| PDC World Cup of Darts |
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The 2. PDC World Cup of Darts will be played from 3. - 5. February in Hamburg.
Teams from 24 countries will take part.
Participants, Schedule, Results Tournament Information |
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7. February
Another "guest column" by Scott MacKenzie:
Who is the real World Champion? |
| Interview Dean Winstanley |
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During the Grand Slam Dean Winstanley was still unsure about his future. Now he switched to the PDC.
To the Interview |
7. February
Arachnid and Medalist Have Something to Fear
6. February
In a dramatic final Team England in a Sudden Death Leg won against Team Australia.
Team England had won the first three singles before Paul Nicholson with a 7:4 defeat of Adrian Lewis forced the match into the deciding double. The Australians won it 4:7 showing a lot of team spirit and bottle so that the sudden death leg would decide over the tournament win.
Both Australians and Phil Taylor missed with their matchdarts. Finally Adrian Lewis - who kept his nerve - could hit the double for the tournament.
The Australians were the best team throughout the tournament and convinced all the time while Team England began weak and almost was eliminated first against Team Canada and then against Team USA. But then they dramatically improved and showed their best performances in the semi-finals and the final.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Impressive played Austrian Roby John Rodriguez who won the boy's singles title. Belgian Bauwke Verreydt won the girl's tournament.
Tony O'Shea together with Darryl Fitton was the winner of the men's pairs while Lawman/Hedman won the ladies doubles.
5. February
The Teams from Australia and from England won the semi-finals and will now meet tonight in the final of the PDC World Cup.
Team Australien had no real problems with the winner of the inaugural PDC World Cup Team Netherlands. Only Raymond van Barneveld could win against Paul Nicholson - all other matches were lost.
In a similar way Team Wales was defeated by the English Team. Mark Webster who had shown a great performance thus far had suddenly big problems while Richie Burnett once again convinced and the members of the English Team started to find their range. In their best performance of the tournament even Phil Taylor managed to win his first single match.
Participants, Schedule, Results
In the quarterfinals the Teams from Australia, Wales and the Netherlands proved to be to strong for their opponents Belgium, South Africa
and Northern Ireland.
Some more problems had Team England as neither Adrian Lewis nor Phil Taylor showed the convincing performance one is used of them. But they defeated the American Team nevertheless and progressed to the semi-finals as well.
The semi-finals will be played this afternoon, Team Australia will play Team Netherlands and the English Team will meet the Welsh. Tonight the final will be played.
4. February
Team Canada was in the end the loser in the clash with the English Team and was eliminated from the tournament in a Sudden Death Leg. Team England
will now meet in tonights quarterfinals Team USA.
Through to the quarterfinals as well are reigning champion Netherlands and the Teams from Belgium, Northern Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Wales. South Africa had defeated the Scottish Team in another sudden death leg.
Participants, Schedule, Results
The biggest upset in the second round caused Team Canada. Both Ken McNeil as John Part defeated their opponents from the English Team,
Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis, with 3:4. Team England now has to win the double today to still have a chance to stay in the tournament.
zu haben.
Beside Canada the teams from Australia, Wales und Scotland lead 2:0. All other matches ended 1:1.
3. Februar
Tonight in Hamburg the singles of the second round will be played. Team USA will play team Germany, reigning champion Holland will play team Austria and the English team will play team Canada.
Participants, Schedule, Results
This afternoon in Hamburg the second PDC World Cup will begin with the matches of the first round. Beside others the teams from Canada, the USA,
New Zealand and Spanien will be involved in the action.
The winning teams of the first round then will play in the evening session against the seeded teams, to which belong for example tean Germany, reigning champion Netherlands and the favorised team England. Tonight only the singles of the second round take place, the doubles will be played tomorrow afternoon.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
The men's title for the first time was won by Thierry Michaud, he defated in the final his team mate from the national team Ronny Huybrechts.
Patricia de Peuter won her third successive ladies title.
31. January
Who is the real World Champion?
30. January
The singles of the last German Gold Cup - the organiser has to withdrew due to financial reasons - won Dutch Aileen de Graf and Tomas Seyler.
The girl's tournament was won by Valeria Shvtec, the boy's tournament by Max Hopp. In the ladie's doubles Jenkins/Armstrong defeated Strauch/Sossong, winners of the men's doubles were Langendorf/Klönhammer who defeated Rice/Kunze.
In this years Las Vegas Open, a ADO/WDF tournament, American Howard Meyers and Canadian Cindy Pardy won the singles titles.
Cindy Pardy won the ladies cricket tournament as well while the men's cricket title went to Jim Widmayer.
The Cricket doubles of the men where won unexpectedly by the Japanese pair Hashimoto/Muramatsu.
29. January
Michael Smith on Sunday got his second win on the PDC Pro Tour and defeated in the final Saturday's winner Justin Pipe 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them James Wade and Matt Clark. Ted Hankey again was eliminated in preliminary round, Dean Winstanley lost in round 4 to Dave Chisnall.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
28. January
Justin Pipe won the first Players Championship 2012 with a 6:0 whitewash against Paul Nicholson.
In the semifinals of the Spanish Darts Trophy on Saturday stood beside them Ian White, who had thrown a Nine-Darter in his first round match against Mark Hylton and Swedish Magnus Caris.
Ted Hankey lost on his Pro Tour debut in premiminary round while Tony West and Dean Winstanley - who lost against Kim Huybrechts - were eliminated first round.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
26. January
It will be the first appearance of Ted Hankey and Dean Winstanley as PDC players. Beside several new Tour Card holders will travel to Spain who are joined by quite a lot of local players. From the Top Ten Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson are missing.
Participants, Tournament Information
25. January
The PDC announced today the draw for the World Cup which will start on 3. Feburary. The English team - Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis - will meet in second round either team Canada or
team Hungary while team Netherlands - winner of the last and first World Cup - will play in their first match team Austria or team New Zealand.
The English and the Dutch team belong to the eight seeded teams which will start to play second round while the other 16 teams have to start in first round.
Main sponsor of this years World Cup will be like for the inaugural tournament in 2010 cash converter.
Participants, Schedule, Draw
22. January
One of the Tour Card winners in Sunday's Qualifying School was German player Bernd Roith.
The last three other direct Tour Card winners today were Dave Smith, Johnny Haines and young Welshman Waliser Jamie Lewis who played last year some of the PDC Youth Tour events.
Beside several other Tour Cards were handed out according the ranking points won through Qualifying School.
The other three Tour Cards on Saturday got Canadier Jeff Smith, PDPA player Adrian Gray, who lats year had dropped out of the Top 64 of the PDC and Andrew Gilding, who last year had qualified for UK Open as an amateur and who had stood under the last 16 of the Winmau World Masters.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
Dean Winstanley last year was at his debut in Lakeside the runner-up of the BDO World Championship. Later in the year he was runner-up of the Winmau
World Masters as well - both in his first full year on the BDO circuit.
His goal is of course to win both tournaments...
To the Interview
21. January
On the second day of Qualifying School Kurt van de Rijck, Stuart Kellet, Steve West and Michael Barnard won PDC Tour Card.
Kurt van de Rijck had qualified by the European Order of Merit for the last PDC World Championship and now wants to play the complete PDC Circuit. After Tony West with his brother Steve West and Stuart Kellet two more BDO players switched to the PDC. Michael Barnard already plays in the PDC for several years but was ranked to low in the Order of Merit to get a Tour Card automatically. So he had to take part in Qualifying School.
20. January
Tony West, former World Masters winner, is beside Ted Hankey the second BDO player, who this year switches to the PDC. As Hankey West took part in the BDO World Championship. But for him from the beginning the tournament was ill-fated - he had lost his darts before his first match and till now didn't got them back.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
18. January
Stages of Dartitis
The best-know BDO player under the participants is Dean Winstanley while Scott Waites despite all expectations and rumours didn't register. On the list are PDPA players who couldn't got a Tour Card because they are not in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit like Peter Manley, some young players who played Youth Tour last year and former World Champions Andy Fordham and Les Wallace.
Starting tomorrow till Sunday the four tournaments of the Qualifying School will be played for at least 31 Tour Cards. 16 will directly go to all the semi-finalists of the four tournaments, the other one's will be distributed by a point-ranking to the other participants.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
17. January
The PDC has now announced the fixtures of the league days of Premier League 2012.
Like last season on the first evening on 9. February World Champion Adrian Lewis will play Phil Taylor. Last year the match ended with a clear 2:8 defeat for Phil Taylor.
With Cardiff, Glasgow and Aberdeen three league days are already sold out.
The official betting partner of the Premier League, William Hill, makes Phil Taylor the clear 13/8 favourite to win this years Premier League.
Participants, League Days
Tournament Information
When even the tie-braker question in the PDC competition brought two correct answers I decided there'll be two first prices this year and both winners will get the video-analysis of their throw.
Those first prices got Michael Putz from Wiesbaden and Sven Klein from Hamburg. The consolation price - an official PDC World Championship programme signed by the old and new World Champion Adrian Lewis - got Rab Smith from Ballymote in Ireland.
The winner of the BDO competition is Stefan Seidelmann from Essen - he'll get a set of Performance Darts.
Many thanks to all who took part and congratulations to all winners.
16. January
Under the players who registered now is Dean Winstanley.
Participants, Tournament Information
15. January
Dutchman Christian Kist is the new BDO World Champion.
He defeated in a thrilling though not throughout high-class final Tony O'Shea with 7:5. O'Shea was more nervous then debutant Kist at the beginning of the final and his usual accuracy on the doubles had left him. A rather cool looking Kist could take almost every chance O'Shea gave him and got a 5:1 lead. Then O'Shea suddenly recovered abd now it was Kist who who was in trouble. O'Shea managed the 5:5 but then Kist was back and despite O'Shea's strong resistance he could win the last two sets to win the match.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
So it's certain Ted Hankey will get a Tour Card and doesn't have to play through Qualifying School. Which plans the other three Lakeside semi-finalists have for their future in darts is not yet known.
14. January
In an interview after his semi-final defeat Ted Hankey announced he'll switch to the PDC.
Before the match he had an argument with BDO officials because he refused to sign a contract with the BDO which would have bound him as semi-final participant to stay in the BDO and play next years BDO World Championship. After the match Hankey accused the persons responsible to have toggled the air-condition so that it affected his game...
It's not known yet whether Hankey will get a Tour Card immediately or whether he would have to go through Qualifiying School to win one, but there is evidence to suggest he'll be spared Qualifying School.
Dutchman Christan Kist and Tony O'Shea tomorrow will play the final of the BDO World Championship 2012.
Christan Kist won a close match against Ted Hankey who throw away his opprtunity to win. Compared to the other matches Kist had played during the tournament it was a weaker performance by him. Before the match Ted Hankey had an argument with BDO officials. He even threatend he would default.
As in the first semi-final the performance of both players in the second was their weakest in the tournament - nevertheless it was a thrilling and close match. But usually after a high score a rather weak one followed. Beside O'Shea had some problems with the board - all in all he had 14 bouncers during the match. So at 5:5 there was another break to change the board and look after the air-conditiong which seemed to affect both players - a similar situation as in the recent PDC semi-final between Adrian Lewis and James Wade. The match was very balanced, in the end O'Shea could win it thanks to his more clinical finishing.
13. January
The last two men's quarterfinals were won by Dutchman Christian Kist and Ted Hankey.
Dutchman Christian Kist once again showed a good performance as did Alan Norris who nevertheless couldn't keep up. Kist soon was in the lead and was even able to prevent a threatening comeback by Norris. In the end Kist won 5:1. Kist who had qualified by the International Play-Offs for the World Championship is the only not seeded player in the semifinals
The result of the second quarterfinal was the same - 5:1 for Hankey - but it was only in patches as good as the first one. Both players were not really sure with their doubles but in most situations Ted Hankey was a step ahead of Martin Atkins. So Atkins as Alan Norris could only win a single set.
The two semi-finals which will be played torrow now are: Tony O'Shea v Wesley Harms and Ted Hankey v Christan Kist. Two times England v Holland, two times experienced player against emerging talent. Could be interesting matches!
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
With a 2:1 win against Deta Hedman Anastasia Dobromyslova won the title for the second time.
In the first set Hedman overrun Dobromyslova. But the the Russian got more and more confident and got much surer with her doubles. After Hedman had miscalculated a finish and missed two matchdarts in the second set Dobromyslova dominated the match and won it in style with a bullsey-finish.
2012 again a PDC Qualifying School will take place through which at least 31 PDC Tour Cards can be earned.
Again Qualifying school will consists of four tournaments. All quarterfinal winners will get a Tour Card sicher. 15 more Tour Cards will be handed to the top players of the qualifying school ranking. The tour card is valid for two years.
Till now 140 players have registered for Qualifying School. As entries will not be closed before 18. January 12 pm probably some more will registrate. Last year players like Dave Chisnall, John Henderson and Magnus Caris earned a Tour Card going through Qualifying School.
Participants, Tournament Information
12. Januar
In the women's final tomorrow Deta Hedman and Anastasia Dobromyslova will meet. Deta Hedman defeated Lorraine Farlam 2:1, Anastasia
Dobromyslova won in the second semi-final against - a visibly still suffering from the dead of her mother last week - Trina Gulliver.
Winners of the two men's quarterfinals were Dutchman Wesley Harms and Tony O'Shea.
Harms and his English opponent Paul Jennings - both World Championship - debutants played an at first rather nervous match. The Dutchman managed to settle while Paul Jennings never played at his best and was defeated 5:3.
The first four sets of the match between reigning champion Martin Adams and Tony O'Shea certainly were one of the highlights of this year's tournamen. Both players then dropped off a bit though they still showed a good performance. Both averaged around 94. O'Shea soon played himself into the lead and threw a greta 170 finihs. Adams never seemed really to recover from it though he was able to increase his double quote. Tony O'Shea deserved his 5:2 win and will now play on Saturday in the semi-finals against Dutchman Wesley Harms.
Out of the last second round matches Martin Atkins, Ted Hankey, Christian Kist and Alan Norris progressed into the quarterfinals.
Martin Atkins was already 3:0 in the lead against Willy van de Wiel when the Dutch player started a comeback. But Atkins held his nerve and won 4:2. The match between Ted Hankey and Scott Waites was a rather scatty match in which both players had strong and weak phases. Ted Hankey prevailed. Belgian Geert de Vos only could keep up with Christian Kist at the beginning of the match. Then his performance sagged and Kist won without problems 4:2. Kist once again had the highest average of the evening.
The last match of the evening between Dean Winstanley and Alan Norris resembled the first one between Atkins and van de Wiel. Winstanley soon was 3:0 in the lead. Then Norris started to fight back. But Winstanley couldn't find the means to halt Norris and lost 3:4.
Today the first two men's quarterfinals and the ladies semi-finals will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
11. Januar
The first tournament counting for the ranking will be the German Goldcup on 29. January where a both a girls and a boys tournament will be played. All in all it will be over 30 tournament where the youth players can collect ranking points.
Which "rewards" the players will win with their points is not yet known.
As the PDC said the announcement of this year's Premier League players started a new surge in the ticket sell.
By now 80 percent of the tickets are sold. Sold out already is evening number 8 in Cardiff.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
10. January
Today the first four second round matches were played.
To the quarterfinals progressed Paul Jennings, Wesley Harms, Mertin Adams and Tony O'Shea. The first match of the evening between Paul Jennings and Steve Douglas was the weakest - it looked both players were rather nervous. The young Dutchman Harms showed a strong performance agaainst Robbie Green. Green had won the first set but had after that no chance at all again the younger player. Martin Adams didn't more then necessary to defeat Gary Stone who had experienced some double trouble. The last match of the evening was the strongest of the session. Both players threw a lot of high scores and Tony O'Shea hit over 50 percent of his doubles. He convinced by some high clinical finishs.
Tomorrow the other four second round matches will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
The PDC the participants of the second PDC World Cup which will be played from 3. - 5. February in Hamburg.
Again 24 Teams will fight for the win. The eight seeded teams - the English team Phil Taylor/Adrian Lewis is seeded number one - will start to play second round on Friday evening while all other teams will meet in round one in the afternoon.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
9. January
On the third day of the BDO World Championship the last three first round matches were played.
The first match was won by young Belgian Geert de Vos who defeated Tony West. The other two matches were won by the more experienced British players againts two yound players from Holland though both Benito van de Pas and Joey ten Berge showed a good performance. Alan Norris and Dean Winstanley progressed into the second round.
The last women's quarterfinal was won by Anastasia Dobromyslova who defeated Julie Gore 2:0.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
As already announced globaldarts offers a competition for the BDO World Championship as well.
This time the winner will get a set of Performance Darts.
Competition
8. January
On the second day of the BDO World Championship two Dutchman played the till now best match of the tournament - Christian Kist defeated Jan
Dekker with 3:2 and had an average of almost 98. Ted Hankey played a quite respectable match against the at first very unsure debutant
Clive Barden. Hankey won 3:2 as well. Beside those two Wesley Harms, Scott Waites, Paul Jennings, Willy van de Wiel and Martin Atkins
progressed into round two.
Trina Gulliver defeated Lisa Ashton 2:0 and progressed into the semi-finals.
Tomorrow the least three first round matches of the men and the last women's quarterfinal will be played.
7. Januar
On the first day of the BDO World Championship with Gary Robson and Ron Meulenkamp already two seeded players were eliminated from the tournament.
Through to the second round are Robby Green, Steve Douglas, reigning champion Martin Adams, Tony O'Shea, Gary Stone and Ross Montgomery.
In the Women's tournament Deta Hedman and Lorraine Farlam progressed to the semi-finals.
Participants, Schedule, Results
6. January
Tomorrow the BDO World Championship and the BDO Women's World Championship will begin in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green.
32 Men and 8 Women will battle for the title.
This year the tournament will get TV coverage by ESPN and BBC.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
4. January
Does it really exist - Darts on the Radio?
Oh yes - it exists. And how the sport of darts made it into the radio I was told during the last PDC World Championship.
Darts on the Radio
The first League Day will be played in Manchester on 9. February.
Once again Phil Taylor was named PDC "Player of the year". The fans voted over the PDC homepage Taylor as "PDC Fan's
Player of the Year as well.
Beside this the following awards were confered: Pro Tour Player of the Year: Gary Anderson, PDPA Player of the Year: Justin Pipe, Best Newcomer: Dave Chisnall, PDC Young Player of the Year: Michael van Gerwen, Best Televised Performance: Adrian Lewis.
3. January
During the evening not only the usual awards - like the "Player of the Year" award - will be handed out but this years Premier League players will be announced as well. Four of those are already known - the numbers 1 - 4 of the PDC Order of Merit Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, James Wade and Gary Anderson. But who will get the four Wildcards?
The biggest change happened for Andy Hamilton, he moved from place 17 to place 7. Beside him under the top 32 Paul Nicholson, Justin Pipe, John Part and Richie Burnett moved up.
PDC Ranking
2. January
Adrian Lewis defended his World Champion Title against Andy Hamilton with a 7:3 win.
After all the thrilling matches during the tournament the final was almost an anticlimax. Neither Lewis nor Hamilton could build on their performance shown in the semi-finals. There were a lot of not so high scores and Hamilton was far less sure on his doubles then in his other matches. So he was often unabale to use his chances. Lewis on the other hand was always at the right place when it was important and deserved the win.
Report Final
Participants, Schedule, Results
Competition
Tournament Information
Result Table
Statistics
Gallery
The winners of the two semi-finals were Andy Hamilton and reigning champion Adrian Lewis, who now tonight will play the final of the PDC World Championship 2012.
In both semi-finals the winners were at first behind but then turned the matches around.
In the first semi-final Simon Whitlock had a 5:3 lead when Andy Hamilton started his comeback. The players fought a very close match which Hamilton in the end won 6:5.
In the second semi-final James Wade had got a 5:1 lead after a draught on stage had suspended the match fo some time when Wade led 2:0. It took Lewis longer to recover from the incident but then Wade had no chance at all any longer and Lewis progressed with a 6:5 win for the second time into the World Championship final.
Reports - Semi-Finals
31. December
A Happy New Year to Everybody!!!
30. December
The quarterfinals of the evening sessions brought wins for Simon Whitlock and reigning champion Adrian Lewis who progressed to the semi-finals.
Whitlock had no problems with Gary Anderson at all who not only because his well-known double trouble never really was in the match.
Lewis had got a clear lead in his match against Terry Jenkins but then suddenly lost focus and dropped off while Jenkins very much improved. Lewis managed to recover and won the match 5:3.
The World Championship takes a break on New Year's Eeve but will go on on 1. January 2012. Then the semi-finals between James Wade and Adrian Lewis and Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock will be played.
Globaldarts arrived back home from London just in time to watch the unbelievable thrilling quarterfinal between James Wade and John Part.
James Wade already had a 3:1 lead when John Part finally got going. The Canadian first draw level and then got into the lead. James Wade levelled again and the match went into a decisive Set which developed in a close head to head race. Finally a Sudden Death leg brought the decision and James Wade first crossed the finishing line while Part already waited on double tops. As Part said after the match: "It was the greatest game I ever lost".
In the first quarterfinal of the afternoon Andy Hamilton defeated with a once again impressive performance young Belgian Kim Huybrechts with 5:2. Hamilton threw 11 180s and had an average from over 100.
29. December
In the evening the last three third round matches were played.
In the first match Simon Whitlock defeated Michael van Gerwen 4:3 but had to fear for his win. Whitlock already was 3:0 in the lead when van Gerwen started a comeback and won three sets in a row.
Dave Chisnall had no chance at all against Andy Hamilton - it almost looked as if the player who had eliminated Phil Taylor out of the tournament just had no energy left. Hamilton won the match 4:0.
Gary Anderson rushed through the last match of the evening against Colin Lloyd and soon led 3:0. Then Lloyd could win a set and celebrated in style. But it was impossible to stop Anderson who with an average of over 100 progressed into the quarterfinals.
Kim Huybrechts caused in the last afternoon match on day 12 of the PDC World Championship the next upset. The young Belgian who only started to play in
the PDC this summer eliminated Paul Nicholson 4:1 from the tournament and progressed into the quarterfinals.
In the other afternoon matches James Wade whitewashed Steve Farmer 4:0 and three times World Champion John Part defeated Kevin Painter in a gripping match 4:2.
Reports - Day 12, Afternoon
28. December
The first match of the evening was the last match of the second round and it once again was hard work for Gary Anderson who defeated in the end
Devon Petersen from South Africa 4:2.
The third round started with the match between reigning World Champion Adrian Lewis and Wayne Jones and Lewis had no problem to win it. In the second last 16 match Terry Jenkins defeated Justin Pipe 4:1. As Jenkins said Justin's slow throw was no problem for him more help as it hindered him to rush his throw which sometimes affects his game.
Reports - Day 11, Evening
There are a lot of stairs in London.
And some are rather special!!!
