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William Hill Grand Slam Quarter-finals". PDC. Archived from the original on 19 November 2012 . Retrieved 17 November 2012. John Part became the first player to win the world championship in three different venues – having won the 1994 BDO World Championship at the Lakeside, the 2003 PDC title at the Circus Tavern and in 2008 at Alexandra Palace. ADRIAN Gray, Barrie Bates, Chas Barstow and Paul Hogan all booked their places in Saturday’s Final Group in the Modus Online Live League, after coming through their respective groups to join Robert Thornton, the winner of Group A earlier in the week. O’Connor is a European Tour finalist this year and he will have a repeat of that match in round two as he takes on Michael van Gerwen. The Irishman comprehensively came through against debutant Karel Sedlacek.
a b c d "William Hill Grand Slam – Wednesday". PDC. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012 . Retrieved 15 November 2012. Most 180s Scored, Individual: 34 John Part, 33 Kirk Shepherd, 24 Wayne Mardle, 24 Kevin Painter, 22 Adrian Lewis. Elsewhere, Dave Prins is the closest competitor to Painter in the Group A table, as ‘The Badger’ sits in 2nd overall on 14 points, with Matt Clark sitting in 3rd on 12 points, David Davies in 4th on 10 points, Mike Symes in 5th on 4 points and Barrie Bates bottom on 2 points.World number two Raymond van Barneveld went down 6-3 to Adrian Lewis in the second round in his first outing of the year on the PDC ProTour. None of the 4 semi-finalists from this tournament, the first at Alexandra Palace, have played at World Championship since the 2019 edition with Mardle not having qualified since 2010, Shepherd since 2011, champion Part since 2015, and Painter who failed to qualify in 2019 for the first time since 2001. Bates made his PDC televised debut at the 2003 UK Open reaching the third round. In 2005 he narrowly lost a last-32 match to Lionel Sams at the UK Open and made a superb run to the final in 2006 before losing to Raymond van Barneveld.
Taylor failed to reach the final of the competition for the first time in PDC World Championship history, after losing 5–4 to Wayne Mardle in the quarter-finals. He had a spell when he was playing in tournaments just when there was no rugby on or it was cancelled,’ Bates said. His success at events away from the television cameras during 2006 helped him to win the award of "Best Floor Player" at the first PDC Awards Dinner. It refers to the non-televised events which feature many boards alongside each other on a smaller arena floor. Kirk Shepherd became the youngest player to ever reach a Darts World Championship ( PDC or BDO) final.Ovens made a fine start with two breaks of throw in the opening three legs to lead 3-0, including an 11-dart finish, before Bates landed double 16 to get off the mark and double 12 to reduce the gap to one. The former major champion’s only defeat, and 1st of the week, coming against Dave Prins in the final game of the day, to end his nine match unbeaten run, as he sits on 18 points from a possible 20 thus far.
In-form Mark Walsh was defeated 6-2 in the quarter-finals and Essex's Steve Maish fell in the semis, before he came from behind to win the final.
As a result of Phil Taylor not advancing past the quarter-final stages, Raymond van Barneveld became the world number one. But after I lost to Raymond in the World Matchplay, I went straight home the next day and had a scan. They told me it was an old football injury that had re-broken, possibly because I stand on it a lot and maybe due to the flight we had to Las Vegas. Qualifying events were held at Greene King pubs across the UK – winners from each pub event progressed to one of four Regional Finals, to be staged in their relevant area. Players who reach the final eight in the Regional Finals will qualify for the televised stages of the UK Open in Bolton.
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