NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND
NEW ZEALAND RANKING POINTS
At the recent NZDC Board of Directors
meeting it was decided to increase the NZDC Ranking Points
for the NZ Masters & NZ Open as these are the premier
international tournaments in New Zealand.
The new points are
1st 12 points, 2nd 8 points, 3rd
equal
6 points, 5th to 8th
4 points, 9th 16th 2 points, 17th
to 32nd 1 point.
NEW
ZEALAND TO ARRANGE A TOURNAMENT WITH THE NEW "POKER-DART" GAME BOARD
The New
Zealand Darts Council have announced a new Open Pairs Tournament
which will be included in the 2007 New Zealand Championships. This
"fun" event will be played on the revolutionary Poker-Dart board and
will make an interesting addition to the championships. We look
forward with interest to a report from this competition.
Wednesday 23rd May 2007
DARTS ON THE THEATRE STAGE: LAKESIDE
CELEBRATION TOUR
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The reigning Lakeside World
Professional Champions - MARTIN ADAMS and TRINA GULLIVER
will be touring the country in a darts based entertainment
show, hosted by MARTIN FITZMAURICE, which guarantees a night
of unique theatre entertainment for darts fans.
Martin ‘Wolfie’ Adams won the 2007
Lakeside World Championship in front of a sell-out audience
at Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green ‘the home of World
Darts’ and a BBC audience of 4 million in January.
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He now takes to the stage with ‘The
Golden Girl’ of darts, Trina Gulliver, the unbeaten and
seven times Lakeside Women’s World Champion. Both she and
Martin are the current England captains.
Holding the show together with a mix
of his own brand of humour and darts knowledge, Martin
Fitzmaurice is seen every year hosting both the Lakeside
World Championships and the Winmau World Masters for BBC TV
Sport, and there is no more famous catchphrase in World
Darts than Martin’s invitation to: ‘Let’s Play Darts!’ |
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The Celebration Tour will give
audiences the opportunity to not only see the darting skills
of Martin and Trina, but also to take part and enjoy the
experience of sharing the oche with two World Champions and
two England Captains at the same time.
Throw in lots of laughs from Martin
Fitzmaurice, add plenty of audience participation, and you
have the recipe for a night of ‘fun darts’ the likes of
which you will never have never seen or experienced before!
It’s a show not to be missed. |

Tuesday
22nd May 2007
ENGLAND
ANNOUNCE WDF WORLD CUP 2007 TEAMS
The
England teams for the 2007 World Cup were announced late last week,
the teams are:
MEN: Martin
Adams, Tony Eccles, Tony O'Shea and John Walton
WOMEN: Trina Gulliver and Apylee Jones
Team
Manager is Peter
Melton
WORLD
DARTS TROPHY 2007: FINAL INVITATION TABLE
The
Final Table for qualification to the 2007 World Darts Trophy is now
available in the "Tables" section. New players expected to make
their debut in the event are Austrian Dietmar Burger and Michael
Rosenauer from Germany. Finland's Jarkko Komula will make a welcome
return to the big stage after a couple of years with indifferent
form due to injury.
AUSTRIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007
The
Austrian National Championship were played last weekend in Vienna,
we have received the following results from the championships.
