2010 BDO World Darts Championship

Lakeside World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates 210 January 2010
Venue Lakeside Country Club
Location Frimley Green, Surrey
Country England, United Kingdom
Organisation(s) BDO
Format Sets
Finals:
best of 13 (men's)
best of 3 (women's)
Prize fund £325,000
Winners share £100,000 (men's)
£6,000 (women's)
High checkout 170 England Martin Adams
Final
vs England Dave Chisnall
Champion(s)
England Martin Adams
England Trina Gulliver
«2009 2011»

The 2010 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 33rd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 25th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Ted Hankey was the defending men's champion having won the title for the second time in the previous year's final against Tony O'Shea. The defending women's champion was Francis Hoenselaar, having beaten seven-time champion Trina Gulliver in the 2009 final.

Players from 32 countries around the globe competed to reach the BBC televised finals, which ran from 2–10 January at Frimley Green. The men's top seed was O'Shea. Julie Gore was top women's seed, ahead of Gulliver. There were 11 debutants at the world championships. Also for the first time two brothers, Tony and Steve West, were playing in the same world championship.

Martin Adams was the winner of the men's championship beating Dave Chisnall 7-5 in the final. Trina Gulliver won the Women's Championship for the eighth time beating Rhian Edwards 2-0.

Format and qualifiers

Men's

The televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2008/09 season were seeded for the tournament.[1] An unusually high total of 11 of the seeded players were knocked out in the first round.

The 32 players who qualified for invitation into the first round proper of the men's singles were:

Top 16
  1. England Tony O'Shea
  2. England Scott Waites
  3. England Martin Adams
  4. England Darryl Fitton
  5. England Ted Hankey
  6. Scotland Ross Montgomery
  7. England Dave Prins
  8. England Alan Norris
  9. Netherlands Joey ten Berge
  10. England Martin Atkins
  11. England Steve West
  12. England John Walton
  13. Scotland Mark Barilli
  14. England Scott Mitchell
  15. Scotland John Henderson
  16. England Ian White
Other qualifiers
  1. Netherlands Willy van de Wiel
  2. England Stephen Bunting
  3. England Brian Woods
  4. Netherlands Mareno Michels
  5. Norway Robert Wagner
  6. Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney
  7. England Gary Robson
  8. Wales Martin Phillips
  9. Scotland Paul Hanvidge
  10. England Dave Chisnall
  11. England Garry Thompson
  12. Republic of Ireland Martin McCloskey
  13. England Robbie Green
  14. England Tony West
  15. England Paul Carter
  16. Australia Anthony Fleet

Women's

The televised stages featured 8 players. The top 4 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2008/09 season were seeded for the tournament.[2]

The eight women qualified for invitation were:

Top 4
  1. Wales Julie Gore
  2. England Trina Gulliver
  3. Russia Irina Armstrong
  4. England Karen Lawman
Other qualifiers
  1. Netherlands Francis Hoenselaar
  2. England Linda Ithurralde
  3. England Deta Hedman
  4. Wales Rhian Edwards

Prize money

The 2010 World Championship had a prize fund of £325,000 - a rise of £5,000 on the previous year.[3]

Men's Champion: £100,000 (up from £95,000)
Runner-up: £30,000
Semi-Finalists (2): £11,000
Quarter-Finalists (4): £6,000
Second Round (8): £4,250
First Round (16): £3,000
Women's Champion: £6,000
Runner-up: £2,000
Semi-Finalists (2): £1,000
Quarter-Finalists (4): £500
Nine dart finish: £52,000
Highest checkout: £3,000

Draw

Men's

First Round (best of 5 sets) Second round (best of 7) Quarter-Finals (best of 9) Semi-Finals (best of 11) Final (best of 13)
               