Stairs, stairs and - well, stairs...
Though all the afternoon matches ended 4:1 none was a really one sided match.
Michael van Gerwen played with a lot of self-confidence while Mervyn King just was not able to use his chances - so now Michael van Gerwen is the only Dutch player still in the contest. He'll meet Simon Whitlock tomorrow evening.
Simon Whitlock defeated Steve Beaton in the same fashion, Beaton was unable too to use the chances.
In the last match of the afternoon Colin Lloyd showed a strong performance to see off newcomer Scott Rand.
Reports - Day 11, Afternoon
27. December
In the evening session Dave Chisnall caused the biggest upset in the history of the World Championship and eliminated the 15-times World Champion
Phil Taylor with 4:1 from the tournament. Totally unusual for him Phil Taylor was unsure on the doubles. After the match Taylor admitted he had a problem with the heat
on stage what never before had happened to him.
Chisnall showed no nerves at all and seemed to totally umimpressed by his opponent.
In the other two matches of the evening Kim Huybrechts defeated James Richardson with 4:1 and Paul Nicholson lost not a single set against Alan Tabern.
Reports - Day 10, Evening
In the afternoon-session both Terry Jenkins and John Part convinced by their performances, which left their opponents Co Stompe and Richie Burnett not many
chances. Stompe had an hand injury at his right hand as he had been bitten by a dog on Christmas Eve which might have restricted him. As Richie Burnett who missed
just too many darts he never really was in the match. Both Jenkins and Part got an early 3:0 lead which was too much for their opponents.
In the last match of the afternoon-session Andy Hamilton und Vincent van der Voort led a neck and neck race in which in the end the better nerves of Hamilton prevailed.
Reports - Day 10, Afternoon
Today the PDC World Champiponship will go on with more matches of the second round.
Both an afternoon- and an evening session will be played and hopefully we'll see some great matches. Tonigth both James Richardson who eliminated Raymond van Barneveld from the tournament and Phil Taylor will play.
24. December
Merry Christmas!!!
On the last evening before the Christmas break Kevin Painter and Mark Walsh played a very close match which in the end Kevin Painter could win 4:3.
A very commanding James Wade met a rather weak playing Jelle Klaasen and defeated him 4:0. Klaasen only won four legs in the contest.
The last match of the evening brought another win for Steve Farmer who had eliminated Ronnie Baxter first round. This time after some initial difficulties in a not really good match he in the end defeated the young German player Kevin Münch.
23. December
On the eigth evening of the World Championship the first three second round matches were played.
The evening started with the match between Wayne Jones and Roland Scholten which was dominated by Jones. Jones didn't play an outstanding match but Scholten is not really back yet in his old form and just couldn't keep up. He lost 0:4.
In the second match Adrian Lewis had some problems in winning over Robert Thornton duchzusetzen who again showed a good performance while Lewis was not brilliant but always hit when it really mattered.
The last match developed due to Justin Pipe into an epic battle. Wes Newton first had a clear lead but then had more and more problems to cope with Pipe's slow throw and looked slightly irritated. Pipe didn't let himself got worked up and won the match 4:3.
22. December
The first three matches of day seven of the PDC World Championship were rather onesided. Only surprising was that both Scott Rand and Simon
Whitlock - still affected by the broken bone in his ankle - had very clear wins. Both defeated their opponents 3:0 and dominated their matches.
The same result had Canadian John Part against John Henderson, he as well dominted his match.
The last match of the evening between Steve Brown and Devon Petersen - and the last first round match - developed dramatically. Brown in the last set missed a match dart and South African Devon Petersen who started to play the Pro Tour this year used his chance. He'll now meet Gary Anderson in the second round.
Match Reports - 7. Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
The legend Paul Lim defeated in the final of the Softdart Tournament in Hongkong Sho Katsumi from Japan and pocketed the around 130. 000 Dollar.
gewinnen.
John Part played himself under the last 8 before he travelled on to the PDC World Championship in London.
One could win WDF Ranking points in both tournament and quite a lot of international players from Malaysia, Denmark, Canada, England and other countries took part.
Boxer Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao made both tournaments possible.
21. December
Gary Anderson and Jyhan Artut played a most dramatic match which in the end Gary Anderson won in a sudden death leg. Artut had already a 2:0 lead before
Anderson finally started to hit his doubles when it mattered.
Other players who advanced to the second round were Michael van Gerwen, Colin Lloyd, and Terry Jenkins. Joe Cullen won the prelimary round match but lost to Terry Jenkins.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
20. December
When one uses the time not staying in the Alexandra Palace for walks you can always discover something.
And sometimes you can even learn something new!!!
A German-Scottish co-operation...
On the 5. day of the World Championship only Mervyn King had an easy win against Geoff Kime from Australia.
Andy Hamilton and Antonio Alcinas played a high-class close match which Hamilton in teh end won. Kevin Painter won against Arron Monk but had to work hard for it and James Wade had a similar tough match against Perti Korte from Finland who turned out to be rather sure with his finishs.
Match Reports - Fifth Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
19. December
The World Championship to be sure is for all players the peak of the year, the aim they all work for.
Unfortunately it happens from time to time a player is not bodily fit...
Ill...
The more or less unknown James Richardson caused on the fourth day of the PDC World Championship 2012 for
the biggest ever upset in the history of the tournament and eliminated the five time World Championship with an impressive performance from
the tournament.
Beside Richardson Dave Chisnall, Mark Walsh and Kim Huybrechts progressed into the second round.
Match Reports - Fourth Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
18. December
In a quite dramatic evening session Steve Beaton just defeated Magnus Caris, who was treated quite unfais by the crowd, Vincent van der Voort defeated Mark Hylton,
Denis Ovens turned up to play but in the end couldn't play due to a caught nerve - it just was too painful and he couldn't move his right arm.
To second round progressed as well Paul Nicholson who defeated Mensur Suljovic.
Match Reports - Third Day, Evening
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table and Statistics
17. December
Globaldarts is in London to watch the PDC World Championship live and as in the years will offer beside the"official" news some
personal articles.
This year I can offer you something special to start with: - the quarter of a never finished interview with Phil Taylor!!!
Phil Taylor and the quarter of an interview
In the afternoon session of day three Ronnie Baxter was eliminated by Steve Farmer, Jelle Klaasen showed against Peter Wright his best match for quite some time
and Robert Thornton looks to be back after his pneumonia. Alan Tabern had quite a hard time against the philippine qualifier, who in the preliminary round
had defeated Austrian Dietmar Burger 4:0.
Match Reports - Third Day, Afternoon
The second evening of the World Championship brought clear wins for most of the players.
The most difficult match had Justin Pipe against Australian Sean Reed who even was in the lead after the first set.
Beside Pipe Wes Newton, Co Stompe and Phil Taylor - who won against Haruki Muramatsu from Japan - progressed into the second round.
Reports - Second Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table and Statistics
16. Dezember
The first evening of the PDC World Championship 2012 brought the first big upset when Richie Burnett eliminated his fellow countryman Mark Wabster from the
tournament. Both players had some double-trouble throughout the match - it was Burnett who kept his nerve and hit the winning double.
Reigning champion Adrian Lewis survived the challenge of Nigel Heydon but it was a very close match between the two.
Wayne Jones and Roland Scholten had no problems to progress to second round.
Reports - First Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table
15. December
Tonights Walk-on Girls are two old acquaintances: Hazel O'Sullivan and Kelly Donegan .
We could see them during the World Grand Prix in Dublin.
At the weekend the final of this till now biggest soft-dart tournament will be played in Hong Kong, on Saturday a qualifier takes place, on Sunday the Grand Final.
The winner will get a price money of 1.000.000 Hong Kong Dollars.
Under the participants are three players who will stand at the oche during the PDC World Championship as well: John Part, Antonio Alcinas and Scott MacKenzie.
Participants and Tournament Information
14. December
Global Darts will offer both for the PDC World Championship and the BDO World Championship in January a competition.
By taking part in the PDC World Championship Competition you can win a professionell analysis of your throwing style which gives you feedback about might be flaws and helps you to optimize your throw.
Competition
Tomorrow in Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2012 will start with the first round.
In the first match of the tournament Roland Scholten and Jamie Caven will stand at the oche. During the first round in each session four first round matches and one prelimary round match will be played.
Reigning champion Adrian Lewis will meet Nigel Heydon on the first evening. Phil Taylor will start his challenge for the title on Friday. He will play the winner of the preliminary round match between Haruki Muramatsu from Japan and Dennis Nilsson from Sweden.
As in the years before Sky Sport will televise the tournament. As one hears at least on Sunday, 30. December, Sid Wadell who gets medical treatment due to his illness with cancer, will return to the commentator's box.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table
13. December
TheDarts Performance Centre take stock of the Players Championship Finals.
Who's going up, who's going down and how comes ITV4 off compared to Sky Sport?
The Ups and Downs of The Players Championship
12. December
Kevin Painter defeated Mark Webster in the final and won his first ever PDC Major Title.
Probably only a few people predicted such an outcome of the tournament but Kevin Painter convinced with his performances in the semi-final and the final and is the deserved winner of an exciting tournament.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Match Reports Semifinals and Final
Result Table
The winners of this years Zuiderduin Masters are Deta Hedman, Scott Waites and Jimmy Hendriks.
For Scott Waites it is the third Major title of the year he defeated in a highclass and thrilling final Darryl Fitton.
Deta Hedman- who dominates the ladies tournaments in a similar way as does Scott Waites the men's - defeated Dutch woman Aileen de Graaf.
Jimmy Hendriks is at the moment the dominant youth - he won this final against Mike Zuydwijk as well..
Participants, Group Draw, Results
All Results you can find on the official homepage:
Zuiderduin Masters
11. December
Kevin Painter and Mark Webster will meet in the final of the tournament.
Mark Webster convinced in his match against Wes Newton. Kevin Painter had to fight hard to overcome Scott Rand einen schweren Stand, he forced the match into a decisive leg and won with 10:9.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Result Table
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on the Players Championship Finals.
On the third evening the DPC wonders - were those shouting "fans" only drunk or was there something more sinister behind their behaviour?
Players Championship Finals - Third Evening
In the quarterfinals of the Players Championship Finals the winners were Wes Newton, Scott Rand, Kevin Painter and Mark Webster.
Eliminated were Mark Walsh, James Wade, Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall.
In the senifinals tonight Wes Newton will meet Mark Webster and Scott Rand will play against Kevin Painter.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Match Reports Quarterfinals
Result Table
On Saturday evening the second round brought some more big upsets.
Both Phil Taylor andGary Anderson lost their matches against Mervyn King and Kevin Painter and were eliminated from the tournament. Into the quarterfinals progressed Dave Chisnall, Mark Webster - who won a very close match against Justin Pipe, Kevin Painter and Mervyn King.
On Sunday afternoon the following quarterfinals will be played: Mark Walsh against Wes Newton, James Wade against Scott Rand, Kevin Painter against Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall against Mark Webster. On the evening the semi-finals and the final will follow.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Result Table
The Zuiderduin Masters go on today with the quarterfinals and the semi-finals of the men's tournament.
They will end with the finals of the youth, ladies and men later today.
In the ladies final Deta Hedman from England will play Dutch Aileen de Graaf, in the youth final Jimmy Hendriks and Mike Zuydwijk will meet.
You can follow the complete tournament by a Live Stream.
Participants, Group Draw, results
The Schedule you can find on the official homepage:
Schedule Zuiderduin Masters
10. December
Scott Rand caused an upset in the second round of the Players Championship Finals on Saturday afternoon and threw Raymond van Barneveld with a
8:6 win out of the tournament.
Beside Rand James Wade, Mark Walsh and Wes Newton progressed to the quarterfinals.
In the last first round matches on Friday evening beside Vincent van der Voort all favourites won their matches.
Phil Taylor, Mark Webster, Gary Anderson, Kevin Painter, Dave Chisnall, Co Stompe, Mervyn King and Justin Pipe progressed to second round. Phil Taylor had a rather hard time against Terry Jenkins. The best performance of the evening showed Gary Anderson who whitewashed Michael van Gerwen.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Result Table
9. December
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on the Players Championship Finals.
From a sport scientific point of view on the first evening especially interesting was Scott Rand...
The Players Championship Night 1
Tonight this years Zuiderduin Masters start with the first group matches.
It will be interesting to see the form of reigning BDO World Champion Martin Adams who'll play Alan Norris. Another interesting match will be played by the ladies - there Trina Gulliver will meet Anastasia Dobromyslova.
You can follow the complete tournament by a Live Stream.
Participants, Group Draw
The Schedule you can find on the official homepage:
Schedule Zuiderduin Masters
The first evening of the Players Championship Finals brought some surprising results.
John Part and Paul Nicholson were already eliminated from the tournament as are Jamie Caven, Mark Hylton, Denis Ovens, Richie Burnett, Ronnie Baxter and Andy Smith. John Part was totally overrun by Wayne Jones, he seems not to be able to bring his good form from the floor tournaments on the stage. Paul Nicholson lost in a very close match to Steve Brown. Raymond van Barneveld showed again Ronnie Baxter an outstanding performance. Mark Walsh, Scott Rand, James Wade, Peter Wright and Wes Newton progressed with solid performances into the second round.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Match Reports
Result Table
9. December
The first evening of the tournament brought some surprising results.
John Part and Paul Nicholson are already eliminated from the tournament as are Jamie Caven, Mark Hylton, Ronnie Baxter, Richie Burnett and Andy Smith. John Part was just overrun by Wayne Jones, he just doesn't manage to bring his form from the floor tournaments on the stage. Paul Nicholson lost in a close match to Steve Brown. Raymond van Barneveld showed an outstanding performance against Ronnie Baxter. Mark Walsh, Peter Wright, Scott Rand, James Wade and Wes Newton progressed with solid performances into the second round.
Results, Participants, Schedule
8. December
Tonight in Doncaster the Players Championship Finals will begin with eight matches of the first round.
The tournament is one of the newer PDC tournaments, it was played three times so far. Two times the winner was Phil Taylor, one time it was won by Paul Nicholson. The top 32 of the Players Championship Order of Merit take part in the tournament - those players who showed over the year the best performances in the Players Championships. So beside Adrian Lewis - who couldn't qualifiy - and Simon Whitlock - who still has problems with his ancle - not only the top ten of the world will take part but players like Justin Pipe and Scott Rand as well who are far behind in the PDC Order of Merit. It will be interesting to see how those players will fare though looking at Phil Taylors dominant form at the moment it's difficult to foresee another player as the possible champion.
The tournament will be televised by ITV4 and of course can be watched by Live PDC tv
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
First Round Draw
As in the inaugural World Cup teams from 24 countries will participate.
The tournament will be televised by Sky Sport.
6. December
In addition to the interview with Eddie Norman and the short portrait Dr. Patrick Chaplin allowed Global Darts to use his short history of the
Winmau World Masters.
The Winmau World Masters were an idea of Eddie Norman who brought the tournament into being. The World Masters were the very first "World" tournament and they are played till today.
The Winmau World Masters - A Brief History
It's a competition between female players from the Netherlands and Germany. The ladies from Germany won both the Team and the Pairs competiton while the Dutch ladies won the singles.
It's the first time the German ladies won the overall placings.
2. December
The PDC now announced the schedule for the PDC World Championship 2012.
Jamie Caven will open the tournament on Thurdsday, 15. December with his match against Roland Scholten.
Adrian Lewis will began his campaingn to regain the title on the same evening against Nigel Heydon while Phil Taylor will play on the second evening against the winner of the preliminary round game between Haruki Muramatsur and Dennis Nilsson.
Draw First Round, Schedule, Participants
1. December
The PDC now has published the Players Championship Finals schedule.
Jamie Caven will meet in the first match of the tournament on Thursday evening Scott Rand and Paul Nicholson against Steve Brown will be the last match of the first day.
Phil Taylor will play on Friday against Terry Jenkins his first match. On Friday as well the number 1 seed of the tournament, Justin Pipe, will stand against John Henderson at the oche and Gary Anderson will play against Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
First Round Draw
30. November
Justin Pipe is as the leader of Players Championship Order of Merit the number 1 seed. Adrian Lewis didn't qualify for the tournament. Simon Whitlock still had problems with his ancle and had to withdraw from the tournament. He will be substituted by John Henderson.
The tournament is sponsored by Cash Converters and will be televised by ITV 4.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
First Round Draw
Winner of the Italian Grand Masters was Max Hopp from Germany. Giada Ciofi from Italy won the ladies tournament.
29. November
Today the draw for the first round of the PDC World Championship 2012 took place.
Number 1 of the world Phil Taylor will meet in first round the winner of the preliminary round macth between Japanese Haruki Muramatsu and Dennis Nilsson from Sweden. World Champion Adrian Lewis will begin his campaingn to defend the title against Nigel Heydon. Raymond van Barneveld will play against James Richardson who's at the moment the player sponsered by the SOD Forum.
Draw First Round, Participants
28. November
Today the draw for the Preliminary Round of the PDC World Championship 2012 took place.
The draw for the first round matches will be televised live tomorrow at 11.30 on Sky Sports news.
Draw Preliminary Round, Participants
Monk was not really successful on the Youth Tour this year and couldn't qualify for the final of next year's U 21 World Championship to defend his title.
Dennis Priestley was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the qualification. For the first time in 10 years he will not take part in the PDC World Championship.
Participants and Results
26. November
The semif-finals reached beside them Adrian Lewis and Wes Newton. But for Adrian Lewis it was not enough to reach the semi-finals to qualify for the Players Championship Finals. So The tournament will be played without the reigning World Champion.
Kevin Painter had withdrawn today.
Participants and Results
Phil Taylor stormed through Saturday's Players Championship in Wigan and won the final against Ronnie Baxter with a clear 6:1.
In the semi-finals stood beside them Steve Beaton and Mark Webster.
Simon Whitlock and Gary Anderson had withdrawn.
Participants and Results
I doubt there are many more people who promoted the sport of darts worldwide and made it known as Eddie Norman did and still does.
Norman always prefered to strike out on his own and never let himself monopolize by an organisation or a manufacturer.
His view of the sport of darts never was and still not is limited to the UK - it was and still is a global one.
To the Interview
25. November
In the newest edition of the Coaching Clinic Coaching Klinik the Darts Performance Centre deals with a problem a lot of players know.
Why does it just happen one can't throw all three darts with the same smooth movement to the board? Why do you sometimes just "snatch" a dart?
It's easy to explain and not to difficult to fix!
Beside this there are two ideas how to use a practice board really effective.
"The Snatch" and a lost Practice Board
Reigning Champion Martin Adams will meet in the second match of the first day on 7. January Scott Mitchell. Trina Gulliver will start her campaign to defend the title on Sunday, 8. January, against Lisa Ashton.
Schedule, Participants
24. November
Schedule, Participants
Next Monday after the two Players Championships all PDPA members who failed to qualify for the Pdc World Championship by the
PDC Rankings have a last chance.
The winner of the qualifier will get a place in the first round, the runner-up a place in the preliminary round.
Participants
For the PDC players the opportunity to qualify for Players Championship Finals and the PDC World Championship 2012.
Participants
22. November
Beside Kevin Münch, who qualified this weekend through the German PDC Europe Qualifier for the Preliminary Round of the PDC World Championship,
some more Preliminary Round qualifiers are known by now.
Dietmar Burger again won the Eastern Europe Qualifier, Portuguese Jose Oliviera de Sousa won the West Europe Qualifier, Paul Barham will take part as Top of he PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit, Per Lausen will again return to represent Denmark and for Sweden Dennis Nilsson will take part.
According to a yet not confimed announcement the draw for the Preliminary and the First Round matches will take part next Tuesday around noon.
Schedule, Participants
Tournament Information
The group draw for theZuiderduin Masters - which will be played from 9. - 11. December - took place.
You can find an overview over the matches on the official Zuiderduin Homepage:Homepage
Participants, Group Draw
The winners of the Malta Open were Paul Harvey and Diane Nash both from England.
Winmau will first sponsor the China National Darts Open 2011, which are organised by the Chinese Darts Association. Beside Winmau will
sponsor the Shanghai Super Darts League, a league, whose membership is growing at a phenomenal rate every year.
Darts is in China since 1999 a recognised sport.
21. November
With a clearly by Phil Taylor dominated final yesterday evening the Grand Slam 2011 ended.
Phil Taylor defeated Gary Anderson 16:4 and never felt any pressure, as Gary Anderson never seemed to find his usual high scoring.
For Phil Taylor it is his fourth Grand Slam Title and his fifth Major Title in a row this year.
In the afternoon Phil Taylor won through against Adrian Lewis with 16:9 in the semi-finals, Gary Anderson after a slow start defeated Mark Walsh 16:11.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports Semi-Finals and Final
The German qualifier for a place in the preliminary round of the PDC World Championship 2012 was won by Kevin Münch.
Kevin Münch defeated in the final of the tournament - which was played on Saturday and Sunday - Bernd Roith with 10:8.
The PDC Europe had invited 16 players to the tournament among them beside Bernd Roith Andree Welge, Tomas Seyler and Michael Rosenauer - all players who already took part in the PDC World Championship. For Kevin Müch it will be the first time on the stage of the Ally Pally.
19. November
So they will meet in the second semi-final tomorrow afternoon..
Participants, Schedule, Results
Mark Walsh at the start of the match had no problems against Ted Hankey at all, who needed some time to find into the match and then started a belated fight back. Mark Walsh reached the finish line with a 16:14.
Gary Anderson and Terry Jenkins for a long time were head to head in their match, then Gary Anderson managed to get clear and he won the match 16:12.
Participants, Schedule, Results
But now you can find Nigel Pearson and Rod Studd there as well!!!
Of course the Darts Performance Centre thinks about the Grand Slam.
In the center of the blog about evening 7 we find Paul Nicholson and his way to analyse his finishing.
A Study In Darts
Yesterday evening the last four matches of the second round were played.
While Phil Taylor had against Wes Newton with 10:3 a "comfortable" win and played with 112.37 the highest ever average played in all Grand Slams all other matches were highly competitive.
Paul Nicholson and Mark Webster both were behind at the beginning of their matches but in the end won against Steve Beaton and Martin Phillips. Adrian Lewis just managed to intercept an almost unbelievable fight back from John Part and to reach the finish line first.
Today the quarterfinals will be played in an afternoon and an evening session. In the afternoon Mark Walsh will play Ted Hankey and Gary Anderson will play Terry Jenkins, in the evening Adrian Lewis will meet Mark Webster and Phil Taylor will meet Paul Nicholson.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports
18. November
Let's eat...
Yesterday evening the first part of the second round was played.
The evening strated with two rather close and thrilling matches in which Makr Walsh prevailed against Dean Winstanley and Ted Hankey against Michael van Gerwen.