|
Mens
Singles |
Youth
Singles |
Ladies
Singles |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
|
1 |
Dietmar Burger |
1 |
Sascha
Frank |
1 |
Claudia Herzl |
|
2 |
Alex
Fladerer |
2 |
Christopher Pertl |
2 |
Petra
Klingbacher |
|
3 |
August
Jost |
3 |
Patrick Frank |
3 |
Charlotte Ried |
|
3 |
Hannes
Schnier |
3 |
Thomas
Schimek |
3 |
Daniela Piassoni |
|
5 |
Günther Rimser |
|
5 |
Sonja
Tschinkowitz |
|
5 |
Johann
Binder |
5 |
Anna
Scott |
|
5 |
Alireza Ghafouri |
5 |
Ursula
Binder |
|
5 |
Franz
Thaler |
5 |
Pamela
Gödl |
| |
Womens Pairs |
|
Mens Pairs |
| |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Petra Klingbacher /
Pamela Gödl |
1 |
Ali Ghafouri / Rene Jörgensen |
|
2 |
Ursula Binder /
Charløotte Ried |
2 |
Josef Kraus / Hannes Kraus |
|
3 |
Patricia Jahodinsky /
Monika Schartner |
3 |
Günther Rimser / Martin Kurecka |
|
3 |
Daniela Piassoni /
Babsi Pirolt |
3 |
Johann Binder / Rainer Blank |
Monday
21st May 2007
WELSH
OPEN 2007: WINS FOR TRINA GULLIVER AND MARK WEBSTER
The
complete results from the 2007 Welsh Open are expected tomorrow.
|
YOUTH SINGLES: SEMI-FINALS |
|
PASCAL VAN MOURIK NL |
21.57 |
3 - 2 |
21.83 |
JAMIE KELDER NL |
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JAKE JONES ENG |
19.43 |
1 - 3 |
19.43 |
DAVID PALLETT ENG |
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FINAL |
|
PASCAL VAN MOURIK NL |
20.14 |
3 1 |
23.20 |
DAVID PALLETT ENG |
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|
WOMEN'S SINGLES: SEMI-FINALS |
|
FRANCIS HOENSELAAR NL |
28.60 |
3 - 2 |
25.62 |
JULIE GORE WAL |
|
TRINA GULLIVER ENG |
20.70 |
3 - 2 |
20.14 |
LISA ASHTON ENG |
|
FINAL |
|
TRINA GULLIVER ENG |
26.82 |
3 - 1 |
24.62 |
FRANCIS HOENSELAAR NL |
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MEN'S SINGLES: SEMI-FINALS |
|
MARK WEBSTER WAL |
30.67 |
2 - 1 |
29.34 |
CHRIS THOMPSON ENG |
|
REMCO VAN EIJDEN NL |
26.75 |
0 - 2 |
30.86 |
SCOTT WAITES ENG |
|
FINAL |
|
MARK WEBSTER WAL |
32.43 |
2 - 0 |
27.37 |
SCOTT WAITES ENG |
Sunday
20th May 2007
2ND
GREEK OPEN
The
second Greek Open was played today, the top eight in the Men's and
Women's Singles can bee seen below.
|
George Federico Gibraltar |
1 |
Areti Trivella Greece |
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Andreas Laos Cyprus |
2 |
Milena Longo Italy |
|
John Michael Greece |
3 |
Evi Nakka Greece |
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Charles Ghiller Malta |
3 |
Ann Rose Cyprus |
|
John Varnavas Greece |
5 |
Stephanie Woischke France |
|
Cyril Blot France |
5 |
Loraine McCormick Cyprus |
|
Michel Boulet France |
5 |
Wendy Riman Cyprus |
|
Arnould Romary France |
5 |
Stella Probona Greece |
Saturday
19th May 2007
MEDITERRANEAN CUP 2007: GREEK MEN AND FRENCH WOMEN WIN THE TITLES
The
Finals of the 2007 Mediterranean Cup was played today in Eretria.
You can
find the final results ...here..
Friday
18th May 2007
MEDITERRANEAN CUP 2007
The
international teams from Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Gibraltar,
Greece, Italy and Malta are meeting this weekend in Eretria, Evia Island
in Greece for the 8th Mediterranean Cup. The WDF is present at the
event and we hope to bring you a full report from the event, with
frequent updates during the course of the event.
You can
find the latest results updates ...here..
Tuesday
15th May 2007
BDO ANNOUNCE 2007 WORLD MASTERS AND
2008 WORLD PROFESSIONAL
The British Darts Organisation is delighted to
announce the BBC scheduled dates for the two most prestigious
televised Championships in World Darts: the WINMAU WORLD MASTERS
(played annually since 1974) and the WORLD PROFESSIONAL DARTS
CHAMPIONSHIPS (played annually since 1978).
