Scott Williams (darts player)

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Scott Williams
Scott Williams 2024.png
Williams at the 2024 Players Championship Finals
Personal information
Nickname"Shaggy"
Born (1990-01-18) 18 January 1990 (age 34)
Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Home townBoston, Lincolnshire, England
Darts information
Playing darts since2018
Darts20g signature Target soft-tip with swiss point converter
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music"I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by My Chemical Romance
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 2019–2020
PDC 2022–
WDF 2019–2022
Current world ranking 37 Increase2.svg 1 (24 November 2024) [1]
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'ship Last 40: 2020
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship Semi Final: 2024
UK Open Last 64: 2024
Grand Slam Group Stage: 2022
PC Finals Quarter Final: 2022, 2024
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour 2022 (x4)

Players Championships

Players Championship (NIE) 2022
Medal record
Men's Darts
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
WDF Europe Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Gandía Men's pairs
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Gandía Men's team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Gandía Men's overall

Scott Williams (born 18 January 1990) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He was the third player to win a PDC ranking title without being a tour card holder and reached the semi-finals at the 2024 PDC World Championship.

Contents

Career

In October 2019, Williams qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship as one of the Playoff qualifiers, he defeated Wes Newton and Andrew Kateley to secure his place in the tournament. He was whitewashed 3–0 by Justin Thompson in the preliminary round. [2]

2022

Williams won his first PDC Challenge Tour, at Challenge Tour 1 in Milton Keynes. On his way to the final, Williams defeated Conor Heneghan in the last 64, Jimmy Bristow 5–1 in the last 32, Darryl Pilgrim 5–2 in the round of 16, Darren Johnson 5–3 in the quarter-finals and Danny Lauby Jr. 5–1 in the semi-finals. He defeated Robert Owen in the final 5–2. [3] [4]

Later the same day, Williams won his second Challenge Tour title at Challenge Tour 2. Williams won 5–2 against Lee Evans in the final. [3] [5]

Williams won Players Championship 17 in June, beating Nathan Aspinall in the final. This meant he became the third player, after Joe Murnan and Krzysztof Ratajski, to win a Players Championship event without being a PDC tour card holder. [6]

At the end of September 2022, he was selected by the national federation to participate in the 2022 WDF Europe Cup. On the second day of the tournament, he advanced to the finals of the pairs competition where he played together with Joshua Richardson. On the way to the final, they defeated rivals from Wales, Romania and Czech Republic. [7] Finally, on 1 October, they beat Poland pairs Sebastian Białecki and Dariusz Marciniak by 6–2 in legs. [8] [9] On the third day of the tournament, he advanced to the fifth round of the singles competition, surprisingly lost by 1–4 in legs to Jan McIntosh, who played on an average of 103.90. [10] In the team competition, together with the team, he won the gold medal. [11] In the points classification, as a representative of England, he also contributed to won a gold medal.

Williams reached his first major semi-final at the 2024 PDC World Championship. He shocked Michael van Gerwen 5–3 in the quarter-finals, [12] being whitewashed by Luke Humphries 6–0, who averaged 108.74 to Williams' 94.93. [13]

World Championship results

BDO

PDC

Performance timeline

Tournament201920202021202220232024
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship BDODNQ 2R SF
UK Open DNP 3R 4R
Grand Slam of Darts DNP RR DNQ
Players Championship Finals BDODNQ 3R 1R QF
BDO Ranked televised events
BDO World Championship DNP PR NHPDC
Winmau World Masters 2R NHDNPNHPDC
Career statistics
Year-end ranking--1735752

PDC European Tour

Season12345678910111213
2021 HDT
DNQ		 GDT
DNP
2022 IDO
DNP		 GDC
DNP		 GDG
DNP		 ADO
DNQ		 EDO
3R		 CDO
DNQ		 EDG
DNQ		 DDC
DNP		 EDM
3R		 HDT
DNP		 GDO
DNP		 BDO
DNQ		 GDT
DNQ
2023 BSD
DNQ		 EDO
DNP		 IDO
1R		 GDG
DNQ		 ADO
DNQ		 DDC
DNQ		 BDO
DNQ		 CDO
DNQ		 EDG
DNQ		 EDM
DNQ		 GDO
DNQ		 HDT
SF		 GDC
DNQ
2024 BDO
DNQ		 GDG
DNQ		 IDO
DNQ		 EDG
3R		 ADO
DNQ		 BSD
DNQ		 DDC
DNQ		 EDO
DNQ		 GDC
DNQ		 FDT
2R		 HDT
3R		 SDT
DNQ		 CDO
DNQ

PDC Players Championships

Season123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
2021 [nb 1] BOL
DNP		 BOL
DNP		 BOL
DNP		 BOL
DNP		 MIL
DNP		 MIL
DNP		 MIL
DNP		 MIL
DNP		 NIE
1R		 NIE
2R		 NIE
1R		 NIE
1R		 MIL
DNP		 MIL
DNP		 MIL
DNP		 MIL
1R		 COV
DNP		 COV
DNP		 COV
DNP		 COV
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
2R
2022 [nb 1] BAR
4R		 BAR
2R		 WIG
4R		 WIG
1R		 BAR
3R		 BAR
4R		 NIE
QF		 NIE
1R		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
DNP		 BAR
2R		 BAR
2R		 WIG
1R		 WIG
2R		 NIE
1R		 NIE
W		 BAR
2R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
3R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
3R
2023 BAR
1R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
3R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
3R		 HIL
1R		 HIL
3R		 WIG
2R		 WIG
1R		 LEI
4R		 LEI
4R		 HIL
3R		 HIL
2R		 LEI
3R		 LEI
2R		 HIL
1R		 HIL
1R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
3R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
3R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
2R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
3R		 BAR
1R		 BAR
2R
2024 WIG
1R		 WIG
2R		 LEI
1R		 LEI
QF		 HIL
3R		 HIL
1R		 LEI
2R		 LEI
1R		 HIL
4R		 HIL
QF		 HIL
4R		 HIL
1R		 MIL
1R		 MIL
3R		 MIL
3R		 MIL
1R		 MIL
3R		 MIL
4R		 MIL
1R		 WIG
3R		 WIG
2R		 MIL
2R		 MIL
2R		 WIG
1R		 WIG
2R		 WIG
2R		 WIG
2R		 WIG
1R		 LEI
1R		 LEI
1R
  1. 1 2 Not a Tour card holder
Performance Table Legend
WWon the tournamentFFinalistSFSemifinalistQFQuarterfinalist#R
RR
Prel.		Lost in # round
Round-robin
Preliminary round		DQDisqualified
DNQDid not qualifyDNPDid not participateWDWithdrewNHTournament not heldNYFNot yet founded

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