NEWSLINE 30TH OCTOBER 2005

 

HONG KONG OPEN 2005

 

Details of the 2005 Hong Kong Open are now available in the Tournament calendar section. Participants should note that the tournament has now been extended into a four day event and will start on Thursday 24 November, one day earlier than previously announced.

 

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NEWSLINE 26TH OCTOBER 2005

 

ALL ROADS LEAD TO LAKESIDE IN 2006

 

International Play-Offs complete the line-up.

 

Top players from over thirty countries entered the 2005 Lakeside International Play-Offs at The Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington, and the following seven Men and two Women have qualified to compete in the 2006 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships at Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green from Saturday, January 7^th to Sunday, January 15^th:

 

MEN:

 

          JELLE KLAASEN (NETHERLANDS)

          ULF CEDER (FINLAND)

          STEPHEN ROBERTS (ENG)

          DENNIS HARBOUR (ENG)

          ROSS MONTGOMERY (SCOT)

          BRIAN WOODS (ENG)

          GERALD PORTER (REP OF IRELAND)

 

   Jelle Klaasen  is the latest Dutch sensation to reach Lakeside. He is now one of a record-breaking seven Dutch men players in the First Round at Lakeside. Youngest player this year is his fellow countryman, the exciting and talented Mareno Michels.

   There are also two Dutch ladies at Lakeside in 2006, Francisca Hoenselaar and Karin Krappen

   A total of twelve players will make their Lakeside debuts in January: Nine Men and three Women.  Players from over thirty countries entered the Lakeside International Play-Offs and six countries will be represented in the Men’s World Professional and four in the Women’s World Professional.

   Scottish qualifier Ross Montgomery played American Football with the Glasgow Diamonds for 11 years, and met his wife Dorothy when she was a cheerleader for the team.  He took up darts when he had to retire with an injury.

   The longest waits were for the two standby players Sabine Beutler, the first ever player from Switzerland at Lakeside, and Gerald Porter, who becomes only the fifth Republic of Ireland player to compete in the World Pro. His became the most nerve-wracking when Sweden’s Göran Klemme raced to a surprising 3-0 lead against the reigning and four times Lakeside World Professional Champion Raymond van Barneveld in the 2005 Winmau World Masters Final. He breathed a huge sigh of relief when the reigning and four times Lakeside World Professional Champion finally won 7-3.

WOMEN:

 

          KAREN LITTLER (Somerset)

          KAREN LAWMAN (Yorkshire)

          SABINE BEUTLER (Switzerland)

 

   Jan Robbins is the only Welsh player at Lakeside in 2006.

 

   Karen Lawman was formerly Karen Smith.  She reverted to her maiden name after a promise she made to her father before he sadly passed away.

 

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RANKING AND INVITATION TABLES

 

   All Ranking and invitation Tables on this site are now updated and include last weekend's Winmau World Masters. A correction has been made in the Leendesk Masters Table.

   An event, The Pacific Masters, was incorrectly included in this Table. It has now been removed. We apologise for this error.

 

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NEWSLINE 23RD OCTOBER 2005

 

WINMAU WORLD MASTERS 2005

 

BARNEY IS THE WORLD MASTER

 

 

MEN SEMI-FINAL AND FINAL

 

John Walton

3-6

Göran Klemme

Martin Adams

1-6

Raymond v Barneveld

 

 

 

TRINA RETAINS HER MASTERS CROWN

           

WOMEN SEMI-FINALS AND FINAL

 

Trina Gulliver

4-2

Apylee Jones

Francisca Hoenselaar

4-3

Sari Nikula

 

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NEWSLINE 22 OCTOBER 2005

 

MENS WORLD MASTERS LATEST:  LAST 8

 

Gary Robson	0-3	Göran Klemme		John Waltom	3-1	Steve Farmer
Martin Adams	3-0	Darryl Fitton		Gary Anderson	0-3	Raymond v Barneveld

 

LAURA TYE AND JONNY NIJS ARE THE WORLD YOUTH MASTERS

 

England's Laura Tye captured the Girls Youth Championship with an impressive 4 - 2 win over the hot favourite Carla Molema from the Netherlands. Laura averaged 22.35 and Carla 21.96.   The Boys Final was an all Dutch affair between the current World Cup Youth Singles Champion Jonny Nijs and Sven van Dun. Both boys played excellent darts with Jonny winning the match by 4 legs to one. Jonny averaged 28.03 and Sven 27.82.

