Issue 42 (October 21, 2016)

Friday 21 October 2016

No bull Jenkins announces semi-retirement

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Premier League coming to Berlin PDC chairman Barry Hearn reveals plans to take popular event to Germany in 2018

Glory for Norris in Hildesheim Norris beats Klaasen in a thriller to win first Euro Tour title Page 5

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Hearn outlines plans to take Premier League into Germany Alex Moss CHIEF DARTS WRITER The Betway Premier League is set to break new ground in 2018 when it goes to Germany for the first time.

With tickets for next year’s Premier League going in record time last week, PDC chairman Barry Hearn told Darts Weekly he plans to bring the popular tournament to Germany in 2018.

“One danger in life is getting complacent and I’ve never been guilty of that,” he told us last week.

“Things are going so well you could understand a bit of complacency really, but as I say you won’t be seeing it.

“Premier League tickets are once again flying out everywhere.

“Aberdeen sold out. Cardiff sold out. Rotterdam sold out in eight minutes.

“The sport is on an amazing run and again you can’t take your eye off the ball.

“You’ve got to keep innovating, keep creating, because the millennial consumer, the younger market that we are targeting for, is responding so well.

“They want entertainment, the best, and you have to give them a customer experience.

“It has to be Germany in 2018, obviously we’ve got to talk to our sponsors and our broadcasters, but you have to go with demand.

“As much as we are reliant on our UK customers, to be a truly global brand you have to branch out.”

The Premier League has been one of the biggest success stories in the PDC, from playing in leisure centres and halls in towns such as Doncaster and Colchester, to selling out large arenas across the UK and Ireland, and earlier this year in the Netherlands.

A sell-out crowd of 10,000 packed out the Ahoy Arena back in May for the final league night of

the 2015 Premier League season, and now Hearn has outlined plans to introduce Germany to the tournament in 2018.

“Pricing is important,” Hearn said. “You’ve got to keep the fans happy.

“You can’t take liberties with them. Yes, with the World Championship they’ll always moan that sites have got inflated tickets, but they’re actually catering for the overseas market.

“11 per cent of the World Championship tickets last year were bought in Germany, which leaves me to say Berlin, 2018 Premier League here we come.

“The game is just gaining and gaining momentum which is good news for everybody, especially the kids that are starting to play and are saying: I want to make this my career.”

The line-up for next year’s

“It leaves me to say Berlin, 2018 Premier League here we come” Premier League will be announced following the conclusion of the William Hill World Darts Championship in January, with the top four in the PDC Order of Merit joined by six wildcards to make up the 10 player field.

Hearn has revealed there could be one or two surprise inclusions to the Premier League in 2017, as he looks to keep the tournament fresh.

“We’ve got to give the up and coming players that big stage experience,” the PDC chairman said.

“So we’ve got to look at the Premier League, we’ve got to look at the World Series, and say ‘should we roll the dice on a couple of players?’

“Let’s see if we can blood them in. We know the danger because

they can get annihilated at that level if they’re not careful.

“But at the same time you’ve got to show players that the door is open for them to achieve their dreams.”

Darts Weekly understands Hearn will meeting with the players on the PDC Pro Tour in Barnsley tomorrow, where he will be announcing an update on an increased prize money structure going into next year.

“There does come a time, and I think we’re there now, where you say the structure of the game in this country is done,” he said.

“Pro Tours, Challenge Tours, Development Tours, majors, that’s it.

“We have a calendar that’s full and you don’t want to tip over into oversupply.

“What we know is we’ve got it right and the Premier League ticket sales tell us we got it right, because the best vote in confidence you can have in a sport is someone buying a ticket to go to an event.

“And if those ticket sales, if they ever start dropping you’ve got to look and say we’ve got a problem here.

“The Premier League night in Rotterdam this year sold out in an hour. Next year’s night it was eight minutes. That’s a good statement.

“66,000 tickets sold out in a day for the World Championship, but we’re constantly working on trying to improve the shows.

“We’re not just saying everything is great and we’ll take our eye off the ball.”

Hearn and the PDC are also in the process of renewing their television contract with ITV, who broadcast five tournaments live a year, which is expected to be topped up by another four years.