Then a very convincing Gary Anderson who was for once very sure on his doubles defeated James Wade and an impressive Terry Jenkins eliminated local favourit Wayne Jones.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports
17. November
The biggest surprise in the last matches of the groups E-H was that Martin Phillips in group H defeated Co Stompe and progressed into second round.
In all other groups the favourites prevailed though thanks to Jan Dekker John Part had some tense minutes and Magnus Caris with a strong performance gave Wes Newton a hard time.
Lewis, Webster and Taylor all have got three wins while Vincent van der Voort, Barrie Bates and Arron Monk couldn't win a single match.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports
The Hong Kong Open was won by Edward Santos from the Phillipines and the Japanese Mayumi Ouchi.
16. November
The last group matches of the groups A-D brought several surprising results.
Michael van Gerwen defeated Tony O'Shea and tops group A - he'll meet next round Ted Hankey who won with an excellent performance against Ian White.
Dean Winstanley is so far the only player, who's got three wins, as top of group B he'll meet on Thursday Mark Walsh.
Gary Anderson got against Heydon his second win and he's on first place in group C. Second is local hero Wayne Jones.
Dramatic was the evening in group D. Justin Pipe was eliminated after he lost against Dave Chisnall and Terry Jenkins managed to win aginst James Wade. Rather surprising after a real bad start Terry Jenkins nor tops the group while James Wade is second.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
15. November
The story of the young man who went forth to learn to play darts...
The second group matches of the groups E - H brought strong performances by Dutchman Jan Dekker, the Welshman Martin Phillips and Mark Webster
and an outstanding performance by the reigning World Champion Adrian Lewis who played the toll now highest average of the tournament.
Only Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis can be sure to have qualified for the next round though the last group matches on Wednesday should be thrilling.
Tonight in the last group matches of the Groups A - D the players will fight to progress into second round. Not much is decided yet here either.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports - with more pictures then usually
14. November
Nicola Cowell is back!! Together with Sara Tunnicliffe she accompanies the player on the stage during the Grand Slam.
13. November
While the afternoon session was rather predictable the evening session with the second group matches of the groups brought some more upsets-
After a second defeat Scott Waites the reigning Grand Slam champion is out of the tournament. Out as well is more or less sure Raymond van Barneveld who was defeated again - this time by Ted Hankey. James Wade, Mark Walsh, Dean Winstanley and Wayne Jones won their second matches.
Tomorrow evening the second Group matches of Groups E-H will be played.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
As Global Darts is in Wolverhampton to watch the Grand Slam you'll find again some articles on site which have to do with darts but not only with
darts.
So in the first article more the red poppies some of the players and at least half of the people here in Wolverhampton wear at the moment are the main topic.
Remembrance Day
Phil Taylor, Mark Webster, John Part, Adrian Lewis, Wes Newton and Paul Nicholson won their matches. Co Stompe defeated Vincent van der Voort and Mervyn King lost to Steve Beaton.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
12. November
The first evening of the Grand Slam started with several surprises. Last years winner Scott Waites lost 3:5 to Michael van Gerwen. Raymond van Barneveld
lost 4: 5 to qualifer Ian White. Gary Anderson lost 3:5 to qualifier Nigel Heydon. And Terry Jenkins lost 1:5 to Justin Pipe.
Only one of the BDO players could win his match - Dean Winstanley whitewashed fellow BDO player Ted Hankey 5:0. Best match of the evening was the match between James Wade and Dave Chisnall which Wade won with 5:4.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
10. November
The Darts Performance Centre travelled to Northern Ireland.
There the team not only visited the Northern Ireland Open, but had in Belfast a look at the Belfast Darts Academy. A really interesting experience!
The Belfast Darts Academy
9. November
Those persons will now presented in this new section of the who-is-who. A lot of people probably will think of Barry Hearn or Olly Croft who will of course presented in due time. But the first person in the new section will be a person who really deserves it to be called "global" - Eddie Norman.
Eddie Norman
After the qualifiers for the PDC World Championship 2019 in Greater China, on the Phillipines and the South East European qualifier three more participants of the preliminary round are known.
Greater China will be represented as lats year by Scott Mackenzie. For the Phillipines Christian Perez will stand at the oche who already took part in the World Championship 2010. The South East European Qualifier was won by Oliver Ferenc from Serbia.
Participants
Tournament Information
8. November
After the group draw yesterday the PDC now today published the schedule of the Grand Slam. The tournament will beginn on Saturday.
Wayne Jones, local hero, will open the tournament with his match against Brendan Dolan. Scott Waites - last year's winner - will be in action as well on the first evening. His opponent will be Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Group Draw, Schedule
Yesterday the draw for the BDO World Championship in Lakeside took place.
The World Championship will be played from 7. January - 15. January 2012 and will be televised by ESPN and the BBC.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
7. November
The group draw for the Grand Slam took place tonight and is now online.
The schedule will be published tomorrow by the PDC.
Participants, Group Draw
Simon Whitlock had to withdraw from the Grand Slam of Darts because of a broken bone in his ankle. He slipped last weekend during the Players Championships
in Benidorm.
Instead of Whitlock the winner of the third place match of the Grand Slam qualifier - Ian White - now will be invited.
Tonight the draw for the tournament will take place.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
The last wildcard for the Zuiderduin Masters went to Geert de Vos from Belgium.
So now the field of the men's tournament is complete. The draw will take place on 16. November.
Teilnehmer
The titles of the Iranian Open both went to players from the Iran - Alireza Ghafouri Fard and Sonya Jorjani.
Winners of the Czech Open were Deta Hedman and Dean Winstanley.
6. November
Dave Chisnall won the Players Championship on Sunday and defeated in the final yesterday's winner Justin Pipe.
In the semi-finals stood beside them Co Stompe and Brendan Dolan.
Players Championship 29
Justin Pipe won his third Pro Tour title. He defeated in the final of Saturday's Players Championship Vincent van der Voort with 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them Matt Clark and Co Stompe. For Clark it was the first semi-final since June 2010.
Today the weekend continues with Players Championship 29.
Players Championship 28
5. November
The two finalists of the Grand Slam qualifier - which was played after the Youth World Championship on Friday evening in Crawley - were Nigel Heydon
and Magnus Caris.
Reserve players for the GSOD are Ian White and Keith Ronney the other two semi-finalists.
For both finalists it will be the Grand Slam debut and with them the field of participants for the tournament is now complete. The draw for the tournament which will start next Saturday will take place on Monday evening.
GSOD Qualifier
4. November
Michael van Gerwen and James Hubbard are the two finalists of the second PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship.
Michael van Gerwen - top of the Youth Tour Order of Merit and with four wins on the Youth Tour - defeated in his semifinal Shaun Griffiths while James Hubbard won in the second semifinal against Paul Barham.
Both players now will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts and secured themselves a Tour Card for two years.
Youth World Championship
The Pro Tour weekend starts today with the PDC Youth World Championship.
Arron Monk, first PDC Unicorn World Champion, was already eliminated firt round.
Youth World Championship
3. November
As the BDO announced ESPN and the BBC will divide between them the broadcast of the BDO World Championship.
While the evening sessions, the second semi-final and highlights of the final can be followed on ESPN, the BBC will be responsible for the afternoon sessions, the first semifinal, the final and some high light programs.
On ESPN the main presenter will be Ray Stubbs, while on BBC the team will consist of Colin Murray, Bobby George, David Croft and Tony Green.
Commentators and Journalists
Two more Wildcards for the Zuiderduin Masters were allocated.
The last open place for the ladies got 21 years old Aileen de Graaf from the Netherlands.
A wildcard for the men's tournament went to the Dutch national team member Salmon Renyaan who won the NDB Play-offs.
Zuiderduin Masters
2. November
This weekend the Pro Tour for the third time will be in Crawley.
The weekend will already start on Friday noon with the second PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship. On Friday evening it will continue with the GSOD Wildcard Qualifier. On Saturday and Sunday the Players Championships 28 and 29 will be played.
Youth World Championship
GSOD Qualifier
Players Championships 28 + 29
31. October
Kime defeated Barry Jounannet in the final.
Participants, Schedule
Three more Grand Slam participants were confirmed by the PDC today.
Mark Walsh gets a place as the highest ranked not yet qualified player of the PDC Order of Merit, Justin Pipe will retun to Wolverhampton as the highest ranked not yet qualified player in the Players Championship Order of Merit and Vincent van der Voort earned his spot as the highest ranked not yet qualified player from the European Order of Merit.
This weekend the last few places will be filled with the Grand Slam qualifier players and the finalists of the PDC Unicorn U21 World Championship.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
For the first time since January Mervyn King won a Pro Tour Event. He defeated in the final Wes Newton 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them Jamie Caven and Raymond van Barneveld. Van Barneveld could celebrate during the day his second win of the weekend over Phil Taylor while Jamie Caven reached the semifinals due to Gary Anderson's conceding the match. The reason for this unusual incident is not yet known. Mark Webster threw a nine-darter in his first round match.
After this weekend the qualifiers for the World Championship by the European Order of Merit would be Kim Huybrechts, Antonio Alcinas, Mensur Suljovic and Jyhan Artut. While the European ranking is complete now there still might be changes in the Players Championship Order of Merit which might have an effect on the European Ranking as two Players Championship weekends are still to be played.
Participants and Results
30. October
James Wade defeated Raymond van Barneveld in Saturday's Players Championship in Benidorm.
For Wade it was his second successive win and it secured him a place in the Players Championship Finals in December. Raymond van Barnevelds chances to qualify increased but he's not yet secured a place.
Raymond van Barneveld had defeated in the semi-finals in a close match Phil Taylor while James Wade won against Dave Chisnall.
Participants and Results
28. October
But to be sure there already existed some kind of "dart scene" with clubs and dart retailers.
History of the Sport of Darts in Germany
The dog of the pub owner is from youth on a dart fan:
Video
26. October
After Darryl Fitton now the Winmau World Masters Winner and WDF Singles Champion Scott Waites got a Wildcard for the from 9. - 11.December played Zuiderduin Masters.
There are still some wildcars to be handed out.
Participants
This weekend both the Dutch qualifier and the Rileys qualifications will be played. So after the weekend the field of participants will be complete.
Participants
All PDC top 8 players will travel to Spain.
Participants
The Bob Jones Memorial in Trenton, Canada, were won by Debralee Roberts and Guy Connelly from Canada.
25. October
"Top of Ghent" ended with an English double victory in the men's singles and a Russian double victory in the ladies event. Stephen Bunting won the final against Steve West while Anastasia Dobromyslova defeated Irina Armstrong.
After the Youth Tour Event in Gladbeck the 28 youth players who qualifiy by the Youth Tour Order of Merit for the U21 World Championship are fixed.
The German qualifier in Gladbeck was won by Max Hopp.
Participants
24. October
The Perfomance Darts - created by a dart player for dart players - show that a good dart not necessarily has to be expensive. And they show as well
that a more or less "No Name dart" can posess quality.
To the review:
Performance Darts
Colin Osborne won in Gladbeck the Players Championship on Sunday, for Osborne it was his first win since 2009.
Osbornes opponent in the final was James Richardson, who'a at the moment the players sponsered by the SOD forum. It looks that like with Justin Pipe - the player sponsered before him - the financial and moral support by the darts forum can help Richardson on the road to success as a darts pro.
Beside Osborne and Richardson Mark Walsh and Paul Nicholson reached the semi-finals. Wes Newton threw in his second round match against William O'Connor a nine-darter but lost the match.
Participants and Results
Paul Barham got in Gladbeck his third win on the PDC Youth Tour.
He defeated in the final Dutchman Dirk van Duijvenboden 4:1. So after the last youth tour event Barham sits on the second place Youth Tour Order of Merit behind Michael van Gerwen which won him a PDC Tour Card for 2012.
22. October
James Wade todays Players Championship in Gladbeck. He defeated Justin Pipe in the final 6:3.
The semifinals reached beside them Mervyn King and German Jyhan Artut- who now still has a chance to get a playe in the PDC World Championship.
Participants and Results
21. October
The PDC has announced further details about the U21 World Championship which will be played on 4. November in Crawley. The final will be played next year
on 17. May during the Premier League Play-Offs.
This weekend in Gladbeck both the last Youth Tour Event which counts for the qualification and the German qualifier will be played.
Participants
Phil Taylor yesterday dominated the winner's group of Championship League Darts unchallenged and regained the title. For Taylor it is already the
fourth Major Title this year.
Taylor won all his seven round robin matches, threw a nine-darter in his match against Mervyn King, defeated Steve Beaton in the semifinals and in the final Paul Nicholson, both opponents had no chance at all.
Nicholson like Mervyn King had won four matches throughout the day and then defeated King in the semifinals 6:3. As runner-up he's now qualified for two years for the Grand Slam of Darts.
Last of the table of the winner's group was Simon Whitlock, who had won only a single match.
Schedule, Participants, Results
Tournament Information
20. October
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Dennis Priestley won Group 8 and progressed as last player into the winner's group. He defeated Kevin Painter in the group final.
In the semifinals he had beaten John Part who had shown a great performance all day but missed the double 13 against Priestley to win the match.
Today the winner's group will play for the tournament win. The format is the same as on the eight group days before - first round robin and then the play-offs of the four players on top of the group table. In the winner's group today Gary Anderson, Phil Taylor, Paul Nicholson, Mark Walsh, Mervyn King, Simon Whitlock, Steve Beaton and Dennis Priestley will meet. Both finalists should they not be already otherwise qualified will get a place in the Grand Slam of Darts.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
19. October
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Steve Beaton won Group 7 of the Championship League Darts. He defeated in the final John Part with 6:5.
Robert Thornton and Andy Smith were eliminated from the tournament. John Part, Vincent van der Voort, Kevin Painter, Alan Tabern and Mark Dudbridge will get a new chance today. They will be joined in Group 8 by Steve Brown, Dennis Priestley and Jelle Klaasen.
The tournament will begin at 10.30 British time and will be televised by the usual streams. The results will be updated here throughout the day.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
Steve Brown this time helps with advice how to improve accuracy on your targets.
And he once again emphasizes that the quality of you practice is much mor important then the quantity.
More Dressing Room Darts
Pat Orreal secured himself the men's title of the Australian masters. He defeated in an exiting final Rob Modra. The ladies title won Carol Forwood who defeated Corrine Hammond.
Kuwatori Kengo from Japan won the Korean Open, the ladies tournament had with Nammee Kim a Korean winner.
18. October
On Saturday a Youth Tour event will be played, while on Sunday the German qualifier for the PDC Unicorn Youth World will take place.
Participants
Due to Co Stompe's illness three times World Champion John Part moved up into Group 7. Beside him today Vincent van der Voort, Andy Smith, Kevin Painter, Alan Tabern, Steve Beaton, Robert Thornton and Mark Dudbridge will try to progress into the winner's group.
Again the tournament will start at 10.30 British time and will be televised by the usual streams. The results will be updated here throughout the day.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
17. Oktober
Martin Adams and Deta Hedman will be the number1 seeded players of the BDO World Championship 2012.
The complete list of participants was now published.
With Carlsberg UK the BDO World Championship has got a new sponsor.
Participants and Schedule
Justin Pipe won a second successive PDC Players Championship. This time he defeated in the final Gary Anderson with 6:5.
The semi-finals reached beside them Mark Hylton and Paul Nicholson.
With this win over his practice partner Anderson Pipe climbs on rank 4 of the PDC Players Championship Order of Merit.
Teilnehmer und Ergebnisse
Mark Walsh won the Irish Masters, a non PDC ranked tournament, which was played on Saturday during the Killarney Darts Festivals.
He defeated Paul Nicholson in the final 6:4. A lot of PDC players who had travelled for the Players Championship to Killarney used the Irish Masters to warm up.
16. Oktober
Michael van Gerwen was the winner of the PDC Youth Tour event during the Killarney Darts Festivals. It was his fourth win on the Youth Tour.
He defeated Joe Cullen in the final 4:2.
Co Stompe had to withdrew from Championship League Darts because of an infection in his hand.
For him John Part will join group 7 on Tuesday. Jelle Klaasen will get the free place in group 8 on Wednesday.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
14. October
All till now known dates you can find here:
Tournament Calendar 2012
Simon Whitlock finally managed to progress into the winner's group. He defeated in the final of group 6 Vincent van der Voort in a close match 6:5.
Eliminated were yesterday Colin Osborne and Denis Ovens. Vincent van der Voort, Kevin Painter, Alan Tabern, Andy Smith and Steve Beaton will return next Tuesday to play on in group 7. They will be joined by Co Stompe, Robert Thornton and Mark Dudbridge.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
13. Oktober
Simon Whitlock to be sure is the most unlucky person in Championship League Darts. For the fourth time he reached the Play-offs, for the third time he stood
in the final and for the third time he was defeated, this time by Mervyn King, who progressed into the winner's group. And that despite the Nine-darter
he threw in his match against Jamie Caven.
Eliminated were Jamie Caven and Colin Lloyd. Beside Simon Whitlock today Vincent van der Voort, Andy Smith, Colin Osborne and Kevin Painter have their next chance to progress into the winner's group. They'll be joined by Alan Tabern, Denis Ovens and Steve Beaton.
Results will be updated during the day.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
Brendan Dolan after his participation in the World Grand Prix final now is under the Top 32 of the Order of Merit. That probably secured him a place in the PDC World Championship.And to be sure he'll take part in the Grand Slam of Darts for the next two years.
PDC Rankings
Not many of the top players will again travel to Ireland. Brendan Dolan - World Grand Prix runner-up - will take part.
On Saturday after the final of the non-ranked Irish Masters PDC Youth Tour event will take place.
Participants
12. October
Rick Arnott and Cindy Pardy secured the singles titles of the Klondike Open.
The men's singles title of the Romanian International Open was secured by Englishman Joe Murnan, the ladies title was won by Lorraine Farlam from England. Winners of the men's doubles were Boris Krcmar/Dragan Martic from Croatia, the ladies doubles title went to Jane Shearing/Marit Liri from England and Finland.
Mark Walsh was the winner of group 4. He defeated Mervyn King in the group final and progressed into the winners group.
Wayne Jones and Ronnie Baxter were eliminated yesterday. Simon Whitlock, who once again reached the play-offs stand and once again failed to qualify for the winners group, Colin Lloyd, Mervyn King, Jamie Caven and Vincent van der Voort will get a new chance today. They will be joined by Andy Smith, Colin Osborne and Kevin Painter.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
11. October
A new Dutch dart is on the market - d'art9. The manufacturer kindly gave Global Darts a set to test.
Here you can find the review:
D'art9
In the last World Grand Prix blog of course Brendan Dolan and his astonishing performance are the main topic. After all the
Darts Performance Centre for some time already extols the merits of the video analysis. Isn't Dolan the best prove how much you can achieve
using the method???
This Time Next Week/Year Rodders
Today the fourth day of Championship League Darts will be played.
Simon Whitlock, Colin Lloyd, Mark Walsh, Wayne Jones and Mervyn King are the survivors of group 3, Ronnie Baxter, Vincent van der Voort and Jamie Caven will join them today.
As usually the tournament will be streamed from 10.30 am British time.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
9. October
Dolan once again showed a strong performance but it was not enough to be a threat for Taylor. Several times he had big problems to get into the legs. Taylor didn't play as superior as in other matches during the tournament but Dolan was not always able to use his chances.
Participants, Schedule, Results
8. October
In the second semi-final a yet again impressive Phil Taylor won through against Richie Burnett 5:2.
So tomorrow in the final Phil Taylor and Brendan Dolan will meet - a final probably no one expected.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Phil Taylor in an impressive way defeated Mark Webster with 4:0. Webster had despite a good performance no chance at all.
Richie Burnett won 4:1 against Mark Hylton, Brendan Dolan showed a convincing 4:1 win against John Henderson. Only James Wade had quite a
hard time against Andy Smith but won in the end 4:2.
So tonight in the first semi-final James Wade and Brendan Dolan will meet, in the second match Phil Taylor will play against Richie Burnett.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
7. October
The Darts Performance Centre takes another look on the World Grand Prix.
This blog describes examplary at James Wade the mentality of a winner and is about what you can learn from the post match interviews.
World Grand Prix 2
Might be you remembered the two from last years tournament - they are Hazel O'Sullivan and Kelly Donegan.
On the second evening of the second round with Simon Whitlock the number 5 of the Order of Merit was eliminated from the tournament as well, Mark Hylton defeated him 3:1.
Mark Webster eliminated Alan Tabern, Phil Taylor defeated Paul Nicholson 3:0 and resurgent Richie Burnett overcome Denis Ovens.
Tonight the quarterfinals will be played - with Phil Taylor, Mark Webster and James Wade three Top Ten players are still in the running.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports Day 4
Tournament Information
6. October
In the second round of the World Grand Prix some more top ten players were eliminated from the tournament.
Wes Newton lost slightly surprising against a strong playing John Henderson, Raymond van Barneveld despite his efforts was defeated by Andy Smith.
Another surprise was that John Part lost to Brendan Dolan from North Ireland. Reigning champion James Wade had a lot of problems against Vincent van der and was two sets behind, but he survived and progressed to the quarter finals.
Tonight the remaining second round matches will be played..
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports Day 3
Tournament Information
5. October
Of course the Darts Performance Centre deals with the World Grand Prix.
The first blog gives a review on the first night and the doubles:
World Grand Prix 1
While the first eveneing of the World Grand Prix was more an evening of clear results most matches of the second evening were rather close affairs.
The biggest upset was Richie Burnett's win against Gary Anderson - one of the favorits on the tournament win. Both players showed a great performance; in the end Anderson once again stumbled over his double trouble.
A slightly unexpected winner had the match between Dave Chisnall and Alan Tabern. Chisnall had dominated the match most of the time but at the end of the third set his nerves let him down and Tabern won.
Beside those Denis Ovens, who for the first time survived the first round of the World Grand Prix, Mark Webster, Simon Whitlock, Paul Nicholson, Mark Hylton and Phil Taylor, who had to fight to overcome Peter Wright progressed into the second round.
Tonight the first four second round matches will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports Day 2
Tournament Information
They defeated in the finals Garry Thompson respectively Anita Tobias.
Dean Winstanley and Clive Barden won the men's pairs, the ladies pairs were won by Dee Bateman and Zoe Jones.
4. October
On the first eveneing of the World Grand Prix the match between World Champion Adrian Lewis and John Part developed into the match of the night.
Lewis had already won the first set and was 2:0 in the lead in set 2 when John Part surprisingly came back into the match and totally turned it
around winning in the end 2:1.
Beside the Canadian Brendan Dolan, John Henderson, Vincent van der Voort, Wes Newton, James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld and Andy Smith progressed in round 2.
Tonight the other eight first round matches will be played and Phil Taylor will join the action.
Starting Field, Schedule, Results
Match Reports First Day
Tournament Information
3. October
Tonight in Dublin the PDC World Grand Prix will begin with the first eight first round matches.