 Foto's courtesy of Henk Westerdaal. Darts4you. Netherlands

 

MEN'S WORLD MASTERS LATEST:  LAST 16

Gary Robson	3-1	Mervyn King		Bobby George	1-3	Göran Klemme
Steve Farmer	2-3	John Walton		Mark Barilli	1-3	Brian Woods
Glen Durrant	2-3	Martin Adams		Darryl Fitton	3-0	Mike Veitch
Gary Anderson	3-2	Ted Hankey		Dirk Hespeels	0-3	Raymond v Barneveld

 

NEWSLINE 21ST OCTOBER 2005

 

WINMAU WORLD MASTERS 2005

 

The 2005 Winmau World Masters starts at 1130 BST today at the Spa, Bridlington. We shall be updating regularly throughout the day starting at about 1330 BST.

 

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LAKESIDE WORLD PRO 2006 DRAW

 

MEN

 

WOMEN

 

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NEWSLINE 20TH OCTOBER 2005

 

LAKESIDE WORLD PRO 2006 INTERNATIONAL QUALIFIERS

 

Qualified Women:

 

Karen Littler - Karen Lawman     Standby Place: Sabine Beutler

 

Qualified Men:

 

Jelle Klaasen - Ulf Ceder - Stephen Roberts

Dennis Harbour - Brian Woods - Ross Montgomery

Standby place: Gerald porter

 

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NEWSLINE 18TH OCTOBER 2005

 

DARTS HITS THE BULLSEYE THIS WEEKEND!

 

     Darts will enjoy its highest TV profile for years when it is seen on the three main terrestrial channels: BBC-1, BBC-2 and ITV-1 this weekend.

     The British Darts Organisation’s final Grand Slam event of 2005 – the highly coveted Winmau World Masters – can be seen live on BBC-1’s flagship sports programme ‘Grandstand’ from The Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington during the afternoon of Saturday, October 22^nd.  This will also feature the draw for the 2006 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championships, which will be screened for the 29^th consecutive year on BBC from January 7^th to 15^th, 2006.

     And, later that same evening, the BDO’s 2004 Lakeside World Professional darts champion ANDY FORDHAM can be seen in a special version of ITV’s cult darts game show ‘Bullseye’.

     This will be the final of the hugely popular series of ‘Ant & Dec’s Game Show Marathon’ and is expected to attract one of the biggest TV audiences of the weekend on any channel.

     Completing a unique darts weekend, the final stages of the Winmau World Masters can be seen during Sunday afternoon (October 23^rd) on BBC-2’s ‘Sunday Grandstand’.

 

Issued by ROBERT HOLMES on behalf of THE BRITISH DARTS ORGANISATION

 

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NEWSLINE 17TH OCTOBER 2005

 

RANKING AND INVITATION TABLES

 

All Ranking and Invitation Tables are now fully updated.

 

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AUSTRIAN OPEN 2005

 

Austria's Anton Pein won the Men's Singles Event at the Austrian Open which was played at the Weekend. Anton beat Hungary's Tamas Turi in a high quality final. The placings were reversed in the Women's Singles with Zsofia Lazar winning the title for Hungary with a win over Austrian newcomer Christina Perl. The Youth event went to the Netherlands with Jimmy Schreurs defeating Phillip Luntzer.

 

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AUSTRALIAN MASTERS 2005

 

Joseph Comoti caused a major surprise taking out the Australian Masters Singles title when he beat Michael Mullaney in the final, with players such as Simon Whitlock, Graham Hunt, Steve Duke and New Zealand's Bernie Smith relegated to the Minor positions. Carol Forwood continued her recent run of good form with a win over Helen Johnston in the Women's event.

 

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NEWSLINE 12TH OCTOBER 2005

 

BDO INVITATION TABLES: SYSTEM AND STRUCTURE

 

After receiving numerous requests from players from all over the World we have decided to publish the criteria for the BDO Invitation Tables. This official BDO document should be read and downloaded by all players and officials. It can be found, together with the BDO Invitation Tables in the "TABLES" section above.

