Jermaine Wattimena

Jermaine Wattimena, known as The Machine Gun, is a Dutch darts player from Westervoort. Born in Westervoort on 9 March 1988, he was 18th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £505,000 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with three senior titles, all of them won on the ProTour, and he took up the game in 2004.

Wattimena reached his first PDC ranking final at Players Championship 1 in 2019, losing 8-4 to Michael van Gerwen, and lost further Players Championship finals in 2019 and 2020. His run to the 2024 European Championship final included a 10-4 quarter-final win over Luke Humphries and an 11-10 semi-final win over Danny Noppert, before an 11-3 defeat to Ritchie Edhouse. His first ranking title came at Players Championship 23 in 2025, where he beat Lukas Wenig 8-5, and he added Players Championship 31 later that year with an 8-2 win over Nathan Aspinall. He also reached the semi-finals of the 2025 Players Championship Finals, losing 11-2 to Aspinall. His third title came at Players Championship 27 in August 2026, with an 8-6 win over Kevin Doets.

In 2026 he also reached the final of the European Darts Open, losing 8-6 to Krzysztof Ratajski. At the World Grand Prix he beat Chris Dobey 2-0 in sets before a 3-0 defeat to Luke Humphries, and at the European Championship he beat Ryan Joyce 6-3 before losing 10-4 to Martin Schindler in the last 16. The PDC records no nine-dart finishes for him across its events. He throws 22-gram Winmau darts and walks on to "Bella Ciao" by Hardwell and Maddix.