| Premier League |
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The Premier League will be played on Thursdays between 9. February and 17. May. 2012 Phil Taylor, Adrian Lewis, James Wade,
Gary Anderson, Raymond van Barneveld, Simon Whitlock, Andy Hamilton and
Kevin Painter take part.
Schedule, Results, Table Tournament Information |
| Austrian Darts Open |
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The Austrian Darts Open are the first tournament of the PDC European Tour.
They will be played from 27. - 29. April in Wiener Neustadt. Beside the
Top 32 of the PDC Order of Merit 32 qualifiers will stand at the oche.
Participants, Schedule, Results Tournament Information |
| New Columns |
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3. May
The "Scorpion" is on his way to Tokyo:
Tokyo Bound- D-crown Pro Tour 
Addam "Thorn" Smith travels again.
In Kanada |
| Interview with Wes Newton |
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Wes Newton is one of the younger players on the PDC Circuit.
2011 was a very important year for him: he finally played himself under the Top Ten of the world and he for the first time became a father.
To the Interview |
17. May
In a first one-sided but then thanks to a strong fightback from Simon Whitlock thrilling final Phil Taylor secured himself with a 10:7 win the Premier
League title. In the light of Taylor's performance throughout this year's Premier League it was a more then justified title though today he played neither
in the semi-finals nor in the final as dominant and had both times to fight hard to prevail.
Simon Whitlock and Andy Hamilton had both played strong in the first semi-final. In the second leg Whitlock threw a nine-darter but otherwise had not many darts on the doubles as Hamilton proved to be very sure to hit his. But Whitlock managed to get back into the match, Hamilton was no longer as sure on the doubles and Whitlock used his chances to win the match and to progress into the final.
James Wade as well showed a strong performance in the second semi-final in which Taylor at the beginning for his standards couldn't convince and fell behind. But in the end he survived with 8:6 and progressed into the final.
Reports
Schedule, Results, Table
Michael van Gerwen in his second and last attempt again failed to win the PDC Unicorn World Championship.
While in the inaugural final he lost to Arron Monk he this time was defeated by the four years younger and much less experienced James Hubbard. For Hubbard it was after last year's Grand Slam his only second appearance on the big stage but he showed a quite confindent and convincing performance.
Report
16. May
Torrow the Premier League Play-offs will be played in the O2 Arena in London.
In the semi-finals Phil Taylor will meet James Wade and Simon Whitlock will play against Andy Hamilton. Statistically Phil Taylor is by far the favourite to win the Premier League title, he's on first place in all areas be it averages, thrown 180s or the doubles hit percent. Second relating averages and 180s is Simon Whitlock but he has by far the lowest doubles hit percentage of all four players.
After the two semi-finals the final of the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship between Michael van Gerwen and James Hubbard will take place. Ensuing the Premier League final will follow.
Schedule, Results, Table
And once again the Darts Performance Centre has a view on the Premier League.
The DPC takes the line it has said enough about statistics. So this time the booing is the central topic. James Wade - who got his share of boos last week - has to serve as an example.
Booo,"I haven't got a ticket" but Wade has
15. Mai
Furthermore was announced that the Head Office of the BDO will move to Cardiff in Wales.
Two columns about the World Soft Darts tournament in Hong Kong.
David Fatum is informed he'll not be allowed to play in the tournament nor in any Dartslive tournaments around the world as his sponsor has a very remote connection to a rival of Dartslive.
Donny Joe meanwhile is on his way to Phase two of the tournament and tells of his experience.
David Fatum: "The World" let down!
Donny Joe: The World Phase 2 - my experience
14. May
The single produced by this years Premier League players together with Chas Hodges is now on sale. The money raised will go to
Haven House Chidren's Hospice.
More one can find on the PDC Homepage, there you can as well watch the video.
The song will be performed next Thursday during the Premier League Play-offs on the stage of the O2.
At the weekend more Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open were played.
Best known of the qualifiers probably is BDO player BDO Stepehn Bunting, who will now according to the draw from last Thursday play against Glen Durrant - a fellow Riley's Qualifier.
Draw, Schedule. Participants
The youth singles were won by Kevin Voornhout and Anna-Maria Schulze. The ladies pairs were won by Jenkins/Armstrong.
10. May
It's decided who'll play in the play-offs: beside Phil Taylor and Simon Whitlock who already were qualified Andy Hamilton and James Wade will stand
at the Oche in the O2 Arena in London.
With a 8:6 win over Adrian Lewis Simon Whitlock secured himself the second place in the league table while Adrian Lewis was eliminated. Andy Hamilton could celebrate a clear 8:1 over Kevin Painter and the match between James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld - which was thrilling to the last leg - ended in a 7:7 draw. Due to the leg difference Raymond van Barneveld would have needed a win to progress.
In the semi-finals on 17. May Phil Taylor will meet James Wade and Simon Whitlock will play against Andy Hamilton.
Reports
Schedule, Results, Table
Before the Premier League this afternoon in Newcastle the draw for the Preliminary Round and the First and Second Round of the UK Open took place.
In Preliminary Round this year 50 matches will be played. In First and Second Round it will be 32. The draw for the Third Round in which the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit will enter the tournament will take place in Bolton after the Second Round.
This weekend the last Riley's Qualifiers will be played.
Draw, Schedule, Participant
Before the last league day most Head to Heads home and away are played. Is there anything one can learn from the statistics?
The conclusive answer is: Yes and No...
Home and Away
Tonight the final league day will be played in Newcastle.
The situation looks like this:
Phil Taylor - Qualified, and will finish first.
Simon Whitlock - Qualified, and needs a point in Newcastle to secure second place.
Adrian Lewis - Must win to be sure of Play-Off place, but could still be eliminated with a draw.
James Wade - Must win to be sure of Play-Off place, but could still be eliminated with a draw.
Raymond van Barneveld - Must win to be sure of Play-Off place, but could still qualify with a draw.
Kevin Painter - A draw may be enough to win a Play-Off place, if Lewis and either Wade or van Barneveld lose. A win, though, may not even be enough to overhaul Lewis and Wade/Barneveld depending on other results.
Andy Hamilton - Must defeat Painter and hope that the Wade-Barneveld game ends in a draw.
Gary Anderson - Eliminated.
Due to the circumstances the PDC has slightly changed the schedule of play - the last match of the evening will now be Phil Taylor v Gary Anderson.
Schedule, Table, Results
9. Mai
After the last PDC Qualifiers for the UK Open all PDPA Qualifiers for the tournament are know and the PDC published the final
UK Open Order of Merit. The players ranked 65 - 96 will together with the amateur qualifiers play in Preliminary Round and First Round. Players ranked
33 - 64 will join Second Round and the Top 32 will start to play in Round Three.
Though the last Riley's qualifiers are not yet played the draw for the Preliminary Round and the First Round will take place tomorrow evening during Premier League.
Schedule, Participants
8. May
Wes Newton won the last Qualifier for the UK Open in Bolton. He defeated in a high class final Justin Pipe with 6:2.
For Wes Newton it was the second Pro Tour win in 2012. Justin Pipe moved by reaching the final to 13. place in the PDC Order of Merit.
Joe Cullen and Andy Smith played themselves into the semi-finals.
Report and Statistics, Qualifier 8
Participants, Results
For the first time in three years Terry Jenkins could celebrate a win in the PDC. He defeated in the final of Qualifier 7 for the UK Open
Andy Hamilton with 6:3. On his way to the Jenkins won between others against Colin Osborne, Colin Lloyd and Kim Hubrechts geschlagen though Huybrechts
had thrown a nine-darter.
The semi-finals reached Dave Chisnall and Kevin Painter.
Report and Statistics, Qualifier 7
Participants and Results
3. May
Like the Premier League the UK Open Qualifiers will be played in Birmingham in the NIA.
Though this is quite comfortable for the Premier League players Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will not stand at the oche - both are already qualified for the UK Open. But again on both days almost 200 players have registered.
The two tournaments are the last chance for the PDC players to qualify for the UK Open. Players like Mark Webster, Steve Beaton, Steve Brown, Denis Ovens or Mark Dudbridge urgently need more price money to get into the tournament at all.
Globaldarts will be in Birmingham and will report back after the weekend!
Participants
2. May
Tomorrow the travels Birmingham, where at the weekend the last two qualifiers for the UK Open will played as well.
Phil Taylor is already qualified for the Premier League Play-Offs. All other seven players still have at least slight chances to progress. So all matches tomorrow will be decisive. More here: Chances...
Schedule, Table, Results
Justin Pipe is now ranked 15. in the Order of Merit and first of the Pro Tour Order of Merit. Terry Jenkins has swapped with Kevin Painter in the Order of Merit getauscht and is back in the Top Ten. Colin Lloyd declined two places and is out of the Top 16.
Beside the European Order of Merit was updated - its lead by Raymond van Barneveld - and we have the new Youth Tour Order of Merit from 2012.
PDC Rankings
29. April
Justin Pipe won the first tournament of the new PDC European Tour and the 15 000 pound price money for the winner. His opponent in the final was James Wade.
The semi-finals reached Raymond van Barneveld and Dave Chisnall. Chisnall had in the third round against Kevin Painter an average of 113.09 - the highest of the tournament but couldn't keep up this form in his semi-final against James Wade.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Reports
On the second day of the Austrian Darts Open another nine-darter was thrown. Simon Whitlock produced it in the last match of the evening but then lost 4:6
to the impressive Joe Cullen.Out of the tournament as well is Andy Hamilton who was defeated 4:6 by Dave Chisnall. The other four
Premier League players progressed to third round.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Reports
28. April
On the first day of the Austrian Darts Open Michael Smith's nine-darter and the 111 average of Colin Lloyd were the highlights.
Till now there were no real upsets though Paul Nicholson was eliminated by Dean Winstanley from the tournament as were John Part and Ronnie Baxter who both lost their close matches 5:6. All Premier League players are still in the tournament.
Out of the tournament are the four Austrian qualifiers Zoran Lerchbacher, Dietmar Burger, Martin Kurecka and Mensur Suljovic and the only German participant Michael Rosenauer.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports
27. April
Their two opponents, qualifiers James Ricardson and Gaz Cousins, get a bye and progress to second round. There'll be a few changes in the schedule of the evening session on Friday.
Participants, Schedule, Results
26. April
On the 12. league day of the Premier League three of the matches ended with a draw, only Phil Taylor managed against Simon Whitlock another win
and expanded his lead in the table.
Beside this nothing else changed in the table. Gary Anderson showed against Adrian Lewis one of his best performances in this year's Premier League but only got one point and now has with 8 points as last of the table no chance to defend his title. Despite his defeat Simon Whitlock stayed with 14 points second in the table followed by James Wade and Adrian Lewis with 12 points each. Raymond van Barneveld sits with 11 points on fifth place. Andy Hamilton and Kevin Painter both have 9 points. With the exception of Gary Anderson all players still have a chance to qualify for the play-offs.
