Max Hope he’s back! After three players lost their 2022 PDC Tour Card, former darts prodigy Hopp spent several years in the desert, battling injuries and a complete loss of fitness. in PDC European Q School However, in 2025, the 28-year-old German regained his place on the Pro Tour.
Taking 10th place in European Q School Order of Merit with 6 points Hopp secured their return to the PDC on the final day of Q-School 2025 with a solid run to the last 16 points in Kalkar on Sunday afternoon. “I had my back to the wall and somehow got through it,” Hopp later recalled to PDC, referring to the fact that he started the final day outside the Tour Card points. “I just believed in myself, I believed I could do it and I finally did it! Even though I had difficult opponents. But yes, I’m back on the road, that’s what counts. Thanks to this, I can now prepare for the upcoming events.”
Once the great hope of German darts, Hopp seemed destined for a long and successful career at the top when he broke into the top 64 of the world rankings for the first time in 2015 as a teenager. Although he won the PDC Youth World Championship in 2015 and claimed victory in both the Pro Tour and Euro Tour events in 2018, Hopp was never able to reach the heights he expected. With a second chance at the Pro Tour, can Hopp revive his darting career?
“I worked for German television, but it’s true, it was a bit quiet. I didn’t get the results I expected. But now I’m back and I think the most important thing is that it doesn’t matter how I do it, I’m playing now, I want it,” he says with determination. “I really wanted to come back. I was at Ally Pally throughout the World Cup and spoke to Jamie Banks and Dave Allen from the PDC. They said it would be great to have me back and I said, “Yes, I am. I’ll do my best and I’ll give it my all. And today I managed to do everything, so come on, Maximizer is back!”