The PDC’s contract with Sky Sports, who hold the television rights to the Premier League and the World Championship, has another 18 months to run.

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Five players in the running for the 2017 Premier League LAWRENCE LUSTIG/PDC

Kim Huybrechts Made his Premier League debut in 2015 but missed out on being picked this year. Needs a strong run in a major to boost his chances of a recall in 2017

Jelle Klaasen

On the brink of breaking into the top eight, Klaasen has matured a lot as a player since his tough debut season in the Premier League seven years ago

Alan Norris Won his first European Tour title at the weekend and is now up to 22nd in the world. Quick style and big checkouts would be a perfect fit for the event

Mensur Suljovic

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Continues to impress on the Pro Tour and European Tour, but slow, unorthodox style may count against him. Needs a run to a major semi-final or final

Daryl Gurney

Reached the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix earlier this month and looks to be recovering well from injury.

Could receive a call up in 2017

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Jenkins announces plans to wind down on the PDC tour

First Euro title is scant reward for Norris as he gets Taylor in Belgium Just hours after claiming his first European Tour title and Alan Norris would have been cursing his luck as he drew Phil Taylor in the first round of the Unibet European Championship.

The 44-year-old defeated Jelle Klaasen 6-5 in a thrilling final of the HappyBet German Darts Championship in Hildesheim, and with the win secured a spot in the SINGHA Beer Grand Slam of Darts next month.

The triumph in the final saw

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Terry Jenkins has announced he plans to enter semi-retirement from the PDC circuit after the 2017 William Hill World Darts Championship.

The nine-time major finalist is currently ranked 16th on the PDC Order of Merit, but in an interview with Tungsten Tales revealed he will be restricting his activity on the PDC tour to only events he has automatically qualified for.

Jenkins told Tungsten Tales: “I’m going to wind it right down after the World Championship.

“I’ll probably knock the tours on the head, especially the European Tours, and I’ll just play what I’m in through the rankings really and do more exhibitions.

“I’m 53 now and it’s getting hard work at the minute so I’ve got to do something and wind it down.”

Jenkins started playing in the PDC back in 2003 and reached a career high number four in the Order of Merit in late 2007.

Affectionately known as The Bull, Jenkins twice reached the final of the World Matchplay, while his other runner-up trophies in major events came in the World Grand Prix (twice), Premier League, Las

Vegas Desert Classic, Grand Slam of Darts, UK Open and European Championship.

“For joining at such a late age I’ve done well to get in nine major finals,” he said.

“There’s top players that have never been in one. It would have been nice to have won one or two of them, or all nine, but I’m really

happy with the way my career has gone in the darts.

“I only treat it as a hobby. It wasn’t my main job, so it’s been a really good hobby at the end of the day.”

Jenkins has qualified for next week’s Unibet European Championship where he will take on Ian White in the first round.

Norris scoop the £25,000 prize and move up into the seedings for the European Championship.

With the qualifying criteria for the tournament changing this year and now being solely based on the European Tour Order of Merit, and the likes of Taylor and Gary Anderson not finishing in the top eight, it meant that Sunday’s draw was always likely to spring up some exciting first round ties.

Aside from Norris and Taylor, two of the five players who won tournaments in this year’s European Tour, being paired together, reigning world champion Gary Anderson and fourth seed James Wade have also drawn each other in the first round.

Michael van Gerwen will begin

the defence of the European Championship title against Simon Whitlock, as two former winners of the event square off in the last 32.

Van Gerwen saw his bid for a seventh European Tour title of the year end in the third round last weekend, with Daryl Gurney pipping the world number one 6-4.

Gurney was knocked out by Mensur Suljovic by the same scoreline in the quarter-finals, with eventual winner Norris coming through a decider to knock out the Austrian in the semi-finals, before overcoming Klaasen in a deciding leg in the final.

“Jelle’s incredible,” Norris said.

“I was leaving finishes and he was taking out massive checkouts, so I’m really pleased to win this.”

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CHRISTOPHER KEMPF MATCH OF THE WEEK - M VAN GERWEN 4-6 D GURNEY (GERMAN DARTS CHMPIONSHIP)

Gurney is triumphant as MVG botches a crucial leg One hundred minus one equals 99, the smallest number from which three darts are always needed in finishing the leg.