Both qualified Irish players will play tonight. Brendan Dolan will play in the first match of the evening Wayne Jones, William O'Connor in the last match will play against Andy Smith. Match of the evening could be the match between the not really consistent world champion Adrian Lewis and the on the Pro Tour strong playing John Part.
The World Grand Prix is the only PDC tournament which is played in DoubleIn-DoubleOut, so that players who are accurate with the doubles have an advantage. The betting companies beacause of this see Phil Taylor as clear favourite. But even Phil Taylor already stumbled several times over another "speciality" of the tournament - the very short format of the first round matches, which already ended with quite a few surprises.
Starting Field, First Round Draw and Schedule
Tournament Information
2. October
Both players have already taken part in previous PDC World Championships.
Devon Peterson won this year again the South African Masters. At the beginning of this year Peterson took part in the Qualifying School of the PDC, had won a Pro Tour Card erspielt and for some time played the Pro Tour Circuit.
Haruki Muramatsu won the PDJ qualifier, he defeated in the final Morihiro Hashimoto, who represented Japan during the last World Championship.
Schedule and Participants
Tournament Information
Today Justin Pipe won the Players Championship. For him it was the first title on the Pro Tour Circuit.
Pipe defeated Phil Taylor in the final 6:5, yeaterday he had lost in the quarterfinals with 5:6 to Phil Taylor.
The semi-finals reached Gary Anderson and Wes Newton.
During todays Players Championship both Phil Taylor(against Kevin McDine) and Raymond van Barneveld(against Phil Taylor) hit a nine-darter.
Participants and Results
The semi-finals reached beside them Scott Rand and Mervyn King. Raymond van Barneveld was as James Wade and Mark Webster already eliminated in the first round.
Joe Cullen won the Youth Tour event which was played after the Players Championship. For Cullen it was the third win on the Youth Tour. He defeated Micheal Smith in the final.
Participants and Results
30. September
Beside this it was announced that next years Europe Cup will take place in Antalya, Turkey, in October after Belgium had to withdraw from organising it.
The next WDF World Cup in 2013 will take place in St. John's, Newfoundland while the World Cup 2015 will be organised by the Turkish national organisation and will be played in Antalya as well.
Yesterday the PDC has announced the dates and venues for the Premier League 2012.
As a new venue the O2 in Dublin was chosen while the Premier League next year will not return to the Wembley Arena in London.
The Premier League will be played from 9. February to 17. May 2011. Tickets can be bought directly at the venues or at the PDC.
All details can be found here:
PDC
A small boy is the latest sensation of the English darts scene.
Three year old Kane Luter is the youngest member of Steve Brown's dart academy in Britstol. Usually the earliest age to enter is eigth years but the boy shows an astonishing amount of talent. Kane started to play when he was one year old. He doesn't know the scores yet but he's rather accurate.
Three year old accepted by darts academy
Paul Nicholson progressed with a convincing performance in group 3 of the Championship League Darts as third player after Gary Anderson and
Phil Taylor into the winners group while Simon Whitlock for the second time was defeated in a group final.
Simon Whitlock, Colin Lloyd, Mark Walsh, Wayne Jones and Mervyn King will get a new chance in group 4 on 11. Oktober. New in the tournament then will be Ronnie Baxter, Vincent van der Voort and Jamie Caven.
Wes Newton and Andy Hamilton were yesterday eliminated from the tournament.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
29. September
All the Top players who didn't take part in Nuland last weekend will play in Dublin but the number of participants nevertheless will not be too big.
Participants
In his second attempt Phil Taylor managed the group win in group two of the Championship league darts and he progressed to the "winner's group".
Mark Webster and last years champion James Wade were eliminated from the tournament. Paul Nicholson, Mervyn King, Andy Hamilton, Simon Whitlock and Wes Newton
will play on today in group 3.
They will be joined by Colin Lloyd, Wayne Jones and Mark Walsh.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
28. September
As Steve Brown in his last column the Darts Performance Centre this time deals with the "right way" to practice.
A player from Wolverhampton had asked Performance Centre whether could not help him with a "practice day".
Wild Thing - We Will make Your Darts Sing!
Gary Anderson won the Play-Offs of the first group of the Championship League Darts and progressed as first player into the "winners group" which will
play for the tournament win.
Terry Jenkins and Adrian Lewis were eliminated, Phil Taylor - head of the table after day one who lost in the semifinals against Wes Newton - will play again today in group two as will Simon Whitlock, Mark Webster, Wes Newton and reigning champion James Wade who managed to avoid elimination.
Joining them today will be Andy Hamilton, Mervyn King and Paul Nicholson.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
27. September
Therefore you know can find on Globaldarts in the Who is Who a rubrik "Commentators and Journalists. It is not complete yet but the first few names are now online.
Commentators and Journalists
Today this years Championship League Darts starts with the first group.
The first group will play down to the group winner who will progress to the winners group like the winners of the seven other groups. The winners group will play in October for the tournaments win. The last two of today's table will be elimated from the torunament. The remaining last five players will have another chance tomorrow in group two which will be supplement by three new players. This format will be the same for all eight group days.
Today in group 1 Phil Taylor, James Wade - last years champion Champion, Adrian Lewis, Simon Whitlock, Wes Newton, Mark Webster, Gary Anderson and Terry Jenkins will stand at the oche. Raymond van Barneveld has refrained to take part in the tournament.
The tournament can be only watched on internet either on LivePDC.tv or by the streams of several betting companies.
Schedule, Participants, Streams
Tournament Information
26. September
After the Players Championship on Sunday the starting field for the World Grand Prix now is complete.
The draw for the first round took place yesterday eveneing.
You can find the starting field, the first round draw and schedule here:
Starting Field, First Round Draw and Schedule
Tournament Information
25. September
Richie Burnett, BDO World Champion 1995, won for the first time in 10 years a ranked tournament and by this
secured himself a place in the World Grand Prix.
He defeated in the final Dave Chisnall, who is qualified for the World Grand Prix as well.
The semi-final reached with Mark Webster another Welsh player and the not really well-known Kurt van de Rijk from Belgium who because of his great performance played himself up the rankings of the European Order of Merit.
Participants and Results
The Youth Tour event was won by Paul Barham. He defeated in the final Willem Mandigers from the Netherlands.
For the 22 year old from Basildon it was the second win on the youth tour. The semi-finals reached Chris Aubrey and Arron Monk, champion of the PDC Unicorn World Championship in January.
Participants and Results
24. September
Gary Anderson for the eight time this year won a Pro Tour title – the Players Championship on Saturday in Nuland.
Anderson defeated in the final Colin Lloyd with 6:2. The semi-finals reached beside them Tony Ayres and Scott Rand. By this Scott Rand is now before today’s Players Championship qualified for the World Grand Prix in Dublin.
Participants and Results
This years WDF World Cup in Castlebar was a triumph for the English team. In almost every final was an English player which in the end won
the final. Only the boy’s final had a Dutch and a German finalist.
Trina Gulliver won the singles title and together with Deta Hedman the ladies pairs as well. Scott Waites is only a few weeks after his World Master triumph World Cup men’s single champion as well. The men’s pairs were won by Martin Adams and Tony’OShea and the English men’s team won through against the team from Finland with a close 9:8. Fallon Sherrock won the girl’s title and together with Jake Jones the mixed youth pairs. The only final without English participation was won by Jimmy Hendriks from the Netherlands who defeated German Max Hopp with 6:4.
Participants, Schedule, Results
23. September
Yesterday the men's singles, the ladies pairs and the boy's singles were played to the final. All finals will take place on Saturday. In the men's singles
final Scott Waites and Martin Adams will meet. In the ladies final the pair Trina Gulliver/Deta Hedman will meet the Dutch pair Karin Krappen/Francisca
Hoenselaar. In the boy's final the this year very strong playing Jimmy Hendriks from the Netherlands will play German talent Max Hopp.
Today will bring the ladies singles, the men's pairs, the youth mixed pairs and late in the afternoon the quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the men's team event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Updates:
WDF Homepage, just click on the particular competition:
Official Homepage
22. September
As the PDC announced Sid Waddell is ill with bowel cancer.
The dyed-with-the-wool commentator - Waddell commentates since 1972 Darts on TV - will undergo treatment in the coming months so that at least the World Grand Prix will take place with out him.
We wish Sid a speedy and complete recovery, the pressroom is not the same without him.
Yesterday the girl's singles were played down to the final which will be played on Saturday by Fallon Sherrock from England and
Courtney Mulder from South Africa.
The men's team competition was played down to the quarter-finals. The biggest surprise was that the Dutch team was already out of the tournament after the round robin phase.
The ladies pairs played to the last 16, today they will play on to the final.
Beside this the men's and the boy's singles down to the final will take place today.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Updates:
WDF Homepage, just click on the particular competition:
Official Homepage
The participants will be the Top 20 of the PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit which is headed by Michael van Gerwen. Other participants will be 32 qualifiers by Riley's qualifications on the 23. October and 30. October and a number of international qualifiers.
The event will take place on the 19./20. November in Münster.
More details you can find here:
PDC Europe
21. September
The PDC has now annnounced the matches and the schedule for the first matchday of the Championship League Darts next Tuesday, 27. September,
Besides a list of the betting companies which offer a live stream of the tournament was published.
Schedule, Streams
Information Information
Today ist the first day of the WDF World Cup in Castlebar in Ireland.
Played are the men's teams competition, the ladies pairs and the girl's singles.
The WDF updates the results on the official homepage, you only have to clicked on the different competitions.
Official Homepage
The Auckland Open in Australia were won by Jonathan Silcock and Jannette Jonathan.
Rowby-John Rodriguez from Austria and Hungary's Veronika Ihasz are the champions of this years Carinthian Open.
In his newest blog Steve Brown talks about practice.
Not everything which is considered as "practice" is really effective... Steve offers some advice how to practice that your performance will get better.
Dressing Room Darts 1
The World Grand Prix in Dublin iwill be the next Major tournament of the PDC.
The tournament will be played from 3. - 9. October in Dublin. The schedule was announced some time ago, most of the participants are clear as well. The Players Championship weekend in Nuland this weekend are the last chance to get a place.
Schedule and Starting Field
Tournament Information
What does now Phil Taylor do in between the tournaments?
Well, at the moment he's travelling through the UK visiting Riley's darts zones. Beside he like some other top players takes part in smaller tournaments. Recently he managed on the Shetlands to retain a title against Adrian Lewis.
A report of this tournament you can find here:
Phil retains Shetland title
And during his Riley's tour he answered some questions:
Rileys Tour
19. September
Last weekend in Bridlington the BDO British Open took place.
The men's title was won by Scott Waites, who could win just two weeks ago the Winmau World Masters. In the ladies final Lorraine Farlam defeated Trina Gulliver.
Both players together with their partners Garry Thompson respectively Anastasia Dobromyslova reached the finals of the open pairs as well. Waites/Thompson won while Farlam/Dobromyslova were defeated by Deta Hedman/Karen Lawman.
The PDC has now published a surview over the starting field of the PDC World Championship 2012, which will be played from 15. December 2011
to 2. January 2012 in London.
Beside the players who'll qualify through the PDC rankings, the PDPA qualifier, the Oceanic Masters winner and the winner of the DPA Australian Grand Prix, Sean Reed, will get a place in the first round.
16 places for qualifiers are to be are to be one in preliminary round. Warren French from New Zealand already qualified to represent his home country.
Schedule and Starting Field
Tournament Information
A lot of the already for the tournament qualified top players will not travel to Nuland.
Participants
16. September
After a win and a semi-final appearance in Redcliff last weekend Australian Sean Reed unassailable tops
the Australischen Grand Prix Ranking and probably has secured himself a place in the PDC World Championship 2012.
Guy Holland and Robbie King qualified for the second PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship.
14. September
The fourth Players Championship Finals were brought forward by the PDC to the
8. - 11. December, so this tournament will be played twice in 2011. The PDC gave as reason that it makes more sense to play the finals directly after the Players Championship series of the year is over then in the February of the following year.
The Top 32 of the Players Championship Order of Merit will take part in the tournament.
The tournament will be televised by ITV4.
The updated Rankings are now online:
BDO/WDF Rankings
13. September
The fourth edition of this PDC tournament without spectators will start on 27. September.
The PDC now confirmed the groups of the event. Raymond van Barneveld will not take part, so Dennis Priestley got a place in group 8.
Schedule and Groups
Tournament Information
It's important in regard of the World Grand Prix in Dublin at the beginning of October. the top 16 of the Order of Merit and the top 14 of the Players Championship Orders of Merit beside the two best in thePlayers Championship Order of Merit irish players, who are not already qualified by the Order of Merit will take part.
Probably not much will change in the Order of Merit despite the still to have played Players Championship weekend in Nuland but there is still a chance for players to qualify by the Players Championship Order of Merit.
PDC Rankings
Darts is only a part of the contract with Matchroom Sport, also included are sports like wie bowling, pool, snooker, boxing, golf und sport fishing as Barry Hearn - chairman of Matchroom Sport - announced.
12. September
At the weekend in Berlin the Spree Cup was played, a DDV ranking tournament.
The men's singles were won by Marko Puls who defeated Tomas Seyler in the final, the supplementary event on Sunday was won by Sieger Karsten Koch and the men's pairs winning team was Karsten Koch/Kevin Münch.
Winner of the ladies singles was both on Saturday and on Sunday Irina Armstrong, who together with Heike Jenkins was the winner of the ladies pairs as well.
Anna-Maria Schulze and Max Hopp won the youth titles.
Scott Waites and Lisa Ashton won the titles of this years Winmau World Masters in Hull. Scott Waites had no problems in his final against
Dean Winstanley, Lisa Ashton showed an as impressive performance against Trina Gulliver.
The girl's title was won by Emily Davidson from Scotland, while Dutch Jimmy Hendriks was the winner of the boy's tournament.
Participants, Schedule and Results
Over the international play offs Joey ten Berge and Christian Kist - both from the Netherlands - secured themselves a place in the BDO Lakeside World Championship while the British qualifiers were Andy Boulton, Dave Prins, Alan Norris and Gary Stone.
For the second time this year the PDC played a Pro Tour weekend in Derby.
On Sunday Raymond van Barneveld won his first Pro Tour Event in three years, he defeated in the final John Part.
On Sunday Gary Anderson won his fifth Pro Tour titel in 2011, he defeated Peter Wright.
Michael van Gerwen celebrated on Saturday his third win on the Youth Tour.
Participants and Results
An again strong playing John Part celebrated on Saturday a Canadian win, he defeated Wes Newton in the final. For Part it was his third Pro Tour win this year.
On Sunday Ronnie Baxter won the Players Championship, his opponent in the final was Kevin Painter, who for the first time this year reached a Pro Tour final.
After the Players Championship on Saturdaythe North American qualifier for the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship 2011 took place, it was won by Kanadier Shaun Narain from Calgary.
Participants and Results
Arachnid and Medalist Have Something to Fear
Donny Joe, American dartplayer and 2011 number 11 of the ADO rankings, has a personal look on the development in soft-darts. In November 2011 the Japanese E-Dart company Dartslive arrived in America - what will happen now? Definitely companies like Arachnid and Medalist feel Dartslive is a real competitor!Arachnid and Medalist Have Something to Fear
6. February
Team England wins World Cup
In a dramatic final Team England in a Sudden Death Leg won against Team Australia.
Team England had won the first three singles before Paul Nicholson with a 7:4 defeat of Adrian Lewis forced the match into the deciding double. The Australians won it 4:7 showing a lot of team spirit and bottle so that the sudden death leg would decide over the tournament win.
Both Australians and Phil Taylor missed with their matchdarts. Finally Adrian Lewis - who kept his nerve - could hit the double for the tournament.
The Australians were the best team throughout the tournament and convinced all the time while Team England began weak and almost was eliminated first against Team Canada and then against Team USA. But then they dramatically improved and showed their best performances in the semi-finals and the final.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Dutch Open - Desults
Englishman Tony O'Shea and Julie Gore from Wales were the winners of the singles titles.Impressive played Austrian Roby John Rodriguez who won the boy's singles title. Belgian Bauwke Verreydt won the girl's tournament.
Tony O'Shea together with Darryl Fitton was the winner of the men's pairs while Lawman/Hedman won the ladies doubles.
5. February
PDC World Cup - Semi-Finals
The Teams from Australia and from England won the semi-finals and will now meet tonight in the final of the PDC World Cup.
Team Australien had no real problems with the winner of the inaugural PDC World Cup Team Netherlands. Only Raymond van Barneveld could win against Paul Nicholson - all other matches were lost.
In a similar way Team Wales was defeated by the English Team. Mark Webster who had shown a great performance thus far had suddenly big problems while Richie Burnett once again convinced and the members of the English Team started to find their range. In their best performance of the tournament even Phil Taylor managed to win his first single match.
Participants, Schedule, Results
PDC World Cup - Quarterfinals
In the quarterfinals the Teams from Australia, Wales and the Netherlands proved to be to strong for their opponents Belgium, South Africa
and Northern Ireland.
Some more problems had Team England as neither Adrian Lewis nor Phil Taylor showed the convincing performance one is used of them. But they defeated the American Team nevertheless and progressed to the semi-finals as well.
The semi-finals will be played this afternoon, Team Australia will play Team Netherlands and the English Team will meet the Welsh. Tonight the final will be played.
4. February
PDC World Cup - Second Round Doubles
Team Canada was in the end the loser in the clash with the English Team and was eliminated from the tournament in a Sudden Death Leg. Team England
will now meet in tonights quarterfinals Team USA.
Through to the quarterfinals as well are reigning champion Netherlands and the Teams from Belgium, Northern Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Wales. South Africa had defeated the Scottish Team in another sudden death leg.
Participants, Schedule, Results
PDC World Cup - Second Round Singles
The biggest upset in the second round caused Team Canada. Both Ken McNeil as John Part defeated their opponents from the English Team,
Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis, with 3:4. Team England now has to win the double today to still have a chance to stay in the tournament.
zu haben.
Beside Canada the teams from Australia, Wales und Scotland lead 2:0. All other matches ended 1:1.
3. Februar
PDC World Cup - First Round
The first round of the PDC World Cup, in which only doubles were played, brought wins for the teams from Canada, the republic of Ireland, the USA, Austria, Sweden, South Africa, Croatia and Denmark. The most convincing performance showed the team from South Africa Devon Petersen/Shawn Hogan, who threw the Spains, the stunning team of the first World Cup out of the tournament.Tonight in Hamburg the singles of the second round will be played. Team USA will play team Germany, reigning champion Holland will play team Austria and the English team will play team Canada.
Participants, Schedule, Results
PDC World Cup
This afternoon in Hamburg the second PDC World Cup will begin with the matches of the first round. Beside others the teams from Canada, the USA,
New Zealand and Spanien will be involved in the action.
The winning teams of the first round then will play in the evening session against the seeded teams, to which belong for example tean Germany, reigning champion Netherlands and the favorised team England. Tonight only the singles of the second round take place, the doubles will be played tomorrow afternoon.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Dutch Open
Today in the national conference centre Koningshof in the Netherlands the Dutch Open will start, a BDO/WDF tournament. After Christian Kist's win of the BDO World Championship there are even more participants then usually - over 3500 players have registered for the different events.Belgian Championships
Last Sunday in Harelbeke the national Belgian Championships were played.The men's title for the first time was won by Thierry Michaud, he defated in the final his team mate from the national team Ronny Huybrechts.
Patricia de Peuter won her third successive ladies title.
31. January
Who is the real Dart's World Champion?
Scott Mackenzie published a second column on Dartoid's World disussing three World Championships and three World Champions. Who now is the real World Champion? And wouldn't it be interesting when all three would contest in the two kinds of darts - steel-dart and soft dart? Who would turn out to be the best all-rounder?Who is the real World Champion?
30. January
German Gold Cup
The singles of the last German Gold Cup - the organiser has to withdrew due to financial reasons - won Dutch Aileen de Graf and Tomas Seyler.
The girl's tournament was won by Valeria Shvtec, the boy's tournament by Max Hopp. In the ladie's doubles Jenkins/Armstrong defeated Strauch/Sossong, winners of the men's doubles were Langendorf/Klönhammer who defeated Rice/Kunze.
Las Vegas Open
In this years Las Vegas Open, a ADO/WDF tournament, American Howard Meyers and Canadian Cindy Pardy won the singles titles.
Cindy Pardy won the ladies cricket tournament as well while the men's cricket title went to Jim Widmayer.
The Cricket doubles of the men where won unexpectedly by the Japanese pair Hashimoto/Muramatsu.
29. January
Michael Smith wins second Players Championship
Michael Smith on Sunday got his second win on the PDC Pro Tour and defeated in the final Saturday's winner Justin Pipe 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them James Wade and Matt Clark. Ted Hankey again was eliminated in preliminary round, Dean Winstanley lost in round 4 to Dave Chisnall.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
28. January
Justin Pipe wins in Benidorm
Justin Pipe won the first Players Championship 2012 with a 6:0 whitewash against Paul Nicholson.
In the semifinals of the Spanish Darts Trophy on Saturday stood beside them Ian White, who had thrown a Nine-Darter in his first round match against Mark Hylton and Swedish Magnus Caris.
Ted Hankey lost on his Pro Tour debut in premiminary round while Tony West and Dean Winstanley - who lost against Kim Huybrechts - were eliminated first round.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
26. January
Players Championships 1 + 2 Benidorm
At the weekend in Benidorm in Spain the first two Players Championships 2012 will be played. They are the last two Players Championships this year on the continent and belong already to the new European Tour of the PDC, which will replace the continental Players Championships.It will be the first appearance of Ted Hankey and Dean Winstanley as PDC players. Beside several new Tour Card holders will travel to Spain who are joined by quite a lot of local players. From the Top Ten Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson are missing.
Participants, Tournament Information
25. January
PDC World Cup
The PDC announced today the draw for the World Cup which will start on 3. Feburary. The English team - Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis - will meet in second round either team Canada or
team Hungary while team Netherlands - winner of the last and first World Cup - will play in their first match team Austria or team New Zealand.
The English and the Dutch team belong to the eight seeded teams which will start to play second round while the other 16 teams have to start in first round.
Main sponsor of this years World Cup will be like for the inaugural tournament in 2010 cash converter.
Participants, Schedule, Draw
Quebec Open
This years Quebec Open were won by David Dionne and Cindy Pardy.22. January
Qualifying School
One of the Tour Card winners in Sunday's Qualifying School was German player Bernd Roith.
The last three other direct Tour Card winners today were Dave Smith, Johnny Haines and young Welshman Waliser Jamie Lewis who played last year some of the PDC Youth Tour events.
Beside several other Tour Cards were handed out according the ranking points won through Qualifying School.