Reports
Schedule, Results, Table
One can't only use the statistics to get some help from them for betting...
This time the Darts Performance Centre and has a look on the number of darts thrown for winning legs and offers us a "Reality Test".
So you want to be a Pro do you?
25. April
The play-offs come closer and closer but till now beside Phil Taylor no Premier League player has qualified for them.
Before the 12. League Day in Liverpool Simon Whitlock has the best chances. But he'll have to play Phil Taylor tomorrow night. Taylor was not as dominant as usual against Adrian Lewis last week and was defeated. Normally that doesn't happen twice in a row...
Adrian Lewis will play last of the table Gary Anderson who for weeks already can't convince. James Wade, at the moment third in the table, will meet powerful Kevin Painter and Raymond van Barneveld who showed one of his weaker performances last Thursday will have to play against the persistent Andy Hamilton.
Schedule, Results, Table
24. April
Donny Joe tells us in his blog about developments and new activities in the sport of darts in the USA. Those are supposed to
rise the performance level and to offer more chances for the professionals.
2012 - New Year and New Opportunities
Phil Taylor gives through a now world wide initiative darts players a chance to get professional.
Originally the intitative was restricted on players from the UK, who can by taking parts in a series of events in Riley's clubs or other pubs and
clubs in the UK win points. The events will end in regional qualifiers from which the best 16 players will take part as "Team Taylor" in the PDC
Qualifying School 2913 - Phil Taylor will pay for it.
Taylor hopes to find some new talent by this - might be even a new darts superstar.
The initiative attracted some interest in other countries so now it will be world wide. The events will be played over 24 weeks between June and November 2012 - now punbs and clubs all over the world are encouraged to organise those. Phil Taylor has set up a list of 12 weekly tasks each player has to fulfil twice in this time.
All details can be found here: Team Taylor
23. April
For this year's Bull's German Open in Bochum 865 men, 164 women, 96 boys and 30 girls had registered.
The men's singles won Geert de Vos from Belgium who defeated Alan Norris in the final. The men's pairs won the British double Barden/Douglas, they defeated Mitchell/Hendriks in the final.
The ladies tournaments were once again dominated by Deta Hedman who won the singles final against Lorraine Farlam and the pairs tournament together with Trina Gulliver against the double Armstrong/Hoenselaar.
The girl's tournament brought the only German win - Ann-Kathrin Wigman defeated Anna-Maria Schultze in the final. The boy's tournament was won as in 2010 by Jeffrey de Zwaan.
The third tournament of the first PDC Youth Tour weekend 2012 was won as the first one by Youth World Champion Arron Monk.
He defeated in the final the winner of the second Saturday event - Michael Smith.
Monk would like to win on his last year on the Youth Tour at least 14 of the tournament. He will not be able to defend his title in 2012 as he was eliminated in the first round of the tournament last year in November. The final of the PDC Youth World Championship 2012 will be played during the Premier League play-offs on 17. May between Michael van Gerwen and James Hubbard.
At the weekend the first Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open in Bolton were played. From 11 tournaments in 11 towns in the UK
the winners progressed to the first round of the tournament.
Best-know qualifier is Shayne Burgess who in 2003 lost in the final of the inaugural UK Open to Phil Taylor.
Schedule, Participants
On Saturday in Derby the first two tournaments of the PDC Youth Tour were played.
In both tournaments more then 140 players stood at the oche.
The first event on Saturday was won by PDC Youth World Champion Arron Monk who defeated in the final James Hubbard.
Winner of the second tournament was Michael Smith who already won a Pro Tour event this year in Benidorm. His opponent in the final was Daniel King-Morris.
20. April
On the 11. league day of Premier League Adrian Lewis stunned with 8:5 win over Phil Taylor. Taylor had dominated the match at the beginning and
had got a 4:1 lead. But Lewis managed to get back into the match and after a key 160 checkout changed the match.
Raymond van Barneveld showed against Simon Whitlock after his great weekend in Barnsley a surprisingly uninspired performance and was defeated 4:8 as was the still far from his best Gary Anderson by Kevin Painter.
Andy Hamilton and James Wade played a very close match which ended in a fair 7:7 draw.
Beside Erica Wild the PDC in Bournemouth presented us a new walk-on girl: Holly Johnson.
Reports
Results, Table
19. April
Seen from the sports betting angle the Darts Perfomance Centre has another look at the 180´s thrown in Premier League and at the number of legs played per match. Last week all DPC predictions were correct...
Wow - Nice Legs!
18. April
On the eleventh League Day Premier League travels to Bournemouth.
In the centre of interest stand probably the match between Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor.In their first match on the first League Day the result was a draw. This time Adrian Lewis who was free of play last week would like tio win.
Raymond van Barneveld, double winner in Barnsley last weekend, will play Simon Whitlock, James Wade will stand against Andy Hamilton at the oche and Gary Anderson against Kevin Painter a hard task for the Scotman. All players have still chances to progress to the play-offs.
Schedule, Table, Results
Probably a lot of people would like to do it...
Though one better treats the column with caution as it was published on the first of April.
But Scotty Burnett confirmed Lady Gaga is a member of his team in California.
To The Column
17. April
The PDC now published the schedule of the Austrian Darts Open which will be played from 27. - 29. April in Wiener Neustadt.
All eight Premier League players will play their first round matches on 27. April in the evening session on the main stage. From Saturday till the end of the tournaments all matches will be played on the main stage. First matches of the tournament will be on the main stage Wayne Jones against Gino Vos and on Board 2 Richie Burnett against Michael Rosenauer.
Schedule, Participants
16. April
Over the weekend through the Speedy Hire Qualifiers in Leeds and Stoke-of-Trent seven more amateur players qualified for the UK Open.
The will be only two more Speedy Hire Qualifikatiers now, one in Cardiff this week and one only for staff members of Speedy Hire at the beginning of May.
Next weekend the Riley's Qualifiers will start through which in 32 twons all over the UK 32 more amateur Players have a chance to qualify for the tournament.
There will be one more qualifying weekend for the PDPA members at the beginning of May in Birmingham. Most of the PDC top players have already qualified. Not really good it looks at the moment for Mark Webster who could need some more price money to make sure he's in the tournament. Not qualified at all is at the moment Denis Ovens who seems to have not really recovered yet from his back problems which started a short time before the PDC World Championship.
Schedule, Participants
Raymond van Barneveld thanks to his two weekend wins moved up from 9. to 8. place in the order of ranking and now leads the UK Open Order of Merit followed by Phil Taylor.
Moving up in the Pro Tour Oder of Merit and the UK Open Order of Merit was Brendan Dolan who had quite a successful weekend too. And Dennis Priestley made sure, ebenso auch Denis over the weekend he'll enter the UK Open in Bolton in third round.
PDC Rankings
Phase 2 2012 of this big soft-darts tournament played in Hong Kong was w on by a player from Japan. It was the first Japanese winner in the event.
Sho Katsumi - last years Grand Final runner-up - defeated in the final of Phase 2 Ronald Briones from the Philippines.
The World
15. April
Raymond van Barneveld won the of the UK Open Qualifier 6 today in Barnsley as well. He defeated Ian White in the final.
The semifinals reached Colin Lloyd and Richie Burnett. A successful weekend had Irishman Ire Brendan Dolan who on both days stood in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Results
14. April
Raymond van Barneveld for the first time this year got a Pro Tour title. He won the fifth UK Open Qualifier in Barnsley. On his way to the final - were he
defeated Andy Smith 6:3 - he threw in the third round a nine-darter.
The semi-finals reached beside them Terry Jenkins and Jamie Caven.
Participants, Results
13. April
After the UK Qualifier which was played tonight in Barnsley the starting field of the Austrian Darts Open is complete.
The draw for the first round took place after the tournament. Phil Taylor will play against an UK Qualifier - Gaz Cousins, Raymond van Barneveld plays against Arron Monk. Mensur Suljovic, strongest of the four Austrian participants, will play against Justin Pipe.
The detailed schedule will probably be published on Monday.
Austrian Darts Open
The Darts Performance Centre article is a preview of last night's Premier League an - once again - it's about the 180's, always an interesting topic!
180`s for Dough !
12. April
Phil Taylor defeated Raymond van Barneveld in Sheffield with 8:3. After the break the match was on the rocks but van Barneveld
didn't manage the 4:4 and Taylor pulled away.
Gary Anderson only got a single point out of his two matches. Against a frisky James Wade he didn't have many chances and was defeated 3:8. Against Andy Hamilton he was 7:4 in the lead but then let Hamilton back into the match and Hamilton managed the 7:7 draw. So it get's even more diffcult for Anderson now to defend the title.
Simon Whitlock experienced that Kevin Painter is a rather gritty opponent but won the match 8:5 and stays on second place in the league table.
Reports
Results, Table
For some of the players the weekend will already begin tomorrow as on Friday the UK Qualifier for the first European Tour tournament - the Austrian Darts Open- will take place. 20 players have the chance to qualify..
Participants
The Denmark Open singles were won by English Paul Jennings and Russian Irina Armstrong. The best players from Denmark in both the ladies and the men's singles reached the semi-finals.
11. April
Tomorrow, on the tenth league day, the Premier League will be in Sheffield.
In limelight once again will be the match between Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld, the more so as van Barneveld's form is improving from week to week.
But the other matches of the evening look interesting as well. Gary Anderson will have to play twice as he had to miss Premier League two weeks ago due to the funeral of his father. So he will play tomorrow in the first match of the evening aginst James Wade while he'll meet in the last match Andy Hamilton. To still have chances to make the play-offs he should at least win one of his matches. Beside second of the table Simon Whitlock will play against Kevin Painter. Adrian Lewis had replaced Gary Anderson on league day 8 and has a free evening tomorrow.
Nicola Cowell and Sarah Tunnicliffe will be the Walk-On-Girls in Sheffield.
Schedule, Results, Table
9. April
Cash Converter will again sponsor this years Players Championship. The PDC Major will be played after the last Players Championships between the Grand Slam
and the PDC World Championship from 30. November to 2. December.
The tournament will move from Doncaster to the Butlins Resort in Minehead.
Tournament Information
To qualify via the free Speedy Hire Qualifications first the players have to throw a high score with 15 darts. The eight best scoring players then have to play a leg of 701 against an opponent. The four winners qualify.
UK Open 2012
7. April
34 players had registered - eight qualified for the tournament. Those were: Gino Vos, Mareno Michels, Kim Huybrechts, Roland Scholten, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Rosenauer, Boris Krcmar and Jelle Klaasen.
6. April
At the end of April the first tournament of the new European Tour of the PDC will be played in Wiener Neustadt.
All Top 32 of PDC Order of Merit have registered for the tournament. By the national Austrian qualifier which took place last weekend Mensur Suljovic, Dietmar Burger, Martin Kurecky and Zoran Lerchbacher qualified. This weekend the international qualifiers will battle for eight more places in the tournament. After the UK qualifier on 13. April all participants will be known.
