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The event on Saturday, April 11, at Crowland RBL Hall will raise money for the roof restoration fund.

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If you had asked a darts professional ten years ago that the game would soon be producing one of the most popular tournaments in sport, they probably would have said `dream on-this is Darts.`

However, in 2005 the PDC decided to create a tournament which would bring together the best players in the business, and take them to all four corners of the United Kingdom to show off their talent to as many fans as possible.

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PHIL TAYLOR picked up his seventh PDC Pro Tour win of 2009 with victory over Wayne Jones in the final of the Blue Square UK Open West Midlands Regional Final.

Taylor had lost in the final of Saturday’s Players Championship to Mark Walsh – his first defeat on the PDC Pro Tour this year – but bounced back in style to claim the £6,000 title.

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MARK WALSH defeated Phil Taylor 6-4 to win Saturday’s Players Championship in Coventry.

Walsh became the first player to defeat Taylor away from the television screens in 2009, edging a tight final at the Ricoh Arena.

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The following article was graciously submitted to TheOche.com by Phill Catterick. Phill may be reached via email at phillcatterick@hotmail.com.

Whoever stepped into the National Indoor Arena yesterday evening in Birmingham to take on Phil Taylor certainly wasn’t who I expected. I was under the impression it was supposed to be Raymond Van Barneveld.

Unfortunately the Dutchman failed to produce, and as a result got battered 8-2, and thoroughly deserved aswell. For the first five legs he did his best to cling on to the shirt tails of `The Power`, but both his scoring and his doubles where nowhere near good enough to worry the 14-time World Champion.

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Andy ‘the Viking’ Fordham will begin his PDC darting adventure this weekend in the Players Championship at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena, and he compares this feeling to “going to a new school.”

Fordham had success in the PDC rival organisation the BDO, winning the World Masters in 1999 and going on to take the Lakeside victory in 2004, but his career began to suffer in the wake of health problems.

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Phil Taylor stormed to the top of the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts with an 8-2 defeat of Raymond van Barneveld at the NIA in Birmingham.

Taylor sits ahead of James Wade on leg difference after picking up a comprehensive win over his great rival.

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Phil Taylor is preparing for his favourite challenge when he faces Raymond van Barneveld in the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts on Thursday.

Taylor and van Barneveld have enjoyed a host of high-profile clashes since the Dutchman joined the PDC in 2006.

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The following article was graciously submitted to TheOche.com by Phill Catterick. Phill may be reached via email at phillcatterick@hotmail.com.

Phil Taylor faces the toughest of matches to kick off the second half of his campaign when he takes on Raymond Van Barneveld at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on Thursday evening.

The pair are both in good form, and the match will certainly be a little more difficult to predict this time around, whereas their first encounter seemed to be a banker Taylor win after his triumph over the Dutchman in the World Championship Final at the Alexandra Palace in January.

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