Qualifying School
On the third day BDO player Dean Winstanley finally managed to win himself a PDC Tour Card .The other three Tour Cards on Saturday got Canadier Jeff Smith, PDPA player Adrian Gray, who lats year had dropped out of the Top 64 of the PDC and Andrew Gilding, who last year had qualified for UK Open as an amateur and who had stood under the last 16 of the Winmau World Masters.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
Interview with Dean Winstanley
Dean Winstanley last year was at his debut in Lakeside the runner-up of the BDO World Championship. Later in the year he was runner-up of the Winmau
World Masters as well - both in his first full year on the BDO circuit.
His goal is of course to win both tournaments...
To the Interview
21. January
Qualifying School
On the second day of Qualifying School Kurt van de Rijck, Stuart Kellet, Steve West and Michael Barnard won PDC Tour Card.
Kurt van de Rijck had qualified by the European Order of Merit for the last PDC World Championship and now wants to play the complete PDC Circuit. After Tony West with his brother Steve West and Stuart Kellet two more BDO players switched to the PDC. Michael Barnard already plays in the PDC for several years but was ranked to low in the Order of Merit to get a Tour Card automatically. So he had to take part in Qualifying School.
20. January
Qualifying School
on the first day of PDC Qualifying School Tony West, Darren Whittingham, Richie Howson and Andrew Cornwall won a PDC Tour Card.Tony West, former World Masters winner, is beside Ted Hankey the second BDO player, who this year switches to the PDC. As Hankey West took part in the BDO World Championship. But for him from the beginning the tournament was ill-fated - he had lost his darts before his first match and till now didn't got them back.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
18. January
Topic "Dartitis
In a further article - this time by an American dart player who now lives in South Korea and who suffered from dartitis but got rid of it - the topic "dartitis" is taken up again. Karl Hartmann's article deals especially with the different stages a person suffering from dartitis has to live through to be able to recover from the illness.Stages of Dartitis
PDC Qualifying School
All in all 218 players from around the world registered for th PDC Qualifying School haben sich insgesamt 218 Spieler aus aller Welt angemeldet.The best-know BDO player under the participants is Dean Winstanley while Scott Waites despite all expectations and rumours didn't register. On the list are PDPA players who couldn't got a Tour Card because they are not in the top 64 of the PDC Order of Merit like Peter Manley, some young players who played Youth Tour last year and former World Champions Andy Fordham and Les Wallace.
Starting tomorrow till Sunday the four tournaments of the Qualifying School will be played for at least 31 Tour Cards. 16 will directly go to all the semi-finalists of the four tournaments, the other one's will be distributed by a point-ranking to the other participants.
Participants, Results, Tournament Information
17. January
Premier League Fixtures
The PDC has now announced the fixtures of the league days of Premier League 2012.
Like last season on the first evening on 9. February World Champion Adrian Lewis will play Phil Taylor. Last year the match ended with a clear 2:8 defeat for Phil Taylor.
With Cardiff, Glasgow and Aberdeen three league days are already sold out.
The official betting partner of the Premier League, William Hill, makes Phil Taylor the clear 13/8 favourite to win this years Premier League.
Participants, League Days
Tournament Information
Winners World Championship-Competitions
Though the participants in the competitons were international all the first prices were won by German participants.When even the tie-braker question in the PDC competition brought two correct answers I decided there'll be two first prices this year and both winners will get the video-analysis of their throw.
Those first prices got Michael Putz from Wiesbaden and Sven Klein from Hamburg. The consolation price - an official PDC World Championship programme signed by the old and new World Champion Adrian Lewis - got Rab Smith from Ballymote in Ireland.
The winner of the BDO competition is Stefan Seidelmann from Essen - he'll get a set of Performance Darts.
Many thanks to all who took part and congratulations to all winners.
16. January
Dean Winstanley takes part in Qualifying School
Over the weekend the number of participants in the PDC Qualifying School increased.Under the players who registered now is Dean Winstanley.
Participants, Tournament Information
15. January
Kist new BDO World Champion
Dutchman Christian Kist is the new BDO World Champion.
He defeated in a thrilling though not throughout high-class final Tony O'Shea with 7:5. O'Shea was more nervous then debutant Kist at the beginning of the final and his usual accuracy on the doubles had left him. A rather cool looking Kist could take almost every chance O'Shea gave him and got a 5:1 lead. Then O'Shea suddenly recovered abd now it was Kist who who was in trouble. O'Shea managed the 5:5 but then Kist was back and despite O'Shea's strong resistance he could win the last two sets to win the match.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
Ted Hankey will get Tour Card
The PDC announced that the PDC Tour Card offer to all Lakeside semi-finalists still is valid though it had for some time disappeared from the PDC Homepage.So it's certain Ted Hankey will get a Tour Card and doesn't have to play through Qualifying School. Which plans the other three Lakeside semi-finalists have for their future in darts is not yet known.
14. January
Ted Hankey switches to PDC
In an interview after his semi-final defeat Ted Hankey announced he'll switch to the PDC.
Before the match he had an argument with BDO officials because he refused to sign a contract with the BDO which would have bound him as semi-final participant to stay in the BDO and play next years BDO World Championship. After the match Hankey accused the persons responsible to have toggled the air-condition so that it affected his game...
It's not known yet whether Hankey will get a Tour Card immediately or whether he would have to go through Qualifiying School to win one, but there is evidence to suggest he'll be spared Qualifying School.
BDO World Championship
Dutchman Christan Kist and Tony O'Shea tomorrow will play the final of the BDO World Championship 2012.
Christan Kist won a close match against Ted Hankey who throw away his opprtunity to win. Compared to the other matches Kist had played during the tournament it was a weaker performance by him. Before the match Ted Hankey had an argument with BDO officials. He even threatend he would default.
As in the first semi-final the performance of both players in the second was their weakest in the tournament - nevertheless it was a thrilling and close match. But usually after a high score a rather weak one followed. Beside O'Shea had some problems with the board - all in all he had 14 bouncers during the match. So at 5:5 there was another break to change the board and look after the air-conditiong which seemed to affect both players - a similar situation as in the recent PDC semi-final between Adrian Lewis and James Wade. The match was very balanced, in the end O'Shea could win it thanks to his more clinical finishing.
13. January
BDO World Championship
The last two men's quarterfinals were won by Dutchman Christian Kist and Ted Hankey.
Dutchman Christian Kist once again showed a good performance as did Alan Norris who nevertheless couldn't keep up. Kist soon was in the lead and was even able to prevent a threatening comeback by Norris. In the end Kist won 5:1. Kist who had qualified by the International Play-Offs for the World Championship is the only not seeded player in the semifinals
The result of the second quarterfinal was the same - 5:1 for Hankey - but it was only in patches as good as the first one. Both players were not really sure with their doubles but in most situations Ted Hankey was a step ahead of Martin Atkins. So Atkins as Alan Norris could only win a single set.
The two semi-finals which will be played torrow now are: Tony O'Shea v Wesley Harms and Ted Hankey v Christan Kist. Two times England v Holland, two times experienced player against emerging talent. Could be interesting matches!
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
Anastasia Dobromyslova World Champion
With a 2:1 win against Deta Hedman Anastasia Dobromyslova won the title for the second time.
In the first set Hedman overrun Dobromyslova. But the the Russian got more and more confident and got much surer with her doubles. After Hedman had miscalculated a finish and missed two matchdarts in the second set Dobromyslova dominated the match and won it in style with a bullsey-finish.
PDC Qualifying School
2012 again a PDC Qualifying School will take place through which at least 31 PDC Tour Cards can be earned.
Again Qualifying school will consists of four tournaments. All quarterfinal winners will get a Tour Card sicher. 15 more Tour Cards will be handed to the top players of the qualifying school ranking. The tour card is valid for two years.
Till now 140 players have registered for Qualifying School. As entries will not be closed before 18. January 12 pm probably some more will registrate. Last year players like Dave Chisnall, John Henderson and Magnus Caris earned a Tour Card going through Qualifying School.
Participants, Tournament Information
12. Januar
BDO World Championship
In the women's final tomorrow Deta Hedman and Anastasia Dobromyslova will meet. Deta Hedman defeated Lorraine Farlam 2:1, Anastasia
Dobromyslova won in the second semi-final against - a visibly still suffering from the dead of her mother last week - Trina Gulliver.
Winners of the two men's quarterfinals were Dutchman Wesley Harms and Tony O'Shea.
Harms and his English opponent Paul Jennings - both World Championship - debutants played an at first rather nervous match. The Dutchman managed to settle while Paul Jennings never played at his best and was defeated 5:3.
The first four sets of the match between reigning champion Martin Adams and Tony O'Shea certainly were one of the highlights of this year's tournamen. Both players then dropped off a bit though they still showed a good performance. Both averaged around 94. O'Shea soon played himself into the lead and threw a greta 170 finihs. Adams never seemed really to recover from it though he was able to increase his double quote. Tony O'Shea deserved his 5:2 win and will now play on Saturday in the semi-finals against Dutchman Wesley Harms.
BDO World Championship
Out of the last second round matches Martin Atkins, Ted Hankey, Christian Kist and Alan Norris progressed into the quarterfinals.
Martin Atkins was already 3:0 in the lead against Willy van de Wiel when the Dutch player started a comeback. But Atkins held his nerve and won 4:2. The match between Ted Hankey and Scott Waites was a rather scatty match in which both players had strong and weak phases. Ted Hankey prevailed. Belgian Geert de Vos only could keep up with Christian Kist at the beginning of the match. Then his performance sagged and Kist won without problems 4:2. Kist once again had the highest average of the evening.
The last match of the evening between Dean Winstanley and Alan Norris resembled the first one between Atkins and van de Wiel. Winstanley soon was 3:0 in the lead. Then Norris started to fight back. But Winstanley couldn't find the means to halt Norris and lost 3:4.
Today the first two men's quarterfinals and the ladies semi-finals will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
11. Januar
WDF News
The WDF announced from this year on there'll be an own ranking for the youth players.The first tournament counting for the ranking will be the German Goldcup on 29. January where a both a girls and a boys tournament will be played. All in all it will be over 30 tournament where the youth players can collect ranking points.
Which "rewards" the players will win with their points is not yet known.
PDC Premier League
As the PDC said the announcement of this year's Premier League players started a new surge in the ticket sell.
By now 80 percent of the tickets are sold. Sold out already is evening number 8 in Cardiff.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
10. January
BDO World Championship
Today the first four second round matches were played.
To the quarterfinals progressed Paul Jennings, Wesley Harms, Mertin Adams and Tony O'Shea. The first match of the evening between Paul Jennings and Steve Douglas was the weakest - it looked both players were rather nervous. The young Dutchman Harms showed a strong performance agaainst Robbie Green. Green had won the first set but had after that no chance at all again the younger player. Martin Adams didn't more then necessary to defeat Gary Stone who had experienced some double trouble. The last match of the evening was the strongest of the session. Both players threw a lot of high scores and Tony O'Shea hit over 50 percent of his doubles. He convinced by some high clinical finishs.
Tomorrow the other four second round matches will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
PDC World Cup
The PDC the participants of the second PDC World Cup which will be played from 3. - 5. February in Hamburg.
Again 24 Teams will fight for the win. The eight seeded teams - the English team Phil Taylor/Adrian Lewis is seeded number one - will start to play second round on Friday evening while all other teams will meet in round one in the afternoon.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
9. January
BDO World Championship
On the third day of the BDO World Championship the last three first round matches were played.
The first match was won by young Belgian Geert de Vos who defeated Tony West. The other two matches were won by the more experienced British players againts two yound players from Holland though both Benito van de Pas and Joey ten Berge showed a good performance. Alan Norris and Dean Winstanley progressed into the second round.
The last women's quarterfinal was won by Anastasia Dobromyslova who defeated Julie Gore 2:0.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table
BDO World Championship competition
As already announced globaldarts offers a competition for the BDO World Championship as well.
This time the winner will get a set of Performance Darts.
Competition
8. January
BDO World Championship
On the second day of the BDO World Championship two Dutchman played the till now best match of the tournament - Christian Kist defeated Jan
Dekker with 3:2 and had an average of almost 98. Ted Hankey played a quite respectable match against the at first very unsure debutant
Clive Barden. Hankey won 3:2 as well. Beside those two Wesley Harms, Scott Waites, Paul Jennings, Willy van de Wiel and Martin Atkins
progressed into round two.
Trina Gulliver defeated Lisa Ashton 2:0 and progressed into the semi-finals.
Tomorrow the least three first round matches of the men and the last women's quarterfinal will be played.
7. Januar
BDO World Championship
On the first day of the BDO World Championship with Gary Robson and Ron Meulenkamp already two seeded players were eliminated from the tournament.
Through to the second round are Robby Green, Steve Douglas, reigning champion Martin Adams, Tony O'Shea, Gary Stone and Ross Montgomery.
In the Women's tournament Deta Hedman and Lorraine Farlam progressed to the semi-finals.
Participants, Schedule, Results
6. January
BDO World Championship
Tomorrow the BDO World Championship and the BDO Women's World Championship will begin in the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green.
32 Men and 8 Women will battle for the title.
This year the tournament will get TV coverage by ESPN and BBC.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
4. January
Darts on the Radio
Does it really exist - Darts on the Radio?
Oh yes - it exists. And how the sport of darts made it into the radio I was told during the last PDC World Championship.
Darts on the Radio
Premier League Players
The four wildcards for this years Premier League got Andy Hamilton, Kevin Painter, Simon Whitlock and Raymond van Barneveld.The first League Day will be played in Manchester on 9. February.
Taylor again "Player of the Year"
Once again Phil Taylor was named PDC "Player of the year". The fans voted over the PDC homepage Taylor as "PDC Fan's
Player of the Year as well.
Beside this the following awards were confered: Pro Tour Player of the Year: Gary Anderson, PDPA Player of the Year: Justin Pipe, Best Newcomer: Dave Chisnall, PDC Young Player of the Year: Michael van Gerwen, Best Televised Performance: Adrian Lewis.
3. January
Premier League Players
Tonight the annual Awards Dinner of the PDC will take place.During the evening not only the usual awards - like the "Player of the Year" award - will be handed out but this years Premier League players will be announced as well. Four of those are already known - the numbers 1 - 4 of the PDC Order of Merit Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, James Wade and Gary Anderson. But who will get the four Wildcards?
Order of Merit updated
The Order of Merit was updated after the PDC World Championship.The biggest change happened for Andy Hamilton, he moved from place 17 to place 7. Beside him under the top 32 Paul Nicholson, Justin Pipe, John Part and Richie Burnett moved up.
PDC Ranking
2. January
Lewis defends World Champion Title
Adrian Lewis defended his World Champion Title against Andy Hamilton with a 7:3 win.
After all the thrilling matches during the tournament the final was almost an anticlimax. Neither Lewis nor Hamilton could build on their performance shown in the semi-finals. There were a lot of not so high scores and Hamilton was far less sure on his doubles then in his other matches. So he was often unabale to use his chances. Lewis on the other hand was always at the right place when it was important and deserved the win.
Report Final
Participants, Schedule, Results
Competition
Tournament Information
Result Table
Statistics
Gallery
PDC World Championship - Semi-Finals
The winners of the two semi-finals were Andy Hamilton and reigning champion Adrian Lewis, who now tonight will play the final of the PDC World Championship 2012.
In both semi-finals the winners were at first behind but then turned the matches around.
In the first semi-final Simon Whitlock had a 5:3 lead when Andy Hamilton started his comeback. The players fought a very close match which Hamilton in the end won 6:5.
In the second semi-final James Wade had got a 5:1 lead after a draught on stage had suspended the match fo some time when Wade led 2:0. It took Lewis longer to recover from the incident but then Wade had no chance at all any longer and Lewis progressed with a 6:5 win for the second time into the World Championship final.
Reports - Semi-Finals
31. December
A Happy New Year to Everybody!!!
30. December
PDC World Championship 13 - Quarterfinals, Evening
The quarterfinals of the evening sessions brought wins for Simon Whitlock and reigning champion Adrian Lewis who progressed to the semi-finals.
Whitlock had no problems with Gary Anderson at all who not only because his well-known double trouble never really was in the match.
Lewis had got a clear lead in his match against Terry Jenkins but then suddenly lost focus and dropped off while Jenkins very much improved. Lewis managed to recover and won the match 5:3.
The World Championship takes a break on New Year's Eeve but will go on on 1. January 2012. Then the semi-finals between James Wade and Adrian Lewis and Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock will be played.
PDC World Championship 13 - Quarterfinals, Afternoon
Globaldarts arrived back home from London just in time to watch the unbelievable thrilling quarterfinal between James Wade and John Part.
James Wade already had a 3:1 lead when John Part finally got going. The Canadian first draw level and then got into the lead. James Wade levelled again and the match went into a decisive Set which developed in a close head to head race. Finally a Sudden Death leg brought the decision and James Wade first crossed the finishing line while Part already waited on double tops. As Part said after the match: "It was the greatest game I ever lost".
In the first quarterfinal of the afternoon Andy Hamilton defeated with a once again impressive performance young Belgian Kim Huybrechts with 5:2. Hamilton threw 11 180s and had an average from over 100.
29. December
PDC World Championship 12 - Evening
In the evening the last three third round matches were played.
In the first match Simon Whitlock defeated Michael van Gerwen 4:3 but had to fear for his win. Whitlock already was 3:0 in the lead when van Gerwen started a comeback and won three sets in a row.
Dave Chisnall had no chance at all against Andy Hamilton - it almost looked as if the player who had eliminated Phil Taylor out of the tournament just had no energy left. Hamilton won the match 4:0.
Gary Anderson rushed through the last match of the evening against Colin Lloyd and soon led 3:0. Then Lloyd could win a set and celebrated in style. But it was impossible to stop Anderson who with an average of over 100 progressed into the quarterfinals.
PDC World Championship 12 - Afternoon
Kim Huybrechts caused in the last afternoon match on day 12 of the PDC World Championship the next upset. The young Belgian who only started to play in
the PDC this summer eliminated Paul Nicholson 4:1 from the tournament and progressed into the quarterfinals.
In the other afternoon matches James Wade whitewashed Steve Farmer 4:0 and three times World Champion John Part defeated Kevin Painter in a gripping match 4:2.
Reports - Day 12, Afternoon
28. December
PDC World Championship Day 11 - Evening
The first match of the evening was the last match of the second round and it once again was hard work for Gary Anderson who defeated in the end
Devon Petersen from South Africa 4:2.
The third round started with the match between reigning World Champion Adrian Lewis and Wayne Jones and Lewis had no problem to win it. In the second last 16 match Terry Jenkins defeated Justin Pipe 4:1. As Jenkins said Justin's slow throw was no problem for him more help as it hindered him to rush his throw which sometimes affects his game.
Reports - Day 11, Evening
Stairs, stairs and - well, stairs...
There are a lot of stairs in London.
And some are rather special!!!
Stairs, stairs and - well, stairs...
PDC World Championship Day 11 - Afternoon
Though all the afternoon matches ended 4:1 none was a really one sided match.
Michael van Gerwen played with a lot of self-confidence while Mervyn King just was not able to use his chances - so now Michael van Gerwen is the only Dutch player still in the contest. He'll meet Simon Whitlock tomorrow evening.
Simon Whitlock defeated Steve Beaton in the same fashion, Beaton was unable too to use the chances.
In the last match of the afternoon Colin Lloyd showed a strong performance to see off newcomer Scott Rand.
Reports - Day 11, Afternoon
27. December
PDC World Championship Day 10 - Evening
In the evening session Dave Chisnall caused the biggest upset in the history of the World Championship and eliminated the 15-times World Champion
Phil Taylor with 4:1 from the tournament. Totally unusual for him Phil Taylor was unsure on the doubles. After the match Taylor admitted he had a problem with the heat
on stage what never before had happened to him.
Chisnall showed no nerves at all and seemed to totally umimpressed by his opponent.
In the other two matches of the evening Kim Huybrechts defeated James Richardson with 4:1 and Paul Nicholson lost not a single set against Alan Tabern.
Reports - Day 10, Evening
PDC World Championship Day 10 - Afternoon
In the afternoon-session both Terry Jenkins and John Part convinced by their performances, which left their opponents Co Stompe and Richie Burnett not many
chances. Stompe had an hand injury at his right hand as he had been bitten by a dog on Christmas Eve which might have restricted him. As Richie Burnett who missed
just too many darts he never really was in the match. Both Jenkins and Part got an early 3:0 lead which was too much for their opponents.
In the last match of the afternoon-session Andy Hamilton und Vincent van der Voort led a neck and neck race in which in the end the better nerves of Hamilton prevailed.
Reports - Day 10, Afternoon
Walk-On Girls
The Walk-On Girls are at least tonight not the two young Irish girls but Nicola Cowell and Sarah Tunnicliffe, whom we could see last during the Grand Slam.PDC World Championship
Today the PDC World Champiponship will go on with more matches of the second round.
Both an afternoon- and an evening session will be played and hopefully we'll see some great matches. Tonigth both James Richardson who eliminated Raymond van Barneveld from the tournament and Phil Taylor will play.
24. December
Merry Christmas!!!
PDC World Championship - Day 9
On the last evening before the Christmas break Kevin Painter and Mark Walsh played a very close match which in the end Kevin Painter could win 4:3.
A very commanding James Wade met a rather weak playing Jelle Klaasen and defeated him 4:0. Klaasen only won four legs in the contest.
The last match of the evening brought another win for Steve Farmer who had eliminated Ronnie Baxter first round. This time after some initial difficulties in a not really good match he in the end defeated the young German player Kevin Münch.
23. December
PDC World Championship - Day 8
On the eigth evening of the World Championship the first three second round matches were played.
The evening started with the match between Wayne Jones and Roland Scholten which was dominated by Jones. Jones didn't play an outstanding match but Scholten is not really back yet in his old form and just couldn't keep up. He lost 0:4.
In the second match Adrian Lewis had some problems in winning over Robert Thornton duchzusetzen who again showed a good performance while Lewis was not brilliant but always hit when it really mattered.
The last match developed due to Justin Pipe into an epic battle. Wes Newton first had a clear lead but then had more and more problems to cope with Pipe's slow throw and looked slightly irritated. Pipe didn't let himself got worked up and won the match 4:3.
22. December
PDC World Championship - Day 7
The first three matches of day seven of the PDC World Championship were rather onesided. Only surprising was that both Scott Rand and Simon
Whitlock - still affected by the broken bone in his ankle - had very clear wins. Both defeated their opponents 3:0 and dominated their matches.
The same result had Canadian John Part against John Henderson, he as well dominted his match.
The last match of the evening between Steve Brown and Devon Petersen - and the last first round match - developed dramatically. Brown in the last set missed a match dart and South African Devon Petersen who started to play the Pro Tour this year used his chance. He'll now meet Gary Anderson in the second round.
Match Reports - 7. Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
The World
The legend Paul Lim defeated in the final of the Softdart Tournament in Hongkong Sho Katsumi from Japan and pocketed the around 130. 000 Dollar.
gewinnen.
