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2010 PDC World Darts Championship

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2010 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates18 December 2009 –
3 January 2010
VenueAlexandra Palace
LocationLondon
Country England
Organisation(s)PDC
FormatLegs (preliminaries, 3rd/4th place playoff)
Sets (from Round 1)
Final – best of 13
Prize fund£1,000,000
Winner's share£200,000
Nine-dart finish Raymond van Barneveld
High checkout
Champion(s)
 Phil Taylor
«2009 2011»

The 2010 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 17th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at Alexandra Palace in London from 18 December 2009 and 3 January 2010.

Phil Taylor successfully defended the title with a 7–3 victory over Simon Whitlock in the final. This was Taylor's thirteenth PDC world title, and his fifteenth in all.[1] Raymond van Barneveld recorded the second nine-dart finish in the history of the tournament in his second-round match against Brendan Dolan.[2]

Format and qualifiers

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The televised stages featured 72 players, an increase of 2 from last year. The top 32 players in the PDC Order of Merit on 1 December 2009 were seeded for the tournament.[3] They were joined by the 16 highest non qualified players in the Players Championship Order of Merit from events played on the PDC Pro Tour.

These 48 players were joined by 24 international players: the 4 highest names in the European Order of Merit not already qualified, the 3 highest names in the North American Order of Merit not already qualified and 15 further international qualifiers to be determined by the PDC and PDPA. Some of the players, such as the 4 from the European Order of Merit, the top 2 Americans, and Australian players are entered straight into the first round, while others, having won qualifying events in their countries, were entered into the preliminary round.[4][5]

Prize money

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The 2010 World Championship featured a prize fund of £1,000,000 – a rise of £260,000 on the previous year, to become darts' first £1 million tournament. All rounds featured more money compared to 2009, and also sees a £10,000 highest checkout prize being to make the fund go up to a million.

In addition, the losing semi-finalists contested a third place play off match on the same night as the Final, played for an extra £20,000 "winner takes all" pot on top of the £40,000 they both already received for being losing semi finalists. This was the first time since 1998 that such a playoff occurred.

The prize money is allocated as follows:[6]

Position (num. of players) Prize money
(Total: £1,000,000)
Winner (1) £200,000
Runner-Up (1) £100,000
Third place (1) £60,000
Fourth place (1) £40,000
Quarter-finalists (4) £25,000
Third round losers (8) £15,000
Second round losers (16) £10,000
First round losers (32) £6,000
Preliminary round losers (8) £3,500
Nine-dart finish (1) £25,000

Draw

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Preliminary round

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The preliminary round draw was made on 29 November,[7] and the format is best of 7 legs.

Player 1 Score Player 2
Denmark Per Laursen 81.45 3–4 Philippines Ian Perez 94.53
Canada Ken MacNeil 77.52 4–2 Guyana Norman Madhoo 76.25
Finland Jarkko Komula 76.09 4–3 Russia Roman Konchikov 73.21
Japan Haruki Muramatsu 75.98 4–1 Poland Krzysztof Kciuk 76.28
Germany Tomas Seyler 79.66 1–4 Netherlands Jan van der Rassel 83.07
Sweden Magnus Caris 87.13 4–0 Spain Francisco Ruiz 75.09
Republic of Ireland Aodhagan O'Neill 88.06 4–2 South Africa Les Francis 79.16
New Zealand Phillip Hazel 83.15 2–4 Slovenia Osmann Kijamet 85.34

China Shi Yongsheng was originally drawn to play Tomas Seyler. However, he was forced to withdraw from the competition after he was unable to receive a visa to travel to the UK. Jan van der Rassel, the next non-qualified player from the Players Championship Order of Merit, took his place.[8]

Last 64

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The first round draw was made live on Sky Sports News on 7 December, and was conducted by Rod Harrington and Eric Bristow.[9]

All sets were best of five legs, unless there is a final set tie-break. All games that went to a final set had to be won by 2 clear legs; if after six more legs the score in the final set reached 5-5, a sudden death leg would take place to decide the winner.

