2010 BDO World Darts Championship

Lakeside World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	2–10 January 2010
Venue	Lakeside Country Club
Location	Frimley Green, Surrey
Country	England
Organisation(s)	BDO
Format	Sets Finals: best of 13 (men's) best of 3 (women's)
Prize fund	£325,000
Winner's share	£100,000 (men's) £6,000 (women's)
High checkout	170 Martin Adams
Champion(s)
Martin Adams Trina Gulliver

The 2010 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 33rd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 25th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Ted Hankey was the defending men's champion having won the title for the second time in the previous year's final against Tony O'Shea, which went to thirteen sets and lasted almost two and a half hours. The defending women's champion was Francis Hoenselaar, having beaten seven-time champion Trina Gulliver in the 2009 final.

Players from 32 countries around the globe competed to reach the BBC televised finals, which ran from 2–10 January at Frimley Green. The men's top seed was O'Shea, with Hankey seeded fifth, and 2007 winner Martin Adams ranked third. Julie Gore was top women's seed, ahead of Gulliver. There were 11 debutants at the world championships.

The 2008 Champion Mark Webster 2008 Runner Up Simon Whitlock, and former semi-finalist Gary Anderson are three players who did not return after moving to the PDC.

Martin Adams was the winner of the mens championship beating Dave Chisnall 7-5 in the final. Trina Gulliver won the Womens Championship for the eight time beating Rhian Edwards 2-0.

Draw

Men's

• Match distances in sets are quoted in brackets at the top of each round. All sets best of five legs, unless there is a final set tie-break

	First round (best of 5) 2-4 January					Second round (best of 7) 5-6 January					Quarter-finals (best of 9) 7-8 January					Semi-finals (best of 11) 9 January					Final (best of 13) 10 January
	16	White 83.88	0
		Bunting 91.62	3
							Bunting 93.96	0
						1	O'Shea 94.53	4
	1	O'Shea 86.58	3
		Green 86.07	2
											1	O'Shea 88.80	5
												Wagner83.91	1
	9	ten Berge 89.52	2
		Woods 95.73	3
						Woods 88.47		3
						Wagner 89.97		4
	8	Norris 90.24	2
		Wagner 86.25	3
																1	O'Shea 88.29	3
																	Chisnall 97.32	6
	12	Walton 82.35	2
		van de Wiel 78.87	3
							van de Wiel 82.35	1
						5	Hankey 86.94	4
	5	Hankey 92.52	3
		Robson 83.22	0
											5	Hankey 88.36	4
												Chisnall 90.42	5
	13	Barilli 81.15	1
		T. West 79.89	3
						T. West 86.04		2
						Chisnall 96.84		4
	4	Fitton 86.55	1
		Chisnall 90.21	3
																						Chisnall 93.43	5
																					3	Adams 95.02	7
	15	Henderson 84.99	3
		Michels 78.78	1
						15	Henderson 89.01	1
						2	Waites 91.44	4
	2	Waites 86.79	3
		Hanvidge 70.38	0
											2	Waites 91.62	4
												Phillips 92.13	5
	10	Atkins 87.18	1
		Carter 83.61	3
						Carter 83.10		2
						Phillips 87.60		4
	7	Prins 80.22	0
		Phillips 91.41	3
																	Phillips 92.94	4
																3	Adams 97.38	6
	11	S. West 83.79	2
		McCloskey 79.74	3
						McCloskey 83.40		1
						Thompson 85.80		4
	6	Montgomery 76.71	2
		Thompson 75.51	3
												Thompson 87.12	2
											3	Adams 95.79	5
	14	Mitchell 85.83	2
		Gurney 91.11	3
							Gurney 85.41	1
						3	Adams 94.35	4
	3	Adams 86.16	3
		Fleet 65.34	0

Women's

• All matches best of three sets, best of five legs

	Quarter-finals 2-3 January					Semi-finals 7 January					Final 8 January
	4	Lawman 75.60	2
		Ithurralde 73.86	0
						4	Lawman 73.56	0
							Edwards 73.92	2
	1	Gore 61.05	0
		Edwards 68.64	2
												Edwards 68.25	0
											2	Gulliver 80.52	2
	3	Armstrong 67.20	0
		Hedman 71.49	2
							Hedman 71.79	0
						2	Gulliver 79.68	2
	2	Gulliver 80.37	2
		Hoenselaar 76.20	0

Format and qualifiers

Men's

The televised stages feature 32 players. The top 16 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2008/09 season have been seeded for the tournament. An unusually high total of 11 of the seeded players were knocked out in the first round.

The 32 players who qualified for invitation into the first round proper of the men's singles were:

Top 16 Tony O'Shea Scott Waites Martin Adams Darryl Fitton Ted Hankey Ross Montgomery Dave Prins Alan Norris Joey ten Berge Martin Atkins Steve West John Walton Mark Barilli Scott Mitchell John Henderson Ian White

Other qualifiers Willy van de Wiel Stephen Bunting Brian Woods Mareno Michels Robert Wagner Daryl Gurney Gary Robson Martin Phillips Paul Hanvidge Dave Chisnall Garry Thompson Martin McCloskey Robbie Green Tony West Paul Carter Anthony Fleet

Women's

The televised stages feature 8 players. The top 4 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2008/09 season are seeded for the tournament.

The eight women qualified for invitation are:

Top 4 Julie Gore Trina Gulliver Irina Armstrong Karen Lawman

Other qualifiers Francis Hoenselaar Linda Ithurralde Deta Hedman Rhian Edwards

Prize Money

The 2010 World Championship feature a prize fund of £325,000 - a rise of £5,000 on the previous year.

Men's Champion: £100,000 (up from £95,000)

Runner-up: £30,000

Semi-Finalists (2): £11,000

Quarter-Finalists (4): £6,000

Second Round (8): £4,250

First Round (16): £3,000

Women's Champion: £6,000

Runner-Up: £2,000

Semi-Finalists (2): £1,000

Quarter-Finalists (4): £500

Nine dart finish: £52,000

Highest checkout: £3,000

Television coverage

The tournament has been broadcast by BBC Sport every year since its inception. Having hosted the tournament since 2001, Ray Stubbs is not hosting coverage in 2010. On 17 July 2009, Stubbs left the BBC to join ESPN. Rob Walker, the Master of Ceremonies at BBC's snooker coverage was due to be his replacement after hosting the coverage of the 2009 Winmau World Masters but it was later revealed that BBC Radio 5 Live and Football on Five presenter Colin Murray is hosting live coverage with Rob Walker presenting coverage of the late night highlights and Darts Extra through the night on BBC2 and acting as a roaming reporter during BBC2's live coverage. Analysis again comes from Bobby George, and commentary from David Croft, Tony Green and Tony O'Shea. In Germany the tournament has been broadcast by the Eurosport.

Again, every dart is being shown live, via the BBC's interactive coverage on its Red Button service.

External links

• The official site of the Lakeside BDO World Professional Darts Championship