Mark Webster (darts player)
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Mark Webster is a left-handed Welsh darts player who lives in Denbigh
. Known as Webby, he plays in Professional Darts Corporation
events, having previously won the 2008 BDO World Championship
. Mark became a full time professional in 2009, having previously been a fully qualified Gas registered Plumber]. He is sponsored by Winmau Dartboard company and underfloor heating and plumbing specialist Uponor.
s in his native North Wales
. He started playing for the local "Golden Lion" team like both of his parents, and still plays regularly for his pub team.
He first came to prominence in 2006, winning the 2006 WDF
Europe Cup, and making the semi-finals of the 2006 Winmau World Masters
. In other BDO/WDF tournaments during 2006 he won the Northern Ireland Open and reached the semi-finals of the Welsh Open. However, he underperformed in the subsequent 2007 World Championship, losing on his debut to Tony Eccles
3–0 in the first round.
In May 2007, he beat Phil Taylor in the group stages on his way to the final of the International Darts League
– however he lost to 9–13 to Gary Anderson
. However, he added to his growing collection of titles by winning the World Cup Singles
in October 2007.
Despite his lack of major television tournament wins, Webster entered the 2008 BDO World Championship
as the number one seed due to his success in open events. This time around, Webster justified his status as joint-favourite for the title (alongside Anderson), as he beat Ian Jones in the first round, popular qualifier Glenn Moody
in the last 16 and ninth seed Darryl Fitton
in the quarter-finals. He played defending champion Martin Adams
in the semi-finals, beating him 6–4 and earning a place in the final. He then beat Simon Whitlock
7–5 in the final on 13 January 2008, to become the third Welshman to win the World Championship of either organisation, after Leighton Rees
and Richie Burnett
.
Webster did not play in a lot of tournaments in 2008, instead choosing to remain in college in order to earn his plumbing degree. He did though retain the WDF Europe Cup, beating Northern Ireland
's Daryl Gurney
in the final. Webster also had a great run into the quarter finals of the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts
. After surprisingly losing his opening group game to Colin McGarry
, he went on to whitewash Michael van Gerwen
5–0 and despite losing to Mervyn King, Webster went through to the knockout stages on leg difference after McGarry failed to beat van Gerwen. Webster then demolished PDC World Champion John Part
10-2 – in a battle of the incumbent world champions – to reach the quarter finals where he lost again to King. Webster then suffered a last 16 exit in the 2008 World Masters, losing to Ross Montgomery
and then went out in the group stages of the Zuiderduin Masters. Having beaten Martin Atkins
, he lost to wildcard entrant Henny van der Ster who claimed the quarter final spot ahead of Webster and went on to reach the semi finals.
Webster entered the 2009 BDO World Championship
as the number two seed. He defeated Dutchman Willy van de Wiel
3–0 in the first round but his title reign came to an end in the second round when he was beaten 4–0 by 2001 Lakeside Champion John Walton
.
at the end of February.
In his PDC debut he did not manage to earn any prize money—losing 6–1 to Ronnie Baxter
in the opening round. The following day however, Webster got through to the second round of the Sunday event in Gladbeck, earning his first prize money as a PDC player.
Having started from scratch in the PDC rankings, Webster had to build up ranking points by entering the PDC Pro Tour
events. His best result came at the UK Open Scottish Regional Qualifier in March when he reached the semi-final. He also managed two quarter final appearances in Players Championship Events in the East Midlands in April and Atlanta in August. By October 18 he had played in 31 Pro Tour events. His PDC Prize Money, boosted by a run to the last 16 of the UK Open had totalled £10,800 and his ranking had improved to 71.
In his debut at the PDC World Championship in 2010, Webster defeated established players including Mark Walsh, Peter Manley
and Co Stompe
to reach the semi-final, where he was outplayed by Taylor. Webster did, however, earn the consolation of third place via a playoff match with van Barneveld, earning an extra £20,000 in the process and entering the top 32 in the PDC rankings for the first time.
He began 2010 poorly with repeated early exits in Floor events but found form by a few quarter final appearances and by reaching consecutive semi finals in a Players Championship and UK Open Qualifier 8 in Wigan during May. This cemented his qualification for the 2010 UK Open Darts
. However he was knocked out in his first match against Tony Eccles
.
