Vincent van der Voort

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Vincent van der Voort
Personal information
Nickname	Greased Lightning
Date of birth	December 18, 1975
Place of birth	Purmerend, The Netherlands
Home town	Purmerend, The Netherlands
Darts information
Playing darts since	1985
Darts	21 gram Vincent van der Voort
Walk-on music	Greased Lightnin’ 1978
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2001 - 2007
PDC	2007
Current World Ranking	26
BDO Grand Slam Events - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Quarter Finals, 2005
World Darts Trophy	Second Round, '03,04,'05,'06
Int. Darts League	Second Round 2004
PDC Majors - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Last 32
UK Open	Runner-up 2007
Desert Classic	First Round 2007
Other Televised PDC events - Best Performances
Other Tournament Wins
Tournament	Years
Danish Open	2002, 2006
Infobox last updated on: February 17, 2008.

Vincent van der Voort (born December 18, 1975 in Purmerend) is a darts player from The Netherlands.

His best results are winning the Danish Open in 2002 and 2006 and reaching the quarter finals of the World Professional Darts Championship in Frimley Green in 2005. He is also Dutch Champion 2006.

He suffered a first round exit in the 2007 BDO World Darts Championship to unranked qualifier Davy Richardson. On January 14, 2007. the night of the 2007 BDO World Championship Final, it was announced on Dutch television that van der Voort, along with Jelle Klaasen and Michael van Gerwen would be switching to the Professional Darts Corporation.

Van Der Voort is well known for his spasmodic style and machine-gun speed of play which has gained him a reputation in both the BDO and the PDC for being one of the more erratic throwers in the darting world. This has resulted in him tending to be either right on or way off his intended target.

[edit] PDC career

Van der Voort produced a superb run to reach the final of the 2007 UK Open before losing in the final to fellow countryman Raymond van Barneveld. The runner-up prize of £15,000 helped him climb up the world rankings having started placed 211 in the PDC and has now made it into the top 50. He qualified for the 2007 Las Vegas Desert Classic but lost in the First Round to Peter Manley. Vincent recently knocked Colin Osbourne out of the 2008 UK Open.