The 2007 WINMAU WORLD MASTERS will be played
at Leisure World, Bridlington on November 16th, 17th
and 18th, with the Saturday (17th) and Sunday (18th)
Men’s Masters matches being televised exclusively by BBC TV Sport.
The 2008 LAKESIDE WORLD PROFESSIONAL DARTS
CHAMPIONSHIPS will be played at ‘the home of World Darts’, Lakeside
Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey, and televised by BBC TV Sport,
BBC Worldwide, BBCi, SBS-6 Holland and Eurosport, for nine
consecutive days from Saturday, January 5th to Sunday,
January 13th, 2008.
The International Play-Offs for the 2008 World
Professional will be played at Leisure World, Bridlington on
Thursday, November 15th.
“These two BBC televised World Championships
provide the most coveted titles in World Darts”, says Olly Croft of
the BDO. “Since their inception, both have established themselves as
the very best in terms of global participation, competitiveness and
kudos.
“The World Masters is unique in providing four
World titles: Men’s, Women’s, Boys and Girls, and the World
Professional has produced a Men’s World title since 1978, and a
Women’s World title since 2001.
“Both of these great World Championships are made
more unique because each provides women players with their own stand
alone World Titles.
“There isn’t a darts player anywhere in the world
who doesn’t dream of being crowned Winmau World Master or Lakeside
World Pro Champion. They are titles which truly encapsulate all the
history of World Darts, and the status that goes with them.
“Both are open to the 250,000 playing members of
the World Darts Federation (now officially recognised as the
worldwide governing body for darts) whose 64 member nations are
representative of all six continents around the globe.
“World Titles do not get any bigger or more
prestigious than the World Masters and World Professional – they
have been looking after the future of the sport of darts since the
1970s, and will continue to do so by giving players – men, women and
youth – the opportunities to develop from grass roots level, right
through to National, International, World and Professional levels.”
MAJOR BDO DATES
2007
WINMAU WORLD MASTERS
Leisure World, Bridlington
NOVEMBER 16, 17 & 18, 2007
2008
LAKESIDE WORLD PROFESSONAL
INTERNATIONAL PLAY OFFS:
Leisure World, Bridlington
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2007
2008
LAKESIDE WORLD PROFESSIONAL DARTS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey:
JANUARY 5 to 13,
2008
Issued by THE BRITISH
DARTS ORGANISATION: 15/5/07
Monday 14th May 2007
HUNGARIAN OPEN 2007: WINS FOR REMCO VAN EIJDEN AND MARKETA
ABADZIEVOVA
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Remco van Eijden from the Netherlands and Marketa
Abadzievova from the Czech Republic were the winners of the
2007 Hungarian Open which was played in Budapest at the
weekend. The Men's Singles proved to be a very popular event
indeed with an entry of 196 players from 12 countries.
Daniel van Mourik from the Netherlands won the Youth event
which completed a very sucessful weekend for the van Mouriks. |
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RESULTS: TOP 16 MEN AND WOMEN
|
Remco van Eijden |
Netherlands |
1 |
Marketa Abadzievova |
Czech Rep |
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Sandor Domonkos |
Hungary |
2 |
Zsofia Kontos |
Hungary |
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Nandor Bezzegh |
Hungary |
3 |
Tharsissia Werinussa |
Netherlands |
|
Dietmar Burger |
Austria |
3 |
Zuzana Stepanova |
Czech Rep |
|
Miroslav Navratil |
Czech Rep |
5 |
Britt Persson |
Sweden |
|
Hannes Schnier |
Austria |
5 |
Erzsebet Puskas |
Hungary |
|
Steve West |
England |
5 |
ZsuZsanna Szarka |
Hungary |
|
Mensur Suljovic |
Serbia |
5 |
Uschi Binder |
Austria |
|
Anton Liscsey |
England |
9 |
Tamar Elshout |
Netherlands |
|
Felix Losan |
Austria |
9 |
Dalma Zeitler |
Hungary |
|
Pär Riihonen |
Sweden |
9 |
Blanka Vojtkova |
Czech Rep |
|
Richard Abadziev |
Czech Rep |
9 |
Maria Lindström |
Hungary |
|
Jozsef Rucska |
Hungary |
9 |
Agnes Gordos |
Hungary |
|
Pál Szekely |
Hungary |
9 |
Rachna David |
Norway |
|
Tapio Pajala |
Hungary |
9 |
Nora Fekete |
Hungary |
|
Alireza Ghafouri |
Austria |
9 |
Denise Trouerbach |
Netherlands |
RANKING
AND INVITATION TABLES: LATEST UPDATES
Scotland's Gary Anderson returns to the top of the WDF World
Rankings as a result of his great showing in the IDL. In the updated
table published today Gary has 832 points which gives him a massive
146 point lead over 2nd placed Tony Eccles. Former Nr. 1 Martin
Adams drops to 3rd place.
