Wes Newton
Encyclopedia
Wesley "Wes" Newton is an English darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation
tournaments.
. He reached the semi-finals of the 2005 Las Vegas Desert Classic
where he was beaten by Phil Taylor. He suffered a broken collarbone shortly after the event but returned for the 2005 World Grand Prix
, losing in the second round to Colin Lloyd
.
His second attempt in the World Championship in 2006 ended in a second round defeat to Kevin Painter
, and another second round defeat came in the 2007 World Championships to Colin Osborne
. This was followed by a first round exit in the 2008 World Championship, losing to qualifier Jamie Caven
.
Newton won the ITV Wildcard Qualifier for the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts
, beating Colin McGarry
in the final. He was drawn into Group F with Terry Jenkins
, Colin Lloyd and American
Darin Young
where Newton defeated Lloyd and Young in his first two games to stand a great chance of qualifying for the knockout stages. However, Newton would go on to lose to Jenkins 5-0 and Young beat Lloyd to pip him to second place and knock Newton out.
Newton entered the 2009 PDC World Championship
as the number 31 seed and defeated Denmark
's Per Laursen
in the first round, before falling to Raymond van Barneveld
in round two. After the tournament, he fell outside the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit
, eventually dropping as low as 36th. Newton won the WDF-ranked Las Vegas Open on 25 January 2009.
Newton made the second round of the 2010 World Championship after defeating Jarkko Komula
in the first round 3-0. However, he came up against an in-form Adrian Lewis
in the second round, falling to a 4-2 defeat.
On the weekend of 7/8 November 2010, Newton won two Players Championship tournaments in the same weekend, only the fifth player to do so. This followed qualifying for the Grand Slam of Darts on the evening of 6 November. As a result of his double win, Newton broke into the top 16 in the Order of Merit for the first time in his career. At the Grand Slam, he was knocked out in the group stage after defeating Michael van Gerwen
and losing to Ted Hankey
and Phil Taylor.
Newton continued his progress at the 2011 World Championship, defeating Darin Young, Brendan Dolan
and Mensur Suljovic
on the way to the quarter-finals. He then led Terry Jenkins 4-3 in his quarter-final, before Jenkins fought back to win 5-4. In March 2011, Newton moved into the top eight of the PDC Order of Merit, following a win in a Pro Tour event in Crawley.
At the 2011 UK Open, Newton progressed to his first televised final. On the way to the final, he beat John Henderson
, Michael van Gerwen, Raymond van Barneveld
, Dave Chisnall
and Denis Ovens
, but succumbed to James Wade losing 11-8. As a result of his run to the final, he qualified for the 2011 Grand Slam of Darts
by right. After the UK Open, it was announced that Newton had appointed three-time world finalist Peter Manley
as his manager.
At the 2011 World Matchplay, Newton beat Andy Smith
in the first round 10-2, making it past the first round for the first time in the tournament. Newton then beat Justin Pipe
13-8 in the second round, before losing 5-16 to Phil Taylor in the quarter-finals.
, and uses the nickname The Warrior for his matches, having used the nickname Av' It until late 2010. His younger brother Dale Newton is a former professional player, and his dad Colin is a high-level amateur player. With his close family all playing darts, he actually attributes his career to his cousin Leon, exclaiming "he used to visit every summer when we were little and teach me how to play, stand and throw correctly even though he was 5 years younger than me. I owe it all to him"
Newton and his partner Stacey have a son, Fraser, who was born in June 2011.
Newton supports Liverpool F.C.
and Fleetwood Town F.C.
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...
tournaments.
Darts career
He made his PDC debut at the 2004 UK Open and his World Championship debut came in 2005 when he lost to Gerry ConveryGerry Convery
Gerry Convery is a Canadian darts player.Convery made his televised debut in the 2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, beating Darren Webster in the first round before losing in the second round to Dennis Smith...
