2009 Players Championship Finals

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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 James Wade 167 Ronnie Baxter
Champion(s)
Phil Taylor
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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]

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

Prize money

The 2009 Players Championship Finals featured a prize fund of £200,000.^[3]

Qualification

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

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

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.^[4] 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