Austrian Darts Open
5. April
On the ninth league day of Premier League Raymond van Barneveld defeated Kevin Painter 8:6. Phil Taylor managed to win both points against Andy Hamilton
but only because Hamilton missed the Bullseye for a draw. Adrian Lewis won in a slightly hostile match 8:5 against James Wade, there were problems
because of a flexible and squeaky plank on stage. Gary Anderson found no way into the match and was defeated 2:8 by Simon Whitlock.
Walk-on-Girls were Sarah Tunnicliffe and - for the first time - Sophie May Jarvis.
Reports
Results, Table
30. March
Wes Newton is one of the younger players on the PDC Circuit.
2011 was a very important year for him: he finally played himself under the Top Ten of the world and he for the first time became a father.
To the Interview
On the first evening of the second half of Premier League 2012 World Champion Adrian Lewis had to play two matches and those two matches turned out to be totally
different. In his first match against Andy Hamilton Lewis couldn't find the doubles and lost 4:8. In his second match Lewis showed a great perfomance and
won against Raymond van Barneveld 8:2.
The other two matches brought a dominant James Wade produced a white wash against a never involved in the game Simon Whitlock and a dominant Phil Taylor who defeated Kevin Painter 8:2 and who failed twice to throw a nine-darter.
At the beginning of the evening players and fans payed a tribute two the recently died two-times World Champion Jocky Wilson.
Reports
Results, Table
29. March
Even more Dressing Room Darts...
28. March
On the first evening of the second half the Premier League will visit Cardiff.
Due to the changed schedule because of the funeral of Gary Anderon's father tomorrow Adrian Lewis will play twice: The first match of the evening against Andy Hamilton and the last match against Raymond van Barneveld. To be sure both will not be easy matches for Lewis who won his first match of the season last week and now sits before Hamilton on the penultimate place in the league table. In between the two matches of the World Champion James Wade will meet Simon Whitlock and the still unbeaten and dominant Phil Taylor will play Kevin Painter who would like to reach a Play-Off place.
Nicola Cowell and Sarah Tunnicliffe will accompany the players on the stage..
Schedule, Table
27. March
Winner of the singles title of the Welsh Classic was World Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova, who defeated in the final Karen Lawman. Dobromylsova won together
with Lorraine Farlam the pairs title and with Martin Phillips the mixed pairs title as well.
The men's singles title won Stephen Bunting.
While Anastasia Dobromyslova was successful in Wales, Deta Hedman had travelled to Poland and won the Polish Open. The men's winner was Tony O'Shea.
Adrian Lewis will now stand twice at the oche in Cardiff - in the first match of the evening against Andy Hamilton and in the last match against Raymond van Barneveld. Lewis will have the day off on 12. April in Sheffield where Gary Anderson will play twice - at the beginning of the league day against James Wade and in the last match against Andy Hamilton.
Schedule, Table
26. March
Phil Taylor won the UK Open Qualifier 4 - which was played on Sunday in Barnsley as well. He defeated in the final Dennis Smith with 6:3. The win he dedicated
to Jocky Wilson who was for many years his pairs partner.
In the semi-finals stood beside Taylor and Smith Dennis Priestley and Dean Winstanley who both now are qualified for sure for the UK Open in Bolton.
Participants, Results
After a long illness and only a few days after his 62. birthday the Scottish darting legend Jocky Wilson died on Saturday.
Wilson won 1982 and 1989 the BDO World Championship and was friend and eternal rival of Eric Bristow. In 1996 he withdrew from darts and zill then lived very secluded in his hometown Kirkcaldy.
Read more: Jocky Wilson
24. March
Phil Taylor for the 60. time in his career won a Pro Tour Event. Till now he took part in 100 of those non-televised tournaments. In the
third UK Open Qualifier he defeated in the final Brendan Dolan 6:2.
The semi-finals as well reached Mark Jones and Michael Smith.
Participants, Results
23. March
At the weekend the second qualifier weekend for the UK Open in June will be played. This time it will take place in Barnsley.
As the UK Open Qualifiers are not restricted to the Tour Card holders but Associate Members of the PDPAcan take part as well the number of participants is quite high - on both days almost 200 players will stand at the oche.
Participants, Results
On the seventh league day Adrian Lewis finally managed to get his first win of this year's season and defeated Kevin Painter.
Convincing winners were too Raymond van Barneveld and Phil Taylor who won with almost identical averages of around 107 against Gary Anderson and James Wade. Raymond van Barneveld had a few more problems against Gary Anderson then Phil Taylor had against James Wade.
The fourth match of the evening was a thrilling battle between Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock which ended in a 7:7 draw.
Walk-on-Girls were in Ireland - logically - the two Irish models Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan im Einsatz.
Reports
Results, Table
22. March
The Darts Performance Centre is very much impressed with Phil Taylor's record average of 117.35.
But how did he do it? And could he get even better?
Record breaker, record maker!
21. March
On the last evening of the first half of the Premier League 2012 the league for the first time travels to Dublin. The O2 arena is sold out.
In the first match of the evening Andy Hamilton will meet Simon Whitlock. Hamilton is together with Adrian Lewis last of the league table but he often won in PDC Majors against Simon Whitlock. World Champion Adrian Lewis just can't bring any consistency in his performances. In Dublin he will play against Kevin Painter who at the moment is ranked fourth in the table.
Reigning champion Gary Anderson who's form is very hard to predict will meet Raymond van Barneveld while the once again dominant Phil Taylor will meet the slowly improving James Wade.
Schedule, Results, Table
20. March
It developed out of an initiative from Michael Frydendahl (Danish Darts League) and der Danish darting legend Jann Hoffmann.
Scandinavian Circuit
This year there will be three tournaments, but over the years a full circuit will developed which will be organised by a still to found North American Professional Darts Players Association. This year the American darts magazine BEN will responsible.
North American Pro Tour
19. March
In this article about darts in the USA Globaldarts introduces one of the most important personalities for the development of the sport in the USA:
Tom Fleetwood.
Tom Fleetwood founded the national American Darts Organisation - the ADO - end of 1974 and was for many years the treasurer of the WDF. He and his wife Della worked for long years strenuously to popularize darts in the USA.
Tom Fleetwood
Martin Adams was almost as successful - he won the men's singles and the men's doubles together with Ross Montgomery.
The two BDO World Champions 2012, Christian Kist and Anastasia Dobromyslova, were eliminated in the semi-finals.
The format hasn't changed, the tournament consists of eight tournaments and the Grand Final.
Winner of the first phase 2012 was last years overall winner Paul Lim who defeated American Scott Kirchner in the final.
16. March
Phil Taylor stayed unbeaten against Andy Hamilton in Glasgow and extended his lead on the first place of the table.
After his win against a very nervous Gary Anderson Simon Whitlock now sits on second place followed by three players with six points - Gary Anderson, Kevin Painter und James Wade.
Bottom of the table are Andy Hamilton and Adrian Lewis who lost again, this time against James Wade.
Reports
Results, Table
14. March
Jim concentrates on how to make a seemingly impossible goal reachable.
Goal Setting
On the 6. league day the Premier League travels to Glasgow. The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre is sold out.
After the perfomances of Phil Taylor in Premier League and during lasr weekends Players Championships he is the clear favourite against Andy Hamilton.
In the other three matches the situation is not as clear - James Wade who seems to gain a foothold again will play against the bottom of the table Adrian Lewis who till now disappointed. Gary Anderson who had no chance at all against Phil Taylor last week will meet solid but not always successful Simon Whitlock. Raymond van Barneveld who lost in a close match against James Wade in Brighton has to play confident Kevin Painter. Might be there#ll be some more surprising results tomorrow!
Schedule, Results, Table
12. March
The prestigious Isle of Man Open this year were dominated by the Dutch players. Both the ladies and the men's singles had a winner from Holland.
The ladies singles were won by Francisca de Hoenselaar who defeated Deta Hedman in the final. It was the fourth time Hoenselaar could win the tournament.
The men's singles winner was Jeffrey de Graaf who won the final against fellow countryman Jan Dekker.
11. March
In the final of the second Players Championships of the weekend Dave Chisnall as in the PDC World Championship defeated Phil Taylor. Taylor had begun the
tournament as dominant as he had ended yesterday's Players Championship and threw in his first round match another nine-darter. But in the final Dave Chisnall could beat
him 6:5.
In the semi-finals stood Steve Beaton and Kim Huybrechts.
Participants, Results
10. March
Phil Taylor was unbeatable at today's Players Championship in Reading. He defeated in the final Wes Newton with 6:1. Through this win it's already almost
sure he will be under the participants of the next Players Championshi Final later in the year.
In his second round match today against Tony West Taylor threw an extraordinary nine-darter
with scores from 174, 177 and 150 (three times the bullseye!) For Taylor it was the 15. nine-darter in competition.
Gary Anderson and Simon Whitlock were the other two players reaching the semi-finals.
Participants and Results
9. März
120 Tour Card Inhaber will be there including the Premier League players. Eight associate PDPA members fill up the field.
Participants
Phil Taylor still is unbeaten after the fifth league day of Premier League 2012. With close to 100 his average was far less high the last week though it was
nevertheless the highest of the evening. Taylor's opponent Gary Anderson was very far from his best and so Taylor had no problem at all to win 8:1.
The other winners of the evening were a showing battling qualities Kevin Painter, James Wade - who just managed to pick up momentum to stumble over the finishing line - and Simon Whitlock who showed off World Champion Adrian Lewis.
Matchreports
Results, Table
Legends of the game
Since a few days a new online darts magazine exists. There is an English, a Dutch, a German, a Japanese and a Chinese version.
You can have a free look at the first issue. But then you'll have to suscribe to be able to read it.
Here the link to the first issue:
insidedarts
8. March
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on this years Premier League, which already brought us some surprising results.
Premier League
7. March
The fifth league Day of Premier League will be played in Brighton.
In the match of the evening Phil Taylor and reigning champion Gary Anderson will meet, who at the moment are ranked 1 and 2 in the Premier League table. James Wade who last week could celebrate his first win in this years Premier League will play back in form Raymond van Barneveld. World Champion Adrian Lewis - who had no chance at all on league day four against Gary Anderson - will tomorrow play against Simon Whitlock and in the first match of the evening Premier League debutants Kevin Painter and Andy Hamilton will stand at the oche.
Walk-on-Girls once again are Erica Wild and Jacqui Adams who by now both have got an own homepage.
Schedule, Results, Table
As the PDC announced this year again Speedy Hire will be the main sponsor of the UK Open which will be played from 7.- 10. June in Bolton.
As last year 32 tournament places can be won through the Speedy Hire qualifications. Beside the venues and the dates no more details about those qualifications are known yet.
Amateurs will have the chance to qualify as well by Riley's qualifiers. There will be 32 places avaiable for those too.
Tournament Informations
5. March
At the end of last year the Dartslive launch in the USA took part.
Donny Joe travelled there, won the kickoff tournament and gives us a detailled description of the automats in his blog.
Dartslive USA Kickoff
The technique might not yet be 100 percent perfect but the accuracy is already quite good...