In the
Women's Rankings England's "Golden Girl" Trina Gulliver has an even
bigger lead. Her total of 988 points puts her 190 points ahead of
Karin Krappen of the Netherlands with Francis Hoenselaar a close
third.
Martin
Adams remains top of the BDO invitational leader-board with 80
points, Scott Waites and Tony O'Shea share the runner-up spot just
three points behind. In the women's table Karin Krappen tops the
list with 90 points followed by Francis Hoenselaar and Trina
Gulliver.
For
full details of all tables and a complete breakdown of all the
players' points click on the "Tables" link in the menu on the left
side of this page.
Sunday
13th May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007: GARY ANDERSON WINS HIS FIRST TV
MAJOR
Scotland's "Dreamboy" Gary anderson lifted his first major TV Title
when he defeated Welshman Mark Webster by 13 sets to 9. Anderson did
not reach the standards he had achieved earlier in the week but was
always in the lead, and in control, against an opponent who never
gave up.
The Youth
event saw Pascal van Mourik come from behind to pip Ritchie George
at the post in a sudden death deciding leg. Both boys played some
excellent darts, and with young players like these continually
coming through the future for our sport looks very good indeed.
All the
results and averages...here..
Saturday 12th May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007: WEBSTER AND ANDERSON IN THE FINAL
England's Tony O'Shea had a "bad day at the office" in this evenings
IDL Semi-Final against Welshman Mark Webster. Nothing went right for
O'Shea and Webster earned a convincing 9 sets to 1 victory without
being extended in any way.
The
second Semi-Final followed a similar pattern. This time it was
Adrian Lewis who could not find any consistency. Anderson, while not
at his brilliant best ran out an easy 9 - 1 winner.
All the
results
and averages...here..
Friday
11th May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007:
ANDERSON, O'SHEA, LEWIS AND WEBSTER TO THE SEMI'S
GARY ANDERSON not only kept his unbeaten run
going, but lived up to his ‘Dreamboy’ nickname with a dream quarter
final against James Wade. He won 6-3, with yet another 35 plus
single dart average that included a magnificent 12 maximums! After
the first 5 sets Anderson’s single dart average was an incredible
38!
But it was left to TONY O’SHEA to pull off the
win of the quarter finals with an impressive 6-4 triumph over
defending IDL Champion Raymond Barneveld.
Barney was favourite to progress to the
Semi-Finals, and when Tony went 3-1 down early in the match, it
looked ominous for the England International. However, Tony
levelled at 4-4 after the interval and then won the last two sets in
imperious style.
It was a great win –probably the sweetest of his
career - and made even more so by the fact that the sponsors, Opel
Nederland, presented him with the keys to a brand new Tigra
convertible (valued at 25,000 Euros) to mark his 46th
birthday 9-darter on Wednesday night.
Having already presented Phil Taylor with the
same car on Tuesday night when he hit the first 9-darter in this
year’s IDL, the sponsors made it a unique ‘double’ to not only
celebrate Tony’s
9 darter, but also his memorable win over Raymond
Barneveld.