After the UK Open his poor floor form returned in which he failed to progress past the last 32 in any event until the 2010 World Matchplay Darts
in which he knocked out seventh seed Adrian Lewis
11-9 in the first round but was beaten 13-9 by Co Stompe
This earned him £7,500 towards the order of merit.
His next major event was the 2010 Championship League Darts
which he qualified for due to his order of merit ranking of 29 which put him into the last group - 8. He qualified from the group stage in fourth with wins over Jelle Klaasen
, Michael van Gerwen
, Dennis Priestley
and Denis Ovens
this meant that he played group winner Co Stompe
in the semi final in which he prevailed 6-3 however he was beaten 6-2 by Wayne Jones
in the group final.
After this competition his floor event form sharply rose with a Victory over Richie Burnett
in a Players Championship Final in Germany earning him his first ever PDC tournament victory and £6,000. This was followed soon later with a Semi final and final appearance in a weekend in Barnsley further pushing him up the order of merit.
Due to his 3rd place finish at the previous World Championship Webster qualified for the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts
. Despite losing 5-2 to Wayne Jones
in his first game a 5-3 win over Mark Hylton (darts player)
left him with a chance to qualify however even though he beat Gary Anderson
5-3 it was not enough as he missed multiple doubles to win the match with the required scoreline of 5-1 to qualify.
Webster was the Welsh captain for the inaugural 2010 PDC World Cup of Darts
in which Barrie Bates
was his partner. After beating New Zealand in their first game 6-4 Webster and Bates became the surprise package of the tournament topping their group in the next stage which included wins over the Scottish pairing of Gary Anderson
and Robert Thornton
and the Spanish team of Carlos Rodriguez
and Antonio Alcinas
who had knocked out the England team consisting of world number one and two Phil Taylor and James Wade
. This meant that they played the Australian team of Simon Whitlock
and Paul Nicholson
in the Semi Finals. A 6-5 win for Webster over Nicholson in the opening match proved crucial as it kept them in the match after the other 3 matches were won by Australia taking the match the doubles match. They won this 6-4 which meant that the match would go to a sudden death leg to decide who went to the final. Despite Australia winning the throw for the bull and opening with a 180 from Whitlock consecutive 140's from Wales got them back in the match. Bates then held his nerve to take out a 116 to take them to the final which also went to the doubles match after Webster defeated Co Stompe
and Raymond Van Barneveld
back to back with an 100+ average in each match. However they lost the doubles 8-5 to finish runners up in the tournament.
He continued this good form into the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship
in which he knocked out Steve Maish
, number 8 seed Ronnie Baxter
and Mark Hylton (darts player)
in the early rounds losing only 1 set between them. On 1 January 2011 In the Quarter Final he knocked out 15 time world champion Phil Taylor in the PDC world championship. by 5 sets to 2 completing one of his greatest victories during his career and meant he reached the semi final for the second year running. He lost 6-4 to Adrian Lewis
in the semi-finals, continuing the trend of players beating Taylor but going on to lose their next match when the event is televised. This earned him £50,000 and Moved him into the top 16 of the PDC rankings for the first time at number 13. He will also be competing in this years PDC Premier League Darts 2011.
His performances in Floor events during the year mean that he will make his first appearance in the 2011 Players Championship Finals playing Alan Tabern
as the number 13 seed. In the 2011 premier league of darts he defeated Adrian Lewis with an average of 110.19 - the second highest ever achieved in the Premier league only betterd by Phil Taylor. He went on to have a great loss in form, receiving 8-1 batterings at the hands of James Wade
and Phill Taylor keeping him last in the leaderboard.
Denbigh
Denbigh is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales. Before 1888, it was the county town of Denbighshire. Denbigh lies 8 miles to the north west of Ruthin and to the south of St Asaph. It is about 13 miles from the seaside resort of Rhyl. The town grew around the glove-making industry...