Shooting Hoops and Throwing Darts
2. March
Phil Taylor on league day four once again was the outstanding player. Taylor who was already on the first three league days with two times an average of around 112
and a nine-darter in Aberdden the best player managed to increase his average again to an unbelievable 117.35. That was the second highest average ever
played on television and the highest in the history of the Premier League. Simon Whitlock was defeated 8:4 and had no chance at all.
Other winners of the evening were James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld and Gary Andersonwho defeated World Champion Adrian Lewis devastating with 8:1.
Reports
Results, Table
29. February
On the fourth league day the Premier League travels to Exeter, the by the Romans founded capital of Devon.
In the Westpoint Arena reigning champion Gary Anderson, who'll be some kind of local hero tomorrow, will meet World Champion Adrian Lewis. Anderson seems to get back into form - so it might be an interesting match. A lot of betters seem to feel it will be a draw.
Phil Taylor who played a stunning match last week will play against Simon Whitlock. Andy Hamilton and Raymond van Barneveld will meet while the second Premier League debutant Kevin Painter will stand together with James Wade at the oche who hopes to be finally able to win.
The Walk-on-Girls in Exeter are Erica Wild and Jacqui Adams.
Schedule, Results, Table
28. February
After Eddie Norman now another "official" for the who is who: Barry Hearn, chairman of the PDC.
But he is not only the chairman of the PDC, he is chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association as well, founder and chairman of the sports promotion company Matchroom and is in charge of a soccer club...
Barry Hearn
27. February
The Coaching Clinic of the Darts Performance Centre is back.
This time it has a view at the topic "Goal Setting".
Goal Setting
Marko Puls and Irina Armstrong won the singles titles of the German national championship played in Karlsruhe at the weekend.
Marko Puls defeated in the final Tomas Seyler, Irina Armstrong won against Marene Westermann.
The Girl's title won Ann Kathrin Wigman, the Boy's title Max Hopp.
The Men's doubles were won by Göbel/Bekier, the Ladies doubles by Spörle/Männel.
The additional singles on Sunday were won by Kevin Münch and Marene Westermann.
The Six Nations Cup, a contest between teams from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands,
was played at the weekend.
Both the ladies and the men's contest were won by the English team. The English men's team consisted of Scott Waistes, Martin Atkins, Tony O'Shea, Garry Thompson and Martin Adams. Members of the English ladies team were Trina Gulliver, Lorraine Farlam and Lisa Ashton.
Best players of the tournament were Scotsman Craig Baxter and Trina Gulliver from England.
Tournament Information
24. February
The third league day of Premier League brought again interesting matches.
Once again outstanding was Phil Taylors performance which let a really strong playing Raymond van Barneveld no chance. Simon Whitlock's defeat against Kevin Painter was after his convincing first two matches a surprise.
Adrian Lewis didn't manage to defeat Andy Hamilton as he die in the final of the World Championship - the match ended in a draw. Gary Andersons seems to get back in form while James Wade keeps on to struggle, he still hasn't got a single point and is last of the league table while Phil Taylor now leads after the third league day.
Reports
Results, Table
22. February
The third league day of the Premier League will be played tomorrow in Belfast.
Two of the match might turn out to be really interesting - Phil Taylor will play Raymond van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis will meet as in the final of the last PDC World Championship Andy Hamilton. The matches between Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld often developed into classis even though the Dutchman till now never managed to defeat Taylor in Premier League. Hamilton to be sure will try to get revenge for his defeat in the World Championship final.
In the other two matches of the evening the till now very convincing Simon Whitlock will meet debutant Kevin Painter while slightly unsure Scotsman Gary Anderson will play a showing signs of weakness James Wade.
The Walk-on-Girls in Belfast are Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan.
Schedule, Results, Table
21. February
In the ladies events once again Deta Hedman had a successful weekend who won both the ladies singles - she defeated Julie Gore in the final - and together with Karen Lawman the ladies doubles.
Winners of the DFA Australian West Coast Classic singles were Justin Miles and Michelle Rodney.
18. February
As Adam "Thorn" Smith already travelled to North America, more exactly to Canada, Globaldarts will follow him there and have a look at the sport of darts.
It will be a rather extensive topic!!!
First of all you now can find an article about the North American Open Darts Tournament - short NAODT - on the site. It was one of the first and one of the biggest steel-dart tournaments in the USA. Players from all over the World took part in it. The last NAODT was played in 1999.
North American Open Darts Tournament
17. February
Phil Taylor's Nine-Darter certainly was the highlight of a rather interesting second Premier league day.
The evening began with a highclass contest between Adrian Lewis and Raymond van Barneveld which ended in a fair 7:7 draw. Van Barneveld again showed he's on his way back to top form.
Gary Anderson still struggles with his form but profited yesterday evening from Andy Hamilton's double trouble and got in front of 4000 deligthed Scottish fans a clear 8:2 win.
Strong playing Kevin Painter was in the lead against Phil Taylor but then had no chance at all after Taylor was stoked up by his nine-darter. Taylor won without problems 8:5.
Simon Whitlock was with 7:0 in the lead when James Wade finally found into the match. But it was to late for Wade to change the outcome. Whitlock now after his 8:4 win tops the Premier League table.
Reports
Results, Table
15. February
Tomorrow the second Premier League day will be played in Aberdeen in Scotland.
Reigning Champion Anderson, who was defeated last week by Kevin Painter,hopes for a win over the other Premier League debutant Andy Hamilton. zu können.
Kevin Painter will tomorrow meet Phil Taylor, World Champion Adrian Lewis plays against Raymond van Barneveld and in the last match of the evening Simon Whitlock and James Wade will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results, Table
Tournament Information
All interested players are only allowed to take part in one of the qualifiers. The price money from the quarterfinals upwards was increased, the mixture of participants changed slightly - there will be now four places for players from the host countries.
Tournament Information
13. February
This time he travels to Canada.
There he talks to Ron Wilcox who is very much involved into youth darts. His son Steven "Ringer" Wilcox is a talented young player who despite his now only 13 years already took part in the PDC tournaments taking place in Canada. By now he is sponsored as only youth player by Cosmo Darts.
In Canada
In a great performance Michael van Gerwen won the second UK Open Qualifier. He defeated in the final Dave Chisnall with 6:1 and threw a
a Nine-Darter and a 170 Checkout during the match.
The semi-finals reached Vincent van der Voort and Simon Whitlock.
Both Ted Hankey and Dean Winstanley were eliminated in the third round.
Participants, Results
11. February
Wes Newton was the winner of the first qualifier for the UK Open in Bolton. He defeated in the final Kim Hubrechts with 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them Kevin Dowling and Simon Whitlock.
Ted Hankey was eliminated second round, Dean Winstanley in round four.
Participants, Results
10. February
In those the so called "Associate Members" can take part as well. Those are all players who took part in Qualifying School and didn't win a Tour Card. So the number of participants is much higher then in the Players Championships played in England in which only Tour Card holders are allowed to take part.
Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will not play in Crawley.
Participants, Tournament Information
The first League Day of the Premier League brought wins for the both debutants Andy Hamilton and Kevin Painter, the two other matches ended with a draw.
Andy Hamilton defeated James Wade with a strong performance while Kevin Painter gained from Gary Andersons problems. Anderson managed to come back into the match but couldn't change the outcome.
Simon Whitlock and Raymond van Barneveld played a very evenly matched, highclass game which only logically ended 7:7.
Phil Taylor produced in the last match of the evening a stunning comeback against Adrian Lewis. Lewis was already 6:1 in the lead when Taylor came back and played himself with an average from over 112 to a draw.
For the first time since the announcement of his cancer illness Sid Waddell was back in the commentating box.
Matchreports
9. February
Tonight the first league day of this years Premier League will be played in the not sold out MEN Arena in Manchester.
On this first evening World Champion Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor will meet, who last weekend as a team won the PDC World Cup. Last year we had the same fixture on the first Premier League day as well, then Adrian Lewis defeated Phil Taylor 8:2.
It will be interesting to see the first matches of Premier League debutants Andy Hamilton and Kevin Painter who will play James Wade and Gary Anderson.
Simon Whitlock, most consistent single player during the World Cup and quite recovered from his ankle injury, will meet Raymond van Barneveld.
With the betting companies Phil Taylor is the title favourit, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson, rigning champion, follow on two and three.
Sky Sport televises from 7 pm British time. And of course one can follow the whole tournament by the live stream on pdc.tv.
Schedule, Results, Table
Tournament Information
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.
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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!!!
Phil Taylor regained Premier League title
In a first one-sided but then thanks to a strong fightback from Simon Whitlock thrilling final Phil Taylor secured himself with a 10:7 win the Premier
League title. In the light of Taylor's performance throughout this year's Premier League it was a more then justified title though today he played neither
in the semi-finals nor in the final as dominant and had both times to fight hard to prevail.
Simon Whitlock and Andy Hamilton had both played strong in the first semi-final. In the second leg Whitlock threw a nine-darter but otherwise had not many darts on the doubles as Hamilton proved to be very sure to hit his. But Whitlock managed to get back into the match, Hamilton was no longer as sure on the doubles and Whitlock used his chances to win the match and to progress into the final.
James Wade as well showed a strong performance in the second semi-final in which Taylor at the beginning for his standards couldn't convince and fell behind. But in the end he survived with 8:6 and progressed into the final.
Reports
Schedule, Results, Table
James Hubbard new Youth World Champion
Michael van Gerwen in his second and last attempt again failed to win the PDC Unicorn World Championship.
While in the inaugural final he lost to Arron Monk he this time was defeated by the four years younger and much less experienced James Hubbard. For Hubbard it was after last year's Grand Slam his only second appearance on the big stage but he showed a quite confindent and convincing performance.
Report
16. May
Premier League
Torrow the Premier League Play-offs will be played in the O2 Arena in London.
In the semi-finals Phil Taylor will meet James Wade and Simon Whitlock will play against Andy Hamilton. Statistically Phil Taylor is by far the favourite to win the Premier League title, he's on first place in all areas be it averages, thrown 180s or the doubles hit percent. Second relating averages and 180s is Simon Whitlock but he has by far the lowest doubles hit percentage of all four players.
After the two semi-finals the final of the PDC Unicorn Youth World Championship between Michael van Gerwen and James Hubbard will take place. Ensuing the Premier League final will follow.
Schedule, Results, Table
Darts Performance Centre
And once again the Darts Performance Centre has a view on the Premier League.
The DPC takes the line it has said enough about statistics. So this time the booing is the central topic. James Wade - who got his share of boos last week - has to serve as an example.
Booo,"I haven't got a ticket" but Wade has
15. Mai
Martin Adams resigns from BDO Board
Martin Adams who since the deposition of Olly Croft from the board last year was the players director of the BDO has resigned from his position. He'll remain loyal to the organisation but intends to focus again more on playing darts.Furthermore was announced that the Head Office of the BDO will move to Cardiff in Wales.
