BDO DARTS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday, 2 January
Men's first round (best of five sets)
In the preliminary round on Saturday American Larry Butlar
defeated James Hurrell 3-2 and considering his age reaching the first round
would be considered a success.
Jeff Smith from Canada cruised through to the first round
with a simple win over Mathew Medhurst from the Netherlands and he does look
like an outside bet at this stage but you can only play the man in front of
you.
Craig Caldwell from New Zealand found it particularly tricky
to reach the first round as he managed to beat Andy Souter from Scotland and I
am not sure what the darts talent in Scotland is like.
In the first round proper Glen Durant from England managed
to beat Dean Renolds from Wales in a simple first round encounter and looks to
be able to go deep in the draw
One of the big disappointments for me happened on Saturday when
Tony O Shear the legend lost to Jim Williams from Wales. It was not the fact
that he lost by how much he lost by 3-0. Tony looks to be going on a downward
spiral
Dennis Harbour won a battle with Daryl Fitten one of the few
darts players I would admit to liking.
Results
Sunday, 3 January
There seem to be a lot of prelim spots given to Englishmen and
one was given to Sam Hewsen who could not compete with Sajwini from Sweden as
the swede won by 3 sets
Ted Hankey cruised into the first round with a simple 3-0
win over Canadian David Cameroon and looks like he can compete with anyone of
them
Kostas Pantelidis from Grease won a tight match against
Darren Peetoom from England.
2 players not from Great Britain or the Netherlands played
in a preliminary round as 2 completely unheard of players for me played as
Japans Segio Asada beat Darius Labanauskas from Lithuania
In the first round Scott Wates from England beat Willem
Mandigers 3-0 and is showing himself to be a real contender for the title
Scott Mitchell beat prelim winner Craig Caldwell in the
first round 3-2 this to me is a worrying thing as the result was 3-2 and he is
not the best of opponent as he had to through the qualifying round
Monday, 4 January
Australian Rob Moda cruised to a first round win after
beating Englishman John Walton 3-0 in the prelim
This first round match was very interesting and could go
either way as Richard Veenstra beat Jeffrey
de Graaf 3-2 in this all Dutch affair
Martin Atkins cruised into the second round with a 3-0 win
over pip Blackwell in this all English match.
Qualifier Larry Butlar from the USA beat Ryan de Vreede from
the Netherlands
Scot Ross Montgomery could not get started against
Englishman Jamie Hughes as he lost 3-0
2 of the elder statesmen of the BDO Welshman Martin Phillips
played ted Hanky from England. It was the Welshman
Women's first-round (best of three sets)
#Aileen de Graaf cruised to a 2-0 win over Casey Gallagher
from England and neither player is that well known
For me the big disappointment was when Fallon Sherrock from England
lost to Ann-Louise Peters from Denmark 2-1 as she is someone who could sell the
sport to the masses
The legend that is Trina Gulliver from England was scared as
she dropped a set to fellow Englishwoman Dee Bateman
One of the forces of Russian darts Anastasia Dobromyslova
lost to 1-2 Anca Zijlstra from the
Netherlands results like this don’t help women’s darts
In an all English tie Lisa Ashton beat Paula Jacklin 2-0
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