. Known as Webby, he plays in Professional Darts Corporation
Professional Darts Corporation
The Professional Darts Corporation is a professional darts organization, established in the United Kingdom during 1992, when a group of leading professional players split from the British Darts Organisation to form what was initially called the World Darts Council...
events, having previously won the 2008 BDO World Championship
2008 BDO World Darts Championship
*Michael Rosenauer was originally drawn to face Mark Webster, but chose to withdraw from the event to compete in the 2008 PDC World Championship. Jones had won the standby play-off at Bridlington prior to the World Masters-Statistics:- Women's Championship :...
. Mark became a full time professional in 2009, having previously been a fully qualified Gas registered Plumber]. He is sponsored by Winmau Dartboard company and underfloor heating and plumbing specialist Uponor.
Darts career
Webster made progress once he was aged 18 and could play in Local Darts Leagues in public housePublic house
A public house, informally known as a pub, is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. There are approximately 53,500 public houses in the United Kingdom. This number has been declining every year, so that nearly half of the smaller...
s in his native North Wales
North Wales
North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...
. He started playing for the local "Golden Lion" team like both of his parents, and still plays regularly for his pub team.
He first came to prominence in 2006, winning the 2006 WDF
World Darts Federation
The World Darts Federation Is a sport governing body and tournament organiser for the game of darts. It was formed in 1976, by representatives of fifteen nations. Membership is open to the official National organizing body for Darts in all nations...
Europe Cup, and making the semi-finals of the 2006 Winmau World Masters
Winmau World Masters
The Winmau World Masters is one of the longest running and most prestigious professional darts tournaments, which began in 1974 - even before the current World Professional Championship...
. In other BDO/WDF tournaments during 2006 he won the Northern Ireland Open and reached the semi-finals of the Welsh Open. However, he underperformed in the subsequent 2007 World Championship, losing on his debut to Tony Eccles
Tony Eccles
Tony Eccles is a Winmau sponsored darts player currently residing in Hartlepool. He uses the nickname The Viper.-BDO career:...
3–0 in the first round.
In May 2007, he beat Phil Taylor in the group stages on his way to the final of the International Darts League
2007 International Darts League
The 2007 Tropicana International Darts League is a darts tournament held at the Triavium in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The tournament is sponsored by Tropicana - a Dutch-based soft drink manufacturer. Raymond van Barneveld entered the tournament as three-times and defending champion.Darts history was...
– however he lost to 9–13 to Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson (darts player)
Gary Anderson is a Scottish professional darts player from Eyemouth, Scottish Borders, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation, and a former BDO and WDF world number one. His nickname is The Flying Scotsman...
. However, he added to his growing collection of titles by winning the World Cup Singles
WDF World Cup darts
The WDF World Cup is a darts tournament held biennially since 1977. The tournament consists of a team championship, a pairs championship and a singles championship. All events have a men's competition, a women's competition and a youth competition . The next World Cup will be held in 2013, in St...
in October 2007.
Despite his lack of major television tournament wins, Webster entered the 2008 BDO World Championship
2008 BDO World Darts Championship
*Michael Rosenauer was originally drawn to face Mark Webster, but chose to withdraw from the event to compete in the 2008 PDC World Championship. Jones had won the standby play-off at Bridlington prior to the World Masters-Statistics:- Women's Championship :...
as the number one seed due to his success in open events. This time around, Webster justified his status as joint-favourite for the title (alongside Anderson), as he beat Ian Jones in the first round, popular qualifier Glenn Moody
Glenn Moody
Glenn Moody is an English darts player.Glenn had tried to qualify for the Lakeside nine times before finding success in the 2008 BDO World Darts Championship. He has been described as a "geek" by the press but he is received warmly by the crowds...
in the last 16 and ninth seed Darryl Fitton
Darryl Fitton
Darryl Fitton is an English professional darts player currently playing in BDO events. He is nicknamed The Dazzler and comes to the stage dancing to the Madness song "One Step Beyond" wearing sunglasses. It is one of the most popular walk-ons with the audience...
in the quarter-finals. He played defending champion Martin Adams
Martin Adams
Martin Adams is an English international darts player. Nicknamed Wolfie or Mr BDO, he is BDO world ranked number one, three-time and reigning BDO World Champion and three-time World Masters champion...
in the semi-finals, beating him 6–4 and earning a place in the final. He then beat Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, although he did have a spell playing in the rival organisation, the British Darts Organisation. He uses the nickname The Wizard for his matches...