The World
Two columns about the World Soft Darts tournament in Hong Kong.
David Fatum is informed he'll not be allowed to play in the tournament nor in any Dartslive tournaments around the world as his sponsor has a very remote connection to a rival of Dartslive.
Donny Joe meanwhile is on his way to Phase two of the tournament and tells of his experience.
David Fatum: "The World" let down!
Donny Joe: The World Phase 2 - my experience
14. May
Got my Ticket for the Darts
The single produced by this years Premier League players together with Chas Hodges is now on sale. The money raised will go to
Haven House Chidren's Hospice.
More one can find on the PDC Homepage, there you can as well watch the video.
The song will be performed next Thursday during the Premier League Play-offs on the stage of the O2.
UK Open
At the weekend more Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open were played.
Best known of the qualifiers probably is BDO player BDO Stepehn Bunting, who will now according to the draw from last Thursday play against Glen Durrant - a fellow Riley's Qualifier.
Draw, Schedule. Participants
Winmau Dortmund Open
Vladimir Anderson from Denmark is the winner of the men's singles of the Winmau Dortmund Open. He defeated in the final Dominick Wigmann. The men's double Robertson/Snaeckert won without having to play as Seyler/Tupuschis had to withdrew due to an injury of Olaf Tupuschis.The youth singles were won by Kevin Voornhout and Anna-Maria Schulze. The ladies pairs were won by Jenkins/Armstrong.
10. May
Premier League
It's decided who'll play in the play-offs: beside Phil Taylor and Simon Whitlock who already were qualified Andy Hamilton and James Wade will stand
at the Oche in the O2 Arena in London.
With a 8:6 win over Adrian Lewis Simon Whitlock secured himself the second place in the league table while Adrian Lewis was eliminated. Andy Hamilton could celebrate a clear 8:1 over Kevin Painter and the match between James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld - which was thrilling to the last leg - ended in a 7:7 draw. Due to the leg difference Raymond van Barneveld would have needed a win to progress.
In the semi-finals on 17. May Phil Taylor will meet James Wade and Simon Whitlock will play against Andy Hamilton.
Reports
Schedule, Results, Table
Draw UK Open
Before the Premier League this afternoon in Newcastle the draw for the Preliminary Round and the First and Second Round of the UK Open took place.
In Preliminary Round this year 50 matches will be played. In First and Second Round it will be 32. The draw for the Third Round in which the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit will enter the tournament will take place in Bolton after the Second Round.
This weekend the last Riley's Qualifiers will be played.
Draw, Schedule, Participant
Darts Performance Centre
Before the last league day most Head to Heads home and away are played. Is there anything one can learn from the statistics?
The conclusive answer is: Yes and No...
Home and Away
Premier League
Tonight the final league day will be played in Newcastle.
The situation looks like this:
Phil Taylor - Qualified, and will finish first.
Simon Whitlock - Qualified, and needs a point in Newcastle to secure second place.
Adrian Lewis - Must win to be sure of Play-Off place, but could still be eliminated with a draw.
James Wade - Must win to be sure of Play-Off place, but could still be eliminated with a draw.
Raymond van Barneveld - Must win to be sure of Play-Off place, but could still qualify with a draw.
Kevin Painter - A draw may be enough to win a Play-Off place, if Lewis and either Wade or van Barneveld lose. A win, though, may not even be enough to overhaul Lewis and Wade/Barneveld depending on other results.
Andy Hamilton - Must defeat Painter and hope that the Wade-Barneveld game ends in a draw.
Gary Anderson - Eliminated.
Due to the circumstances the PDC has slightly changed the schedule of play - the last match of the evening will now be Phil Taylor v Gary Anderson.
Schedule, Table, Results
9. Mai
UK Open
After the last PDC Qualifiers for the UK Open all PDPA Qualifiers for the tournament are know and the PDC published the final
UK Open Order of Merit. The players ranked 65 - 96 will together with the amateur qualifiers play in Preliminary Round and First Round. Players ranked
33 - 64 will join Second Round and the Top 32 will start to play in Round Three.
Though the last Riley's qualifiers are not yet played the draw for the Preliminary Round and the First Round will take place tomorrow evening during Premier League.
Schedule, Participants
8. May
Win for Wes Newton in Birmingham
Wes Newton won the last Qualifier for the UK Open in Bolton. He defeated in a high class final Justin Pipe with 6:2.
For Wes Newton it was the second Pro Tour win in 2012. Justin Pipe moved by reaching the final to 13. place in the PDC Order of Merit.
Joe Cullen and Andy Smith played themselves into the semi-finals.
Report and Statistics, Qualifier 8
Participants, Results
Terry Jenkins wins Qualifier 7
For the first time in three years Terry Jenkins could celebrate a win in the PDC. He defeated in the final of Qualifier 7 for the UK Open
Andy Hamilton with 6:3. On his way to the Jenkins won between others against Colin Osborne, Colin Lloyd and Kim Hubrechts geschlagen though Huybrechts
had thrown a nine-darter.
The semi-finals reached Dave Chisnall and Kevin Painter.
Report and Statistics, Qualifier 7
Participants and Results
3. May
UK Open Qualifiers 7 + 8
Like the Premier League the UK Open Qualifiers will be played in Birmingham in the NIA.
Though this is quite comfortable for the Premier League players Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will not stand at the oche - both are already qualified for the UK Open. But again on both days almost 200 players have registered.
The two tournaments are the last chance for the PDC players to qualify for the UK Open. Players like Mark Webster, Steve Beaton, Steve Brown, Denis Ovens or Mark Dudbridge urgently need more price money to get into the tournament at all.
Globaldarts will be in Birmingham and will report back after the weekend!
Participants
2. May
Premier League
Tomorrow the travels Birmingham, where at the weekend the last two qualifiers for the UK Open will played as well.
Phil Taylor is already qualified for the Premier League Play-Offs. All other seven players still have at least slight chances to progress. So all matches tomorrow will be decisive. More here: Chances...
Schedule, Table, Results
PDC Rankings
The Austrian Darts Open brought some changes in the PDC Order of Merit and the Pro Tour Order of Merit.Justin Pipe is now ranked 15. in the Order of Merit and first of the Pro Tour Order of Merit. Terry Jenkins has swapped with Kevin Painter in the Order of Merit getauscht and is back in the Top Ten. Colin Lloyd declined two places and is out of the Top 16.
Beside the European Order of Merit was updated - its lead by Raymond van Barneveld - and we have the new Youth Tour Order of Merit from 2012.
PDC Rankings
29. April
Justin Pipe wins Austrian Darts Open
Justin Pipe won the first tournament of the new PDC European Tour and the 15 000 pound price money for the winner. His opponent in the final was James Wade.
The semi-finals reached Raymond van Barneveld and Dave Chisnall. Chisnall had in the third round against Kevin Painter an average of 113.09 - the highest of the tournament but couldn't keep up this form in his semi-final against James Wade.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Reports
Whitlock throws nine-darter but crashes out of tournament
On the second day of the Austrian Darts Open another nine-darter was thrown. Simon Whitlock produced it in the last match of the evening but then lost 4:6
to the impressive Joe Cullen.Out of the tournament as well is Andy Hamilton who was defeated 4:6 by Dave Chisnall. The other four
Premier League players progressed to third round.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Reports
28. April
Austrian Darts Open
On the first day of the Austrian Darts Open Michael Smith's nine-darter and the 111 average of Colin Lloyd were the highlights.
Till now there were no real upsets though Paul Nicholson was eliminated by Dean Winstanley from the tournament as were John Part and Ronnie Baxter who both lost their close matches 5:6. All Premier League players are still in the tournament.
Out of the tournament are the four Austrian qualifiers Zoran Lerchbacher, Dietmar Burger, Martin Kurecka and Mensur Suljovic and the only German participant Michael Rosenauer.
Participants, Schedule, Results
Matchreports
27. April
Taylor and Lewis to miss Austrian Darts Open
While all other Premier League this morning boarded the plane to Wiener Neustadt the number 1 and the number 2 of the world - Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis will miss the first event of the new European Tour due to illness.Their two opponents, qualifiers James Ricardson and Gaz Cousins, get a bye and progress to second round. There'll be a few changes in the schedule of the evening session on Friday.
Participants, Schedule, Results
26. April
Premier League
On the 12. league day of the Premier League three of the matches ended with a draw, only Phil Taylor managed against Simon Whitlock another win
and expanded his lead in the table.
Beside this nothing else changed in the table. Gary Anderson showed against Adrian Lewis one of his best performances in this year's Premier League but only got one point and now has with 8 points as last of the table no chance to defend his title. Despite his defeat Simon Whitlock stayed with 14 points second in the table followed by James Wade and Adrian Lewis with 12 points each. Raymond van Barneveld sits with 11 points on fifth place. Andy Hamilton and Kevin Painter both have 9 points. With the exception of Gary Anderson all players still have a chance to qualify for the play-offs.
Reports
Schedule, Results, Table
Darts Performance Centre
One can't only use the statistics to get some help from them for betting...
This time the Darts Performance Centre and has a look on the number of darts thrown for winning legs and offers us a "Reality Test".
So you want to be a Pro do you?
25. April
Premier League
The play-offs come closer and closer but till now beside Phil Taylor no Premier League player has qualified for them.
Before the 12. League Day in Liverpool Simon Whitlock has the best chances. But he'll have to play Phil Taylor tomorrow night. Taylor was not as dominant as usual against Adrian Lewis last week and was defeated. Normally that doesn't happen twice in a row...
Adrian Lewis will play last of the table Gary Anderson who for weeks already can't convince. James Wade, at the moment third in the table, will meet powerful Kevin Painter and Raymond van Barneveld who showed one of his weaker performances last Thursday will have to play against the persistent Andy Hamilton.
Schedule, Results, Table
24. April
Dart in den USA
Donny Joe tells us in his blog about developments and new activities in the sport of darts in the USA. Those are supposed to
rise the performance level and to offer more chances for the professionals.
2012 - New Year and New Opportunities
Team Taylor
Phil Taylor gives through a now world wide initiative darts players a chance to get professional.
Originally the intitative was restricted on players from the UK, who can by taking parts in a series of events in Riley's clubs or other pubs and
clubs in the UK win points. The events will end in regional qualifiers from which the best 16 players will take part as "Team Taylor" in the PDC
Qualifying School 2913 - Phil Taylor will pay for it.
Taylor hopes to find some new talent by this - might be even a new darts superstar.
The initiative attracted some interest in other countries so now it will be world wide. The events will be played over 24 weeks between June and November 2012 - now punbs and clubs all over the world are encouraged to organise those. Phil Taylor has set up a list of 12 weekly tasks each player has to fulfil twice in this time.
All details can be found here: Team Taylor
23. April
Bulls German Open
For this year's Bull's German Open in Bochum 865 men, 164 women, 96 boys and 30 girls had registered.
The men's singles won Geert de Vos from Belgium who defeated Alan Norris in the final. The men's pairs won the British double Barden/Douglas, they defeated Mitchell/Hendriks in the final.