. He reached the semi-finals of the 2005 Las Vegas Desert Classic
2005 Las Vegas Desert Classic
-1st Round: best of 3 sets best of 5 legs * John Part - Darren Webster 2 - 0* Alan Warriner - Erik Clarys 0 - 2* George Walls - Wes Newton 0 - 2* Kevin Painter - Adrian Lewis 2 - 0* Ronnie Baxter - James Wade 1 - 2* Andy Jenkins - Andy Smith 2 - 0...
where he was beaten by Phil Taylor. He suffered a broken collarbone shortly after the event but returned for the 2005 World Grand Prix
2005 World Grand Prix Darts
The 2005 Sky Bet World Grand Prix was the eighth staging of the World Grand Prix organised by the Professional Darts Corporation which took place at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin between October 24 to 30. Defending champion Colin Lloyd narrowly failed to make it two in a row after losing heavily to...
, losing in the second round to Colin Lloyd
Colin Lloyd
Colin Lloyd , nicknamed Jaws, is an English professional darts player on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit. He is a former world number one ranked player and he has won two major television titles in the PDC - the 2004 World Grand Prix and 2005 World Matchplay...
.
His second attempt in the World Championship in 2006 ended in a second round defeat to Kevin Painter
Kevin Painter
Kevin Painter is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, where he is known as "The Artist"...
, and another second round defeat came in the 2007 World Championships to Colin Osborne
Colin Osborne
Colin Osborne is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.-Darts career:Osborne has won two PDC Pro Tour events and he also managed to hit two perfect nine dart finishes in 2005...
. This was followed by a first round exit in the 2008 World Championship, losing to qualifier Jamie Caven
Jamie Caven
Jamie Robert Caven is an English darts player. He uses the nickname Jabba for his matches and is sponsored by Unicorn....
.
Newton won the ITV Wildcard Qualifier for 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...
, beating 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....
in the final. He was drawn into Group F with Terry Jenkins
Terry Jenkins
Terry Jenkins is an English professional darts player who is nicknamed The Bull, having previously used the nickname "Tucker" for his matches...
, Colin Lloyd and American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Darin Young
Darin Young
Darin Young is an American darts player who plays for the Professional Darts Corporation. He uses the nickname Big Daddy....
where Newton defeated Lloyd and Young in his first two games to stand a great chance of qualifying for the knockout stages. However, Newton would go on to lose to Jenkins 5-0 and Young beat Lloyd to pip him to second place and knock Newton out.
Newton entered the 2009 PDC World Championship
2009 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2009 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 16th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation....
as the number 31 seed and defeated Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
's Per Laursen
Per Laursen
Per Laursen is a Danish darts player. He reached the final of the WDF World Cup in 2005 and won the Welsh Open earlier that year - performances which enabled him to qualify for the BDO World Darts Championship for the first time in 2006....
in the first round, before falling to 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...
in round two. After the tournament, he fell outside the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit
PDC order of merit
The PDC Order of Merit is a world ranking system used by one of the darts organisations, the Professional Darts Corporation . Following the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship it superseded a world ranking system based on points being awarded for performances in ranking tournaments.-Previous world...
, eventually dropping as low as 36th. Newton won the WDF-ranked Las Vegas Open on 25 January 2009.
Newton made the second round of the 2010 World Championship after defeating Jarkko Komula
Jarkko Komula
Jarkko Komula is a Finnish darts player who plays for the Professional Darts Corporation and formerly played in British Darts Organisation events. He is nicknamed Smiley because ironically he rarely smiles.-BDO:...
in the first round 3-0. However, he came up against an in-form 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 second round, falling to a 4-2 defeat.
On the weekend of 7/8 November 2010, Newton won two Players Championship tournaments in the same weekend, only the fifth player to do so. This followed qualifying for the Grand Slam of Darts on the evening of 6 November. As a result of his double win, Newton broke into the top 16 in the Order of Merit for the first time in his career. At the Grand Slam, he was knocked out in the group stage after defeating 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...
and losing to Ted Hankey
Ted Hankey
Edward "Ted" Hankey is an English darts player who is a two-time BDO World Professional Darts Champion. His nickname is The Count and his walk on music is Be On Your Way by DJ Zany. Hankey built up a large following due to his obsession with and resemblance to Dracula...
and Phil Taylor.
