2010 BDO World Darts Championship

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Lakeside World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates2–10 January 2010
Venue Lakeside Country Club
Location Frimley Green, Surrey
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Organisation(s) BDO
Format Sets
Finals:
best of 13 (men's)
best of 3 (women's)
Prize fund£325,000
Winner's share£100,000 (men's)
£6,000 (women's)
High checkout170 Flag of England.svg Martin Adams
Champion(s)
Flag of England.svg Martin Adams
Flag of England.svg Trina Gulliver
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2010 BDO World Darts Champion - Martin Adams Martin Adams in Poison Arrows 2022.jpg
2010 BDO World Darts Champion - Martin Adams

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.

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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.

The tournament is also remembered for the first round match between Martin Adams and Anthony Fleet, which featured what has been called "the worst leg of darts ever". [1] The opening leg included visits of 26, 41, 5, 41, 22 and 11 by a visibly nervous Fleet. Adams himself had visits of 47, 44 and 32, but eventually won the 54-dart leg and went on to win the match 3–0. Fleet's match average of 65.34 was the lowest of the championship and described as "pub standard". [2] [3] [4]

Martin Adams won his second World Championship title, 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. [5] 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. Flag of England.svg Tony O'Shea
  2. Flag of England.svg Scott Waites
  3. Flag of England.svg Martin Adams
  4. Flag of England.svg Darryl Fitton
  5. Flag of England.svg Ted Hankey
  6. Flag of Scotland.svg Ross Montgomery
  7. Flag of England.svg Dave Prins
  8. Flag of England.svg Alan Norris
  9. Flag of the Netherlands.svg Joey ten Berge
  10. Flag of England.svg Martin Atkins
  11. Flag of England.svg Steve West
  12. Flag of England.svg John Walton
  13. Flag of Scotland.svg Mark Barilli
  14. Flag of England.svg Scott Mitchell
  15. Flag of Scotland.svg John Henderson
  16. Flag of England.svg Ian White
Other qualifiers
  1. Flag of the Netherlands.svg Willy van de Wiel
  2. Flag of England.svg Stephen Bunting
  3. Flag of England.svg Brian Woods
  4. Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mareno Michels
  5. Flag of Norway.svg Robert Wagner
  6. Ulster Banner.svg Daryl Gurney
  7. Flag of England.svg Gary Robson
  8. Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Martin Phillips
  9. Flag of Scotland.svg Paul Hanvidge
  10. Flag of England.svg Dave Chisnall
  11. Flag of England.svg Garry Thompson
  12. Flag of Ireland.svg Martin McCloskey
  13. Flag of England.svg Robbie Green
  14. Flag of England.svg Tony West
  15. Flag of England.svg Paul Carter
  16. Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony 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. [6]

The eight women qualified for invitation were:

Top 4
  1. Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Julie Gore
  2. Flag of England.svg Trina Gulliver
  3. Flag of Russia.svg Irina Armstrong
  4. Flag of England.svg Karen Lawman
Other qualifiers
  1. Flag of the Netherlands.svg Francis Hoenselaar
  2. Flag of England.svg Linda Ithurralde
  3. Flag of England.svg Deta Hedman
  4. Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Rhian Edwards

Prize money

The 2010 World Championship had a prize fund of £325,000 – a rise of £5,000 on the previous year. [7]