The ladies tournaments were once again dominated by Deta Hedman who won the singles final against Lorraine Farlam and the pairs tournament together with Trina Gulliver against the double Armstrong/Hoenselaar.
The girl's tournament brought the only German win - Ann-Kathrin Wigman defeated Anna-Maria Schultze in the final. The boy's tournament was won as in 2010 by Jeffrey de Zwaan.
PDC Youth Tour, Sunday
The third tournament of the first PDC Youth Tour weekend 2012 was won as the first one by Youth World Champion Arron Monk.
He defeated in the final the winner of the second Saturday event - Michael Smith.
Monk would like to win on his last year on the Youth Tour at least 14 of the tournament. He will not be able to defend his title in 2012 as he was eliminated in the first round of the tournament last year in November. The final of the PDC Youth World Championship 2012 will be played during the Premier League play-offs on 17. May between Michael van Gerwen and James Hubbard.
UK Open Qualifiers
At the weekend the first Riley's Qualifiers for the UK Open in Bolton were played. From 11 tournaments in 11 towns in the UK
the winners progressed to the first round of the tournament.
Best-know qualifier is Shayne Burgess who in 2003 lost in the final of the inaugural UK Open to Phil Taylor.
Schedule, Participants
PDC Youth Tour, Saturday
On Saturday in Derby the first two tournaments of the PDC Youth Tour were played.
In both tournaments more then 140 players stood at the oche.
The first event on Saturday was won by PDC Youth World Champion Arron Monk who defeated in the final James Hubbard.
Winner of the second tournament was Michael Smith who already won a Pro Tour event this year in Benidorm. His opponent in the final was Daniel King-Morris.
20. April
Premier League
On the 11. league day of Premier League Adrian Lewis stunned with 8:5 win over Phil Taylor. Taylor had dominated the match at the beginning and
had got a 4:1 lead. But Lewis managed to get back into the match and after a key 160 checkout changed the match.
Raymond van Barneveld showed against Simon Whitlock after his great weekend in Barnsley a surprisingly uninspired performance and was defeated 4:8 as was the still far from his best Gary Anderson by Kevin Painter.
Andy Hamilton and James Wade played a very close match which ended in a fair 7:7 draw.
Beside Erica Wild the PDC in Bournemouth presented us a new walk-on girl: Holly Johnson.
Reports
Results, Table
19. April
DartsPerformance Centre
Seen from the sports betting angle the Darts Perfomance Centre has another look at the 180´s thrown in Premier League and at the number of legs played per match. Last week all DPC predictions were correct...
Wow - Nice Legs!
18. April
Premier League
On the eleventh League Day Premier League travels to Bournemouth.
In the centre of interest stand probably the match between Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor.In their first match on the first League Day the result was a draw. This time Adrian Lewis who was free of play last week would like tio win.
Raymond van Barneveld, double winner in Barnsley last weekend, will play Simon Whitlock, James Wade will stand against Andy Hamilton at the oche and Gary Anderson against Kevin Painter a hard task for the Scotman. All players have still chances to progress to the play-offs.
Schedule, Table, Results
Dartoid interviews (and throws darts) with Lady Gaga!
Probably a lot of people would like to do it...
Though one better treats the column with caution as it was published on the first of April.
But Scotty Burnett confirmed Lady Gaga is a member of his team in California.
To The Column
17. April
Austrian Darts Open
The PDC now published the schedule of the Austrian Darts Open which will be played from 27. - 29. April in Wiener Neustadt.
All eight Premier League players will play their first round matches on 27. April in the evening session on the main stage. From Saturday till the end of the tournaments all matches will be played on the main stage. First matches of the tournament will be on the main stage Wayne Jones against Gino Vos and on Board 2 Richie Burnett against Michael Rosenauer.
Schedule, Participants
16. April
Speedy Hire UK Open
Over the weekend through the Speedy Hire Qualifiers in Leeds and Stoke-of-Trent seven more amateur players qualified for the UK Open.
The will be only two more Speedy Hire Qualifikatiers now, one in Cardiff this week and one only for staff members of Speedy Hire at the beginning of May.
Next weekend the Riley's Qualifiers will start through which in 32 twons all over the UK 32 more amateur Players have a chance to qualify for the tournament.
There will be one more qualifying weekend for the PDPA members at the beginning of May in Birmingham. Most of the PDC top players have already qualified. Not really good it looks at the moment for Mark Webster who could need some more price money to make sure he's in the tournament. Not qualified at all is at the moment Denis Ovens who seems to have not really recovered yet from his back problems which started a short time before the PDC World Championship.
Schedule, Participants
PDC Rankings
Due to the two UK Open Qualifikatiers which were played at the weekend in Barnsley there were some changes in the PDC rankings.Raymond van Barneveld thanks to his two weekend wins moved up from 9. to 8. place in the order of ranking and now leads the UK Open Order of Merit followed by Phil Taylor.
Moving up in the Pro Tour Oder of Merit and the UK Open Order of Merit was Brendan Dolan who had quite a successful weekend too. And Dennis Priestley made sure, ebenso auch Denis over the weekend he'll enter the UK Open in Bolton in third round.
PDC Rankings
The World
Phase 2 2012 of this big soft-darts tournament played in Hong Kong was w on by a player from Japan. It was the first Japanese winner in the event.
Sho Katsumi - last years Grand Final runner-up - defeated in the final of Phase 2 Ronald Briones from the Philippines.
The World
BDO Internationals
Winners of the BDO Internationals - a contest between the national-teams from England, Scotland and Wales - were the ladies- and the men's teams from England. Successful as well was the English girls team in the for the first time played BDO International Youth tournament. Only the English boys lost - this event was won by the boys from Wales.15. April
Brillanter Barneveld wins on Sunday as well
Raymond van Barneveld won the of the UK Open Qualifier 6 today in Barnsley as well. He defeated Ian White in the final.
The semifinals reached Colin Lloyd and Richie Burnett. A successful weekend had Irishman Ire Brendan Dolan who on both days stood in the quarterfinals.
Participants, Results
14. April
Raymond van Barneveld wins UK Open Qualifier 5
Raymond van Barneveld for the first time this year got a Pro Tour title. He won the fifth UK Open Qualifier in Barnsley. On his way to the final - were he
defeated Andy Smith 6:3 - he threw in the third round a nine-darter.
The semi-finals reached beside them Terry Jenkins and Jamie Caven.
Participants, Results
13. April
European Tour
After the UK Qualifier which was played tonight in Barnsley the starting field of the Austrian Darts Open is complete.
The draw for the first round took place after the tournament. Phil Taylor will play against an UK Qualifier - Gaz Cousins, Raymond van Barneveld plays against Arron Monk. Mensur Suljovic, strongest of the four Austrian participants, will play against Justin Pipe.
The detailed schedule will probably be published on Monday.
Austrian Darts Open
DartsPerformance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre article is a preview of last night's Premier League an - once again - it's about the 180's, always an interesting topic!
180`s for Dough !
12. April
Premier League
Phil Taylor defeated Raymond van Barneveld in Sheffield with 8:3. After the break the match was on the rocks but van Barneveld
didn't manage the 4:4 and Taylor pulled away.
Gary Anderson only got a single point out of his two matches. Against a frisky James Wade he didn't have many chances and was defeated 3:8. Against Andy Hamilton he was 7:4 in the lead but then let Hamilton back into the match and Hamilton managed the 7:7 draw. So it get's even more diffcult for Anderson now to defend the title.
Simon Whitlock experienced that Kevin Painter is a rather gritty opponent but won the match 8:5 and stays on second place in the league table.
Reports
Results, Table
PDC Weekend in Barnsley
In Barnsley on Saturday and Sunday the next two qualifiers for the UK Open in Bolton will be played. Again around 200 players have registered for the two tournaments.For some of the players the weekend will already begin tomorrow as on Friday the UK Qualifier for the first European Tour tournament - the Austrian Darts Open- will take place. 20 players have the chance to qualify..
Participants
WDF Results
Winners of the Virginia Beach Classics - an ADO/WDF tournament - were Brandan Rogers and Sandy Husdson.The Denmark Open singles were won by English Paul Jennings and Russian Irina Armstrong. The best players from Denmark in both the ladies and the men's singles reached the semi-finals.
11. April
Premier League
Tomorrow, on the tenth league day, the Premier League will be in Sheffield.
In limelight once again will be the match between Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld, the more so as van Barneveld's form is improving from week to week.
But the other matches of the evening look interesting as well. Gary Anderson will have to play twice as he had to miss Premier League two weeks ago due to the funeral of his father. So he will play tomorrow in the first match of the evening aginst James Wade while he'll meet in the last match Andy Hamilton. To still have chances to make the play-offs he should at least win one of his matches. Beside second of the table Simon Whitlock will play against Kevin Painter. Adrian Lewis had replaced Gary Anderson on league day 8 and has a free evening tomorrow.
Nicola Cowell and Sarah Tunnicliffe will be the Walk-On-Girls in Sheffield.
Schedule, Results, Table
9. April
Players Championship
Cash Converter will again sponsor this years Players Championship. The PDC Major will be played after the last Players Championships between the Grand Slam
and the PDC World Championship from 30. November to 2. December.
The tournament will move from Doncaster to the Butlins Resort in Minehead.
Tournament Information
UK Open
The first Speedy Hire Qualifiers for the UK Open in Bolton took place last week. Eight amateurs qualified - four in Brighton and four in Dartford.To qualify via the free Speedy Hire Qualifications first the players have to throw a high score with 15 darts. The eight best scoring players then have to play a leg of 701 against an opponent. The four winners qualify.
UK Open 2012
7. April
European Tour
Today the international Qualifier for the first European Tour Event - the Austrian Darts Open - was played in Hürth, Germany.34 players had registered - eight qualified for the tournament. Those were: Gino Vos, Mareno Michels, Kim Huybrechts, Roland Scholten, Michael van Gerwen, Michael Rosenauer, Boris Krcmar and Jelle Klaasen.
6. April
European Tour
At the end of April the first tournament of the new European Tour of the PDC will be played in Wiener Neustadt.
All Top 32 of PDC Order of Merit have registered for the tournament. By the national Austrian qualifier which took place last weekend Mensur Suljovic, Dietmar Burger, Martin Kurecky and Zoran Lerchbacher qualified. This weekend the international qualifiers will battle for eight more places in the tournament. After the UK qualifier on 13. April all participants will be known.
Austrian Darts Open
5. April
Premier League
On the ninth league day of Premier League Raymond van Barneveld defeated Kevin Painter 8:6. Phil Taylor managed to win both points against Andy Hamilton
but only because Hamilton missed the Bullseye for a draw. Adrian Lewis won in a slightly hostile match 8:5 against James Wade, there were problems
because of a flexible and squeaky plank on stage. Gary Anderson found no way into the match and was defeated 2:8 by Simon Whitlock.
Walk-on-Girls were Sarah Tunnicliffe and - for the first time - Sophie May Jarvis.