7–5 in the final on 13 January 2008, to become the third Welshman to win the World Championship of either organisation, after Leighton Rees
Leighton Rees
Leighton Thomas Rees was the first ever World Professional Darts Champion.-Early life:Rees was born in the village of Ynysybwl, where he was to spend most of his life...
and Richie Burnett
Richie Burnett
Richie Burnett is a Welsh darts player who was the 1995 Embassy World Darts Champion and currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. His nickname is The Prince of Wales.-BDO career:...
.
Webster did not play in a lot of tournaments in 2008, instead choosing to remain in college in order to earn his plumbing degree. He did though retain the WDF Europe Cup, beating Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
's Daryl Gurney
Daryl Gurney
Daryl Gurney is a Northern Irish darts player who plays in British Darts Organisation events.-Darts career:Gurney reached the quarter finals of the 2008 Scottish Open, beating Andy Boulton and Alan Soutar before losing to Shaun Greatbatch...
in the final. Webster also had a great run into the quarter finals of the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts
2008 Grand Slam of Darts
The 2008 Grand Slam of Darts was the second staging of the darts tournament, the Grand Slam of Darts organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 15–23 November 2008 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall...
. After surprisingly losing his opening group game to Colin McGarry
Colin McGarry
Colin McGarry is a Northern Irish darts player who currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. He has two daughters named Kiera and Chloe....
, he went on to whitewash Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen is a Dutch professional darts player, nicknamed Mighty Mike. He is the youngest player in history to win a major televised tournament in either the BDO or the PDC, winning the 2006 Winmau World Masters at the age of 17...
5–0 and despite losing to Mervyn King, Webster went through to the knockout stages on leg difference after McGarry failed to beat van Gerwen. Webster then demolished PDC World Champion John Part
John Part
John Part is a Canadian professional darts player, who is nicknamed Darth Maple.Part is one of only five players in darts history to be a three time World Champion...
10-2 – in a battle of the incumbent world champions – to reach the quarter finals where he lost again to King. Webster then suffered a last 16 exit in the 2008 World Masters, losing to Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery is a Scottish darts player who plays for the British Darts Organisation. His nickname is The Boss.-Darts career:...
and then went out in the group stages of the Zuiderduin Masters. Having beaten Martin Atkins
Martin Atkins (darts player)
Martin Atkins is an English darts player. His nickname is "The Assassin". His most notable achievement is beating former BDO World Champion Jelle Klaasen to win the Finnish Open on 11 March 2006...
, he lost to wildcard entrant Henny van der Ster who claimed the quarter final spot ahead of Webster and went on to reach the semi finals.
Webster entered the 2009 BDO World Championship
2009 BDO World Darts Championship
The 2009 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 32nd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation. Mark Webster was the defending men's champion having won the title for the first time in last year's final against Simon Whitlock, but he was eliminated convincingly...
as the number two seed. He defeated Dutchman Willy van de Wiel
Willy van de Wiel
Willy van de Wiel is a Dutch darts player who plays in British Darts Organisation events.Willy won the 2008 Norway Open, beating Dave Chisnall, Stephen Bunting and John Henderson before beating Paul Hanvidge in the final...
3–0 in the first round but his title reign came to an end in the second round when he was beaten 4–0 by 2001 Lakeside Champion John Walton
John Walton (darts player)
John Michael Walton is an English darts player who is a former World Champion. He has adopted the nickname The Boy and uses the song Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex as his walk-on theme.-Darts career:...
.
PDC career
With rumours persisting over a potential switch to the PDC, Webster had remained defiant that he would return to Lakeside in 2010. However, it was announced on 5 February 2009 that Webster had joined the PDC, making his debut at the double-header Players Championship events in GladbeckGladbeck
Gladbeck is a city in the district of Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.The name ´Gladbeck´ evolves from Low German, originally spoken in the area around Gladbeck. ´Glad´ means something like gleamy and ´beck´ means about brook. However, the brook Gladbeck flows under the ground...
at the end of February.