John Part played himself under the last 8 before he travelled on to the PDC World Championship in London.
WDF Results
Lourance "The Gunner" Ilagan won both the PhilMasters and the Philippine International Darts Open Men's Single title.One could win WDF Ranking points in both tournament and quite a lot of international players from Malaysia, Denmark, Canada, England and other countries took part.
Boxer Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao made both tournaments possible.
21. December
PDC World Championship - Day 6
Gary Anderson and Jyhan Artut played a most dramatic match which in the end Gary Anderson won in a sudden death leg. Artut had already a 2:0 lead before
Anderson finally started to hit his doubles when it mattered.
Other players who advanced to the second round were Michael van Gerwen, Colin Lloyd, and Terry Jenkins. Joe Cullen won the prelimary round match but lost to Terry Jenkins.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
20. December
A German-Scottish co-operation...
When one uses the time not staying in the Alexandra Palace for walks you can always discover something.
And sometimes you can even learn something new!!!
A German-Scottish co-operation...
PDC World Championship - Day 5
On the 5. day of the World Championship only Mervyn King had an easy win against Geoff Kime from Australia.
Andy Hamilton and Antonio Alcinas played a high-class close match which Hamilton in teh end won. Kevin Painter won against Arron Monk but had to work hard for it and James Wade had a similar tough match against Perti Korte from Finland who turned out to be rather sure with his finishs.
Match Reports - Fifth Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
19. December
Ill...
The World Championship to be sure is for all players the peak of the year, the aim they all work for.
Unfortunately it happens from time to time a player is not bodily fit...
Ill...
PDC World Championship - Day 4
The more or less unknown James Richardson caused on the fourth day of the PDC World Championship 2012 for
the biggest ever upset in the history of the tournament and eliminated the five time World Championship with an impressive performance from
the tournament.
Beside Richardson Dave Chisnall, Mark Walsh and Kim Huybrechts progressed into the second round.
Match Reports - Fourth Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Result Table and Statistics
18. December
PDC World Championship - Third Day, Evening
In a quite dramatic evening session Steve Beaton just defeated Magnus Caris, who was treated quite unfais by the crowd, Vincent van der Voort defeated Mark Hylton,
Denis Ovens turned up to play but in the end couldn't play due to a caught nerve - it just was too painful and he couldn't move his right arm.
To second round progressed as well Paul Nicholson who defeated Mensur Suljovic.
Match Reports - Third Day, Evening
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table and Statistics
17. December
Phil Taylor and the quarter of an interview
Globaldarts is in London to watch the PDC World Championship live and as in the years will offer beside the"official" news some
personal articles.
This year I can offer you something special to start with: - the quarter of a never finished interview with Phil Taylor!!!
Phil Taylor and the quarter of an interview
PDC World Championship - Third Day, Afternoon
In the afternoon session of day three Ronnie Baxter was eliminated by Steve Farmer, Jelle Klaasen showed against Peter Wright his best match for quite some time
and Robert Thornton looks to be back after his pneumonia. Alan Tabern had quite a hard time against the philippine qualifier, who in the preliminary round
had defeated Austrian Dietmar Burger 4:0.
Match Reports - Third Day, Afternoon
PDC World Championship
The second evening of the World Championship brought clear wins for most of the players.
The most difficult match had Justin Pipe against Australian Sean Reed who even was in the lead after the first set.
Beside Pipe Wes Newton, Co Stompe and Phil Taylor - who won against Haruki Muramatsu from Japan - progressed into the second round.
Reports - Second Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table and Statistics
16. Dezember
PDC World Championship
The first evening of the PDC World Championship 2012 brought the first big upset when Richie Burnett eliminated his fellow countryman Mark Wabster from the
tournament. Both players had some double-trouble throughout the match - it was Burnett who kept his nerve and hit the winning double.
Reigning champion Adrian Lewis survived the challenge of Nigel Heydon but it was a very close match between the two.
Wayne Jones and Roland Scholten had no problems to progress to second round.
Reports - First Day
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table
15. December
PDC World Championship
Tonights Walk-on Girls are two old acquaintances: Hazel O'Sullivan and Kelly Donegan .
We could see them during the World Grand Prix in Dublin.
The World
At the weekend the final of this till now biggest soft-dart tournament will be played in Hong Kong, on Saturday a qualifier takes place, on Sunday the Grand Final.
The winner will get a price money of 1.000.000 Hong Kong Dollars.
Under the participants are three players who will stand at the oche during the PDC World Championship as well: John Part, Antonio Alcinas and Scott MacKenzie.
Participants and Tournament Information
14. December
PDC World Championship Competition
Global Darts will offer both for the PDC World Championship and the BDO World Championship in January a competition.
By taking part in the PDC World Championship Competition you can win a professionell analysis of your throwing style which gives you feedback about might be flaws and helps you to optimize your throw.
Competition
PDC World Championship
Tomorrow in Alexandra Palace in London the PDC World Championship 2012 will start with the first round.
In the first match of the tournament Roland Scholten and Jamie Caven will stand at the oche. During the first round in each session four first round matches and one prelimary round match will be played.
Reigning champion Adrian Lewis will meet Nigel Heydon on the first evening. Phil Taylor will start his challenge for the title on Friday. He will play the winner of the preliminary round match between Haruki Muramatsu from Japan and Dennis Nilsson from Sweden.
As in the years before Sky Sport will televise the tournament. As one hears at least on Sunday, 30. December, Sid Wadell who gets medical treatment due to his illness with cancer, will return to the commentator's box.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
Result Table
13. December
Darts Performance Centre
TheDarts Performance Centre take stock of the Players Championship Finals.
Who's going up, who's going down and how comes ITV4 off compared to Sky Sport?
The Ups and Downs of The Players Championship
12. December
Players Championship Finals
Kevin Painter defeated Mark Webster in the final and won his first ever PDC Major Title.
Probably only a few people predicted such an outcome of the tournament but Kevin Painter convinced with his performances in the semi-final and the final and is the deserved winner of an exciting tournament.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Match Reports Semifinals and Final
Result Table
Zuiderduin Masters
The winners of this years Zuiderduin Masters are Deta Hedman, Scott Waites and Jimmy Hendriks.
For Scott Waites it is the third Major title of the year he defeated in a highclass and thrilling final Darryl Fitton.
Deta Hedman- who dominates the ladies tournaments in a similar way as does Scott Waites the men's - defeated Dutch woman Aileen de Graaf.
Jimmy Hendriks is at the moment the dominant youth - he won this final against Mike Zuydwijk as well..
Participants, Group Draw, Results
All Results you can find on the official homepage:
Zuiderduin Masters
11. December
Players Championship Finals
Kevin Painter and Mark Webster will meet in the final of the tournament.
Mark Webster convinced in his match against Wes Newton. Kevin Painter had to fight hard to overcome Scott Rand einen schweren Stand, he forced the match into a decisive leg and won with 10:9.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Result Table
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on the Players Championship Finals.
On the third evening the DPC wonders - were those shouting "fans" only drunk or was there something more sinister behind their behaviour?
Players Championship Finals - Third Evening
Players Championship Finals
In the quarterfinals of the Players Championship Finals the winners were Wes Newton, Scott Rand, Kevin Painter and Mark Webster.
Eliminated were Mark Walsh, James Wade, Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall.
In the senifinals tonight Wes Newton will meet Mark Webster and Scott Rand will play against Kevin Painter.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Match Reports Quarterfinals
Result Table
Players Championship Finals
On Saturday evening the second round brought some more big upsets.
Both Phil Taylor andGary Anderson lost their matches against Mervyn King and Kevin Painter and were eliminated from the tournament. Into the quarterfinals progressed Dave Chisnall, Mark Webster - who won a very close match against Justin Pipe, Kevin Painter and Mervyn King.
On Sunday afternoon the following quarterfinals will be played: Mark Walsh against Wes Newton, James Wade against Scott Rand, Kevin Painter against Mervyn King and Dave Chisnall against Mark Webster. On the evening the semi-finals and the final will follow.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Result Table
Zuiderduin Masters
The Zuiderduin Masters go on today with the quarterfinals and the semi-finals of the men's tournament.
They will end with the finals of the youth, ladies and men later today.
In the ladies final Deta Hedman from England will play Dutch Aileen de Graaf, in the youth final Jimmy Hendriks and Mike Zuydwijk will meet.
You can follow the complete tournament by a Live Stream.
Participants, Group Draw, results
The Schedule you can find on the official homepage:
Schedule Zuiderduin Masters
10. December
Players Championship Finals
Scott Rand caused an upset in the second round of the Players Championship Finals on Saturday afternoon and threw Raymond van Barneveld with a
8:6 win out of the tournament.
Beside Rand James Wade, Mark Walsh and Wes Newton progressed to the quarterfinals.
Players Championship Finals
In the last first round matches on Friday evening beside Vincent van der Voort all favourites won their matches.
Phil Taylor, Mark Webster, Gary Anderson, Kevin Painter, Dave Chisnall, Co Stompe, Mervyn King and Justin Pipe progressed to second round. Phil Taylor had a rather hard time against Terry Jenkins. The best performance of the evening showed Gary Anderson who whitewashed Michael van Gerwen.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Result Table
9. December
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on the Players Championship Finals.
From a sport scientific point of view on the first evening especially interesting was Scott Rand...
The Players Championship Night 1
Zuiderduin Masters
Tonight this years Zuiderduin Masters start with the first group matches.
It will be interesting to see the form of reigning BDO World Champion Martin Adams who'll play Alan Norris. Another interesting match will be played by the ladies - there Trina Gulliver will meet Anastasia Dobromyslova.
You can follow the complete tournament by a Live Stream.
Participants, Group Draw
The Schedule you can find on the official homepage:
Schedule Zuiderduin Masters
Players Championship Finals
The first evening of the Players Championship Finals brought some surprising results.
John Part and Paul Nicholson were already eliminated from the tournament as are Jamie Caven, Mark Hylton, Denis Ovens, Richie Burnett, Ronnie Baxter and Andy Smith. John Part was totally overrun by Wayne Jones, he seems not to be able to bring his good form from the floor tournaments on the stage. Paul Nicholson lost in a very close match to Steve Brown. Raymond van Barneveld showed again Ronnie Baxter an outstanding performance. Mark Walsh, Scott Rand, James Wade, Peter Wright and Wes Newton progressed with solid performances into the second round.
Results, Participants, Schedule
Match Reports
Result Table
9. December
Players Championship Finals
The first evening of the tournament brought some surprising results.
John Part and Paul Nicholson are already eliminated from the tournament as are Jamie Caven, Mark Hylton, Ronnie Baxter, Richie Burnett and Andy Smith. John Part was just overrun by Wayne Jones, he just doesn't manage to bring his form from the floor tournaments on the stage. Paul Nicholson lost in a close match to Steve Brown. Raymond van Barneveld showed an outstanding performance against Ronnie Baxter. Mark Walsh, Peter Wright, Scott Rand, James Wade and Wes Newton progressed with solid performances into the second round.
Results, Participants, Schedule
8. December
Players Championship Finals
Tonight in Doncaster the Players Championship Finals will begin with eight matches of the first round.
The tournament is one of the newer PDC tournaments, it was played three times so far. Two times the winner was Phil Taylor, one time it was won by Paul Nicholson. The top 32 of the Players Championship Order of Merit take part in the tournament - those players who showed over the year the best performances in the Players Championships. So beside Adrian Lewis - who couldn't qualifiy - and Simon Whitlock - who still has problems with his ancle - not only the top ten of the world will take part but players like Justin Pipe and Scott Rand as well who are far behind in the PDC Order of Merit. It will be interesting to see how those players will fare though looking at Phil Taylors dominant form at the moment it's difficult to foresee another player as the possible champion.
The tournament will be televised by ITV4 and of course can be watched by Live PDC tv
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
First Round Draw
PDC World Cup 2012
The PDC World Cup 2012 which will be played at the beginning of Febraury 2012 will take place in Hamburg.As in the inaugural World Cup teams from 24 countries will participate.
The tournament will be televised by Sky Sport.
6. December
The Winmau World Masters
In addition to the interview with Eddie Norman and the short portrait Dr. Patrick Chaplin allowed Global Darts to use his short history of the
Winmau World Masters.
The Winmau World Masters were an idea of Eddie Norman who brought the tournament into being. The World Masters were the very first "World" tournament and they are played till today.
The Winmau World Masters - A Brief History
Germany wins Lorna Croft Friendship Cup
Last weekend the 6. Lorna Croft Friendship Cup was played in remembrance of Olly Croft's late wife Lorna.It's a competition between female players from the Netherlands and Germany. The ladies from Germany won both the Team and the Pairs competiton while the Dutch ladies won the singles.
It's the first time the German ladies won the overall placings.
2. December
Schedule PDC World Championship
The PDC now announced the schedule for the PDC World Championship 2012.
Jamie Caven will open the tournament on Thurdsday, 15. December with his match against Roland Scholten.
Adrian Lewis will began his campaingn to regain the title on the same evening against Nigel Heydon while Phil Taylor will play on the second evening against the winner of the preliminary round game between Haruki Muramatsur and Dennis Nilsson.
Draw First Round, Schedule, Participants
1. December
Players Championship Finals
The PDC now has published the Players Championship Finals schedule.
Jamie Caven will meet in the first match of the tournament on Thursday evening Scott Rand and Paul Nicholson against Steve Brown will be the last match of the first day.
Phil Taylor will play on Friday against Terry Jenkins his first match. On Friday as well the number 1 seed of the tournament, Justin Pipe, will stand against John Henderson at the oche and Gary Anderson will play against Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
First Round Draw
30. November
Players Championship Finals
After the last two Players Championships played in Wigan last weekend all participants of the Players Championship Finals are known.Justin Pipe is as the leader of Players Championship Order of Merit the number 1 seed. Adrian Lewis didn't qualify for the tournament. Simon Whitlock still had problems with his ancle and had to withdraw from the tournament. He will be substituted by John Henderson.
The tournament is sponsored by Cash Converters and will be televised by ITV 4.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
First Round Draw
WDF Results
The Center Parc Masters were won by Robbie Green and Deta Hedman.Winner of the Italian Grand Masters was Max Hopp from Germany. Giada Ciofi from Italy won the ladies tournament.
29. November
Draw first round PDC World Championship
Today the draw for the first round of the PDC World Championship 2012 took place.
Number 1 of the world Phil Taylor will meet in first round the winner of the preliminary round macth between Japanese Haruki Muramatsu and Dennis Nilsson from Sweden. World Champion Adrian Lewis will begin his campaingn to defend the title against Nigel Heydon. Raymond van Barneveld will play against James Richardson who's at the moment the player sponsered by the SOD Forum.
Draw First Round, Participants
28. November
Draw Preliminary Round PDC World Championship
Today the draw for the Preliminary Round of the PDC World Championship 2012 took place.
The draw for the first round matches will be televised live tomorrow at 11.30 on Sky Sports news.
Draw Preliminary Round, Participants
Arron Monk wins PDPA Qualifier
The first PDC Unicorn Youth World Champion, Arron Monk, won the final of the PDPA World Championship Qualifier and gets a place in the first round of the tournament. His opponent Joe Cullen won a place in the preliminary round.Monk was not really successful on the Youth Tour this year and couldn't qualify for the final of next year's U 21 World Championship to defend his title.
Dennis Priestley was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the qualification. For the first time in 10 years he will not take part in the PDC World Championship.
Participants and Results
26. November
...and Phil Taylor wins on Sunday as well
Phil Taylor was the winner of the last Players Championship in 2011. He defeated in the final Justin Pipe 6:4.The semif-finals reached beside them Adrian Lewis and Wes Newton. But for Adrian Lewis it was not enough to reach the semi-finals to qualify for the Players Championship Finals. So The tournament will be played without the reigning World Champion.
Kevin Painter had withdrawn today.
Participants and Results
Phil Taylor wins Players Championship 30
Phil Taylor stormed through Saturday's Players Championship in Wigan and won the final against Ronnie Baxter with a clear 6:1.
In the semi-finals stood beside them Steve Beaton and Mark Webster.
Simon Whitlock and Gary Anderson had withdrawn.
Participants and Results
Interview with Eddie Norman
I doubt there are many more people who promoted the sport of darts worldwide and made it known as Eddie Norman did and still does.
Norman always prefered to strike out on his own and never let himself monopolize by an organisation or a manufacturer.
His view of the sport of darts never was and still not is limited to the UK - it was and still is a global one.
To the Interview
25. November
Darts Performance Centre
In the newest edition of the Coaching Clinic Coaching Klinik the Darts Performance Centre deals with a problem a lot of players know.
Why does it just happen one can't throw all three darts with the same smooth movement to the board? Why do you sometimes just "snatch" a dart?
It's easy to explain and not to difficult to fix!
Beside this there are two ideas how to use a practice board really effective.
"The Snatch" and a lost Practice Board
Lakeside Schedule- First Round
The BDO has published the schedule for the first round of the men and the quarterfinals of the women.Reigning Champion Martin Adams will meet in the second match of the first day on 7. January Scott Mitchell. Trina Gulliver will start her campaign to defend the title on Sunday, 8. January, against Lisa Ashton.
Schedule, Participants
24. November
International Qualifiers PDC World Championship 2012
With Petri Korte from Finland and Lee Choon Peng who won the South Asia Qualifier the field of international qualifiers for the PDC World Championshi 2012 is now complete. Once again Darin Young will represent the USA.Schedule, Participants
PDPA Qualifier for the PDC World Championship 2012
Next Monday after the two Players Championships all PDPA members who failed to qualify for the Pdc World Championship by the
PDC Rankings have a last chance.
The winner of the qualifier will get a place in the first round, the runner-up a place in the preliminary round.
Participants
Players Championships 30 + 31 Wigan
The two Players Championships which will be played at the weekend in Wigan are the last two PDC Players Championships this year.For the PDC players the opportunity to qualify for Players Championship Finals and the PDC World Championship 2012.
Participants
22. November
PDC World Championship 2012
Beside Kevin Münch, who qualified this weekend through the German PDC Europe Qualifier for the Preliminary Round of the PDC World Championship,
some more Preliminary Round qualifiers are known by now.
Dietmar Burger again won the Eastern Europe Qualifier, Portuguese Jose Oliviera de Sousa won the West Europe Qualifier, Paul Barham will take part as Top of he PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit, Per Lausen will again return to represent Denmark and for Sweden Dennis Nilsson will take part.
According to a yet not confimed announcement the draw for the Preliminary and the First Round matches will take part next Tuesday around noon.
Schedule, Participants
Tournament Information
Zuiderduin Masters
The group draw for theZuiderduin Masters - which will be played from 9. - 11. December - took place.
You can find an overview over the matches on the official Zuiderduin Homepage:Homepage
Participants, Group Draw
WDF Results
The Ted Clements Memorial in New Zealand was won by Peter Hunt and Janette Jonathan both local players.The winners of the Malta Open were Paul Harvey and Diane Nash both from England.
Winmau goes China
Winmau will first sponsor the China National Darts Open 2011, which are organised by the Chinese Darts Association. Beside Winmau will
sponsor the Shanghai Super Darts League, a league, whose membership is growing at a phenomenal rate every year.
Darts is in China since 1999 a recognised sport.
21. November
Phil Taylor regains Grand Slam Title
With a clearly by Phil Taylor dominated final yesterday evening the Grand Slam 2011 ended.
Phil Taylor defeated Gary Anderson 16:4 and never felt any pressure, as Gary Anderson never seemed to find his usual high scoring.
For Phil Taylor it is his fourth Grand Slam Title and his fifth Major Title in a row this year.
In the afternoon Phil Taylor won through against Adrian Lewis with 16:9 in the semi-finals, Gary Anderson after a slow start defeated Mark Walsh 16:11.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports Semi-Finals and Final
German Qualifier for the PDC World Championship
The German qualifier for a place in the preliminary round of the PDC World Championship 2012 was won by Kevin Münch.
Kevin Münch defeated in the final of the tournament - which was played on Saturday and Sunday - Bernd Roith with 10:8.
The PDC Europe had invited 16 players to the tournament among them beside Bernd Roith Andree Welge, Tomas Seyler and Michael Rosenauer - all players who already took part in the PDC World Championship. For Kevin Müch it will be the first time on the stage of the Ally Pally.
19. November
Quarterfinals Evening
Winners of the quarterfinals in the evening were Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis, who both dominated their matches.So they will meet in the second semi-final tomorrow afternoon..
Participants, Schedule, Results
Quarterfinals Afternoon
Winners of the quarterfinals in the afternoon were Mark Walsh and Gary Anderson, who now will meet in the first semi-final tomorrow afternoon.Mark Walsh at the start of the match had no problems against Ted Hankey at all, who needed some time to find into the match and then started a belated fight back. Mark Walsh reached the finish line with a 16:14.
Gary Anderson and Terry Jenkins for a long time were head to head in their match, then Gary Anderson managed to get clear and he won the match 16:12.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Commentators and Journalists
During the Grand Slam we noticed we forgot two of the Sky Sports commentators in our list...But now you can find Nigel Pearson and Rod Studd there as well!!!
Darts Performance Centre
Of course the Darts Performance Centre thinks about the Grand Slam.
In the center of the blog about evening 7 we find Paul Nicholson and his way to analyse his finishing.
A Study In Darts
Grand Slam - Second Round 2
Yesterday evening the last four matches of the second round were played.
While Phil Taylor had against Wes Newton with 10:3 a "comfortable" win and played with 112.37 the highest ever average played in all Grand Slams all other matches were highly competitive.
Paul Nicholson and Mark Webster both were behind at the beginning of their matches but in the end won against Steve Beaton and Martin Phillips. Adrian Lewis just managed to intercept an almost unbelievable fight back from John Part and to reach the finish line first.
Today the quarterfinals will be played in an afternoon and an evening session. In the afternoon Mark Walsh will play Ted Hankey and Gary Anderson will play Terry Jenkins, in the evening Adrian Lewis will meet Mark Webster and Phil Taylor will meet Paul Nicholson.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports
18. November
Let's Eat...
Though it looks the players never eat at the venue druing a major tournament, there are enough other people involved in a tournament who have to be fed...Let's eat...
Grand Slam - Second Round 1
Yesterday evening the first part of the second round was played.
The evening strated with two rather close and thrilling matches in which Makr Walsh prevailed against Dean Winstanley and Ted Hankey against Michael van Gerwen.
Then a very convincing Gary Anderson who was for once very sure on his doubles defeated James Wade and an impressive Terry Jenkins eliminated local favourit Wayne Jones.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports
17. November
Last group matches E-H
The biggest surprise in the last matches of the groups E-H was that Martin Phillips in group H defeated Co Stompe and progressed into second round.
In all other groups the favourites prevailed though thanks to Jan Dekker John Part had some tense minutes and Magnus Caris with a strong performance gave Wes Newton a hard time.
