
LEI 2R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
LEI 1R |
HIL 1R |
HIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
MIL 1R |
Did not participate | WIG 1R |
WIG 1R | ||||||
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. |
Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round |
DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
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