Andy Jenkins

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Andy Jenkins

Personal information
Nickname	Rocky
Date of birth	March 11, 1971 (1971-03-11) (age 37)
Place of birth	Portsmouth,
Home town	Cosham, Hampshire,
Darts information
Playing darts since	1994
Darts	19g Andy Jenkins Dynamic Series
Walk-on music	Eye of the Tiger by Survivor
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	1994 to 1998
PDC	1998 to present
Current World Ranking	19
BDO Grand Slam Events - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Last 16, 1996
World Masters	QF 1999, 2000
World Darts Trophy	Last 40, 2007
Int. Darts League	Group stage 2007
PDC Majors - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Semi Final 2007
World Matchplay	QF 2001, 2004
World Grand Prix	Semi Final 2002
UK Open	Semi Final 2004
Desert Classic	Last 16, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
Other Televised PDC events - Best Performances
US Open	Last 256, 2007
Other Tournament Wins
Tournament	Years
England Open Swiss Open UK Open Laurel Regional	2000 2001 2002
Infobox last updated on: February 17, 2008.

Andy Jenkins (born 11 March 1971 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is an English darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation. He is nicknamed Rocky.

Jenkins began his career playing in British Darts Organisation competitions and had some success in the Open events. He took the Embassy British Gold Cup Singles in 1994, England Open in 2000, Swiss Open and Japan Open in 2001 and the Isle of Man Open in 2002.

His record at the BDO World Darts Championship was disappointing. He made his debut at the Lakeside Country Club in 1995, and managed only one match win in his seven consecutive appearances. His only victory came in 1996 against Belgian Bruno Raes, as suffered defeats to Andy Fordham (1996, 1998), Sean Palfrey (1995), Ronnie Baxter (1997), Graham Hunt (1999), Colin Monk (2000) and Kevin Painter (2001).

He decided to switch to the Professional Darts Corporation in 2002 where his first round jinx continued - he lost to number nine seed Denis Ovens at the 2002 PDC World Championship. He rose steadily up the world rankings after joining the PDC and was seeded 10th for the 2003 World Championship. Again he went out in the first round to Chris Mason.

When the World Championship field expanded in 2004, the top players joined in at the third round stage - where Jenkins again lost his first match (to Bob Anderson). At the 2005 World Championship, Jenkins finally notched up a victory over Peter Evison who had played dreadfully averaging just 67.34 for the match. Jenkins went out to Kevin Painter in the last 16. A second round defeat came in the 2006 World Championship - Jenkins was seeded eight (his highest ever ranking) but went down to Wayne Jones.

He went into the 2007 World Championships as the number 12 seed, but his dreadful record at World Championships read just 3 wins in 15 matches over 12 years going in, but he finally managed a decent run to justified his consistent high ranking. He put out highly-fancied Adrian Lewis in the last 16 on his way to the semi-final. Raymond van Barneveld was too strong for him and won 6-0. In the 2008 World Championships, Jenkins (the number 16 seed) got through a tough first-round game against Czech qualifier Miloslav Navratil but was then beaten 4-0 by the number 17 seed Alan Tabern in the second round.

Jenkins has had more success away from the World Championships. He reached the semi-finals of the World Grand Prix in 2002 and the semi-finals of the UK Open in 2004 - losing to John Part on both occasions. He also made it to the semi-finals of the revived News of the World Darts Championship in 1997 and the quarter-finals of the Winmau World Masters in 2000.

Andy is currently banned from the tour following misconduct at the PDC's german Open event. He is eligible to return on 15 May this year, with another nine months being suspended in case of future misdemeanors.