Newton continued his progress at the 2011 World Championship, defeating Darin Young, Brendan Dolan
Brendan Dolan
Brendan Dolan is a Irish darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.After two early exits in the 2003 and 2004 UK Open, his first major run came in the 2004 World Grand Prix where he qualified through the All Ireland qualifiers, winning one of four places...
and Mensur Suljovic
Mensur Suljovic
Mensur Suljović is a Serbian-born Austrian darts player. He plays for the Professional Darts Corporation and previously played for the British Darts Organisation. He was also one of the top players in the German Darts Corporation where he won three events in 2007...
on the way to the quarter-finals. He then led Terry Jenkins 4-3 in his quarter-final, before Jenkins fought back to win 5-4. In March 2011, Newton moved into the top eight of the PDC Order of Merit, following a win in a Pro Tour event in Crawley.
At the 2011 UK Open, Newton progressed to his first televised final. On the way to the final, he beat John Henderson
John Henderson (darts player)
John Henderson is a Scottish darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.-Darts career:Henderson briefly played in the Professional Darts Corporation, playing one tournament in Scotland and then the 2003 UK Open where he lost in the first round having won his Preliminary match...
, Michael van Gerwen, 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...
, Dave Chisnall
Dave Chisnall
Dave Chisnall is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.- Personal Life :In September 2011 his girlfriend Michaela gave birth to his first daughter...
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...
, but succumbed to James Wade losing 11-8. As a result of his run to the final, he qualified for the 2011 Grand Slam of Darts
2011 Grand Slam of Darts
The 2011 Grand Slam of Darts, the fifth staging of the darts tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation was known as the William Hill Grand Slam of Darts for sponsorship purposes. The event took place from 12–20 November 2011 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall...
by right. After the UK Open, it was announced that Newton had appointed three-time world finalist 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...
as his manager.
At the 2011 World Matchplay, Newton beat Andy Smith
Andy Smith (darts player)
Andrew Smith is a darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. He uses the nickname Pieman for his matches...
in the first round 10-2, making it past the first round for the first time in the tournament. Newton then beat Justin Pipe
Justin Pipe
Justin Pipe is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.Pipe first emerged at the 2008 UK Open as a pub qualifier. He defeated Geoff Wylie and Lionel Sams before losing 3-9 to James Wade in the third round...
13-8 in the second round, before losing 5-16 to Phil Taylor in the quarter-finals.
Personal life
He currently resides in FleetwoodFleetwood
Fleetwood is a town within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 26,840 people at the 2001 Census. It forms part of the Greater Blackpool conurbation. The town was the first planned community of the Victorian era...
, and uses the nickname The Warrior for his matches, having used the nickname Av' It until late 2010. His younger brother Dale Newton is a former professional player, and his dad Colin is a high-level amateur player. With his close family all playing darts, he actually attributes his career to his cousin Leon, exclaiming "he used to visit every summer when we were little and teach me how to play, stand and throw correctly even though he was 5 years younger than me. I owe it all to him"
Newton and his partner Stacey have a son, Fraser, who was born in June 2011.
Newton supports Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
and Fleetwood Town F.C.
Fleetwood Town F.C.
Fleetwood Town F.C. is an English football club based in Fleetwood, Lancashire. They currently play in the Conference National having been defeated in the Conference National play-off semi-final by AFC Wimbledon in the 2010–11 season.-History:...
World Championship Performances
- 2005 (PDC) - First Round lost to Gerry ConveryGerry ConveryGerry Convery is a Canadian darts player.Convery made his televised debut in the 2004 Las Vegas Desert Classic, beating Darren Webster in the first round before losing in the second round to Dennis Smith...
0-3 - 2006 (PDC) - Second Round lost to Kevin PainterKevin PainterKevin Painter is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, where he is known as "The Artist"...
2-3 - 2007 (PDC) - Second Round lost to Colin OsborneColin OsborneColin Osborne is an English darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation events.-Darts career:Osborne has won two PDC Pro Tour events and he also managed to hit two perfect nine dart finishes in 2005...
2-4 - 2008 (PDC) - First Round lost to Jamie CavenJamie CavenJamie Robert Caven is an English darts player. He uses the nickname Jabba for his matches and is sponsored by Unicorn....
0-3 - 2009 (PDC) - Second Round lost to 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...
1-4 - 2010 (PDC) - Second Round 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...
2-4 - 2011 (PDC) - Quarter Final lost to Terry JenkinsTerry JenkinsTerry Jenkins is an English professional darts player who is nicknamed The Bull, having previously used the nickname "Tucker" for his matches...
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External Links
- Official website
- Wes Newton profile Planet Darts