Martin Schindler

Martin Schindler, known as The Wall, is a German darts player from Strausberg. Born in Strausberg on 16 August 1996, he was 20th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £468,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with five senior titles, and in 2025 he became the first German player to reach the top 16 of the PDC world rankings. He took up the game in 2012.

Schindler reached his first PDC ranking final at Players Championship 8 in 2022, losing 8-4 to Michael van Gerwen. His first ranking title came on the European Tour at the 2024 International Darts Open, where he beat Gerwyn Price 8-5 in the final, and he added the Swiss Darts Trophy later that year with an 8-7 win over Ryan Searle. In 2025 he won Players Championship 8, beating Jeffrey de Graaf 8-1, and the Austrian Darts Open, beating Ross Smith 8-4 in the final. He has also reached the quarter-finals of the 2023 UK Open, losing 10-4 to Andrew Gilding, and the 2023 World Grand Prix, losing 3-0 in sets to Price.

At the 2026 European Championship he beat Wessel Nijman 6-5, Jermaine Wattimena 10-4 and Jonny Clayton 10-1, then beat Krzysztof Ratajski 11-6 in the semi-finals before losing 11-8 to Ross Smith in the final. Earlier in October he beat Karel Sedlacek 6-4 at the Dutch Darts Championship before losing 6-4 to Damon Heta in the last 16, and he lost 6-4 to Tom Bissell in his opening match at the Swiss Darts Trophy. The PDC records three nine-dart finishes for him across all of its events, two of them in senior competition. He throws 23-gram Beazd darts and walks on to "In the End" by Linkin Park.