 

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NEWSLINE 15TH OCTOBER 2005

 

DUTCH OPEN 2006

 

The Invitation to the 2006 Dutch Open and a separate Hotel Booking Form are now available to view/download from the WDF Tournament Calendar. Players should note that the closing date for this tournament is 16th December. This date may be brought forward if the maximum number of entries permissible is reached before that date. If you are in doubt. Contact the NDB.

 

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NEWSLINE 14TH OCTOBER 2005

 

FINLAND OPEN 2006

 

The invitation for the 2006 Finland Open is now available. It can be found on the WDF Tournament Calendar for 2006.

 

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NEWSLINE 11TH OCTOBER 2005

   

ANDY’S A TV STAR……AGAIN….AND AGAIN

 

	ANDY FORDHAM has always been one of the most popular personalities in darts, but he’s become a major TV celebrity since being seen by 4.6 million BBC viewers when he was crowned the BDO’s 2004 Lakeside World Professional Darts Champion.
He starred in this year’s top-rating ‘Celebrity Fit Club’ and has made guest appearances on countless TV shows, including ‘Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’, ‘A Question Of Sport’, Sky TV’s ‘Brainiack’, ITV’s ‘The Paul O’Grady Show’ and many more. No darts player has made so many diverse TV appearances, and his successes off the oche just continue to get better and better. On Saturday, October 22nd he will join the hugely popular Ant & Dec in a 2005 version of ITV’s ‘Bullseye’, and among a whole range of guest appearances coming up are ‘Ready Steady Joe’ with ‘King of The Jungle’ Joe Pasquale, ‘Titti-Titti-Bang-Bang’ for comedians Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer’s production company ‘Pet Productions’ , as well as a one off special of ‘Celebrity Fit Club’. These together with many more guest appearances in several top shows (some of which cannot be mentioned at the moment) will see Andy on our screens continually throughout the coming months. Studio guests for the first of  ‘Ant & Dec’s Game Show Marathon’ series when TV’s most popular twosome re-created ‘The Price Is Right’, Andy and wife Jenny were prominent in the star-studded audience. “Everyone loves Andy and he’s become a favourite of the Celebs”, says his manager Dave Richards. “One of his biggest surprises came in the after show party of ‘Ant & Dec’s The Price Is Right’ when singer Robbie Williams was keen on meeting him and they became instant friends. It is also rumoured that Oasis star Liam Gallagher was very disappointed at not meeting Andy when he had to cancel his ‘Hells Kitchen’ appearance earlier in the year.
	“I wouldn’t be surprised at seeing both of them at Lakeside in January, because in addition to being huge Andy Fordham fans, they love their darts – and so do Ant & Dec.  We could be having a showbiz party of our own during the 2006 Lakeside World Pro”.

 

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NEWSLINE 10TH OCTOBER 2005

 

KLONDIKE OPEN SINGLES 2005

 

The 2005 Klondike was played in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at the weekend with  Canadian hotshot Gerry Convery defeating England's Tony Martin in the Men's event while in form Karin Krappen of Holland showed the Canadian women how it should be done when defeating up and coming Cindy Pardy for the Women's title. The top 8 in each of the singles events can be seen below.

All the major ranking/invitation tables are now fully updated.

 

GERRY CONVEREY  CAN	1	KARIN KRAPPEN  NETH
TONY MARTIN  ENG	2	CINDY PARDY  CAN
MEN MACNEIL  CAN	3	LINDA LEDINGHAM  CAN
GARY SPURWAY  CAN	3	VAL GOOZ  CAN
IVAN EDDY  CAN	5	CINDY DER  CAN
MALCOLM DICKINSON  CAN	5	IVY WIESHLOW  CAN
GARY NORTON  CAN	5	CRYSTAL BRAZIL  CAN
BUD BOLAND  CAN	5	LORI EARNSHAW  CAN

 

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WDF TOURNAMENT CALENDAR UPDATES FOR 2006

 

Players should note that the Dates for the New Zealand Open and the New Zealand Masters have now been announced. There is also a change of date for the Finland Open in March. Check the WDF Tournament Calendar for all the latest tournament info.

 

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NEWSLINE 8TH OCTOBER 2005

 

SWEDISH OPEN 2005

 

Full details of this WDF/BDO/BWDT/TIDL ranked event can be found on the WDF Tournament Calendar page of this website. There is also a link to the Swedish Open 2005 Official website.