Reports
Results, Table
30. March
Interview with Wes Newton
Wes Newton is one of the younger players on the PDC Circuit.
2011 was a very important year for him: he finally played himself under the Top Ten of the world and he for the first time became a father.
To the Interview
Premier League
On the first evening of the second half of Premier League 2012 World Champion Adrian Lewis had to play two matches and those two matches turned out to be totally
different. In his first match against Andy Hamilton Lewis couldn't find the doubles and lost 4:8. In his second match Lewis showed a great perfomance and
won against Raymond van Barneveld 8:2.
The other two matches brought a dominant James Wade produced a white wash against a never involved in the game Simon Whitlock and a dominant Phil Taylor who defeated Kevin Painter 8:2 and who failed twice to throw a nine-darter.
At the beginning of the evening players and fans payed a tribute two the recently died two-times World Champion Jocky Wilson.
Reports
Results, Table
29. March
Brownie's Blog
With his third blog about "Dressing Room Darts" Steve Brown ends this series. In the last "Dressing Room" blog mental aspects of the sport are the central topic.Even more Dressing Room Darts...
28. March
Premier League
On the first evening of the second half the Premier League will visit Cardiff.
Due to the changed schedule because of the funeral of Gary Anderon's father tomorrow Adrian Lewis will play twice: The first match of the evening against Andy Hamilton and the last match against Raymond van Barneveld. To be sure both will not be easy matches for Lewis who won his first match of the season last week and now sits before Hamilton on the penultimate place in the league table. In between the two matches of the World Champion James Wade will meet Simon Whitlock and the still unbeaten and dominant Phil Taylor will play Kevin Painter who would like to reach a Play-Off place.
Nicola Cowell and Sarah Tunnicliffe will accompany the players on the stage..
Schedule, Table
27. March
WDF Results
Winner of the singles title of the Welsh Classic was World Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova, who defeated in the final Karen Lawman. Dobromylsova won together
with Lorraine Farlam the pairs title and with Martin Phillips the mixed pairs title as well.
The men's singles title won Stephen Bunting.
While Anastasia Dobromyslova was successful in Wales, Deta Hedman had travelled to Poland and won the Polish Open. The men's winner was Tony O'Shea.
Changes in Premier League Schedule
Due to the dead of Gary Anderson's father who's funeral will be on Thursday there are changes in the Premier League Schedule.Adrian Lewis will now stand twice at the oche in Cardiff - in the first match of the evening against Andy Hamilton and in the last match against Raymond van Barneveld. Lewis will have the day off on 12. April in Sheffield where Gary Anderson will play twice - at the beginning of the league day against James Wade and in the last match against Andy Hamilton.
Schedule, Table
26. March
Phil Taylor wins again on Sunday
Phil Taylor won the UK Open Qualifier 4 - which was played on Sunday in Barnsley as well. He defeated in the final Dennis Smith with 6:3. The win he dedicated
to Jocky Wilson who was for many years his pairs partner.
In the semi-finals stood beside Taylor and Smith Dennis Priestley and Dean Winstanley who both now are qualified for sure for the UK Open in Bolton.
Participants, Results
Jocky Wilson dead
After a long illness and only a few days after his 62. birthday the Scottish darting legend Jocky Wilson died on Saturday.
Wilson won 1982 and 1989 the BDO World Championship and was friend and eternal rival of Eric Bristow. In 1996 he withdrew from darts and zill then lived very secluded in his hometown Kirkcaldy.
Read more: Jocky Wilson
24. March
Phil Taylor wins in Barnsley
Phil Taylor for the 60. time in his career won a Pro Tour Event. Till now he took part in 100 of those non-televised tournaments. In the
third UK Open Qualifier he defeated in the final Brendan Dolan 6:2.
The semi-finals as well reached Mark Jones and Michael Smith.
Participants, Results
23. March
UK Open Qualifiers 3+4
At the weekend the second qualifier weekend for the UK Open in June will be played. This time it will take place in Barnsley.
As the UK Open Qualifiers are not restricted to the Tour Card holders but Associate Members of the PDPAcan take part as well the number of participants is quite high - on both days almost 200 players will stand at the oche.
Participants, Results
Premier League
On the seventh league day Adrian Lewis finally managed to get his first win of this year's season and defeated Kevin Painter.
Convincing winners were too Raymond van Barneveld and Phil Taylor who won with almost identical averages of around 107 against Gary Anderson and James Wade. Raymond van Barneveld had a few more problems against Gary Anderson then Phil Taylor had against James Wade.
The fourth match of the evening was a thrilling battle between Andy Hamilton and Simon Whitlock which ended in a 7:7 draw.
Walk-on-Girls were in Ireland - logically - the two Irish models Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan im Einsatz.
Reports
Results, Table
22. March
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre is very much impressed with Phil Taylor's record average of 117.35.
But how did he do it? And could he get even better?
Record breaker, record maker!
21. March
Premier League
On the last evening of the first half of the Premier League 2012 the league for the first time travels to Dublin. The O2 arena is sold out.
In the first match of the evening Andy Hamilton will meet Simon Whitlock. Hamilton is together with Adrian Lewis last of the league table but he often won in PDC Majors against Simon Whitlock. World Champion Adrian Lewis just can't bring any consistency in his performances. In Dublin he will play against Kevin Painter who at the moment is ranked fourth in the table.
Reigning champion Gary Anderson who's form is very hard to predict will meet Raymond van Barneveld while the once again dominant Phil Taylor will meet the slowly improving James Wade.
Schedule, Results, Table
20. March
PDC Scandinavian Circuit
In Scandinavia as well a new circuit was established, which will be played this year for the first time and will be organised by the newly founded Scandinavian Darts Coperation.It developed out of an initiative from Michael Frydendahl (Danish Darts League) and der Danish darting legend Jann Hoffmann.
Scandinavian Circuit
North American Pro Tour
The PDC finally announced on the homepage as well a new tournament series in North America.This year there will be three tournaments, but over the years a full circuit will developed which will be organised by a still to found North American Professional Darts Players Association. This year the American darts magazine BEN will responsible.
North American Pro Tour
19. March
Darts in the USA
In this article about darts in the USA Globaldarts introduces one of the most important personalities for the development of the sport in the USA:
Tom Fleetwood.
Tom Fleetwood founded the national American Darts Organisation - the ADO - end of 1974 and was for many years the treasurer of the WDF. He and his wife Della worked for long years strenuously to popularize darts in the USA.
Tom Fleetwood
Mariflex Open
Deta Hedman could celebrate three wins during the Mariflex Open played over the weekend in the Netherlands. She won the singles title, the doubles title together with Karen Lawman and the mixed doubles title together with Robbie Green.Martin Adams was almost as successful - he won the men's singles and the men's doubles together with Ross Montgomery.
The two BDO World Champions 2012, Christian Kist and Anastasia Dobromyslova, were eliminated in the semi-finals.
The World
This year's "The World" soft-darts tournament started at the weekend in Hong Kong.The format hasn't changed, the tournament consists of eight tournaments and the Grand Final.
Winner of the first phase 2012 was last years overall winner Paul Lim who defeated American Scott Kirchner in the final.
16. March
Premier League
Phil Taylor stayed unbeaten against Andy Hamilton in Glasgow and extended his lead on the first place of the table.
After his win against a very nervous Gary Anderson Simon Whitlock now sits on second place followed by three players with six points - Gary Anderson, Kevin Painter und James Wade.
Bottom of the table are Andy Hamilton and Adrian Lewis who lost again, this time against James Wade.
Reports
Results, Table
14. March
Goal Setting
After the Darts Performance Centre blog about goal setting here another article relating the same topic.Jim concentrates on how to make a seemingly impossible goal reachable.
Goal Setting
Premier League
On the 6. league day the Premier League travels to Glasgow. The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre is sold out.
After the perfomances of Phil Taylor in Premier League and during lasr weekends Players Championships he is the clear favourite against Andy Hamilton.
In the other three matches the situation is not as clear - James Wade who seems to gain a foothold again will play against the bottom of the table Adrian Lewis who till now disappointed. Gary Anderson who had no chance at all against Phil Taylor last week will meet solid but not always successful Simon Whitlock. Raymond van Barneveld who lost in a close match against James Wade in Brighton has to play confident Kevin Painter. Might be there#ll be some more surprising results tomorrow!
Schedule, Results, Table
12. March
Isle of Man Open
The prestigious Isle of Man Open this year were dominated by the Dutch players. Both the ladies and the men's singles had a winner from Holland.
The ladies singles were won by Francisca de Hoenselaar who defeated Deta Hedman in the final. It was the fourth time Hoenselaar could win the tournament.
The men's singles winner was Jeffrey de Graaf who won the final against fellow countryman Jan Dekker.
11. March
Dave Chisnall defeats Phil Taylor
In the final of the second Players Championships of the weekend Dave Chisnall as in the PDC World Championship defeated Phil Taylor. Taylor had begun the
tournament as dominant as he had ended yesterday's Players Championship and threw in his first round match another nine-darter. But in the final Dave Chisnall could beat
him 6:5.
In the semi-finals stood Steve Beaton and Kim Huybrechts.
Participants, Results
10. March
Unbeatable Taylor wins in Reading
Phil Taylor was unbeatable at today's Players Championship in Reading. He defeated in the final Wes Newton with 6:1. Through this win it's already almost
sure he will be under the participants of the next Players Championshi Final later in the year.
In his second round match today against Tony West Taylor threw an extraordinary nine-darter
with scores from 174, 177 and 150 (three times the bullseye!) For Taylor it was the 15. nine-darter in competition.
Gary Anderson and Simon Whitlock were the other two players reaching the semi-finals.
Participants and Results
9. März
Players Championships Reading
At the weekend in Reading near London the second Players Championship weekend 2012 will be played.120 Tour Card Inhaber will be there including the Premier League players. Eight associate PDPA members fill up the field.
Participants
Premier League
Phil Taylor still is unbeaten after the fifth league day of Premier League 2012. With close to 100 his average was far less high the last week though it was
nevertheless the highest of the evening. Taylor's opponent Gary Anderson was very far from his best and so Taylor had no problem at all to win 8:1.
The other winners of the evening were a showing battling qualities Kevin Painter, James Wade - who just managed to pick up momentum to stumble over the finishing line - and Simon Whitlock who showed off World Champion Adrian Lewis.
Matchreports
Results, Table
Legends Video
Here the link to a short "Legends" video:Legends of the game
New Online Darts Magazine
Since a few days a new online darts magazine exists. There is an English, a Dutch, a German, a Japanese and a Chinese version.
You can have a free look at the first issue. But then you'll have to suscribe to be able to read it.
Here the link to the first issue:
insidedarts
8. March
Darts Performance Centre
The Darts Performance Centre has a look on this years Premier League, which already brought us some surprising results.
Premier League
7. March
Premier League
The fifth league Day of Premier League will be played in Brighton.