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 Flag of England.svg Tony O'Shea 86.583
Flag of England.svg Robbie Green 86.072
1 Flag of England.svg Tony O'Shea 94.534
Flag of England.svg Stephen Bunting 93.960
16 Flag of England.svg Ian White 83.880
Flag of England.svg Stephen Bunting 91.623
1 Flag of England.svg Tony O'Shea 88.805
Flag of Norway.svg Robert Wagner 83.911
8 Flag of England.svg Alan Norris 90.242
Flag of Norway.svg Robert Wagner 86.253
  Flag of Norway.svg Robert Wagner 89.974
Flag of England.svg Brian Woods 88.473
9 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Joey ten Berge 89.522
Flag of England.svg Brian Woods 95.733
1 Flag of England.svg Tony O'Shea 88.293
Flag of England.svg Dave Chisnall 97.326
5 Flag of England.svg Ted Hankey 92.523
Flag of England.svg Gary Robson 83.220
5 Flag of England.svg Ted Hankey 86.944
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Willy van de Wiel 82.351
12 Flag of England.svg John Walton 82.352
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Willy van de Wiel 78.873
5 Flag of England.svg Ted Hankey 88.364
Flag of England.svg Dave Chisnall 90.425
4 Flag of England.svg Darryl Fitton 86.551
Flag of England.svg Dave Chisnall 90.213
  Flag of England.svg Dave Chisnall 96.844
Flag of England.svg Tony West 86.042
13 Flag of Scotland.svg Mark Barilli 81.151
Flag of England.svg Tony West 79.893
Flag of England.svg Dave Chisnall 93.425
3 Flag of England.svg Martin Adams 95.017
2 Flag of England.svg Scott Waites 86.793
Flag of Scotland.svg Paul Hanvidge 70.380
2 Flag of England.svg Scott Waites 91.444
15 Flag of Scotland.svg John Henderson 89.011
15 Flag of Scotland.svg John Henderson 84.993
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Mareno Michels 78.781
2 Flag of England.svg Scott Waites 91.624
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Martin Phillips 92.135
7 Flag of England.svg Dave Prins 80.220
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Martin Phillips 91.413
  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Martin Phillips 87.604
Flag of England.svg Paul Carter 83.102
10 Flag of England.svg Martin Atkins 87.181
Flag of England.svg Paul Carter83.613
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Martin Phillips 92.944
3 Flag of England.svg Martin Adams 97.386
6 Flag of Scotland.svg Ross Montgomery 76.612
Flag of England.svg Garry Thompson 75.513
  Flag of England.svg Garry Thompson 85.804
Flag of Ireland.svg Martin McCloskey 83.401
11 Flag of England.svg Steve West 83.792
Flag of Ireland.svg Martin McCloskey79.743
Flag of England.svg Garry Thompson 87.122
3 Flag of England.svg Martin Adams 95.795
3 Flag of England.svg Martin Adams 86.163
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony Fleet 65.340
3 Flag of England.svg Martin Adams 94.354
Ulster Banner.svg Daryl Gurney 85.411
14 Flag of England.svg Scott Mitchell 85.832
Ulster Banner.svg Daryl Gurney 91.113

Women's

Quarter-finals
2–3 January
Semi-finals
7 January
Final
8 January
         
4 Flag of England.svg Karen Lawman 75.602
Flag of England.svg Linda Ithurralde 73.860
4 Flag of England.svg Karen Lawman 73.560
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Rhian Edwards 73.922
1 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Julie Gore 61.050
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Rhian Edwards 68.642
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Rhian Edwards 68.250
2 Flag of England.svg Trina Gulliver 80.522
3 Flag of Russia.svg Irina Armstrong 67.200
Flag of England.svg Deta Hedman 71.492
Flag of England.svg Deta Hedman 71.790
2 Flag of England.svg Trina Gulliver 79.682
2 Flag of England.svg Trina Gulliver 80.372
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Francis Hoenselaar 76.200

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. "Not-so-happy Halloween: Sport's five biggest howlers". Yahoo. 29 October 2018.
  2. "Tony Fleet falls apart against Martin Adams". Daily Mirror. 5 January 2010.
  3. "This clip of the most excruciating three darts ever thrown is a timely reminder of brilliance of PDC". JOE.co.uk. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  4. "Video – Fleet sunk by first-round nerves against Adams". BBC Sport. 4 January 2010.
  5. "WDF men's rankings". British Darts Organisation. Archived from the original on 25 November 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
  6. "WDF women's rankings". British Darts Organisation. Archived from the original on 22 February 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  7. £100K top prize for men's champion Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship, 27 October 2009