 

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NEWSLINE 7TH OCTOBER 2005

 

2005  WINMAU WORLD MASTERS   THE SPA ROYAL HALL, BRIDLINGTON:   21 - 23 OCTOBER

THE WINMAU WORLD MASTERS – the final leg of the British Darts Organisation’s Grand Slam of 2005  - will celebrate its fourth successive year at The Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington with its biggest ever field and richest ever prize fund.

 

Champions of over one hundred and forty National and International darts events will be in a field that includes one hundred and ninety Men and seventy Women players representing thirty-two countries. They will be joined by the biggest ever field of youth players (52 boys and 26 girls representing seventeen countries).

 

These significant increases in overall entries – a total of three hundred and forty Men, Women, Boy and Girl players from around the globe - means that thousands of darts players, officials and supporters will be converging on the resort to provide a mouth-watering long weekend of world-class darts.

 

In addition to players from the home countries, there will be players from such diverse countries as Australia, China, India, Russia and the USA - as well as 2005 WDF World Cup winners The Netherlands.

  

Title sponsors Winmau are presenting this year’s event in association with High Street retail giants Argos, who are guaranteeing a £50,000 prize for a televised 9-Dart 501 game. The BDO are adding £2,000 to provide a £52,000 jackpot for any player hitting a perfect 9-Darter this year!

 

Together with prize money this means that there will be an available prize fund of £80,000 at Bridlington  – the highest ever!

 

Ian Flack, Sales & Marketing Director of the Winmau Dartboard Company, says: “We are delighted with the increase in entries and to have a blue-chip company like Argos on board. It reflects our commitment to the World Masters and the fact that since we have been here in Bridlington, we have produced improvements and innovations year on year. Such ongoing success acknowledges the confidence and support of the British Darts Organisation, BBC TV and Bridlington. It is also just reward for the ever increasing standards of the players right across the board”.

 

Millions of BBC viewers are expected to tune into live coverage on BBC-1’s ‘Grandstand’ and BBC-2’s ‘Sunday Grandstand’ on October 22^nd and 23^rd respectively.

 

The Winmau World Masters Championships have been played annually since 1974 and are the oldest established darts major in the world.

 

Those wishing to enjoy the unique atmosphere of darts at The Spa

Royal Hall can obtain tickets from the box-office or ring

01262-678258.  Admission tickets on Friday are £6, and those who want

to be part of the BBC audience on Saturday and Sunday can do so for just £9

per ticket each day.

 

It’s too good to miss!

 

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NEWSLINE 6TH OCTOBER 2005

 

LAKESIDE WORLD PRO 2006 IS A SELLOUT

 

As usual, tickets for the Worlds Nr.1 Darts event, The Lakeside World Professional Championships have been sold out in a matter of hours. Please do not contact us for assistance regarding tickets, we are unable to help you.

 

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The 2005 event will be played from 9 - 11 December and most of the top  players from the WDF/BOD  will be competing. The draw will be made shortly.

 

Mervyn King	Paul Hanvidge	Tony West
Martin Adams	Vincent van der Voort	Jelle Klaasen
Raymond van Barneveld	Mike Veitch	Albertino Essers
Tony Eccles	Tony O'Shea	Gary Robson
Ted Hankey	Niels de Ruiter	Darryl Fitton
Shaun Greatbatch	Martin Atkins	Paul Hogan
Co Stompe	Brian Sørensen	Dick van Dijk
John Walton	Marko Kantele	Jonny Nijs

  

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WDF MEMBERSHIP INCREASES TO 62 COUNTRIES

 

The recent World Darts Federation meeting held in Perth ,Western Australia saw three new Countries join the Federation. The countries are Brunei, Republic of Korea and Iran.

 

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NEWSLINE 2ND OCTOBER 2005

 

LAKESIDE WORLD PRO INVITATIONS ANNOUNCED

 

Subject to acceptance, the following 24 players will participate in the 2006 World Professional Darts Championships which will be held in January. They will be joined by Andy Fordham, the 2005 Winmau World Master, and 6 qualifiers from the International qualifying tournament which will be held in Bridlington later this month. The draw will be made at a later date.