1 England Tony O'Shea (86.58) 3
England Robbie Green (86.07) 2
1 England Tony O'Shea (94.53) 4
England Stephen Bunting (93.96) 0
16 England Ian White (83.88) 0
England Stephen Bunting (91.62) 3
1 England Tony O'Shea (88.80) 5
Norway Robert Wagner (83.91) 1
8 England Alan Norris (90.24) 2
Norway Robert Wagner (86.25) 3
Norway Robert Wagner (89.97) 4
England Brian Woods (88.47) 3
9 Netherlands Joey ten Berge (89.52) 2
England Brian Woods (95.73) 3
1 England Tony O'Shea (88.29) 3
England Dave Chisnall (97.32) 6
5 England Ted Hankey (92.52) 3
England Gary Robson (83.22) 0
5 England Ted Hankey (86.94) 4
Netherlands Willy van de Wiel (82.35) 1
12 England John Walton (82.35) 2
Netherlands Willy van de Wiel (78.87) 3
5 England Ted Hankey (88.36) 4
England Dave Chisnall (90.42) 5
4 England Darryl Fitton (86.55) 1
England Dave Chisnall (90.21) 3
England Dave Chisnall (96.84) 4
England Tony West (86.04) 2
13 Scotland Mark Barilli (81.15) 1
England Tony West (79.89) 3
England Dave Chisnall (93.42) 5
3 England Martin Adams (95.01) 7
2 England Scott Waites (86.79) 3
Scotland Paul Hanvidge (70.38) 0
2 England Scott Waites (91.44) 4
15 Scotland John Henderson (89.01) 1
15 Scotland John Henderson (84.99) 3
Netherlands Mareno Michels (78.78) 1
2 England Scott Waites (91.62) 4
Wales Martin Phillips (92.13) 5
7 England Dave Prins (80.22) 0
Wales Martin Phillips (91.41) 3
Wales Martin Phillips (87.60) 4
England Paul Carter (83.10) 2
10 England Martin Atkins (87.18) 1
England Paul Carter (83.61) 3
Wales Martin Phillips (92.94) 4
3 England Martin Adams (97.38) 6
6 Scotland Ross Montgomery (76.61) 2
England Garry Thompson (75.51) 3
England Garry Thompson (85.80) 4
Republic of Ireland Martin McCloskey (83.40) 1
11 England Steve West (83.79) 2
Republic of Ireland Martin McCloskey (79.74) 3
England Garry Thompson (87.12) 2
3 England Martin Adams (95.79) 5
3 England Martin Adams (86.16) 3
Australia Anthony Fleet (65.34) 0
3 England Martin Adams (94.35) 4
Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney (85.41) 1
14 England Scott Mitchell (85.83) 2
Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney (91.11) 3

Women's

Quarter-finals
2–3 January
Semi-finals
7 January
Final
8 January
         
4 England Karen Lawman 75.60 2
England Linda Ithurralde 73.86 0
4 England Karen Lawman 73.56 0
Wales Rhian Edwards 73.92 2
1 Wales Julie Gore 61.05 0
Wales Rhian Edwards 68.64 2
Wales Rhian Edwards 68.25 0
2 England Trina Gulliver 80.52 2
3 Russia Irina Armstrong 67.20 0
England Deta Hedman 71.49 2
England Deta Hedman 71.79 0
2 England Trina Gulliver 79.68 2
2 England Trina Gulliver 80.37 2
Netherlands Francis Hoenselaar 76.20 0

Television coverage

The tournament has been broadcast by BBC Sport every year since its inception. Having fronted their coverage since 2001, Ray Stubbs did not host their broadcasts in 2010 following his decision to join ESPN the previous summer. He was replaced by BBC Radio 5 Live and Football on Five presenter Colin Murray. Rob Walker, the Master of Ceremonies at BBC's snooker events and host of the BBC's 2009 Winmau World Masters coverage presented the late night highlights and Darts Extra through the night on BBC2. Walker was also the roaming reporter during BBC2's live coverage. Bobby George once again was the pundit.

The commentary team was David Croft, Tony Green and the tournament's number 1 seed Tony O'Shea. Again, every dart was shown live, via the BBC's interactive coverage on its Red Button service - with the semi-finals and final both broadcast live on BBC1/BBC2 on the last weekend.

In Germany the tournament was broadcast by Eurosport. There was no coverage on SBS in the Netherlands, for the first time in several years as they chose to follow the majority of their players who featured in the PDC World Championship instead.

References

  1. "WDF men's rankings". British Darts Organisation. Archived from the original on 25 November 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
  2. "WDF women's rankings". British Darts Organisation. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  3. £100K top prize for men's champion Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship, 27 October 2009

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