2009 Players Championship Finals

coral.co.uk Players Championship
Tournament information
Dates 30 January – 1 February 2009
Venue Circus Tavern
Location Purfleet
Country England
Organisation(s) PDC
Format Legs
Final – best of 31
Prize fund £200,000
Winners share £50,000
High checkout 167
Round 2
James Wade
vs Raymond van Barneveld
Ronnie Baxter
vs Mervyn King
Champion(s)
Phil Taylor

The 2009 Players Championship Finals (also known as the 2009 coral.co.uk Players Championship for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the inaugural edition of the PDC tournament, the Players Championship Finals, which saw the top 32 players from the 2008 PDC Players Championship Order of Merit taking part. The tournament took place between January 30 and February 1, 2009 and was held at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet – the former venue of the PDC World Darts Championship.[2]

Contents

Format

First round - best of eleven legs
Second round - best of eleven legs
Quarter-finals - best of seventeen legs
Semi-finals - best of twenty-five legs
Final - best of thirty-one legs

Qualification

The top 32 players from the PDC Players Championship Order of Merit after the last Players Championship of 2008 qualified for the event.

  1. Phil Taylor
  2. James Wade
  3. Alan Tabern
  4. Mervyn King
  5. Ronnie Baxter
  6. Dennis Priestley
  7. Colin Osborne
  8. Colin Lloyd
  9. Andy Hamilton
  10. Raymond van Barneveld
  11. Denis Ovens
  12. Terry Jenkins
  13. Mark Walsh
  14. Robert Thornton
  15. Kevin Painter
  16. Vincent van der Voort
  1. Chris Mason
  2. Alex Roy
  3. Mark Dudbridge
  4. Wayne Mardle
  5. Wayne Jones
  6. John Part
  7. Andy Jenkins
  8. Peter Manley
  9. Jamie Caven
  10. Andy Smith
  11. Steve Maish
  12. Tony Eccles
  13. Felix McBrearty
  14. Adrian Lewis
  15. Steve Beaton
  16. Michael van Gerwen

Draw

  First Round (best of 11)
January 30		 Second Round (best of 11)
January 31		 Quarter-Finals (best of 17)
January 31		 Semi-Finals (best of 25)
February 1		 Final (best of 31)
February 1
                                               
1   Phil Taylor 108.49 6  
32   Michael van Gerwen 92.10 3  
  1   Phil Taylor 108.63 6  
  16   Vincent van der Voort 98.11 3  
16   Vincent van der Voort 80.29 6
17   Chris Mason 76.51 2  
  1   Phil Taylor 92.65 9  
  8   Colin Lloyd 83.83 0  
8   Colin Lloyd 95.21 6  
25   Jamie Caven 81.23 1  
  8   Colin Lloyd 100.51 6
  9   Andy Hamilton 91.65 2  
9   Andy Hamilton 90.00 6
24   Peter Manley 88.25 2  
  1   Phil Taylor 101.58 13  
  5   Ronnie Baxter 92.68 2  
5   Ronnie Baxter 90.82 6  
28   Tony Eccles 93.16 4  
  5   Ronnie Baxter 92.30 6
  21   Wayne Jones 93.75 4  
12   Terry Jenkins 101.84 2
21   Wayne Jones 99.08 6  
  5   Ronnie Baxter 94.87 9
  4   Mervyn King 95.59 5  
4   Mervyn King 93.79 6  
29   Felix McBrearty 81.69 2  
  4   Mervyn King 96.25 6
  20   Wayne Mardle 95.92 4  
13   Mark Walsh 94.06 4
20   Wayne Mardle 97.36 6  
1   Phil Taylor 98.04 16
14   Robert Thornton 88.52 9
2   James Wade 97.05 6  
31   Steve Beaton 83.34 2  
  2   James Wade 93.43 6  
  15   Kevin Painter 86.00 5  
15   Kevin Painter 91.98 6
18   Alex Roy 87.51 5  
  2   James Wade 97.58 9  
  10   Raymond van Barneveld 100.07 8  
7   Colin Osborne 79.74 1  
26   Andy Smith 99.03 6  
  26   Andy Smith 89.07 0
  10   Raymond van Barneveld 99.10 6  
10   Raymond van Barneveld 99.77 6
23   Andy Jenkins 90.75 4  
  2   James Wade 93.86 10
  14   Robert Thornton 95.40 13  
6   Dennis Priestley 87.46 6  
27   Steve Maish 81.98 3  
  6   Dennis Priestley 91.42 6
  22   John Part 93.02 5  
11   Denis Ovens 84.80 3
22   John Part 90.19 6  
  6   Dennis Priestley 90.69 5
  14   Robert Thornton 94.33 9  
3   Alan Tabern 97.02 6  
30   Adrian Lewis 86.13 3  
  3   Alan Tabern 97.30 2
  14   Robert Thornton 96.05 6  
14   Robert Thornton 84.61 6
19   Mark Dudbridge 83.97 5  

Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)

Statistics

Player Played Legs Won Legs Lost 100+ 140+ 180s High Checkout 3-dart Average
Terry Jenkins 1 2 6 16 7 1 40 101.84
Phil Taylor 5 50 17 84 65 11 161 100.65
Raymond van Barneveld 3 20 13 41 43 4 96 99.79
Alan Tabern 2 8 9 26 15 4 121 97.15
Wayne Mardle 2 10 10 31 12 6 119 96.65
Wayne Jones 2 10 8 28 12 5 127 96.09
Mervyn King 3 17 15 37 32 7 118 95.31
James Wade 4 31 28 76 49 16 167 95.24
Andy Smith 2 6 7 16 15 3 161 94.54
Mark Walsh 1 4 6 17 3 2 66 94.06
Tony Eccles 1 4 6 11 9 2 56 93.16
Ronnie Baxter 4 23 26 54 31 6 167 92.82
Colin Lloyd 3 12 12 25 19 5 72 92.49
Michael van Gerwen 1 3 6 13 5 1 60 92.10
John Part 2 11 9 26 9 5 101 91.73
Robert Thornton 5 43 38 99 58 20 150 91.62
Andy Hamilton 2 8 8 23 11 1 44 90.78
Andy Jenkins 1 4 6 15 5 0 84 90.75
Dennis Priestley 3 17 17 48 24 6 156 90.03
Kevin Painter 2 11 11 28 17 3 105 89.02
Peter Manley 1 2 6 13 7 0 101 88.25
Vincent van der Voort 2 9 8 17 13 4 161 88.22
Alex Roy 1 5 6 15 6 2 114 87.51
Adrian Lewis 1 3 6 6 7 1 121 86.13
Denis Ovens 1 3 6 13 4 3 78 84.80
Mark Dudbridge 1 5 6 12 9 3 52 83.97
Steve Beaton 1 2 6 8 2 2 106 83.34
Steve Maish 1 3 6 13 6 0 76 81.98
Felix McBrearty 1 2 6 8 4 0 40 81.69
Jamie Caven 1 1 6 8 2 0 78 81.23
Colin Osborne 1 1 6 6 3 1 92 79.74
Chris Mason 1 2 6 5 4 2 56 76.51

Prize money

The 2009 Players Championship Finals featured a prize fund of £200,000.

Winner: £50,000
Runner-Up: £25,000
Semi-Finals: £12,500
Quarter Finals: £8,500
Second Round losers: £4,000
First Round losers: £2,000
High checkout: £2,000 (£1,000 to each winner)

Television Coverage

ITV4 screened live coverage of the tournament, becoming ITV's third televised tournament after the Grand Slam of Darts and the European Championship.[3] Also, there was nightly highlights shown on ITV1. Again, Matt Smith presented the coverage, with analysis from Chris Mason (once he had lost to van der Voort) and Alan Warriner-Little, commentary from Mason, Stuart Pyke, John Rawling and Warriner-Little, and reports from Ned Boulting.

References

  1. ^ "coral.co.uk Players Championship Schedule". planetdarts.tv. 2009-01-16. http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/NewsdeskDetail/0,,10180~1522991,00.html. Retrieved 2009-01-16. 
  2. ^ "PDC return to Circus Tavern". planetdarts.tv. unknown. http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/LatestDetail/0,,10180~1410774,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-19. 
  3. ^ "ITV4 To Screen Players Championship Finals". planetdarts.tv. 2008-11-28. http://www.planetdarts.tv/page/LatestDetail/0,,10180~1469303,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-28. 
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