Alan Norris (darts player)

Alan Norris
Alan Norris
Personal information
Nickname	Chuck
Born	February 21, 1972 (age 39); Yeovil, Somerset, England
Home town	Netherlands
Darts information
Darts	-
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	Sandstorm by Darude
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2006 to present
Current world ranking	16 (BDO); 16 (WDF)
BDO majors - best performances
World Ch'ship	Quarter-final 2012
World Masters	Last 40 2007
Other tournament wins
Tournament	Years
Sweden National Championships	2007

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Alan Norris (born February 21, 1972 in Yeovil) is an English darts player who plays within the British Darts Organisation. Norris moved to Spain to work for a Swedish-based company but was eventually sent to Sweden in 2000 and represented Sweden until 2009 when he returned to England and began representing his home country once more. He currently resides in Holland, having also previously lived in Scotland.

Norris won the 2007 Sweden National Championships, beating Daniel Larsson in the final. He had earlier reached the semi-finals of the Finnish Open. Norris then narrowly missed out qualifying for the last 16 of the 2007 Winmau World Masters, having beaten Michael Rosenauer, Mitchell Crooks and Daniel Brouwer before losing to Jordy Terburg. A quarter final place in the 2007 Swedish Open followed.

Norris made his televised debut by reaching the quarter finals of the 2008 Welsh Open, which was shown live on Setanta Sports. He defeated Martin Adams in the earlier rounds and then went on to beat Ian Jones in the quarter finals before losing to eventual winner Gary Anderson in the semi finals. He then reached quarter finals of the Norway Open, Denmark Open and the Zuiderduin Masters and also reached the semi finals of the Welsh Classic and the Swedish Open.

Norris qualified for the 2009 BDO World Darts Championship, taking one of the automatic non-seeded spots. He defeated 13th seed Steve West 3-0 in the first round but lost 4-0 to 4th seed Scott Waites in the second round.

Returning as 8th seed, Norris lost 3-2 to Robert Wagner in the first round at the 2010 BDO World Darts Championship despite averaging over 90 compared to Wagner's 86, but stayed at the Lakeside as a commentator for which he was praised.

He has had a mixed 2010 season, in which he won the French Open beating Kim Huybrechts. He also got to the semi finals of the European Open in Airdrie. He also tried to quailfy for the 2010 UK Open Darts but failed in the Last 64 of the Qualifying to Ryan Murray.

Norris played in the 2011 BDO World Darts Championship. In the first round he beat seventh seed Ross Montgomery 3-1, but was beaten in the second round by 10th seed Garry Thompson.

Norris played at his fourth successive World Championship in 2012, and once again won his first round match, this time against 14th seed Benito van de Pas 3-2. In the second round he recovered from 3-1 down against third seed Dean Winstanley to win 4-3 and reach his first World Championship quarter-final, where he was beaten 5-1 by eventual champion Christian Kist. In the match against Kist, Norris had a shot at double-12 for a nine-dart leg, which would have been only the second in the history of the tournament, but missed the shot and ended up losing the leg.