Martin Atkins (darts player)
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| Martin Atkins | |
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| Personal information | |
| Nickname | The Assassin |
| Born | 24 December 1965 England |
| Home town | Rawdon England |
| Darts information | |
| Playing darts since | - |
| Darts | 24g Red Dragon Martin Atkins 95% Tungsten |
| Laterality | Right-handed |
| Walk-on music | "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath |
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |
| BDO | 2002 to present |
| Current world ranking | 15 (BDO) 23 (WDF) |
| BDO majors - best performances | |
| World Ch'ship | Quarter-Finals 2012 |
| World Masters | Semi-Finals 2007 |
| World Darts Trophy | Quarter-Finals 2005 |
| Int. Darts League | Quarter-Finals 2004, 2005 |
| Other tournament wins | |
| Tournament | Years |
| Finnish Open, Northern Ireland Open | 2006, 2009 |
Martin Atkins (born 24 December 1965) is an English darts player. His nickname is "The Assassin". His most notable achievement is beating former BDO World Champion Jelle Klaasen to win the Finnish Open on 11 March 2006. He has also beaten former world champion Raymond van Barneveld three times on the world stage.
Atkins has been a Yorkshire county player since 1996 and has represented the England national side in many occasions including 3 times in the Six Nations, winning all three, and once in the World Cup in 2011, contributing to England's best performance since 1995. He reached the last 16 of the BDO World Professional Darts Championship in both 2006 and 2007. In 2006 he led Martin Adams 3-0 and had a match dart in the fifth leg of the fifth set, but ultimately lost 4-3. The following year, he was beaten by eventual finalist Phill Nixon[1]. When he's not on the oche, he's a master technician and lives in Leeds with his partner Liz Helliwell.
He was seeded number 10 for the 2008 BDO World Darts Championship. However, he lost in the first round to Andy Boulton. The following year, unseeded, Atkins won his first round match 3-2 against Joey ten Berge before losing to Gary Robson 4-1.
Seeded number 10 for the 2010 BDO World Darts Championship, Atkins suffered another first round exit after he was defeated by Lakeside debutant Paul Carter 3-1. In 2011, Atkins was drawn against third seed and eventual runner-up Dean Winstanley in the first round, and lost 3-2 having missed two match darts in the fourth set.
Atkins finally progressed past the second-round stage of the World Championship when, in 2012, he defeated 7th seed John Walton and 10th seed Willy van de Wiel en route to a quarter-final match against Ted Hankey where he lost 5-1.
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