In the
third Semi-Final Adrian Lewis beat Darryl Fitton in an all England
encounter. The match was even until the break, but after the restart
Lewis pulled away for a comfortable win.
Welsh
"comet" Mark Webster took the last semi-final place with a
comfortable but undistinguished win over England's Gary Robson in
which neither player could find any sort of form or consistency.
All the
results
and averages...here..
NEW
ZEALAND DARTS COUNCIL: MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
The
April 2007 edition of the NZDC monthly newsletter has just arrived.
For all the latest news and results from New Zealand please click
...here..
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007
Last
night saw the final matches in the Round Robin section of the IDL.
Stars who fell by the wayside included Phil Taylor, Michael van
Gerwen, Wayne Mardle, Mark Dudbridge and Martin Adams.
The IDL
live streaming was a great disappointment and reports tell us that
many fans throughout Europe experienced constant problems, if indeed
they received a stream at all. Let us hope that SBS6 can sort out
the problems before this evenings matches.
All the
results
and averages...here..
Thursday 10th May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007
Tonight's
matches conclude the second series of Round Robin matches and the
quarter-final places will be decided.
All the
results
and averages...here..
Wednesday
9th May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007
England's Tony O'Shea celebrated his 46th birthday with a 9 dart leg
on his way to a 7 - 4 win over fellow countryman Adrian Lewis
tonight, congratulations Tony.
Latest
results and averages...here..
Tuesday
8th May 2007
BDO
ENGLAND NATIONAL SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007
Pontin’s Hemsby: 5th May 2007.
Men: Semi-Finals
SHAUN GREATBATCH (CAMBS) 3-0 STUART KELLETT (CHES)
STEVE ROBERTS (CAMBS) 3-1 WAYNE SENTENCE (LINCS)
FINAL:
SHAUN GREATBATCH (CAMBS) 3-1 STEVE ROBERTS (CAMBS)
Women:
Semi-Finals:
LAURA POWER (SURREY) 3-0 MICHELLE JACKSON (CUMBRIA)
APYLEE JONES (SURREY) 3-1 TRICIA WRIGHT (KENT)
FINAL:
APYLEE JONES (SURREY) 3-1 LAURA POWER (SURREY)
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007
The
2007 International darts League has produced some excellent darts so
far. The standard has been high and after the completion of the
First Round Groups last night household names such as Mervyn King,
Roland Scholten, John Part, Peter Manley, Colin Lloyd, Co Stompe,
Jelle Klassen, Dennis Priestley and Ronnie Baxter were all
eliminated from the competition.
The
second Round Group matches start this evening and we can look
forward to some exciting matches.
All
results and tables can be found ...here..
Monday 7th
May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE: LIVE INTERNET STREAM
Those
of you wishing to watch the IDL via the live internet stream should
click on the following link.
IDL Darts
link
This
stream has been working fairly reliably during the weekend, lets
hope it continues to do so.
All
results and tables can be found ...here..
Saturday
5th May 2007
INTERNATIONAL DARTS LEAGUE 2007
Complete results for the preliminary rounds and all first round
results so far can be found ...here..
Thursday 3rd May 2007
WDF
WORLD CUP 2007: WEBSITE
The
Netherlands Darts Bond have now opened their website for the 2007
WDF World Cup. This site will contain all you will need to know
about the 2007 WDF World Cup. Be sure to check out this website on a
regular basis. All you have to do is click the logo on the right
side of the page.
Tuesday
1st May 2007
INTERNATIONAL
MATCH: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND V NORTHERN IRELAND
Mohill
was the venue for this friendly international fixture which was
played last weekend. The overall team results were as follows:
Men: Republic
of Ireland 8 Northern Ireland 7
Women: Republic of Ireland 3 Northern Ireland 4
Youth: Republic of Ireland 5
Northern Ireland 2
Sean
McGowan celebrated his 50th cap for the Republic of Ireland.
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