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The 2007 Bullit World Darts Trophy starts tomorrow evening at the Vechtsebanen in Utrecht. We can look forward to ten days of top quality with all the big guns in the line-up. We shall be providing frequent updates throughout the tournament. You can see the complete draw.... here

The flyer for the 2007 Czech Open was published today, and can be downloaded from the WDF Calendar. The event will be played in Prague and is a WDF Category 3 event. The event also carries BDO Invitation Table points for the first time.

The new Poker-Dart game board has appeared on YouTube. The board achieved full competition status when an additional Poker-Dart event was added to the recent New Zealand Championships.

The Irish National Darts Organisation have announced a new event, The Glencarn International Classic.

The event will offer a prize fund in excess of €40,000 and a new Car is on offer for the first player to hit the magic 9 dart leg during the on-stage finals.

The Glencarn International Classic is initially contracted for three years, and will be a welcome addition to the WDF circuit. The event will be initially awarded category 2 ranking points.

More information concerning the new European Senior Championships is now available.....here. Entry forms and other details are all included in this information package.

DBT Events and Diamond Media are proud to announce that the new Zuiderduin Masters will be played from Friday 7th December to Sunday 9th December 2007 at the Zuiderduin Hotel, Egmond am Zee in the Netherlands. The new sponsor is Zuidenduin Hotel where the event has been played for the last 5 years, originally as the Doeland Masters, and then for two years as the Leendisk Masters. The sponsorship contract is for 5 years from 2007, and is unique because only WDF players will be invited to compete. Prize money for this first event will be 33,500 Euros.

The field will comprise the top 20 players in the BDO Invitation Tables, plus a further 4 wild card WDF players. The 24 players will be drawn into 8 Groups of 3, with the winner of each Group progressing to the Quarter-Finals and playing through to the final in KO style. All Group matches will be played on the evening of December 7^th and the afternoon and evening of December 8^th. The KO Quarter-Finals and Semi-Finals will be played on the afternoon of December 9^th, with the final being played on the evening of December 9^th.

It promises to be a wonderful event, in an equally wonderful hotel, with good food and an excellent atmosphere. It also provides an opportunity for players to prepare for the Lakeside World Pro in January. Players to be invited include reigning Lakeside World Champion Martin Adams, and BDO favourites Tony O’Shea, Darryl Fitton, Ted Hankey and Topic IDL Champion Gary Anderson. Dutch players to be invited include Co Stompé, Niels de Ruiter and Remco van Eijden. Four wildcards will be given to WDF players.

Packages for hotel room plus tickets for all sessions can be booked now online at www.zuiderduin.nl

Session tickets can be booked in the first week of September on the new website www.zuiderduinmasters.nl

The 2007 Winmau World Masters has received a huge boost in the prize fund. Get the story....here

The 2007 Singapore Open was played at the weekend. The Men's Final was an all Malaysian affair with S Raj defeating Keshminder Singh. Third places went to home players Tony Teo and Ronald Briones.

The Women's Final was won by Claudine Oh from Singapore who beat Norlaiza Jaya from Malaysia. Kamariah Hj Suhai from Brunei and Jennifer Shum from Malaysia shared third place.

Scotland Youth Manager Jim Connal announced today that Lorraine Hyde and Steven Rodger will wear the Scottish colours at this years' WDF World Cup.

The Dutch Darts Federation (NDB) have announced their teams for the forthcoming World Cup, they are:

Stacy Bromberg retained her USA Classic title in Stamford, Connecticut yesterday with a win over Nancy Huntoon in the Final. veteran Larry Butler earned his first WDF World Ranking Points for many years when he won the Men's title with a victory over Brad Wethington. The top placings are show below:

On completion of the 5th Indian National Championships India has announced the following teams for the World CUP 2007 scheduled to be held from 10th to 14th October 2007 at Netherlands.

Men’s: Ashfaq Sayed (Maharastra), Chandrika Singh (Gujarat), Nitin Kumar (Andhra Pradesh) & Nanda Kumar (Andhra Pradesh)

Women’s: Jolly Chanda (West Bengal) & Vijaya Tecksinghani (Maharastra)

Reserve: Bhumika Kaachhadiya (Gujarat)

Youth Boys: Ahir Sukatu Vallabhbhai (Gujarat),

After day 6 of the New Zealand Championships the foolwing teams were announced to represent New Zealand at the forthcoming WDF World Cup:

Results from Day 5 of the championships which include the NZ Men's Singles and the Women's Pairs can be found.....here. Warren Parry took out the Men's Singles with a win over yesterday's New Zealand Open Champion Herbie Nathan. Jannette Jonathan and Megan Smith won the Women's Pairs for the third time with a win over Millie Flintoff and Mihi George. Both matches ended with 4 - 2 scorelines

All tables are now fully updated and include the New Zealand Open Singles which was played yesterday. The complete tables including the points breakdowns on each player can be found in the "Tables" section of the main menu.