Finals

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Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets)
1 January
Semi-finals (best of 11 sets)
2 January
Final (best of 13 sets)
3 January
         
1 England Phil Taylor 107.37 5
8 England Adrian Lewis 102.95 0
1 England Phil Taylor 106.00 6
Wales Mark Webster 88.02 0
28 Netherlands Co Stompé 94.86 3
Wales Mark Webster 98.54 5
1 England Phil Taylor 104.38 7
Australia Simon Whitlock 100.51 3
2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 95.16 5
7 England Ronnie Baxter 90.46 0
2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 98.40 5 3rd place playoff (best of 19 legs)
Australia Simon Whitlock 96.04 6
Australia Simon Whitlock 105.37 5 Wales Mark Webster 93.90 10
3 England James Wade 97.29 3 2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 89.93 8

Rounds 1-4

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First round (best of 5 sets)
18–23 December
Second round (best of 7 sets)
27–29 December
Third round (best of 7 sets)
29–30 December
Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets)
1 January
            
1 England Phil Taylor 102.48 3
England Colin Monk 77.66 0
1 England Taylor 103.28 4
England Hine 86.25 0
32 Netherlands Roland Scholten 84.90 2
England Steve Hine 83.45 3
1 England Taylor 104.26 4
16 Scotland Thornton 90.42 1
16 Scotland Robert Thornton 84.29 3
Philippines Ian Perez 82.75 1
16 Scotland Thornton 91.71 4
Germany Artut 83.22 1
17 England Wayne Mardle 72.39 0
Germany Jyhan Artut 82.24 3
1 England Taylor 107.37 5
8 England Lewis 102.95 0
8 England Adrian Lewis 106.51 3
Republic of Ireland Aodhagan O'Neill 75.76 0
8 England Lewis 103.68 4
25 England Newton 95.26 2
25 England Wes Newton 86.61 3
Finland Jarkko Komula 82.73 0
8 England Lewis 103.63 4
England McDine 92.14 0
9 England Dennis Priestley 93.90 2
England Kevin McDine 99.06 3
  England McDine 95.73 4
Wales Bates 90.47 0
24 Netherlands Jelle Klaasen 88.83 1
Wales Barrie Bates 88.61 3
5 England Mervyn King 97.40 3
England Matt Clark 85.62 0
5 England King 93.10 2
28 Netherlands Stompé 99.86 4
28 Netherlands Co Stompé 87.37 3
England Steve Maish 82.78 1
28 Netherlands Stompé 102.42 4
21 England Dudbridge 97.89 2
12 England Alan Tabern 89.41 3
Canada Ken MacNeil 88.82 2
12 England Tabern 92.34 3
21 England Dudbridge 95.06 4
21 England Mark Dudbridge 82.67 3
Germany Andree Welge 83.10 0
28 Netherlands Stompé 94.86 3
Wales Webster 98.54 5
4 Canada John Part 95.45 3
Netherlands Toon Greebe 84.06 0
4 Canada Part 76.51 1
29 England Shepherd 79.35 4
29 England Kirk Shepherd 79.21 3
United States Scott Burnett 69.91 0
29 England Shepherd 88.78 1
Wales Webster 97.41 4
13 England Mark Walsh 91.43 2
Wales Mark Webster 90.75 3
Wales Webster 89.52 4
20 England Manley 84.12 2
20 England Peter Manley 88.76 3
England Andy Jenkins 88.27 2
2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 92.65 3
New Zealand Warren Parry 78.89 0
2 Netherlands van Barneveld 89.95 4
Northern Ireland Dolan 82.11 0
31 England Tony Eccles 94.36 1
Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan 94.96 3
2 Netherlands van Barneveld 89.41 4
15 England Painter 88.67 1
15 England Kevin Painter 91.17 3
Austria Mensur Suljović 86.83 1
15 England Painter 92.23 4
18 Netherlands van der Voort 94.39 3
18 Netherlands Vincent van der Voort 93.26 3
Gibraltar Dylan Duo 74.04 0
2 Netherlands van Barneveld 95.16 5
7 England Baxter 90.46 0
7 England Ronnie Baxter 94.93 3
Japan Haruki Muramatsu 83.84 0
7 England Baxter 97.51 4
Scotland Anderson 90.98 0
26 England Jamie Caven 93.17 2
Scotland Gary Anderson 93.11 3
7 England Baxter 94.15 4
10 England Lloyd 89.26 1
10 England Colin Lloyd 95.55 3
Sweden Magnus Caris 90.05 1
10 England Lloyd 88.48 4
23 England Ovens 88.74 3
23 England Denis Ovens 83.19 3
Netherlands Jan van der Rassel 82.12 1
6 England Terry Jenkins 93.35 3
Australia Paul Nicholson 93.12 2
6 England T. Jenkins 90.18 4
United States Young 75.96 0
27 England Andy Smith 85.41 2
United States Darin Young 84.56 3
6 England T. Jenkins 92.07 2
Australia Whitlock 100.60 4
11 England Colin Osborne 96.86 1
Australia Simon Whitlock 101.02 3
Australia Whitlock 99.24 4
22 England Jones 92.92 0
22 England Wayne Jones 85.61 3
England Alex Roy 82.54 1
Australia Whitlock 105.37 5
3 England Wade 97.29 3
3 England James Wade 96.65 3
England Steve Brown 92.38 1
3 England Wade 97.79 4
30 Netherlands van Gerwen 93.92 2
30 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 89.00 3
Scotland Peter Wright 83.75 1
3 England Wade 96.15 4
14 England Hamilton 97.66 3
14 England Andy Hamilton 87.27 3
Slovenia Osmann Kijamet 78.31 0
14 England Hamilton 94.69 4
19 England Beaton 95.72 1
19 England Steve Beaton 89.52 3
Spain Carlos Rodriguez 82.07 0

Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)

Final

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Final: Best of 13 sets.
Referees: England Paul Hinks (first half) and England Bruce Spendley (second half).
Alexandra Palace, London, England, 3 January 2010.
(1) Phil Taylor England 7 – 3 Australia Simon Whitlock (98)
3 – 1, 2 – 3, 2 – 3, 3 – 1, 3 – 0, 3 – 2, 3 – 0, 3 – 2, 1 – 3, 3 – 1
104.38 Average (3 darts) 100.51
9 180 scores 11
170 Highest checkout 170
0% (0/0) Checkout summary 0% (0/0)

Statistics

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Player Played Sets Won Sets Lost Legs Won Legs Lost 100+ 140+ 180s High checkout 3-dart average
England Adrian Lewis 4 11 7 41 30 87 43 37 164 104.19
England Phil Taylor 6 29 4 68 15 173 108 43 170 104.63
Australia Simon Whitlock 6 25 18 83 59 223 148 58 170 100.46
England James Wade 4 14 11 51 48 138 73 25 150 96.97
England Colin Osborne 1 1 3 8 11 21 14 3 160 96.86
Netherlands Co Stompé 4 14 10 53 46 113 70 22 132 96.13
England Kevin McDine 3 7 6 29 27 86 34 9 127 95.64
England Ronnie Baxter 4 11 6 37 33 103 61 7 142 94.26
England Mervyn King 2 5 4 18 18 50 17 11 136 95.25
England Tony Eccles 1 1 3 5 10 16 16 2 101 94.36
Wales Mark Webster 5 16 14 72 59 179 80 14 136 93.02
England Dennis Priestley 1 2 3 9 12 34 15 3 150 93.90
Netherlands Vincent van der Voort 2 6 4 23 17 59 30 9 164 93.83
England Andy Hamilton 3 10 5 34 26 78 35 16 140 93.21
England Jamie Caven 1 2 3 8 13 30 13 5 80 93.17
Australia Paul Nicholson 1 2 3 10 11 28 15 6 110 93.12
Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 5 21 7 83 46 175 79 30 141 92.58
England Steve Beaton 2 4 4 19 14 37 25 7 98 92.62
England Steve Brown 1 1 3 4 11 20 9 2 60 92.38
Scotland Gary Anderson 2 3 6 21 20 53 32 8 121 92.05
England Terry Jenkins 3 9 6 34 28 86 45 12 101 91.87
England Mark Dudbridge 3 9 7 41 34 86 62 7 146 91.87
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 2 5 5 20 20 58 20 4 125 91.46
England Mark Walsh 1 2 3 9 11 30 16 4 83 91.43
England Colin Lloyd 3 8 8 36 34 91 46 9 133 91.10
England Wes Newton 2 5 4 18 20 53 29 8 124 90.94
England Alan Tabern 2 6 6 28 31 89 46 16 141 90.88
England Kevin Painter 3 8 8 36 32 92 49 22 164 90.69
Wales Barrie Bates 2 3 5 16 19 59 22 4 144 89.54
England Wayne Jones 2 3 5 18 18 56 33 3 121 89.27
Netherlands Jelle Klaasen 1 1 3 7 10 18 8 4 110 88.83
Scotland Robert Thornton 3 8 6 26 27 80 43 8 105 88.81
Philippines Christian Perez 2 1 3 11 13 26 21 1 84 88.64
Sweden Magnus Caris 2 1 3 10 11 35 11 2 108 88.59
Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan 2 3 5 13 17 32 30 3 121 88.54
England Andy Jenkins 1 2 3 7 12 24 11 2 60 88.27
Austria Mensur Suljović 1 1 3 4 11 13 14 4 40 86.83
England Peter Manley 2 5 6 21 21 67 25 3 127 86.44
Canada John Part 2 4 4 17 14 27 11 6 167 85.98
England Denis Ovens 2 6 5 25 23 61 30 6 106 85.97
England Matt Clark 1 0 3 2 9 15 4 0 50 85.62
England Andy Smith 1 2 3 13 12 29 19 5 121 85.41
Netherlands Roland Scholten 1 2 3 8 12 33 15 2 116 84.90
England Steve Hine 2 3 6 12 8 34 19 4 100 84.85
Netherlands Toon Greebe 1 0 3 1 9 9 8 1 150 84.06
Scotland Peter Wright 1 1 3 6 9 18 9 1 106 83.75
Canada Ken MacNeil 2 2 3 15 14 40 16 4 124 83.17
New Zealand Phillip Hazel 1 0 0 2 4 7 5 1 36 83.15
Germany Andree Welge 1 0 3 3 9 14 5 1 48 83.10
England Steve Maish 1 1 3 6 10 22 9 1 136 82.78
Germany Jyhan Artut 2 4 4 15 14 41 23 4 78 82.73
Netherlands Jan van der Rassel 2 1 3 11 11 28 16 3 116 82.60
England Alex Roy 1 1 3 6 11 25 9 2 82 82.54
England Kirk Shepherd 3 8 5 25 24 50 23 11 109 82.45
Spain Carlos Rodriguez 1 0 3 2 9 16 4 2 60 82.07
Republic of Ireland Aodhagan O'Neill 2 0 3 5 11 12 11 0 74 81.91
Slovenia Osmann Kijamet 2 0 3 4 11 22 6 2 60 81.83
Denmark Per Laursen 1 0 0 3 4 10 2 0 116 81.45
United States Darin Young 2 3 6 14 25 47 12 6 86 80.26
Japan Haruki Muramatsu 2 0 3 5 10 20 5 2 75 79.91
Germany Tomas Seyler 1 0 0 1 4 5 3 1 40 79.66
Finland Jarkko Komula 2 0 3 8 12 30 9 1 90 79.41
South Africa Les Francis 1 0 0 2 4 8 3 0 116 79.16
New Zealand Warren Parry 1 0 3 0 9 7 3 2 78.89
England Colin Monk 1 0 3 0 9 5 7 0 77.66
Poland Krzysztof Kciuk 1 0 0 1 4 4 1 1 140 76.28
Guyana Norman Madhoo 1 0 0 2 4 11 2 0 80 76.25
Spain Francisco Ruiz 1 0 0 0 4 2 2 0 75.09
Gibraltar Dylan Duo 1 0 3 0 9 5 2 0 74.04
Russia Roman Konchikov 1 0 0 3 4 8 1 0 90 73.21
England Wayne Mardle 1 0 3 3 9 11 4 3 48 72.39
United States Scott Burnett 1 0 3 2 9 12 4 2 154 69.91