Lewis, Webster and Taylor all have got three wins while Vincent van der Voort, Barrie Bates and Arron Monk couldn't win a single match.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Match Reports
WDF Results
Englishman Paul Jennings and Russian Anastasia Dobromyslova were the singles winners of the Latvia Open.The Hong Kong Open was won by Edward Santos from the Phillipines and the Japanese Mayumi Ouchi.
16. November
Grand Slam - Last Group Matches A-D
The last group matches of the groups A-D brought several surprising results.
Michael van Gerwen defeated Tony O'Shea and tops group A - he'll meet next round Ted Hankey who won with an excellent performance against Ian White.
Dean Winstanley is so far the only player, who's got three wins, as top of group B he'll meet on Thursday Mark Walsh.
Gary Anderson got against Heydon his second win and he's on first place in group C. Second is local hero Wayne Jones.
Dramatic was the evening in group D. Justin Pipe was eliminated after he lost against Dave Chisnall and Terry Jenkins managed to win aginst James Wade. Rather surprising after a real bad start Terry Jenkins nor tops the group while James Wade is second.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
15. November
The story of the young man who went forth to learn to play darts...
The growing interest of the Germans in the sport of darts yesterday brought for me a surprising meetin inthe press room. For me it was the first time ever I met there German journalists though they were only passing through.The story of the young man who went forth to learn to play darts...
Grand Slam - Second Group Matches E-H
The second group matches of the groups E - H brought strong performances by Dutchman Jan Dekker, the Welshman Martin Phillips and Mark Webster
and an outstanding performance by the reigning World Champion Adrian Lewis who played the toll now highest average of the tournament.
Only Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis can be sure to have qualified for the next round though the last group matches on Wednesday should be thrilling.
Tonight in the last group matches of the Groups A - D the players will fight to progress into second round. Not much is decided yet here either.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports - with more pictures then usually
14. November
Walk-on Girls
Nicola Cowell is back!! Together with Sara Tunnicliffe she accompanies the player on the stage during the Grand Slam.
13. November
Grand Slam - Second Group Matches A-D
While the afternoon session was rather predictable the evening session with the second group matches of the groups brought some more upsets-
After a second defeat Scott Waites the reigning Grand Slam champion is out of the tournament. Out as well is more or less sure Raymond van Barneveld who was defeated again - this time by Ted Hankey. James Wade, Mark Walsh, Dean Winstanley and Wayne Jones won their second matches.
Tomorrow evening the second Group matches of Groups E-H will be played.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
Remembrance Day
As Global Darts is in Wolverhampton to watch the Grand Slam you'll find again some articles on site which have to do with darts but not only with
darts.
So in the first article more the red poppies some of the players and at least half of the people here in Wolverhampton wear at the moment are the main topic.
Remembrance Day
Grand Slam - First Group Matches E-H
There were no more surprises in the first Group matches of groups E-H on Sunday Afternoon.Phil Taylor, Mark Webster, John Part, Adrian Lewis, Wes Newton and Paul Nicholson won their matches. Co Stompe defeated Vincent van der Voort and Mervyn King lost to Steve Beaton.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
12. November
Grand Slam - First Evening
The first evening of the Grand Slam started with several surprises. Last years winner Scott Waites lost 3:5 to Michael van Gerwen. Raymond van Barneveld
lost 4: 5 to qualifer Ian White. Gary Anderson lost 3:5 to qualifier Nigel Heydon. And Terry Jenkins lost 1:5 to Justin Pipe.
Only one of the BDO players could win his match - Dean Winstanley whitewashed fellow BDO player Ted Hankey 5:0. Best match of the evening was the match between James Wade and Dave Chisnall which Wade won with 5:4.
Participants, Results, Schedule
Match Reports
10. November
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre travelled to Northern Ireland.
There the team not only visited the Northern Ireland Open, but had in Belfast a look at the Belfast Darts Academy. A really interesting experience!
The Belfast Darts Academy
9. November
Promoters, Officials and Others
Beside players, referees, callers, commentators and walk-on girls there are of course other people who are important for the sport of darts but don't fit into the categories.Those persons will now presented in this new section of the who-is-who. A lot of people probably will think of Barry Hearn or Olly Croft who will of course presented in due time. But the first person in the new section will be a person who really deserves it to be called "global" - Eddie Norman.
Eddie Norman
PDC World Championship
After the qualifiers for the PDC World Championship 2019 in Greater China, on the Phillipines and the South East European qualifier three more participants of the preliminary round are known.
Greater China will be represented as lats year by Scott Mackenzie. For the Phillipines Christian Perez will stand at the oche who already took part in the World Championship 2010. The South East European Qualifier was won by Oliver Ferenc from Serbia.
Participants
Tournament Information
8. November
Schedule Grand Slam
After the group draw yesterday the PDC now today published the schedule of the Grand Slam. The tournament will beginn on Saturday.
Wayne Jones, local hero, will open the tournament with his match against Brendan Dolan. Scott Waites - last year's winner - will be in action as well on the first evening. His opponent will be Michael van Gerwen.
Participants, Group Draw, Schedule
Draw Lakeside
Yesterday the draw for the BDO World Championship in Lakeside took place.
The World Championship will be played from 7. January - 15. January 2012 and will be televised by ESPN and the BBC.
Participants, Draw, Schedule
7. November
Group Draw Grand Slam
The group draw for the Grand Slam took place tonight and is now online.
The schedule will be published tomorrow by the PDC.
Participants, Group Draw
Simon Whitlock had to withdrew
Simon Whitlock had to withdraw from the Grand Slam of Darts because of a broken bone in his ankle. He slipped last weekend during the Players Championships
in Benidorm.
Instead of Whitlock the winner of the third place match of the Grand Slam qualifier - Ian White - now will be invited.
Tonight the draw for the tournament will take place.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
Zuiderduin Masters
The last wildcard for the Zuiderduin Masters went to Geert de Vos from Belgium.
So now the field of the men's tournament is complete. The draw will take place on 16. November.
Teilnehmer
WDF Results
The singles titles of the Northern Ireland Open won Sarah Thornbury from Northern Ireland and Tony O'Shea. Sarah Thornbury defeated in teh final Anastasia Dobromyslova, Tony O'Shea won through against Martin McCloskey from the Republic of Ireland.The titles of the Iranian Open both went to players from the Iran - Alireza Ghafouri Fard and Sonya Jorjani.
Winners of the Czech Open were Deta Hedman and Dean Winstanley.
6. November
Dave Chisnall winner on Sunday
Dave Chisnall won the Players Championship on Sunday and defeated in the final yesterday's winner Justin Pipe.
In the semi-finals stood beside them Co Stompe and Brendan Dolan.
Players Championship 29
Justin Pipe wins in Crawley
Justin Pipe won his third Pro Tour title. He defeated in the final of Saturday's Players Championship Vincent van der Voort with 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them Matt Clark and Co Stompe. For Clark it was the first semi-final since June 2010.
Today the weekend continues with Players Championship 29.
Players Championship 28
5. November
Grand Slam Qualifier
The two finalists of the Grand Slam qualifier - which was played after the Youth World Championship on Friday evening in Crawley - were Nigel Heydon
and Magnus Caris.
Reserve players for the GSOD are Ian White and Keith Ronney the other two semi-finalists.
For both finalists it will be the Grand Slam debut and with them the field of participants for the tournament is now complete. The draw for the tournament which will start next Saturday will take place on Monday evening.
GSOD Qualifier
4. November
PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship
Michael van Gerwen and James Hubbard are the two finalists of the second PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship.
Michael van Gerwen - top of the Youth Tour Order of Merit and with four wins on the Youth Tour - defeated in his semifinal Shaun Griffiths while James Hubbard won in the second semifinal against Paul Barham.
Both players now will take part in the Grand Slam of Darts and secured themselves a Tour Card for two years.
Youth World Championship
Pro Tour weekend in Crawley
The Pro Tour weekend starts today with the PDC Youth World Championship.
Arron Monk, first PDC Unicorn World Champion, was already eliminated firt round.
Youth World Championship
3. November
BDO World Championship 2012
As the BDO announced ESPN and the BBC will divide between them the broadcast of the BDO World Championship.
While the evening sessions, the second semi-final and highlights of the final can be followed on ESPN, the BBC will be responsible for the afternoon sessions, the first semifinal, the final and some high light programs.
On ESPN the main presenter will be Ray Stubbs, while on BBC the team will consist of Colin Murray, Bobby George, David Croft and Tony Green.
More Commentators and Moderators
Some more commentators, moderators and TV presenters were added to the who is who! Included are all who'll be responsible for the BDO World Championship in January which will be televised by ESPN and BBC.Commentators and Journalists
Zuiderduin Masters
Two more Wildcards for the Zuiderduin Masters were allocated.
The last open place for the ladies got 21 years old Aileen de Graaf from the Netherlands.
A wildcard for the men's tournament went to the Dutch national team member Salmon Renyaan who won the NDB Play-offs.
Zuiderduin Masters
2. November
Pro Tour weekend in Crawley
This weekend the Pro Tour for the third time will be in Crawley.
The weekend will already start on Friday noon with the second PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship. On Friday evening it will continue with the GSOD Wildcard Qualifier. On Saturday and Sunday the Players Championships 28 and 29 will be played.
Youth World Championship
GSOD Qualifier
Players Championships 28 + 29
31. October
Oceanic Masters
Geoff Kime won this year's Oceanic Masters and qualified for the PDC World Championship.Kime defeated Barry Jounannet in the final.
Participants, Schedule
Grand Slam of Darts
Three more Grand Slam participants were confirmed by the PDC today.
Mark Walsh gets a place as the highest ranked not yet qualified player of the PDC Order of Merit, Justin Pipe will retun to Wolverhampton as the highest ranked not yet qualified player in the Players Championship Order of Merit and Vincent van der Voort earned his spot as the highest ranked not yet qualified player from the European Order of Merit.
This weekend the last few places will be filled with the Grand Slam qualifier players and the finalists of the PDC Unicorn U21 World Championship.
Participants, Schedule
Tournament Information
Mervyn King Winner on Sunday
For the first time since January Mervyn King won a Pro Tour Event. He defeated in the final Wes Newton 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them Jamie Caven and Raymond van Barneveld. Van Barneveld could celebrate during the day his second win of the weekend over Phil Taylor while Jamie Caven reached the semifinals due to Gary Anderson's conceding the match. The reason for this unusual incident is not yet known. Mark Webster threw a nine-darter in his first round match.
After this weekend the qualifiers for the World Championship by the European Order of Merit would be Kim Huybrechts, Antonio Alcinas, Mensur Suljovic and Jyhan Artut. While the European ranking is complete now there still might be changes in the Players Championship Order of Merit which might have an effect on the European Ranking as two Players Championship weekends are still to be played.
Participants and Results
30. October
James Wade wins Players Championship 26 in Benidorm
James Wade defeated Raymond van Barneveld in Saturday's Players Championship in Benidorm.
For Wade it was his second successive win and it secured him a place in the Players Championship Finals in December. Raymond van Barnevelds chances to qualify increased but he's not yet secured a place.
Raymond van Barneveld had defeated in the semi-finals in a close match Phil Taylor while James Wade won against Dave Chisnall.
Participants and Results
28. October
History of the Sport of Darts in Germany
It's not easy to find out about the development of the sport of Darts in Germany. While the years after the founding of the DDV - the national organisation - are documented quite good there are only rare indications of what was going on before.But to be sure there already existed some kind of "dart scene" with clubs and dart retailers.
History of the Sport of Darts in Germany
Very special "member" of a Dart Team
A very special member has a Pub Team in Rochdale.The dog of the pub owner is from youth on a dart fan:
Video
26. October
Zuiderduin Masters
After Darryl Fitton now the Winmau World Masters Winner and WDF Singles Champion Scott Waites got a Wildcard for the from 9. - 11.December played Zuiderduin Masters.
There are still some wildcars to be handed out.
Participants
PDC Unicorn U21 World Championship
With Frank Schrammel from Austria and Sergio Gapcia to represent Spain two more international participants of the tournament are known.This weekend both the Dutch qualifier and the Rileys qualifications will be played. So after the weekend the field of participants will be complete.
Participants
Players Championships in Benidorm, Spain
Next weekend in Benidorm, Spain, Players Championships 26 + 27 will be played - the last two which count for the European Order of Merit.All PDC top 8 players will travel to Spain.
Participants
More WDF Results
Both Lithuania Open singles titles were won by players from Lithuania. Winner of the men's singles was Darius Labanauskas while the ladies singles were won by Erika Bagdonaviciene.The Bob Jones Memorial in Trenton, Canada, were won by Debralee Roberts and Guy Connelly from Canada.
25. October
WDF Results
The Turkish Open were won by Ulf Ceder from Finland and Karen Lawman from England."Top of Ghent" ended with an English double victory in the men's singles and a Russian double victory in the ladies event. Stephen Bunting won the final against Steve West while Anastasia Dobromyslova defeated Irina Armstrong.
New sponsor for Grand Slam
This year the Grand Slam of Darts will be sponsored by Britain's biggest bookmaker William Hill.PDC Unicorn U21 Weltmeisterschaft 2012
After the Youth Tour Event in Gladbeck the 28 youth players who qualifiy by the Youth Tour Order of Merit for the U21 World Championship are fixed.
The German qualifier in Gladbeck was won by Max Hopp.
Participants
24. October
Performance Darts
The Perfomance Darts - created by a dart player for dart players - show that a good dart not necessarily has to be expensive. And they show as well
that a more or less "No Name dart" can posess quality.
To the review:
Performance Darts
Win for Colin Osborne
Colin Osborne won in Gladbeck the Players Championship on Sunday, for Osborne it was his first win since 2009.
Osbornes opponent in the final was James Richardson, who'a at the moment the players sponsered by the SOD forum. It looks that like with Justin Pipe - the player sponsered before him - the financial and moral support by the darts forum can help Richardson on the road to success as a darts pro.
Beside Osborne and Richardson Mark Walsh and Paul Nicholson reached the semi-finals. Wes Newton threw in his second round match against William O'Connor a nine-darter but lost the match.
Participants and Results
PDC Youth Tour
Paul Barham got in Gladbeck his third win on the PDC Youth Tour.
He defeated in the final Dutchman Dirk van Duijvenboden 4:1. So after the last youth tour event Barham sits on the second place Youth Tour Order of Merit behind Michael van Gerwen which won him a PDC Tour Card for 2012.
22. October
James Wade wins in Gladbeck
James Wade todays Players Championship in Gladbeck. He defeated Justin Pipe in the final 6:3.
The semifinals reached beside them Mervyn King and German Jyhan Artut- who now still has a chance to get a playe in the PDC World Championship.
Participants and Results
21. October
PDC Unicorn U21 World Championship 2012
The PDC has announced further details about the U21 World Championship which will be played on 4. November in Crawley. The final will be played next year
on 17. May during the Premier League Play-Offs.
This weekend in Gladbeck both the last Youth Tour Event which counts for the qualification and the German qualifier will be played.
Participants
Taylor regains title
Phil Taylor yesterday dominated the winner's group of Championship League Darts unchallenged and regained the title. For Taylor it is already the
fourth Major Title this year.
Taylor won all his seven round robin matches, threw a nine-darter in his match against Mervyn King, defeated Steve Beaton in the semifinals and in the final Paul Nicholson, both opponents had no chance at all.
Nicholson like Mervyn King had won four matches throughout the day and then defeated King in the semifinals 6:3. As runner-up he's now qualified for two years for the Grand Slam of Darts.
Last of the table of the winner's group was Simon Whitlock, who had won only a single match.
Schedule, Participants, Results
Tournament Information
20. October
Championship League Darts
In the semifinals of Championship League Darts Phil Taylor will meet Steve Beaton and Mervyn King will play Paul Nicholson.Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Championship League Darts
Dennis Priestley won Group 8 and progressed as last player into the winner's group. He defeated Kevin Painter in the group final.
In the semifinals he had beaten John Part who had shown a great performance all day but missed the double 13 against Priestley to win the match.
Today the winner's group will play for the tournament win. The format is the same as on the eight group days before - first round robin and then the play-offs of the four players on top of the group table. In the winner's group today Gary Anderson, Phil Taylor, Paul Nicholson, Mark Walsh, Mervyn King, Simon Whitlock, Steve Beaton and Dennis Priestley will meet. Both finalists should they not be already otherwise qualified will get a place in the Grand Slam of Darts.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
19. October
Tickets for the PDC World Championship
As the PDC announced it now works together with a ticket exchange partner for the PDC World Championship.So you now can buy the tickets from Viagogo for the same price as from the PDC!
Tickets PDC World Championship
Championship League Darts
Steve Beaton won Group 7 of the Championship League Darts. He defeated in the final John Part with 6:5.
Robert Thornton and Andy Smith were eliminated from the tournament. John Part, Vincent van der Voort, Kevin Painter, Alan Tabern and Mark Dudbridge will get a new chance today. They will be joined in Group 8 by Steve Brown, Dennis Priestley and Jelle Klaasen.
The tournament will begin at 10.30 British time and will be televised by the usual streams. The results will be updated here throughout the day.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
More Dressing Room Darts
Steve Brown this time helps with advice how to improve accuracy on your targets.
And he once again emphasizes that the quality of you practice is much mor important then the quantity.
More Dressing Room Darts
WDF Results
The singles titles of the Luxemburg Open went to Englishman Alan Norris and to Aileen de Graf from the Netherlands.Pat Orreal secured himself the men's title of the Australian masters. He defeated in an exiting final Rob Modra. The ladies title won Carol Forwood who defeated Corrine Hammond.
Kuwatori Kengo from Japan won the Korean Open, the ladies tournament had with Nammee Kim a Korean winner.
18. October
Players Championships, Gladbeck
At the weekend in Gladbeck, Germany, the Players Championships 24 + 25 will take place, another chance for dartplayers from the continent to qualify for the PDC World Championship 2012 by the European Order of Merit.On Saturday a Youth Tour event will be played, while on Sunday the German qualifier for the PDC Unicorn Youth World will take place.
Participants
Championship League Darts
Today Championship League Darts will continue with Group 7.Due to Co Stompe's illness three times World Champion John Part moved up into Group 7. Beside him today Vincent van der Voort, Andy Smith, Kevin Painter, Alan Tabern, Steve Beaton, Robert Thornton and Mark Dudbridge will try to progress into the winner's group.
Again the tournament will start at 10.30 British time and will be televised by the usual streams. The results will be updated here throughout the day.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
17. Oktober
BDO Lakeside World Championship
Martin Adams and Deta Hedman will be the number1 seeded players of the BDO World Championship 2012.
The complete list of participants was now published.
With Carlsberg UK the BDO World Championship has got a new sponsor.
Participants and Schedule
Pipe wins in Killarney
Justin Pipe won a second successive PDC Players Championship. This time he defeated in the final Gary Anderson with 6:5.
The semi-finals reached beside them Mark Hylton and Paul Nicholson.
With this win over his practice partner Anderson Pipe climbs on rank 4 of the PDC Players Championship Order of Merit.
Teilnehmer und Ergebnisse
Colorado Open
Larry Butler and Darylann Hardwick won the singles titles of the Colorado Open - a ADO/WDF tournament.Walsh wins Irish Masters
Mark Walsh won the Irish Masters, a non PDC ranked tournament, which was played on Saturday during the Killarney Darts Festivals.
He defeated Paul Nicholson in the final 6:4. A lot of PDC players who had travelled for the Players Championship to Killarney used the Irish Masters to warm up.
16. Oktober
Youth Tour Event Killarney
Michael van Gerwen was the winner of the PDC Youth Tour event during the Killarney Darts Festivals. It was his fourth win on the Youth Tour.
He defeated Joe Cullen in the final 4:2.
Championship League Darts
Co Stompe had to withdrew from Championship League Darts because of an infection in his hand.
For him John Part will join group 7 on Tuesday. Jelle Klaasen will get the free place in group 8 on Wednesday.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
14. October
Tournament Calendar 2012
Both the PDC as the WDF/BDO by now have published a temporarily tournament calendar for 2012.All till now known dates you can find here:
Tournament Calendar 2012
Championship League Darts
Simon Whitlock finally managed to progress into the winner's group. He defeated in the final of group 6 Vincent van der Voort in a close match 6:5.
Eliminated were yesterday Colin Osborne and Denis Ovens. Vincent van der Voort, Kevin Painter, Alan Tabern, Andy Smith and Steve Beaton will return next Tuesday to play on in group 7. They will be joined by Co Stompe, Robert Thornton and Mark Dudbridge.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
13. Oktober
Championship League Darts
Simon Whitlock to be sure is the most unlucky person in Championship League Darts. For the fourth time he reached the Play-offs, for the third time he stood
in the final and for the third time he was defeated, this time by Mervyn King, who progressed into the winner's group. And that despite the Nine-darter
he threw in his match against Jamie Caven.
Eliminated were Jamie Caven and Colin Lloyd. Beside Simon Whitlock today Vincent van der Voort, Andy Smith, Colin Osborne and Kevin Painter have their next chance to progress into the winner's group. They'll be joined by Alan Tabern, Denis Ovens and Steve Beaton.
Results will be updated during the day.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
PDC Rankings
By the two Players Championships in Dublin and the World Grand Prix there were some changes in the PDC Rankings.Brendan Dolan after his participation in the World Grand Prix final now is under the Top 32 of the Order of Merit. That probably secured him a place in the PDC World Championship.And to be sure he'll take part in the Grand Slam of Darts for the next two years.
PDC Rankings
Players Championship Killarney
On Sunday 16. October during the Killarney Darts Festivals the next PDC Players Championship will be played.Not many of the top players will again travel to Ireland. Brendan Dolan - World Grand Prix runner-up - will take part.
On Saturday after the final of the non-ranked Irish Masters PDC Youth Tour event will take place.
Participants
12. October
WDF Results
The Austin Halloween Open, an ADO/WDF tournament, were won by Joseph Huffmann and Stacy Bromberg.Rick Arnott and Cindy Pardy secured the singles titles of the Klondike Open.
The men's singles title of the Romanian International Open was secured by Englishman Joe Murnan, the ladies title was won by Lorraine Farlam from England. Winners of the men's doubles were Boris Krcmar/Dragan Martic from Croatia, the ladies doubles title went to Jane Shearing/Marit Liri from England and Finland.
Championship League Darts
Mark Walsh was the winner of group 4. He defeated Mervyn King in the group final and progressed into the winners group.
Wayne Jones and Ronnie Baxter were eliminated yesterday. Simon Whitlock, who once again reached the play-offs stand and once again failed to qualify for the winners group, Colin Lloyd, Mervyn King, Jamie Caven and Vincent van der Voort will get a new chance today. They will be joined by Andy Smith, Colin Osborne and Kevin Painter.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
11. October
D'art9
A new Dutch dart is on the market - d'art9. The manufacturer kindly gave Global Darts a set to test.