In the match of the evening Phil Taylor and reigning champion Gary Anderson will meet, who at the moment are ranked 1 and 2 in the Premier League table. James Wade who last week could celebrate his first win in this years Premier League will play back in form Raymond van Barneveld. World Champion Adrian Lewis - who had no chance at all on league day four against Gary Anderson - will tomorrow play against Simon Whitlock and in the first match of the evening Premier League debutants Kevin Painter and Andy Hamilton will stand at the oche.
Walk-on-Girls once again are Erica Wild and Jacqui Adams who by now both have got an own homepage.
Schedule, Results, Table
UK Open
As the PDC announced this year again Speedy Hire will be the main sponsor of the UK Open which will be played from 7.- 10. June in Bolton.
As last year 32 tournament places can be won through the Speedy Hire qualifications. Beside the venues and the dates no more details about those qualifications are known yet.
Amateurs will have the chance to qualify as well by Riley's qualifiers. There will be 32 places avaiable for those too.
Tournament Informations
5. March
Dartslive USA Kickoff
At the end of last year the Dartslive launch in the USA took part.
Donny Joe travelled there, won the kickoff tournament and gives us a detailled description of the automats in his blog.
Dartslive USA Kickoff
Darts throwing robot
There exist not only automats on which you can play darts, there exist auotmatons/robots which play darts themselves! auf denen man Dart Spielen kann, es gibt auch Maschinen/Roboter die selbst Dart spielen!The technique might not yet be 100 percent perfect but the accuracy is already quite good...
Shooting Hoops and Throwing Darts
2. March
Premier League
Phil Taylor on league day four once again was the outstanding player. Taylor who was already on the first three league days with two times an average of around 112
and a nine-darter in Aberdden the best player managed to increase his average again to an unbelievable 117.35. That was the second highest average ever
played on television and the highest in the history of the Premier League. Simon Whitlock was defeated 8:4 and had no chance at all.
Other winners of the evening were James Wade, Raymond van Barneveld and Gary Andersonwho defeated World Champion Adrian Lewis devastating with 8:1.
Reports
Results, Table
29. February
Premier League
On the fourth league day the Premier League travels to Exeter, the by the Romans founded capital of Devon.
In the Westpoint Arena reigning champion Gary Anderson, who'll be some kind of local hero tomorrow, will meet World Champion Adrian Lewis. Anderson seems to get back into form - so it might be an interesting match. A lot of betters seem to feel it will be a draw.
Phil Taylor who played a stunning match last week will play against Simon Whitlock. Andy Hamilton and Raymond van Barneveld will meet while the second Premier League debutant Kevin Painter will stand together with James Wade at the oche who hopes to be finally able to win.
The Walk-on-Girls in Exeter are Erica Wild and Jacqui Adams.
Schedule, Results, Table
28. February
Barry Hearn
After Eddie Norman now another "official" for the who is who: Barry Hearn, chairman of the PDC.
But he is not only the chairman of the PDC, he is chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association as well, founder and chairman of the sports promotion company Matchroom and is in charge of a soccer club...
Barry Hearn
27. February
Darts Performance Centre
The Coaching Clinic of the Darts Performance Centre is back.
This time it has a view at the topic "Goal Setting".
Goal Setting
German Championship
Marko Puls and Irina Armstrong won the singles titles of the German national championship played in Karlsruhe at the weekend.
Marko Puls defeated in the final Tomas Seyler, Irina Armstrong won against Marene Westermann.
The Girl's title won Ann Kathrin Wigman, the Boy's title Max Hopp.
The Men's doubles were won by Göbel/Bekier, the Ladies doubles by Spörle/Männel.
The additional singles on Sunday were won by Kevin Münch and Marene Westermann.
Six Nations Cup
The Six Nations Cup, a contest between teams from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands,
was played at the weekend.
Both the ladies and the men's contest were won by the English team. The English men's team consisted of Scott Waistes, Martin Atkins, Tony O'Shea, Garry Thompson and Martin Adams. Members of the English ladies team were Trina Gulliver, Lorraine Farlam and Lisa Ashton.
Best players of the tournament were Scotsman Craig Baxter and Trina Gulliver from England.
Tournament Information
24. February
Premier League
The third league day of Premier League brought again interesting matches.
Once again outstanding was Phil Taylors performance which let a really strong playing Raymond van Barneveld no chance. Simon Whitlock's defeat against Kevin Painter was after his convincing first two matches a surprise.
Adrian Lewis didn't manage to defeat Andy Hamilton as he die in the final of the World Championship - the match ended in a draw. Gary Andersons seems to get back in form while James Wade keeps on to struggle, he still hasn't got a single point and is last of the league table while Phil Taylor now leads after the third league day.
Reports
Results, Table
22. February
Premier League
The third league day of the Premier League will be played tomorrow in Belfast.
Two of the match might turn out to be really interesting - Phil Taylor will play Raymond van Barneveld and Adrian Lewis will meet as in the final of the last PDC World Championship Andy Hamilton. The matches between Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld often developed into classis even though the Dutchman till now never managed to defeat Taylor in Premier League. Hamilton to be sure will try to get revenge for his defeat in the World Championship final.
In the other two matches of the evening the till now very convincing Simon Whitlock will meet debutant Kevin Painter while slightly unsure Scotsman Gary Anderson will play a showing signs of weakness James Wade.
The Walk-on-Girls in Belfast are Kelly Donegan and Hazel O'Sullivan.
Schedule, Results, Table
21. February
WDF/BDO Results
Only a short while after his switch back to the BDO Tony Eccles won his first title. The Englishman who never seemed to settle in the PDC and who had decided to return to the BDO out of financial and familiar reasons defeated in the final of the Scottish Open Robbie Green with 5:3. The double titles was won by James Wilson/Gary Robson.In the ladies events once again Deta Hedman had a successful weekend who won both the ladies singles - she defeated Julie Gore in the final - and together with Karen Lawman the ladies doubles.
Winners of the DFA Australian West Coast Classic singles were Justin Miles and Michelle Rodney.
18. February
Dart the USA
As Adam "Thorn" Smith already travelled to North America, more exactly to Canada, Globaldarts will follow him there and have a look at the sport of darts.
It will be a rather extensive topic!!!
First of all you now can find an article about the North American Open Darts Tournament - short NAODT - on the site. It was one of the first and one of the biggest steel-dart tournaments in the USA. Players from all over the World took part in it. The last NAODT was played in 1999.
North American Open Darts Tournament
17. February
Taylor threw Nine-Darter
Phil Taylor's Nine-Darter certainly was the highlight of a rather interesting second Premier league day.
The evening began with a highclass contest between Adrian Lewis and Raymond van Barneveld which ended in a fair 7:7 draw. Van Barneveld again showed he's on his way back to top form.
Gary Anderson still struggles with his form but profited yesterday evening from Andy Hamilton's double trouble and got in front of 4000 deligthed Scottish fans a clear 8:2 win.
Strong playing Kevin Painter was in the lead against Phil Taylor but then had no chance at all after Taylor was stoked up by his nine-darter. Taylor won without problems 8:5.
Simon Whitlock was with 7:0 in the lead when James Wade finally found into the match. But it was to late for Wade to change the outcome. Whitlock now after his 8:4 win tops the Premier League table.
Reports
Results, Table
15. February
Premier League
Tomorrow the second Premier League day will be played in Aberdeen in Scotland.
Reigning Champion Anderson, who was defeated last week by Kevin Painter,hopes for a win over the other Premier League debutant Andy Hamilton. zu können.
Kevin Painter will tomorrow meet Phil Taylor, World Champion Adrian Lewis plays against Raymond van Barneveld and in the last match of the evening Simon Whitlock and James Wade will stand at the oche.
Schedule, Results, Table
Tournament Information
European Tour
By now all details of the European Tour including dates and venues of the quailfiers were announced by the PDC.All interested players are only allowed to take part in one of the qualifiers. The price money from the quarterfinals upwards was increased, the mixture of participants changed slightly - there will be now four places for players from the host countries.
Tournament Information
13. February
Adam "Thorn" Smith is on his way again...
This time he travels to Canada.
There he talks to Ron Wilcox who is very much involved into youth darts. His son Steven "Ringer" Wilcox is a talented young player who despite his now only 13 years already took part in the PDC tournaments taking place in Canada. By now he is sponsored as only youth player by Cosmo Darts.
In Canada
Michael van Gerwen Winner on Sunday
In a great performance Michael van Gerwen won the second UK Open Qualifier. He defeated in the final Dave Chisnall with 6:1 and threw a
a Nine-Darter and a 170 Checkout during the match.
The semi-finals reached Vincent van der Voort and Simon Whitlock.
Both Ted Hankey and Dean Winstanley were eliminated in the third round.
Participants, Results
11. February
Wes Newton wins first Qualifier
Wes Newton was the winner of the first qualifier for the UK Open in Bolton. He defeated in the final Kim Hubrechts with 6:3.
The semi-finals reached beside them Kevin Dowling and Simon Whitlock.
Ted Hankey was eliminated second round, Dean Winstanley in round four.
Participants, Results
10. February
UK Open Qualifier 1 + 2
At the weekend in Crawley the first two qualifiers for the UK Open in June in Bolton will be played.In those the so called "Associate Members" can take part as well. Those are all players who took part in Qualifying School and didn't win a Tour Card. So the number of participants is much higher then in the Players Championships played in England in which only Tour Card holders are allowed to take part.
Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will not play in Crawley.
Participants, Tournament Information
Premier League - 1. League Day
The first League Day of the Premier League brought wins for the both debutants Andy Hamilton and Kevin Painter, the two other matches ended with a draw.
Andy Hamilton defeated James Wade with a strong performance while Kevin Painter gained from Gary Andersons problems. Anderson managed to come back into the match but couldn't change the outcome.
Simon Whitlock and Raymond van Barneveld played a very evenly matched, highclass game which only logically ended 7:7.
Phil Taylor produced in the last match of the evening a stunning comeback against Adrian Lewis. Lewis was already 6:1 in the lead when Taylor came back and played himself with an average from over 112 to a draw.
For the first time since the announcement of his cancer illness Sid Waddell was back in the commentating box.
Matchreports
9. February
Premier League
Tonight the first league day of this years Premier League will be played in the not sold out MEN Arena in Manchester.On this first evening World Champion Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor will meet, who last weekend as a team won the PDC World Cup. Last year we had the same fixture on the first Premier League day as well, then Adrian Lewis defeated Phil Taylor 8:2.
It will be interesting to see the first matches of Premier League debutants Andy Hamilton and Kevin Painter who will play James Wade and Gary Anderson.
Simon Whitlock, most consistent single player during the World Cup and quite recovered from his ankle injury, will meet Raymond van Barneveld.
With the betting companies Phil Taylor is the title favourit, Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson, rigning champion, follow on two and three.
Sky Sport televises from 7 pm British time. And of course one can follow the whole tournament by the live stream on pdc.tv.
Schedule, Results, Table
Tournament Information
7. February
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.
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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!!!