With the first dart of his final visit to the board in his match with Daryl Gurney, Michael van Gerwen spoiled any chance he may have otherwise had to force a deciding leg by way of a baffling error.

That dart found its way into the single one bed as MVG attempted a 100 checkout, leaving him with 99 left and two useless darts in his hand.

As a player steps to the oche with 100 required and three darts in his hand, especially with the match on the line, he should aim towards the left side of the treble 20 bed as to avoid that possibility.

How could van Gerwen, reigning overlord of the 2016 European Tour, be so careless?

With Gurney making a similar error in the previous visit, hitting single five with his second dart to leave 65, one would have expected the world number one to crush Gurney’s hopes and throw for the match in the next leg.

Instead, Gurney, the European Tour record holder for 180s in a match (nine), inflicted upon van Gerwen only his third defeat on a European Tour stage this year.

If van Gerwen seemed to be in good spirits after his fatal error, it was surely because he had, by that point, won three consecutive legs to avoid a more ignominious defeat. It’s perhaps less embarrassing for him to attribute defeat to his own mistakes than to admit to being outplayed by a stronger opponent.

At the beginning of the seventh leg, Gurney led 5-1, was averaging 106 and had hammered out a 10dart finish on van Gerwen’s throw.

More importantly, the Ulsterman was excelling under pressure, hitting three consecutive finishes with the last dart in hand.

With MVG waiting on a score of 20, for instance, Gurney’s spectacular last dart at a thoroughly blocked double 10 bed extended his lead to 4-1 and demonstrated rare courage under pressure to the capacity German crowd.

Even in defeat, van Gerwen may have found some consolation in the fact that it could have been much worse.

Van Gerwen, taking advantage of bounce outs and fewer trebles from Gurney in the next three legs, continued to play at about the same standard that had lost him five consecutive legs.

This time, however, as Gurney’s average dropped, an average slightly above 100

sufficed for van Gerwen to win three legs of his own.

In truth, the van Gerwen comeback was primarily a result of inaccuracy from Super Chin, whose 15 darts in the eighth leg, on his own throw, failed to reach a finish.

The mere fact that Gurney finished the match with an average six points below that of Mighty Mike does a disservice to his performance.

In fact, it’s almost more impressive that Gurney finished four legs with his third dart, knowing well that a third miss could spell disaster, than if fewer darts at double had given him a higher average.

A clutch dart at double five in the 10th leg, once again with his last dart in hand, clinched an unexpected victory and a quarterfinal appearance in Hildesheim.

Gurney could not have found his way back from breaking his finger to breaking top darters’ throw at a better time.

“It’s almost more impressive that Gurney finished four legs with his third dart, knowing well that a third miss could spell disaster” x

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Cadby shows his talent with a classy showing in Wigan Alex Moss CHIEF DARTS WRITER He came. He saw. He conquered.

Corey Cadby’s year just gets better and better as he enjoyed a hugely successful debut weekend on the PDC Unicorn Development Tour.

After winning Development Tour 18 on Saturday, the Australian then booked his place in the World Youth Championship final on the next day.

A showdown with Berry van Peer, of the Netherlands, awaits Cadby in the final, which takes place in Minehead next month, with the winner earning a spot at Alexandra Palace for the William Hill World Darts Championship.

Cadby’s achievements at the weekend are nothing short of remarkable.

For a 21-year-old to make his debut on the Development Tour, which has seen the standard of play reach new levels this year, in its final weekend of the season and produce the results he did deserves a lot of recognition.

Aside from a 4-0 defeat to Dimitri van den Bergh in his very first game, in Development Tour 17, it is clear to see the Tasmaniaborn ace was able to adapt to his new surroundings very quickly.

A few short hours after his abrupt welcome to the Development Tour and Cadby was already on the warpath.

Handed another tough draw in Development Tour 18, in the shape of a former tournament winner on the tour, Callum Loose, Cadby began to find his feet with a 4-2 win to record his first success of the weekend. It would not be his last.