Here you can find the review:
D'art9
Darts Performance Centre
In the last World Grand Prix blog of course Brendan Dolan and his astonishing performance are the main topic. After all the
Darts Performance Centre for some time already extols the merits of the video analysis. Isn't Dolan the best prove how much you can achieve
using the method???
This Time Next Week/Year Rodders
Championship League Darts
Today the fourth day of Championship League Darts will be played.
Simon Whitlock, Colin Lloyd, Mark Walsh, Wayne Jones and Mervyn King are the survivors of group 3, Ronnie Baxter, Vincent van der Voort and Jamie Caven will join them today.
As usually the tournament will be streamed from 10.30 am British time.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
9. October
Phil Taylor wins World Grand Prix
The World Grand Prix ended with a win for favourite Phil Taylor. He defeated Brendan Dolan in the final with 6:3.Dolan once again showed a strong performance but it was not enough to be a threat for Taylor. Several times he had big problems to get into the legs. Taylor didn't play as superior as in other matches during the tournament but Dolan was not always able to use his chances.
Participants, Schedule, Results
8. October
World Grand Prix Semi-Finals
Brendan Dolan from North Ireland once again turned out to be this years World Grand Prix sensation. Not only defeated the number 36 of the world number 3 of the world, James Wade. Dolan threw the first ever World Grand Prix nine-darter during the match.In the second semi-final a yet again impressive Phil Taylor won through against Richie Burnett 5:2.
So tomorrow in the final Phil Taylor and Brendan Dolan will meet - a final probably no one expected.
Participants, Schedule, Results
World Grand Prix
Phil Taylor in an impressive way defeated Mark Webster with 4:0. Webster had despite a good performance no chance at all.
Richie Burnett won 4:1 against Mark Hylton, Brendan Dolan showed a convincing 4:1 win against John Henderson. Only James Wade had quite a
hard time against Andy Smith but won in the end 4:2.
So tonight in the first semi-final James Wade and Brendan Dolan will meet, in the second match Phil Taylor will play against Richie Burnett.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Tournament Information
7. October
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre takes another look on the World Grand Prix.
This blog describes examplary at James Wade the mentality of a winner and is about what you can learn from the post match interviews.
World Grand Prix 2
Walk-on Girls
Since yesterday the Walk-on Girls are back to the World Grand Prix.Might be you remembered the two from last years tournament - they are Hazel O'Sullivan and Kelly Donegan.
World Grand Prix
On the second evening of the second round with Simon Whitlock the number 5 of the Order of Merit was eliminated from the tournament as well, Mark Hylton defeated him 3:1.
Mark Webster eliminated Alan Tabern, Phil Taylor defeated Paul Nicholson 3:0 and resurgent Richie Burnett overcome Denis Ovens.
Tonight the quarterfinals will be played - with Phil Taylor, Mark Webster and James Wade three Top Ten players are still in the running.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports Day 4
Tournament Information
6. October
World Grand Prix
In the second round of the World Grand Prix some more top ten players were eliminated from the tournament.
Wes Newton lost slightly surprising against a strong playing John Henderson, Raymond van Barneveld despite his efforts was defeated by Andy Smith.
Another surprise was that John Part lost to Brendan Dolan from North Ireland. Reigning champion James Wade had a lot of problems against Vincent van der and was two sets behind, but he survived and progressed to the quarter finals.
Tonight the remaining second round matches will be played..
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports Day 3
Tournament Information
5. October
Darts Performance Centre
Of course the Darts Performance Centre deals with the World Grand Prix.
The first blog gives a review on the first night and the doubles:
World Grand Prix 1
World Grand Prix
While the first eveneing of the World Grand Prix was more an evening of clear results most matches of the second evening were rather close affairs.
The biggest upset was Richie Burnett's win against Gary Anderson - one of the favorits on the tournament win. Both players showed a great performance; in the end Anderson once again stumbled over his double trouble.
A slightly unexpected winner had the match between Dave Chisnall and Alan Tabern. Chisnall had dominated the match most of the time but at the end of the third set his nerves let him down and Tabern won.
Beside those Denis Ovens, who for the first time survived the first round of the World Grand Prix, Mark Webster, Simon Whitlock, Paul Nicholson, Mark Hylton and Phil Taylor, who had to fight to overcome Peter Wright progressed into the second round.
Tonight the first four second round matches will be played.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports Day 2
Tournament Information
French Open
Winners of this years French Open are Englishman Alan Norris and die Russian Irina Armstrong.They defeated in the finals Garry Thompson respectively Anita Tobias.
EDO British Classics
Stephen Bunting and Julie Gore won the singles titles.Dean Winstanley and Clive Barden won the men's pairs, the ladies pairs were won by Dee Bateman and Zoe Jones.
4. October
World Grand Prix
On the first eveneing of the World Grand Prix the match between World Champion Adrian Lewis and John Part developed into the match of the night.
Lewis had already won the first set and was 2:0 in the lead in set 2 when John Part surprisingly came back into the match and totally turned it
around winning in the end 2:1.
Beside the Canadian Brendan Dolan, John Henderson, Vincent van der Voort, Wes Newton, James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld and Andy Smith progressed in round 2.
Tonight the other eight first round matches will be played and Phil Taylor will join the action.
Starting Field, Schedule, Results
Match Reports First Day
Tournament Information
3. October
World Grand Prix
Tonight in Dublin the PDC World Grand Prix will begin with the first eight first round matches.
Both qualified Irish players will play tonight. Brendan Dolan will play in the first match of the evening Wayne Jones, William O'Connor in the last match will play against Andy Smith. Match of the evening could be the match between the not really consistent world champion Adrian Lewis and the on the Pro Tour strong playing John Part.
The World Grand Prix is the only PDC tournament which is played in DoubleIn-DoubleOut, so that players who are accurate with the doubles have an advantage. The betting companies beacause of this see Phil Taylor as clear favourite. But even Phil Taylor already stumbled several times over another "speciality" of the tournament - the very short format of the first round matches, which already ended with quite a few surprises.
Starting Field, First Round Draw and Schedule
Tournament Information
2. October
PDC World Championship
Devon Peterson and Haruki Muramatsu will represent South Africa and Japan during the PDC World Championship 2012.Both players have already taken part in previous PDC World Championships.
Devon Peterson won this year again the South African Masters. At the beginning of this year Peterson took part in the Qualifying School of the PDC, had won a Pro Tour Card erspielt and for some time played the Pro Tour Circuit.
Haruki Muramatsu won the PDJ qualifier, he defeated in the final Morihiro Hashimoto, who represented Japan during the last World Championship.
Schedule and Participants
Tournament Information
Justin Pipe gets first title
Today Justin Pipe won the Players Championship. For him it was the first title on the Pro Tour Circuit.
Pipe defeated Phil Taylor in the final 6:5, yeaterday he had lost in the quarterfinals with 5:6 to Phil Taylor.
The semi-finals reached Gary Anderson and Wes Newton.
During todays Players Championship both Phil Taylor(against Kevin McDine) and Raymond van Barneveld(against Phil Taylor) hit a nine-darter.
Participants and Results
Phil Taylor and Joe Cullen win in Dublin
Phil Taylor won the Players Championship on Saturday in Dublin. He defeated in the final Michael van Gerwen.The semi-finals reached beside them Scott Rand and Mervyn King. Raymond van Barneveld was as James Wade and Mark Webster already eliminated in the first round.
Joe Cullen won the Youth Tour event which was played after the Players Championship. For Cullen it was the third win on the Youth Tour. He defeated Micheal Smith in the final.
Participants and Results
30. September
WDF General Meeting
During the WDF World Cup the WDF General Meeting took place. All board members were confirmed.Beside this it was announced that next years Europe Cup will take place in Antalya, Turkey, in October after Belgium had to withdraw from organising it.
The next WDF World Cup in 2013 will take place in St. John's, Newfoundland while the World Cup 2015 will be organised by the Turkish national organisation and will be played in Antalya as well.
PDC Premier League 2012
Yesterday the PDC has announced the dates and venues for the Premier League 2012.
As a new venue the O2 in Dublin was chosen while the Premier League next year will not return to the Wembley Arena in London.
The Premier League will be played from 9. February to 17. May 2011. Tickets can be bought directly at the venues or at the PDC.
All details can be found here:
PDC
Dart Sensation
A small boy is the latest sensation of the English darts scene.
Three year old Kane Luter is the youngest member of Steve Brown's dart academy in Britstol. Usually the earliest age to enter is eigth years but the boy shows an astonishing amount of talent. Kane started to play when he was one year old. He doesn't know the scores yet but he's rather accurate.
Three year old accepted by darts academy
Paul Nicholson Winner of group 3
Paul Nicholson progressed with a convincing performance in group 3 of the Championship League Darts as third player after Gary Anderson and
Phil Taylor into the winners group while Simon Whitlock for the second time was defeated in a group final.
Simon Whitlock, Colin Lloyd, Mark Walsh, Wayne Jones and Mervyn King will get a new chance in group 4 on 11. Oktober. New in the tournament then will be Ronnie Baxter, Vincent van der Voort and Jamie Caven.
Wes Newton and Andy Hamilton were yesterday eliminated from the tournament.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
29. September
Players Championships Dublin
Directly before the World Grand Prix - which will start in Dublin next Monday - at the same venue two Players Championships and a Youth Tour Event of the PDC will be played.All the Top players who didn't take part in Nuland last weekend will play in Dublin but the number of participants nevertheless will not be too big.
Participants
Phil Taylor wins in group 2
In his second attempt Phil Taylor managed the group win in group two of the Championship league darts and he progressed to the "winner's group".
Mark Webster and last years champion James Wade were eliminated from the tournament. Paul Nicholson, Mervyn King, Andy Hamilton, Simon Whitlock and Wes Newton
will play on today in group 3.
They will be joined by Colin Lloyd, Wayne Jones and Mark Walsh.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
28. September
Darts Performance Centre
As Steve Brown in his last column the Darts Performance Centre this time deals with the "right way" to practice.
A player from Wolverhampton had asked Performance Centre whether could not help him with a "practice day".
Wild Thing - We Will make Your Darts Sing!
Anderson wins first group
Gary Anderson won the Play-Offs of the first group of the Championship League Darts and progressed as first player into the "winners group" which will
play for the tournament win.
Terry Jenkins and Adrian Lewis were eliminated, Phil Taylor - head of the table after day one who lost in the semifinals against Wes Newton - will play again today in group two as will Simon Whitlock, Mark Webster, Wes Newton and reigning champion James Wade who managed to avoid elimination.
Joining them today will be Andy Hamilton, Mervyn King and Paul Nicholson.
Schedule, Participants, Results, Streams
Tournament Information
27. September
Commentators and Journalists
Commentators and Journalists very much leave their mark on darts on TV. Some - like Sid Waddell - even reach cult status..Therefore you know can find on Globaldarts in the Who is Who a rubrik "Commentators and Journalists. It is not complete yet but the first few names are now online.
Commentators and Journalists
Championship League Darts
Today this years Championship League Darts starts with the first group.
The first group will play down to the group winner who will progress to the winners group like the winners of the seven other groups. The winners group will play in October for the tournaments win. The last two of today's table will be elimated from the torunament. The remaining last five players will have another chance tomorrow in group two which will be supplement by three new players. This format will be the same for all eight group days.
Today in group 1 Phil Taylor, James Wade - last years champion Champion, Adrian Lewis, Simon Whitlock, Wes Newton, Mark Webster, Gary Anderson and Terry Jenkins will stand at the oche. Raymond van Barneveld has refrained to take part in the tournament.
The tournament can be only watched on internet either on LivePDC.tv or by the streams of several betting companies.
Schedule, Participants, Streams
Tournament Information
26. September
World Grand Prix Draw
After the Players Championship on Sunday the starting field for the World Grand Prix now is complete.
The draw for the first round took place yesterday eveneing.
You can find the starting field, the first round draw and schedule here:
Starting Field, First Round Draw and Schedule
Tournament Information
25. September
Richie Burnett wins on Sunday
Richie Burnett, BDO World Champion 1995, won for the first time in 10 years a ranked tournament and by this
secured himself a place in the World Grand Prix.
He defeated in the final Dave Chisnall, who is qualified for the World Grand Prix as well.
The semi-final reached with Mark Webster another Welsh player and the not really well-known Kurt van de Rijk from Belgium who because of his great performance played himself up the rankings of the European Order of Merit.
Participants and Results
Youth Tour Event, Nuland
The Youth Tour event was won by Paul Barham. He defeated in the final Willem Mandigers from the Netherlands.
For the 22 year old from Basildon it was the second win on the youth tour. The semi-finals reached Chris Aubrey and Arron Monk, champion of the PDC Unicorn World Championship in January.
Participants and Results
24. September
Gary Anderson wins on Saturday
Gary Anderson for the eight time this year won a Pro Tour title – the Players Championship on Saturday in Nuland.
Anderson defeated in the final Colin Lloyd with 6:2. The semi-finals reached beside them Tony Ayres and Scott Rand. By this Scott Rand is now before today’s Players Championship qualified for the World Grand Prix in Dublin.
Participants and Results
WDF World Cup
This years WDF World Cup in Castlebar was a triumph for the English team. In almost every final was an English player which in the end won
the final. Only the boy’s final had a Dutch and a German finalist.
Trina Gulliver won the singles title and together with Deta Hedman the ladies pairs as well. Scott Waites is only a few weeks after his World Master triumph World Cup men’s single champion as well. The men’s pairs were won by Martin Adams and Tony’OShea and the English men’s team won through against the team from Finland with a close 9:8. Fallon Sherrock won the girl’s title and together with Jake Jones the mixed youth pairs. The only final without English participation was won by Jimmy Hendriks from the Netherlands who defeated German Max Hopp with 6:4.
Participants, Schedule, Results
23. September
WDF World Cup
Yesterday the men's singles, the ladies pairs and the boy's singles were played to the final. All finals will take place on Saturday. In the men's singles
final Scott Waites and Martin Adams will meet. In the ladies final the pair Trina Gulliver/Deta Hedman will meet the Dutch pair Karin Krappen/Francisca
Hoenselaar. In the boy's final the this year very strong playing Jimmy Hendriks from the Netherlands will play German talent Max Hopp.
Today will bring the ladies singles, the men's pairs, the youth mixed pairs and late in the afternoon the quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the men's team event.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Updates:
WDF Homepage, just click on the particular competition:
Official Homepage
22. September
Sid Waddell has cancer
As the PDC announced Sid Waddell is ill with bowel cancer.
The dyed-with-the-wool commentator - Waddell commentates since 1972 Darts on TV - will undergo treatment in the coming months so that at least the World Grand Prix will take place with out him.
We wish Sid a speedy and complete recovery, the pressroom is not the same without him.
WDF World Cup
Yesterday the girl's singles were played down to the final which will be played on Saturday by Fallon Sherrock from England and
Courtney Mulder from South Africa.
The men's team competition was played down to the quarter-finals. The biggest surprise was that the Dutch team was already out of the tournament after the round robin phase.
The ladies pairs played to the last 16, today they will play on to the final.
Beside this the men's and the boy's singles down to the final will take place today.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Updates:
WDF Homepage, just click on the particular competition:
Official Homepage
PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship
The PDC has announced some more details relating the second PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship which will be played on 4. November.The participants will be the Top 20 of the PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit which is headed by Michael van Gerwen. Other participants will be 32 qualifiers by Riley's qualifications on the 23. October and 30. October and a number of international qualifiers.
German Qualifier for the PDC World Championship
The PDC Europe will organise a qualification for the German place in the preliminary round of the PDC World Championship. 16 players were invited by the PDC Europe who are all taking part at PDC Europe circuit. Some of those already took part in the PDC World Championship in recent years.The event will take place on the 19./20. November in Münster.
More details you can find here:
PDC Europe
21. September
Championship League Darts
The PDC has now annnounced the matches and the schedule for the first matchday of the Championship League Darts next Tuesday, 27. September,
Besides a list of the betting companies which offer a live stream of the tournament was published.
Schedule, Streams
Information Information
WDF World Cup
Today ist the first day of the WDF World Cup in Castlebar in Ireland.
Played are the men's teams competition, the ladies pairs and the girl's singles.
The WDF updates the results on the official homepage, you only have to clicked on the different competitions.
Official Homepage
Results
Arunas Ciplys from Lithunia and Avelina Lace from Lativia were the winners of the Baltic Open.The Auckland Open in Australia were won by Jonathan Silcock and Jannette Jonathan.
Rowby-John Rodriguez from Austria and Hungary's Veronika Ihasz are the champions of this years Carinthian Open.
Dressing Room Darts
In his newest blog Steve Brown talks about practice.
Not everything which is considered as "practice" is really effective... Steve offers some advice how to practice that your performance will get better.
Dressing Room Darts 1
World Grand Prix
The World Grand Prix in Dublin iwill be the next Major tournament of the PDC.
The tournament will be played from 3. - 9. October in Dublin. The schedule was announced some time ago, most of the participants are clear as well. The Players Championship weekend in Nuland this weekend are the last chance to get a place.
Schedule and Starting Field
Tournament Information
Phil Taylor
What does now Phil Taylor do in between the tournaments?
Well, at the moment he's travelling through the UK visiting Riley's darts zones. Beside he like some other top players takes part in smaller tournaments. Recently he managed on the Shetlands to retain a title against Adrian Lewis.
A report of this tournament you can find here:
Phil retains Shetland title
And during his Riley's tour he answered some questions:
Rileys Tour
19. September
BDO British Open
Last weekend in Bridlington the BDO British Open took place.
The men's title was won by Scott Waites, who could win just two weeks ago the Winmau World Masters. In the ladies final Lorraine Farlam defeated Trina Gulliver.
Both players together with their partners Garry Thompson respectively Anastasia Dobromyslova reached the finals of the open pairs as well. Waites/Thompson won while Farlam/Dobromyslova were defeated by Deta Hedman/Karen Lawman.
PDC World Championship
The PDC has now published a surview over the starting field of the PDC World Championship 2012, which will be played from 15. December 2011
to 2. January 2012 in London.
Beside the players who'll qualify through the PDC rankings, the PDPA qualifier, the Oceanic Masters winner and the winner of the DPA Australian Grand Prix, Sean Reed, will get a place in the first round.
16 places for qualifiers are to be are to be one in preliminary round. Warren French from New Zealand already qualified to represent his home country.
Schedule and Starting Field
Tournament Information
Players Championships, Nuland
With a Players Championship Wochenende in Nuland the hunt for PDC World Grand Prix places will end next weekend. The Players Championship weekend directly before the tournament in Dublin doesn't count for the World Grand Prix.A lot of the already for the tournament qualified top players will not travel to Nuland.
Participants
16. September
Australian Grand Prix
After a win and a semi-final appearance in Redcliff last weekend Australian Sean Reed unassailable tops
the Australischen Grand Prix Ranking and probably has secured himself a place in the PDC World Championship 2012.
Guy Holland and Robbie King qualified for the second PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship.
14. September
PDC Players Championship Finals
The fourth Players Championship Finals were brought forward by the PDC to the 8. - 11. December, so this tournament will be played twice in 2011. The PDC gave as reason that it makes more sense to play the finals directly after the Players Championship series of the year is over then in the February of the following year.
The Top 32 of the Players Championship Order of Merit will take part in the tournament.
The tournament will be televised by ITV4.
BDO/WDF Rankings
Due to the Winmau World Masters the BDO/WDF Rankings have changed.The updated Rankings are now online:
BDO/WDF Rankings
13. September
Championship League Darts
The fourth edition of this PDC tournament without spectators will start on 27. September.
The PDC now confirmed the groups of the event. Raymond van Barneveld will not take part, so Dennis Priestley got a place in group 8.
Schedule and Groups
Tournament Information
PDC Rankings updated
Due to the two Players Championship weekends in Canada and in Derby there were some changes in the Order of Merit and especially in the Players Championship Order of Merit.It's important in regard of the World Grand Prix in Dublin at the beginning of October. the top 16 of the Order of Merit and the top 14 of the Players Championship Orders of Merit beside the two best in thePlayers Championship Order of Merit irish players, who are not already qualified by the Order of Merit will take part.
Probably not much will change in the Order of Merit despite the still to have played Players Championship weekend in Nuland but there is still a chance for players to qualify by the Players Championship Order of Merit.
PDC Rankings
Sport 1 extends contract with PDC
Sport 1 extended the contract with the PDC for five more years, so over the years to come the big PDC events will at least in parts be televised on Sport 1.Darts is only a part of the contract with Matchroom Sport, also included are sports like wie bowling, pool, snooker, boxing, golf und sport fishing as Barry Hearn - chairman of Matchroom Sport - announced.
12. September
DDV Spree Cup
At the weekend in Berlin the Spree Cup was played, a DDV ranking tournament.
The men's singles were won by Marko Puls who defeated Tomas Seyler in the final, the supplementary event on Sunday was won by Sieger Karsten Koch and the men's pairs winning team was Karsten Koch/Kevin Münch.
Winner of the ladies singles was both on Saturday and on Sunday Irina Armstrong, who together with Heike Jenkins was the winner of the ladies pairs as well.
Anna-Maria Schulze and Max Hopp won the youth titles.
Winmau World Masters
Scott Waites and Lisa Ashton won the titles of this years Winmau World Masters in Hull. Scott Waites had no problems in his final against
Dean Winstanley, Lisa Ashton showed an as impressive performance against Trina Gulliver.
The girl's title was won by Emily Davidson from Scotland, while Dutch Jimmy Hendriks was the winner of the boy's tournament.
Participants, Schedule and Results
Lakeside Play Offs
During the Winmau World Masters the Lakeside Play Offs took place as well.Over the international play offs Joey ten Berge and Christian Kist - both from the Netherlands - secured themselves a place in the BDO Lakeside World Championship while the British qualifiers were Andy Boulton, Dave Prins, Alan Norris and Gary Stone.
PDC Players Championships Derby
For the second time this year the PDC played a Pro Tour weekend in Derby.
On Sunday Raymond van Barneveld won his first Pro Tour Event in three years, he defeated in the final John Part.
On Sunday Gary Anderson won his fifth Pro Tour titel in 2011, he defeated Peter Wright.
Michael van Gerwen celebrated on Saturday his third win on the Youth Tour.
Participants and Results
PDC Players Championships Canada
The Players Championship weekend in Canada was the only PDC weekend in North America this year.An again strong playing John Part celebrated on Saturday a Canadian win, he defeated Wes Newton in the final. For Part it was his third Pro Tour win this year.
On Sunday Ronnie Baxter won the Players Championship, his opponent in the final was Kevin Painter, who for the first time this year reached a Pro Tour final.
After the Players Championship on Saturdaythe North American qualifier for the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship 2011 took place, it was won by Kanadier Shaun Narain from Calgary.
Participants and Results