Archive for June, 2009
Phill’s Las Vegas Desert Classic Preview
by Phill Catterick:
PHIL TAYLOR will be hoping to follow up his success at the UK Open in Bolton with another tournament win in Las Vegas next week for the annual Desert Classic.
`The Power` is the defending champion after defeating James Wade in last year’s final, and he has to be the firm favourite after winning every major competition on the calendar this season except for the Premier League, which James Wade inherited after defeating Mervyn King in the final at Wembley Arena in May.
Comments are off for this post 305 viewsRonnie Baxter Rockets Past Phil Taylor 6-2 to Take Las Vegas Players Championship
RONNIE BAXTER defeated Phil Taylor 6-2 to win the Las Vegas Players Championship.
Baxter picked up his first tournament win of 2009 with the £6,000 title at the Mandalay Bay Resort, condemning Taylor to only his second Players Championship loss of the year with a fine display.
Having been pushed all the way to a deciding leg by Japan’s Morihiro Hashimoto in the first round, he then defeated Davis Snider, Wayne Mardle, Kevin Painter and John Part to reach the semi-finals.
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FORMER champion Peter Manley was amongst the final six qualifiers for the PartyPoker.net Las Vegas Desert
Classic on Monday.
Manley, the 2003 winner, had to enter the qualifiers at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas after dropping
outside the world’s top 16 recently.
However, he bounced back from the disappointment of a defeat to Shane O’Connor on Sunday by winning through 24 hours later.
Comments are off for this post 117 viewsDutch Trio Headed to Las Vegas: Klaasen, van der Voort, and Stompe Through Desert Classic Qualifier
DUTCH trio Jelle Klaasen, Vincent van der Voort and Co Stompe were amongst the first six qualifiers for the PartyPoker.net Las Vegas Desert Classic on Sunday.
Almost 200 players travelled to the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas in a bid to win the 12 qualifying places in the main Desert Classic event, which begins on Wednesday.
Comments are off for this post 211 viewsPhill Weighs in on PDC Play Off Addition
by Phill Catterick:
THE PDC has announced that a third-fourth placed play-off will be introduced for the 2010 ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship.
The final will be held on January the 3rd, and the aforementioned match will be the `sequel` to the main event-presumably to make the evening much longer and to provide viewers and visitors to more than just one match.
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A THIRD-FOURTH place play-off will be introduced at the 2010 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship.
The battle between the losing semi-finalists at Alexandra Palace will be the pre-cursor to the £1 million event’s final on Sunday January 3.
Comments are off for this post 74 viewsWalsh Defeats Hamilton to Take German Darts Trophy
MARK WALSH tasted Players Championship victory for a second successive weekend with a final-leg defeat of Andy Hamilton in Sunday’s German Darts Trophy.
Walsh won a third title of 2009 with triumph in Barnsley last weekend, and picked up a further £6,000 in Dinslaken with a narrow win against Hamilton.
Comments are off for this post 146 viewsAndy Smith Picks up Players Championship Victory
ANDY SMITH picked up his first Players Championship victory since 2007 with a 6-5 win over Colin Lloyd in the final of Saturday’s German Darts Trophy.
Smith had not picked up a tournament win since October 2007 in Scotland, but hit a nine-darter in ending that run in Dinslaken.
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BDO Media Release:
The BDO International Open at Pontin’s, Brean Sands was a huge success – with over 300 more people on the popular Somerset park than in the previous year and a feast of great darts – men, women and youth – over three days.
The weather was warm and sunny for the second event in the Fire Kills BDO International Grand Prix Series, the highlight of which was a repeat of the 2009 Lakeside World Professional final between Tony O’Shea and Ted Hankey.
Comments are off for this post 360 viewsDartoid Previews World Cup XVII, in true Dartoid Fashion.
Dartoid brings you his lively preview of World Cup XVII, to be held September 23rd through 26th 2009 in Charlotte North Carolina, USA.
From the World Cup Darts Site:
The American Darts Organization is proud to invite all WDF member countries to participate in WDF World Cup XVII, Womens World Cup XIV, and Youth World Cup VI, September 23-26, 2009. The World Cup will be hosted by the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, at The Blake Hotel. Several Countries have already confirmed their participation in the 2009 WDF World Cup. To view the list of countries, click here
Deadlines
Participation Confirmation, March 20, 2009
Hotel Booking, June 21, 2009
Line Up and Photos, June 21, 2009
Flight Schedules, August 15, 2009