Two whitewash wins in the next two rounds saw him breeze into the last 16, where he took on a confident Nick Kenny, a player who will be making his World Championship debut at the

Corey’s weekend in numbers Matches

Lost 2

Won 13

Legs Lost 28

Won 65

Lakeside next year. But already from what little we’ve seen so far of Cadby, we know he is not one to care much about reputations.

This summer he ended Phil Taylor’s unbeaten record in World Series events in Australasia, beating the 16-time world champion 6-2 in Perth.

Successive 4-2 wins over Kenny, Ross Twell, Callan Rydz and

‘A few hours after his abrupt welcome to the tour he was on the warpath’ Jeffrey de Zwaan wrapped up his first Development Tour title, at the second attempt, and meant he went into the Sunday in red hot form.

Twell’s run to the quarter-finals of Development Tour 18 proved to be enough for him to finish second in the final Development Tour Order of Merit and clinch a tour card on the main PDC circuit.

Dean Reynolds claimed a sixth

Development Tour title of the year with victory in the first event on Saturday, and ensured the Welshman that he finished top of the Order of Merit.

Reynolds has won the other tour card on offer but has yet to confirm his plans. He goes into the BDO’s World Championship next year as one of the most fancied runners to lift the title, but also with a guaranteed opportunity to play on the main PDC circuit.

Belgium’s Mike de Decker won the final Development Tour event of the season with victory in Development Tour 19 on Sunday, with attention then quickly turning to the World Youth Championship, which was played down from the last 64 to the final later that day.

Top seed Reynolds lost out in a deciding leg to Belgium’s Kenny Neyens in the last 16, while holder Max Hopp was dumped out in the second round by fellow German, Martin Schindler.

Cadby and van Peer came through the field and will contest the final at the end of next month.

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Big weekend for Barney as he looks to book Minehead spot LAWRENCE LUSTIG/PDC

Raymond van Barneveld will be hoping to avoid joining Phil Taylor in sitting out the Cash Converters Players Championship Finals next month.

The PDC Pro Tour season concludes this weekend with the final two Players Championship events in Barnsley, and following the last of those, on Saturday, the field for the Minehead tournament will be confirmed.

After deciding not to enter either Players Championship 19 or 20 this weekend, Taylor ended his hopes of qualifying for the ITV4televised tournament.

Despite the number of players for the Players Championship Finals being doubled for this year, Taylor is already outside the top 64 on the Players Championship Order of Merit, and with his absence in Barnsley this weekend can no longer qualify.

Taylor’s old rival van Barneveld is currently walking on a tightrope in the 63rd and penultimate position heading into the final two events, with the likes of Andy Hamilton, Andy Smith and Max Hopp breathing down the Dutchman’s neck a few places lower in the Order of Merit.

Van Barneveld will be desperate to avoid missing out on another televised tournament before the season-ending William Hill World Darts Championship.

The five-time world champion did not qualify for the Unibet European Championship, which takes place next week, falling one round win short of finishing in the top 32.

After electing not to enter the majority of qualifiers for the European Tour events, van Barneveld made a late bid to sneak a spot in the European Championship by playing in the qualifiers for the final two European Tour events.

Barney was only successful in one of them, which meant it was all

tournament

or nothing and only a run to the final of the European Darts Grand Prix last month would have put him in a qualifying position.

The 49-year-old was beaten by Peter Wright in the semi-finals to end his late challenge for the European Championship, and has left it late to try and qualify for Minehead as well.

Van Barneveld skipped all of the

Players Championship events between April and August, returning in Barnsley for Players Championship 14 and 15 last month, where he got to a last 16 and a quarter-final.

But two early exits in the Players Championship double header in Ireland three weeks ago means that Barney has to deliver the goods this weekend.

In brief Rooney strikes in Open Keith Rooney won the Northern Ireland Open men’s singles after beating Kyle McKinstry 7-3 in the final on Saturday evening. Threetime world champion Martin Adams reached the quarter-finals before losing 5-3 to Gary Elliot.

Deta Hedman took home the ladies singles crown with a 5-3 triumph over Anastasia Dobromyslova in the final.

Wildcard for the Silverback Tony O’Shea has been announced as the fourth wildcard for the Finders Darts Masters. The invitational tournament, formerly

known as the Zuiderduin Masters, takes place in early December.