In his PDC debut he did not manage to earn any prize money—losing 6–1 to Ronnie Baxter
Ronnie Baxter
Ronnie Baxter is an English darts player. He uses the nickname The Rocket for his matches. Baxter is known for his fast, robotic throwing action...
in the opening round. The following day however, Webster got through to the second round of the Sunday event in Gladbeck, earning his first prize money as a PDC player.
Having started from scratch in the PDC rankings, Webster had to build up ranking points by entering the PDC Pro Tour
PDC Pro Tour
The PDC Pro Tour is a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation . They comprise Professional Dart Players Association Players Championships and UK Open Regional Finals.-Players Championships:...
events. His best result came at the UK Open Scottish Regional Qualifier in March when he reached the semi-final. He also managed two quarter final appearances in Players Championship Events in the East Midlands in April and Atlanta in August. By October 18 he had played in 31 Pro Tour events. His PDC Prize Money, boosted by a run to the last 16 of the UK Open had totalled £10,800 and his ranking had improved to 71.
In his debut at the PDC World Championship in 2010, Webster defeated established players including Mark Walsh, Peter Manley
Peter Manley
Peter David Manley is an English professional darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. He is nicknamed One Dart as he is known for hitting doubles with his first dart...
and Co Stompe
Co Stompé
Jacobus Wilhelm "Co" Stompé , is a Dutch professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. Stompé is nicknamed The Matchstick because of his almost bald head and very thin appearance making him look like a matchstick...
to reach the semi-final, where he was outplayed by Taylor. Webster did, however, earn the consolation of third place via a playoff match with van Barneveld, earning an extra £20,000 in the process and entering the top 32 in the PDC rankings for the first time.
He began 2010 poorly with repeated early exits in Floor events but found form by a few quarter final appearances and by reaching consecutive semi finals in a Players Championship and UK Open Qualifier 8 in Wigan during May. This cemented his qualification for the 2010 UK Open Darts
2010 UK Open Darts
The 2010 Rileys Darts Zones UK Open was the eighth year of the PDC darts tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competed in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion...
. However he was knocked out in his first match against Tony Eccles
Tony Eccles
Tony Eccles is a Winmau sponsored darts player currently residing in Hartlepool. He uses the nickname The Viper.-BDO career:...
.
After the UK Open his poor floor form returned in which he failed to progress past the last 32 in any event until the 2010 World Matchplay Darts
2010 World Matchplay Darts
The 2010 Stan James World Matchplay was the 17th annual staging of the World Matchplay, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place from 17–25 July....
in which he knocked out seventh seed Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis is an English professional darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation who is the reigning PDC World Darts Champion...
11-9 in the first round but was beaten 13-9 by Co Stompe
Co Stompé
Jacobus Wilhelm "Co" Stompé , is a Dutch professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. Stompé is nicknamed The Matchstick because of his almost bald head and very thin appearance making him look like a matchstick...
This earned him £7,500 towards the order of merit.
His next major event was the 2010 Championship League Darts
2010 Championship League Darts
The 2010 Championship League Darts was the third edition of a darts competition — the Championship League Darts. The competition is organized and held by the Professional Darts Corporation, with the 2010 edition having a maximum prize fund of £189,000....
which he qualified for due to his order of merit ranking of 29 which put him into the last group - 8. He qualified from the group stage in fourth with wins over Jelle Klaasen
Jelle Klaasen
Jelle Klaasen is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation and is the youngest darts player to win the World Darts Championship. His nickname is The Matador. He lives in Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands...
, Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen is a Dutch professional darts player, nicknamed Mighty Mike. He is the youngest player in history to win a major televised tournament in either the BDO or the PDC, winning the 2006 Winmau World Masters at the age of 17...