A world first took place in New Zealand last night (Tuesday) with just on 100 competitors taking part in the first ever Poker Dart tournament to be played in the world at a countrys' National Championship. While this was a new game for most, they quickly learnt the rules to play the “Royal Suit” tournament game.

Competitors were drawn in to sections of 6 with those winning 3 or more of their round robin matches progressing to the single life knock out draw. Prizes on offer were $1000 for 1^st, $500 for 2^nd, $240 for the 3^rd Equal places.

The 2007 New Zealand Championships started yesterday at The Trafalgar Centre in Wellington. Full details of the first day's play can be found.....here.

England's Tony West won his second Belgium Open Men's Singles title from a field of 596 players with a 5 - 2 victory over compatriot Ted Hankey. The losing Semi-Finalists were Gary Robson and Robbie Turner. Francisca Hoenselaar took the Women's event with a 4 - 1 win over Karin Krappen. Tricia Wright and Dee Batemann were the losing Semi-Finalists. There were 145 entries in the Women's event.

The complete draw for the 2007 World Darts Trophy has been announced. The tournament will be staged at the Vechtsebanen in Utrecht from Friday 31 August until Sunday 9 September.

Co Stompe continued his run of good form when he lifted the British Classic Singles crown with a straight sets win over England World Cup player Steve Farmer. Karin Krappen narrowly failed to make it "double Dutch", she was beaten 3-2 by England's Clare Bywaters in a closely contested women's final.

The new British Teenage Champion is Matthew Hannaford. He won the title with a narrow 3-2 win over Shaun Griffiths. The complete tournament results sheets are available.....here.

1. Ian Brown

2. Russell Stewart

3. Tony David

3. Steve Duke Snr

5. Brad Austen

5. Damon Heta

5. Kyle Anderson

5. Eddy Sims

Ian Brown from Mackay in Queensland became the 2007 Pacific Masters Champion with a 6 – 2 victory over Russell Stewart from Canberra. Brown (on the left) is a great darting story. This is his second year representing Queensland at this level and to come and win the 2006 Australian Singles at his first attempt last year was tremendous, but to back up in 2007 to win the Pacific is fantastic. He has always had great ability even as a junior. He represented Queensland Juniors on three occasions at Australian Junior Championships and won the Australian Junior Singles title in 1988 when competing in those Championships. He represented Australia at the World Youth Masters in England back in 1989 finishing fifth. He gave the sport away for a while to play rugby but he is now back playing this great sport and what an impression he has made. His performance today was outstanding. He accounted for Stewart fairly comfortably winning the first four legs in 24, 12, 21 and 17 darts. It looked like a white wash was on the cards, but Russell Stewart is a real fighter. He dug deep to win the next two legs to bring the score back to 4 – 2 Brown. Brown again picked up his scoring power again in leg seven and won leg eight in 15 darts with a 76 finish to win his first Pacific Master title.

Western Australian Natalie Carter (left) won her first Pacific Masters title, a title that has eluded her for a number of years. Carter has won every other big title in Australia over the years and today she defeated a great friend and two times Pacific Masters Champion in Louise Ball. Carter started the final opening with a first throw of 140. She continued to find the big scores and won the first leg in 19 darts. Leg two saw Carter throwing straight but could not find the triple twenty. Six scores of 60 in a row. Mean while Ball had found her range and won leg two. Leg three and Ball kept the big scores coming to make the first break. Carter had to dig deep here or her chances were going to slip away quickly. She found her range again and the big scores were back. She produced the second break of throw in the final to tie the scores at 2 – 2. The fifth leg and Carter’s confidence had lifted. She was pounding in the big scores and won the fifth leg with a two dart 96 finish to take the leg in 17 darts. Leg six and again Carter produced beautiful accurate darts. She was on fire with another 17 darter and a two dart 56 finish the title was hers.

1. Natalie Carter

2. Louise Ball

3. Dot McLeod

3. Jodie Hislop

5. Kerry Crowther

5. Lavinia Hogg

5. Sue Tuhi

5. Janine Cassar

Men’s: Ashfaq Sayed (Maharastra), Chandrika Singh (Gujarat), Nitin Kumar (Andhra Pradesh) & Nanda Kumar (Andhra Pradesh)

Women’s: Jolly Chanda (West Bengal) & Vijaya Tecksinghani (Maharastra)

Reserve: Bhumika Kaachhadiya (Gujarat)

Youth Boys: Ahir Sukatu Vallabhbhai (Gujarat),

2007 AUSTRALIAN WORLD CUP TEAM ANNOUNCED