O’Shea joins Ross Montgomery, Madars Razma and Jimmy Hendriks as the wildcards picked so far.

JDC launches own Q-School The Junior Darts Corporation is introducing a Q-School to find three players to win the chance to compete on the 2017 PDC Unicorn Development Tour. A JDC Qualifying School will take place on December 4, which will see three players receive a PDPA Scholarship to compete on the Development Tour next year.

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I’ve got a positive mindset and a hunger to do well in the Asia Pacific Cup this week Richard Edwards ASIAN DARTS CORRESPONDENT If you are reading this shortly after we went to press last night, I am currently at the Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus!

Despite being very British (well, a quarter Maltese in fact, but the Maltese Darts Federation never picked up the phone), I have spent the last couple of days representing South Korea at the Asia Pacific Cup. I’ll be the first to admit that I had not even heard of the Asia Pacific Cup until earlier this year, when I joined the Professional Darts Korea tour, but it all seems legit and it seems some top names have participated in it before.

We were told back in April that the top four males and the top two females would have the honour of going to Japan to represent ‘The Land of the Morning Calm’.

Being a dreamer, I am sure I flirted with the idea of finishing in the top four in my mind, but

considering I felt out of my depth even being there (to a certain extent I was right), I am sure this darting fantasy was only, a brief one.

Did I finish in the top four? No, but through sheer grit, determination and an incredible run of luck I managed to finish fifth.

My luck continued as one of the

“I have practiced until gone 1am most nights during the week to get ready” top four could not attend the event, leading to the call up for what I thought would surely be Korea’s heaviest sporting representative in living history?

How wrong can a man be? After some extensive research from my sixth grade students at lunchtime, I was introduced to Kim Sang Jung, who plies his trade in the Ssireum (Korean Wrestling) circuit and clocks in at a whopping 207kg.

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So, am I the fifth best player in Korea? Absolutely not, there are bunches of throwers out there in Korea who only throw soft tip.

There are heaps more who simply, for whatever reason, did not join the PDK tour (this will change next year and it is going to be a lot tougher), but enough of all that, I am off to Osaka to represent Korea and I am terribly excited!

Over the past few weeks I have tinkered with my darts set up like you wouldn’t believe.

I have practiced (in shoes) until gone 1am most nights during the week, I have gone through the stress of trying to get a suit that fits me for the opening ceremony (thanks again Amazon Big and Tall, and Seoul International Darts League president, Mike Goss) and I have played a few legs of darts too!

It is Tuesday night as I put the finishing touches to this article and I have just been handed a beating in the Seoul Singles League, 10-6.

Not ideal preparation not being

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the best player in a pub when you are just about to head off to represent a nation, but I am determined to look at the positives.

I played poorly (I think nerves are starting to kick in), but I am pleased with the way I dug in and avoided what could have easily been a right tanning.

I think a few weeks ago when I was whipping myself into a frenzy about this upcoming tournament, I would have collapsed completely.

Now, it is all about mental strength and being in the right frame of mind.

I have been incredibly lucky to get this opportunity and I am going to enjoy it.

I used to think that there needed to be a decision whether to enjoy playing darts or ‘take it seriously’.

I used to think if you didn’t beat yourself up over playing badly then you didn’t care as much, what utter rubbish.

Throwing a tantrum or having a sulk doesn’t mean you care more, darts (for me anyway) is so much easier played when you are in a

happy state of mind. Hopefully this positive frame of mind will help when the inevitable nerves kick in, and boy are they going to kick in!

I still get nervous playing Monday night darts for my team the Phillies Sparrows!

Unfortunately, like many others I’m sure, I throw far too quickly when I am nervous.

“Happy, Positive, Slow, Relaxed”

“If I can perform well enough at the right times I’m sure I can win a few legs” will be what I will be muttering to myself when I toe the oche.

If I can perform well enough at the right times, I am sure I can win a few legs here and there.

If I remain positive after a real tanking from a strong opponent, I can bounce back to beat someone who suffered a similar fate in their last game.