, Dennis Priestley
Dennis Priestley
Dennis Priestley is an English professional darts player. He has won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively...
and Denis Ovens
Denis Ovens
Denis Ovens is an English darts player currently ranked number 29 in the PDC Order of Merit. He is nicknamed The Heat and is now based in Stevenage. Ovens is widely regarded as one of the most consistent players in the circuit, though he has as yet failed to convert his form from the circuit to...
this meant that he played group winner Co Stompe
Co Stompé
Jacobus Wilhelm "Co" Stompé , is a Dutch professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. Stompé is nicknamed The Matchstick because of his almost bald head and very thin appearance making him look like a matchstick...
in the semi final in which he prevailed 6-3 however he was beaten 6-2 by Wayne Jones
Wayne Jones (darts player)
Wayne Alan Jones is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments. He uses the nickname The Wanderer for his matches....
in the group final.
After this competition his floor event form sharply rose with a Victory over Richie Burnett
Richie Burnett
Richie Burnett is a Welsh darts player who was the 1995 Embassy World Darts Champion and currently plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. His nickname is The Prince of Wales.-BDO career:...
in a Players Championship Final in Germany earning him his first ever PDC tournament victory and £6,000. This was followed soon later with a Semi final and final appearance in a weekend in Barnsley further pushing him up the order of merit.
Due to his 3rd place finish at the previous World Championship Webster qualified for the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts
2010 Grand Slam of Darts
The 2010 Grand Slam of Darts was the fourth staging of the darts tournament, the Grand Slam of Darts organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 13–21 November 2010 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Television coverage of the tournament was covered by ITV Sport, with...
. Despite losing 5-2 to Wayne Jones
Wayne Jones (darts player)
Wayne Alan Jones is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments. He uses the nickname The Wanderer for his matches....
in his first game a 5-3 win over Mark Hylton (darts player)
Mark Hylton (darts player)
Mark Hylton is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.Hylton has played darts for over 30 years. He has played super league for many years and earned over 80 caps for Staffordshire....
left him with a chance to qualify however even though he beat Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson (darts player)
Gary Anderson is a Scottish professional darts player from Eyemouth, Scottish Borders, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation, and a former BDO and WDF world number one. His nickname is The Flying Scotsman...
5-3 it was not enough as he missed multiple doubles to win the match with the required scoreline of 5-1 to qualify.
Webster was the Welsh captain for the inaugural 2010 PDC World Cup of Darts
2010 PDC World Cup of Darts
The 2010 PDC World Cup of Darts was the first edition of the PDC World Cup of Darts which took place between December 3 to 5. The tournament was broadcast live on Sky Sports...
in which Barrie Bates
Barrie Bates
Barrie Bates is a darts player currently residing in Bedlinog, Mid-Glamorgan. He plays in the Professional Darts Corporation and is a regular on the circuit. His nickname is "Batesy"....
was his partner. After beating New Zealand in their first game 6-4 Webster and Bates became the surprise package of the tournament topping their group in the next stage which included wins over the Scottish pairing of Gary Anderson
Gary Anderson (darts player)
Gary Anderson is a Scottish professional darts player from Eyemouth, Scottish Borders, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation, and a former BDO and WDF world number one. His nickname is The Flying Scotsman...
and Robert Thornton
Robert Thornton (darts player)
Robert Thornton is a Scottish darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events after his switch from the BDO in May 2008. He won the prestigious Winmau World Masters in November 2007.-BDO career:...
and the Spanish team of Carlos Rodriguez
Carlos Rodriguez (darts player)
Carlos José Rodríguez Sequera is a Spanish professional darts player, playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.-Darts career:...
and Antonio Alcinas
Antonio Alcinas
Antonio Alcinas Estelrich is a Spanish darts player, playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.Alcinas started competing in PDC Europe events in 2010. After reaching the Quarter Finals of a Players Championship in Haarlem in June 2010, he qualified for the European Championship via the PDC...
who had knocked out the England team consisting of world number one and two Phil Taylor and James Wade
James Wade
James Wade is an English professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation . He became the youngest player ever to win a major PDC title at the World Matchplay in July 2007...
