2010 BDO World Darts Championship

Lakeside World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	2–10 January 2010
Venue	Lakeside Country Club
Location	Frimley Green, Surrey
Country	England, 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 checkout	170 Martin Adams
Champion(s)
Martin Adams Trina Gulliver
«2009 2011»

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.

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". 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".

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. 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 Tony O'Shea Scott Waites Martin Adams Darryl Fitton Ted Hankey Ross Montgomery Dave Prins Alan Norris Joey ten Berge Martin Atkins Steve West John Walton Mark Barilli Scott Mitchell John Henderson Ian White

Other qualifiers Willy van de Wiel Stephen Bunting Brian Woods Mareno Michels Robert Wagner Daryl Gurney Gary Robson Martin Phillips Paul Hanvidge Dave Chisnall Garry Thompson Martin McCloskey Robbie Green Tony West Paul Carter 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.

The eight women qualified for invitation were:

Top 4 Julie Gore Trina Gulliver Irina Armstrong Karen Lawman

Other qualifiers Francis Hoenselaar Linda Ithurralde Deta Hedman Rhian Edwards

Prize money

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

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

• Match distances in sets are quoted in brackets at the top of each round. All sets best of five legs, unless there is a final set tie-break

	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	Tony O'Shea 86.58	3
		Robbie Green 86.07	2
						1	Tony O'Shea 94.53	4
							Stephen Bunting 93.96	0
	16	Ian White 83.88	0
		Stephen Bunting 91.62	3
											1	Tony O'Shea 88.80	5
												Robert Wagner 83.91	1
	8	Alan Norris 90.24	2
		Robert Wagner 86.25	3
							Robert Wagner 89.97	4
							Brian Woods 88.47	3
	9	Joey ten Berge 89.52	2
		Brian Woods 95.73	3
																1	Tony O'Shea 88.29	3
																	Dave Chisnall 97.32	6
	5	Ted Hankey 92.52	3
		Gary Robson 83.22	0
						5	Ted Hankey 86.94	4
							Willy van de Wiel 82.35	1
	12	John Walton 82.35	2
		Willy van de Wiel 78.87	3
											5	Ted Hankey 88.36	4
												Dave Chisnall 90.42	5
	4	Darryl Fitton 86.55	1
		Dave Chisnall 90.21	3
							Dave Chisnall 96.84	4
							Tony West 86.04	2
	13	Mark Barilli 81.15	1
		Tony West 79.89	3
																						Dave Chisnall 93.42	5
																					3	Martin Adams 95.01	7
	2	Scott Waites 86.79	3
		Paul Hanvidge 70.38	0
						2	Scott Waites 91.44	4
						15	John Henderson 89.01	1
	15	John Henderson 84.99	3
		Mareno Michels 78.78	1
											2	Scott Waites 91.62	4
												Martin Phillips 92.13	5
	7	Dave Prins 80.22	0
		Martin Phillips 91.41	3
							Martin Phillips 87.60	4
							Paul Carter 83.10	2
	10	Martin Atkins 87.18	1
		Paul Carter 83.61	3
																	Martin Phillips 92.94	4
																3	Martin Adams 97.38	6
	6	Ross Montgomery 76.61	2
		Garry Thompson 75.51	3
							Garry Thompson 85.80	4
							Martin McCloskey 83.40	1
	11	Steve West 83.79	2
		Martin McCloskey 79.74	3
												Garry Thompson 87.12	2
											3	Martin Adams 95.79	5
	3	Martin Adams 86.16	3
		Tony Fleet 65.34	0
						3	Martin Adams 94.35	4
							Daryl Gurney 85.41	1
	14	Scott Mitchell 85.83	2
		Daryl Gurney 91.11	3

Women's

• All matches best of three sets, best of five legs

	Quarter-finals 2–3 January					Semi-finals 7 January					Final 8 January
	4	Karen Lawman 75.60	2
		Linda Ithurralde 73.86	0
						4	Karen Lawman 73.56	0
							Rhian Edwards 73.92	2
	1	Julie Gore 61.05	0
		Rhian Edwards 68.64	2
												Rhian Edwards 68.25	0
											2	Trina Gulliver 80.52	2
	3	Irina Armstrong 67.20	0
		Deta Hedman 71.49	2
							Deta Hedman 71.79	0
						2	Trina Gulliver 79.68	2
	2	Trina Gulliver 80.37	2
		Francis Hoenselaar 76.20	0

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.

External links

• The official site of the Lakeside BDO World Professional Darts Championship