“Remember they are nervous

What is the WDF Asia Pacific Cup? The WDF Asia Pacific Cup was first held in 1980, then known as the WDF Pacific Cup, it is held biennially and includes men’s and women’s competitions in singles, doubles and team events.

The tournament initially featured teams from North America up until 2002, when the WDF Americas Cup was formed.

Australia are the most successful nation and have enjoyed notable success since the tournament was first held, being crowned overall champions multiple times.

New Zealand, the USA and Canada have also been overall winners in the past, but this week it is Australia once again looking to defend the main title.

The Aussies finished on 246 points to be crowned overall champions again in 2014, with Malaysia and Hong Kong completing the top three places.

Malaysia won the team event and the men’s singles title in 2014, with Mohid Nasir Jantan beating Hong Kong’s Joe Ng in the final. too” is one piece of advice I will never forget.

Anything is possible. Isn’t that why darts is so great?

Everyone has a chance against anyone. I’m not ever going to be able to outsprint Usain Bolt or give Gennady Golovkin a bit of a hiding, but my personal competitive best 14 dart leg would (I really hope) be good enough to win a few legs this week.

Yes, I have only thrown a 14 dart leg once before in competition, but who is to say I cannot get to that level again this week?

Who is to say that I can’t throw the greatest leg of my life when I am up against one of the World Cup players who will be competing this week?

You just don’t know, and I am fully intent on going there with a positive mindset, a hunger t0 do well and most importantly a huge grin on my face!

Find out how I and the rest of the Korean team got on in next week’s issue!

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EVERY MATCH. EVERY TABLE. EVERY STAT PROFESSIONAL DARTS CORPORATION GERMAN DARTS CHAMPIONSHIP

First round - C Kist (98.15) 2-6 R Green (99.40), R Meulenkamp (87.99) 6-3 M Puls (79.48), D Johnson (85.58) 6-1 J Vegso (87.73), B Dolan (89.59) 3-6 D Pallett (92.68), C Dobey (89.81) 26 T Evetts (88.97), S West (109.98) 6-0 T PDC West (93.04), K Painter (95.76) 6-3 Y Meeuwisse ORDER OF MERIT (85.21), A Boulton (89.44) 3-6 S Taylor (90.00), M Holz (78.25) 3-6 E Dootson (77.73), S Hine (85.79) 5-6 R Allenstein (85.93), C Reyes (97.29) 6-5 M Walsh (88.40), K Anderson (91.59) 2-6 R-J Rodriguez (99.38), M King (96.29) 2-6 M Webster (99.48), A Smith (92.25) 6-2 S Stoyke (85.61), V van der Voort (90.91) 5-6 P Hudson (89.22), J Pipe (92.24) 6-5 M Mansell (91.18). Second round M van Gerwen (99.83) 6-4 R Green (92.22), D Gurney (99.55) 6-2 R Meulenkamp (85.91), M Suljovic (106.22) 6-1 D Johnson (92.10), G Price (87.87) 5-6 D Pallett (94.50), K Huybrechts SWEDISH (92.13) 6-4 T Evetts (88.25), S OPEN Bunting (79.85) 2-6 S West (89.50), I White (91.17) 6-5 K Painter (86.62), A Norris (88.70) 6-1 S Taylor (82.35), P Wright (113.77) 6-1 E Dootson (94.74), J Cullen (96.36) 6-1 R Allenstein (87.81), B van de Pas (87.61) 2-6 C Reyes (91.45), J Klaasen (90.71) 64 R-J Rodriguez (84.51), M Smith (89.25) 3-6 M Webster (95.37), T Jenkins (94.87) 6-5 A Smith (87.02), D Chisnall (102.48) 6-0 P Hudson (83.71), S Whitlock (91.81) 1-6 J Pipe (87.49). Third round M van Gerwen (102.02) 4-6 D Gurney (96.67), M Suljovic (91.72) 6-4 D Pallett (91.49), K Huybrechts (95.39) 5-6 S West (91.65), I White (93.24) 4-6 A Norris (92.15), P Wright (90.37) 36 J Cullen (96.33), C Reyes (103.11) 2-6 J Klaasen (102.86), M Webster (93.02) 6-5 T Jenkins (89.67), D Chisnall (96.82) 6-3 J Pipe (91.25). Quarter finals - D

Gurney (91.17) 4-6 M Suljovic (96.34), S West (88.93) 2-6 A Norris (92.13), J Cullen (93.64) 46 J Klaasen (99.75), M Webster (92.06) 2-6 D Chisnall (98.51).

