Kevin Kenny

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Kevin Kenny

Personal information
Date of birth	1961
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Home town	Liverpool, England
BDO	1982 to 1994
BDO Grand Slam Events - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Semi Final 1991, 1992
World Masters	Quarter Final 1993
Other Tournament Wins
Tournament	Years
Welsh Open	1990
Infobox last updated on: April 9, 2008.

Kevin Kenny (born 1961) is a former professional darts player who played for England and Merseyside, and was also a two time semi-finalist at the BDO World Darts Championships and a one time semi-finalist at the News of the World darts championships in 1983. Kevin also won the 1990 Welsh Open

Kevin is fondly remembered for his quarter-final match against Jocky Wilson in the 1991 BDO World Darts Championship. Jocky was a former World Champion, winning it in 1982 and 1989, and this was only Kevin's second appearance at the Lakeside. However, the match went to 3 sets all, 5 legs all, with Kevin winning the deciding leg. He also hit a 170 finish in that final set, to achieve the highest checkout of the tournament.

Kevin also could have played for Scotland as his mother was born there, and with the home internationals only days away, his mind was on Scotland until he got the call from the English squad.

After the big split in darts when the PDC was formed, Kevin stayed with the BDO and went to Las Vegas to represent England in the WDF World Cup in 1993. At the time, he was a full international anyway, but it was doubtful whether he would have taken his place in the four-man team (home internationals had a team of 12, whereas the world cup was squads of 4). Kevin represented England 12 times, winning 11 of those matches. He retired from competitive darts in 1995 aged just 34, the age when most players are just reaching their peak.

Other notable achievements was twice being on the winning team in the Champions Cup, a darts event which yearly finds the best pub darts team in the land. The fact that he and teams from Liverpool won it twice was quite special due to the size of darts in the city at the time, compared to places with more darting pedigree like Lancashire, Yorkshire and London. And secondly winning the county men's individual averages twice, a feat which at the time had only been equalled by five-time World Champion Eric Bristow (who became great friends with Kevin and also represented Merseyside with him as well).