Ben Ward (darts player)

Ben Ward
Personal information
Nickname Wardy
Born 10 December 1988
Home town Dorchester, Dorset
England
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 2011–2012
PDC 2013–
Current world ranking 74
BDO majors - best performances
World Masters Last 144: 2012
PDC premier events - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 72: 2014
UK Open Last 96: 2014
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour England 2013, 2013
Southern Counties Open 2011

Ben Ward (born December 10, 1988) is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments.

Career

Ward competed on the PDC Challenge Tour in 2013 and won two events to finish second in the Order of Merit behind Ross Smith.[1] Ward was awarded a place in the preliminary round of the 2014 PDC World Championship, which was reserved for the Challenge Tour winner, as Smith had already qualified for the first round via the Pro Tour Order of Merit.[2] Ward played against Austria's Zoran Lerchbacher in the preliminary round and lost 4–1.[3]

In March, Ward qualified for his first UK Open but was beaten 5–0 by Steve Maish in the second round.[4] He reached the quarter-final stages of a PDC ProTour event for the first time at the seventh Players Championship of the year, where he lost 6–1 against Keegan Brown, who averaged 112.32 during the match.[5] He made his European Tour debut at the Austrian Darts Open and beat Barrie Bates 6–4, before losing 6–5 to Brendan Dolan in the second round.[6]

World Championship results

PDC

References

  1. ↑ "2013 Challenge Tour Order of Merit". PDC. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ladbrokes World Championship Field". PDC. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Ladbrokes World Championship Day Five". PDC. 17 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Coral UK Open - Friday Afternoon". PDC. 7 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Thornton Denies Brown In Wigan". PDC. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "2014 PDC Austrian Darts Open Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

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