Semi finals - M Suljovic (97.23) 5-6 A Norris (93.96), J Klaasen (94.79) 6-4 D Chisnall (90.52).

Final - A Norris (97.48) 6-5 J Klaasen (89.19).

FINAL EUROPEAN TOUR ORDER OF MERIT 1 M van Gerwen 2 M Suljovic 3 P Wright 4 J Wade 5 K Huybrechts 6 D ChisnallFIXTURES 7 A Norris 8 J Klaasen = M Smith 10 B van de Pas 11 P Taylor 12 T Jenkins = I White 14 S Bunting 15 D Gurney 16 S Whitlock 17 G Price = J Cullen 19 G Anderson 20 K Anderson = R Thornton 22 M King 23 S West 24 Jam Wilson SWEDISH = J WattimenaOPEN = D Petersen = M Hopp 28 C Reyes = J Pipe 30 C Dobey = J Richardson 32 J Caven 33 R Green = K Painter 35 B Dolan = A Lewis 37 A Boulton = R-J Rodriguez 39 J Clayton = D van den Bergh

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UNICORN DEVELOPMENT TOUR

Event 17 quarter finals - J van Tergouw 4-2 J Payne, D van Duijvenbode 4-3 J de Zwaan, D Reynolds 4-0 K Brown, C Rydz 4-2 R Meikle. Semi finals - J van Tergouw 4-3 D van Duijvenbode, D Reynolds 4-2 C Rydz. Final - D Reynolds 4-3 J van Tergouw.

Event 18 quarter finals - C Rydz 4-2 T Field, C Cadby 4-2 R Twell, J de Zwaan 4-1 J Nunez Cortes, J Hendriks 4-1 D van den Bergh. Semi finals - C Cadby 4-2 C Rydz, J de Zwaan 4-2 J Hendriks. Final - C Cadby 4-2 J de Zwaan.

Event 19 quarter finals - B van Peer 4-3 K Parry, A Kirk 4-3 C Loose, J Hubbard 4-3 J Smith, M de Decker 4-1 D Jensen. Semi finals - B van Peer 4-2 A Kirk, M de Decker 4-3 J Hubbard. Final M de Decker 4-3 B van Peer.

FINAL DEVELOPMENT TOUR ORDER OF MERIT 1 D Reynolds 2 R Twell 3 A Kirk 4 S Lennon 5 A Hunt 6 C Loose 7 J Payne 8 R-J Rodriguez 9 D van den Bergh 10 J de Zwaan = B van Peer 12 K Parry 13 M de Decker 14 J Hendriks 15 K Brown = M Hopp 17 A Dyer = K Neyens 19 L Humphries 20 J Hubbard = B Kirk 22 D van Duijvenbode 23 N Kenny = S Dale