Representation from different countries

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This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round.

England
ENG
Netherlands
NED
Scotland
SCO
Wales
WAL
Australia
AUS
Austria
AUT
Northern Ireland
NIR
Germany
GER
Spain
SPA
South Africa
RSA
Republic of Ireland
IRL
Finland
FIN
United States
USA
Canada
CAN
Guyana
GUY
Japan
JPN
New Zealand
NZL
Russia
RUS
Denmark
DEN
Poland
POL
Sweden
SWE
Gibraltar
GIB
Philippines
PHI
Slovenia
SLO
Total
Final 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Semis 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Quarters 4 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Round 3 11 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
Round 2 19 4 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
Round 1 32 8 3 2 2 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 64
Prelim. 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 16
Total 32 8 3 2 2 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 72

Television coverage

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As they had done for every WDC/PDC World Darts Championship, Sky Sports provided coverage in the UK, broadcasting all 72 matches live in high-definition. Dave Clark presented the coverage with analysis from Rod Harrington and Eric Bristow. They also commentated on matches along with Sid Waddell, John Gwynne, Dave Lanning, Nigel Pearson, Rod Studd and Stuart Pyke. Interviews were either handled by Clark, Bristow or Studd.

Technical elements

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Technical crew were supplied by Yorkshire-based Sports Event Services Limited, with Mark Leak heading up their crew and assuming the role of stage manager.[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Phil Taylor powers to 15th world darts title". BBC Sport. 3 January 2010. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  2. ^ "Raymond van Barneveld hits second PDC nine-dart finish". BBC Sport. 28 December 2009. Archived from the original on 31 December 2009. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Order of Merit Explanation". pdc.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. 17 February 2009. Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
  4. ^ "World Championship Field". pdc.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. 1 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 December 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  5. ^ "72 line up at Ally Pally". Sky Sports. British Sky Broadcasting. 14 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 January 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2009. 4 Peter Wright (Scotland)
  6. ^ Ladbrokes.com World Championships Archived 2010-01-03 at the Wayback Machine pdc.tv
  7. ^ "Preliminary Round Draw Made". pdc.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. 29 November 2009. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  8. ^ "Yongsheng Pulls Out". pdc.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. 17 December 2009. Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  9. ^ "World Championship Draw". pdc.tv. Professional Darts Corporation. 7 December 2009. Archived from the original on 16 December 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
  10. ^ [1] Archived May 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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