. This meant that they played the Australian team of Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, although he did have a spell playing in the rival organisation, the British Darts Organisation. He uses the nickname The Wizard for his matches...
and Paul Nicholson
Paul Nicholson (darts player)
Paul Nicholson is a British born darts player, who holds Australian nationality. He aims to project the image of the 'bad boy of darts'- 2008-2009 :...
in the Semi Finals. A 6-5 win for Webster over Nicholson in the opening match proved crucial as it kept them in the match after the other 3 matches were won by Australia taking the match the doubles match. They won this 6-4 which meant that the match would go to a sudden death leg to decide who went to the final. Despite Australia winning the throw for the bull and opening with a 180 from Whitlock consecutive 140's from Wales got them back in the match. Bates then held his nerve to take out a 116 to take them to the final which also went to the doubles match after Webster defeated Co Stompe
Co Stompé
Jacobus Wilhelm "Co" Stompé , is a Dutch professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. Stompé is nicknamed The Matchstick because of his almost bald head and very thin appearance making him look like a matchstick...
and Raymond Van Barneveld
Raymond van Barneveld
Raymond van Barneveld , nickname Barney is a professional darts player. He is a five time World Darts Champion, and two time UK Open Champion. From January to June 2008, he was the PDC world number one ranked player...
back to back with an 100+ average in each match. However they lost the doubles 8-5 to finish runners up in the tournament.
He continued this good form into the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship
2011 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2011 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 18th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation.Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having won the 2010 tournament...
in which he knocked out Steve Maish
Steve Maish
Steve Maish is a darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He uses the nickname Mr Magic for his matches....
, number 8 seed Ronnie Baxter
Ronnie Baxter
Ronnie Baxter is an English darts player. He uses the nickname The Rocket for his matches. Baxter is known for his fast, robotic throwing action...
and Mark Hylton (darts player)
Mark Hylton (darts player)
Mark Hylton is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.Hylton has played darts for over 30 years. He has played super league for many years and earned over 80 caps for Staffordshire....
in the early rounds losing only 1 set between them. On 1 January 2011 In the Quarter Final he knocked out 15 time world champion Phil Taylor in the PDC world championship. by 5 sets to 2 completing one of his greatest victories during his career and meant he reached the semi final for the second year running. He lost 6-4 to Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis is an English professional darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation who is the reigning PDC World Darts Champion...
in the semi-finals, continuing the trend of players beating Taylor but going on to lose their next match when the event is televised. This earned him £50,000 and Moved him into the top 16 of the PDC rankings for the first time at number 13. He will also be competing in this years PDC Premier League Darts 2011.
His performances in Floor events during the year mean that he will make his first appearance in the 2011 Players Championship Finals playing Alan Tabern
Alan Tabern
Alan Tabern is an English darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation, where he is also known as "The Saint" and "Tabby"...
as the number 13 seed. In the 2011 premier league of darts he defeated Adrian Lewis with an average of 110.19 - the second highest ever achieved in the Premier league only betterd by Phil Taylor. He went on to have a great loss in form, receiving 8-1 batterings at the hands of James Wade
James Wade
James Wade is an English professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation . He became the youngest player ever to win a major PDC title at the World Matchplay in July 2007...
and Phill Taylor keeping him last in the leaderboard.
BDO
- 2007: 1st round (lost to Tony EcclesTony EcclesTony Eccles is a Winmau sponsored darts player currently residing in Hartlepool. He uses the nickname The Viper.-BDO career:...
0–3) - 2008: Champion (beat Simon WhitlockSimon WhitlockSimon Whitlock is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, although he did have a spell playing in the rival organisation, the British Darts Organisation. He uses the nickname The Wizard for his matches...
7–5) - 2009: 2nd round (lost to John WaltonJohn Walton (darts player)John Michael Walton is an English darts player who is a former World Champion. He has adopted the nickname The Boy and uses the song Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex as his walk-on theme.-Darts career:...
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PDC
- 2010: 3rd Place (beat Raymond van BarneveldRaymond van BarneveldRaymond van Barneveld , nickname Barney is a professional darts player. He is a five time World Darts Champion, and two time UK Open Champion. From January to June 2008, he was the PDC world number one ranked player...
10-8 (legs) - 2011: Semi-finalist lost to Adrian LewisAdrian LewisAdrian Lewis is an English professional darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation who is the reigning PDC World Darts Champion...
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