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EVERY STAT YOU NEED HERE. UNICORN WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP First round - D Reynolds 6-0 J van Tergouw, A Smith-Neale 6-2 N Kenny, R Colley 1-6 K Brown, F Herz 3-6 K Neyens, R-J Rodriguez 6-0 J Moston, R Roberts 2-6 S Dale, J Faragher 4-6 J Hendriks, C Coulter 0-6 J Nunez Cortes, A Hunt 5-6 S Groen, L Gallagher 3-6 K Parry, L Whitworth 0-6 T Sykes, N Mandl 3-6 B van Peer, S Lennon 6-4 S Head, J McCarthy 6-1 D Lee, J Young 5-6 A Kolesov, D Jenson 4-6 A Dyer, R Twell 6-4 C Beaumont, K Smeets 6-1 M Dicken, D van Beek 5-6 X Zong, J Hubbard 5-6 J Brown, J Payne 1-6 M Hopp, D van Duijvenbode 4-6 M Schindler, C Cadby 6-1 J de SWEDISH Krujf, L Humphries 6-2 R King, C OPEN Loose 6-3 A Fairweather, L Devries 6-1 H Ward, A Bozzetti 3-6 A Knox, D van den Bergh 6-5 C Rydz, A Kirk 1-6 M de Decker, K de Vries 2-6 T Evetts, R Meikle 5-6 B Kirk, R de Vreede 3-6 J de Zwaan. Second round - D Reynolds 6-3 A Smith-Neale, K Brown 3-6 K Neyens, R-J Rodriguez 6-1 S Dale, J Hendriks 6-4 J Nunez Cortes, S Groen 3-6 K Parry, T Sykes 0-6 B van Peer, S Lennon 6-1 J McCarthy, A Kolesov 6-2 A Dyer, R Twell 6-3 K Smeets, X Zong 5-6 J Brown, M Hopp 5-6 M Schindler, C Cadby 6-3 L Humphries, C Loose 6-4 L Devries, A Knox 5-6 D van den Bergh, M de Decker 2-6 T Evetts, B Kirk 5-6 J de Zwaan. Third round - D Reynolds 5-6 K Neyens, R-J Rodriguez 6-4 J Hendriks, K Parry 5-6 B van Peer, S Lennon 6-2 A Kolesov, R Twell 4-6 J Brown, M Schindler 2-6 C Cadby, C Loose 56 D van den Bergh, T Evetts 6-1 J de Zwaan. Quarter finals - K Neyens 6-4 R-J Rodriguez, B van Peer 6-5 S Lennon, J Brown 2-6 C Cadby, D van den Bergh 6-4 T Evetts. Semi finals - K Neyens 06 B van Peer, C Cadby 6-3 D van den Bergh. Final - B van Peer v C Cadby (to be played November 27)

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Friday 21 October 2016 Darts Weekly

DAVE McNALLY DARTS WRITER

Getting to know ‘Scotty Dog’ Scott Mitchell Bournemouth, famous for its beaches, surfing and pensioners.

So how has that altered? Are people’s perceptions changing?

“There’s a new buzz around the city,” Scott Mitchell tells me. “It’s incredible, what with the Cherries promotion, Poole Pirates winning the Elite League speedway and myself winning the World Championship added to that hopefully.”

Mitchell, despite not being on the most famous people of Bournemouth roster,

is still a prominent figure in the

is still a prominent figure in the community.

He still works on a farm and has been known to dabble in football management for one of his local football teams.

“I was centre forward or central defender. Managing any Sunday morning pub team is not easy for many reasons.

“The difference with our team was we were all good friends and still are, so we have lots of fun and fond memories.”

What’s the story then Scott? How did you get into darts? “I have always been a darts fan, so when a friend was short in his darts team he asked me to step in and I couldn’t resist, it just went from there.”

Was it the same for speedway? “I was taken as a two-week old baby in a carrycot by my parents who were avid

LAWRENCE LUSTIG/PDC

Poole Pirates fans, it’s just in the blood.”

So after some hard graft, competing in the BDO and holding down a full time job, Mitchell managed to win seven titles the year he won the Lakeside. “I said to my wife Sharon in the car on the way to Lakeside: if I didn’t have the confidence to win it this year I never would.”

And it worked, as Mitchell has become a well-known, revered player and one of the bookies’ favourites for BDO events ever since.

After you won it, how did it change your mindset towards the sport?

“My mindset didn’t change but other peoples changed towards me.

“It gave me a massive target on my back and I had to learn how to deal with that. That was the biggest change.”

Pressures like this are commonplace in darts, people always looking to shoot down the champions, it’s what the sport is about, wanting to be the best.

“I think you have strategies to stop it happening. It ultimately will because you are thinking about it.

“I try to close the door on every achievement so that I can open new ones.”

Have you ever wanted to pack it all in? “No, I have never wanted to pack it in.

“I was dropped from the Dorset county B team many times years ago. I think that was as near as I have ever come.”

You’ve stuck with the BDO, have you ever given any thought of switching to the PDC? “Yes of course I have. Anybody that throws half decent must have.

“But for me what goes on off the board in my working life means I know I can’t give it the commitment.”

Scotty Dog? “Someone called me it when I scored a 180 at Super League so it just stuck.”