PDC World Darts Championship 2008

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PDC World Darts Championship 2008

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Tournament status

Tournament type World Championship
organizer PDC
venue Alexandra Palace , London
Tournament dates
Defending champion NetherlandsNetherlands Raymond van Barneveld
Attendees 68
Opening game December 17, 2007
Endgame January 1, 2008
Prize money (total) £ 600,000
Prize money (winner) £ 100,000
winner CanadaCanada John Part
statistics

highest
finish
170 points from Mervyn King Wayne Mardle James Wade
EnglandEngland
EnglandEngland
EnglandEngland
2007
 
2009

The Ladbrokes .com World Darts Championship 2008 was held in London from December 17, 2007 to January 1, 2008 . This world championship was organized by the PDC for the 15th time and held for the first time in Alexandra Palace . In previous years the tournament had been held regularly at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet , Essex . The decision was made to move to London as this would more than triple the audience capacity for the event. The total prize money was £ 605,000 , of which £ 100,000 went to the winner.
Number 7 seeded Canadian John Part won the tournament when he defeated the previously relatively unknown Englishman Kirk Shepherd with 7-2 sets in the final . The defending champion was Raymond van Barneveld , who lost to Kevin Painter in the round of 16 .

Seeding list

No. player Round reached

01. EnglandEngland Phil Taylor Quarter finals
02. NetherlandsNetherlands Raymond van Barneveld Round of 16
03. EnglandEngland James Wade Quarter finals
04th EnglandEngland Terry Jenkins 1 round

05. EnglandEngland Peter Manley Quarter finals

06th EnglandEngland Andy Hamilton 2nd round

07th EnglandEngland Adrian Lewis Quarter finals

08th. NetherlandsNetherlands Roland Scholten Round of 16

09. EnglandEngland Wayne Mardle Semifinals

10. EnglandEngland Dennis Priestley 1 round

11. CanadaCanada John Part victory

12. EnglandEngland Colin Lloyd 1 round

13. WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Barrie Bates Round of 16

14th EnglandEngland Ronnie Baxter 2nd round

15th EnglandEngland Kevin Painter Semifinals

16. EnglandEngland Andy Jenkins 2nd round
No. player Round reached
17th EnglandEngland Alan Tabern Round of 16

18th EnglandEngland Chris Mason 2nd round

19th EnglandEngland Mark Dudbridge Round of 16

20th EnglandEngland Colin Osborne 1 round

21st EnglandEngland Denis Ovens 2nd round
22nd EnglandEngland Andy Smith 1 round
23. EnglandEngland Wayne Jones 1 round
24. EnglandEngland Wes Newton 1 round
25th EnglandEngland Mervyn King 2nd round
26th NetherlandsNetherlands Vincent van der Voort 2nd round
27. EnglandEngland Alex Roy Round of 16
28. EnglandEngland Alan Warriner-Little 2nd round
29 IrelandIreland Mick McGowan 2nd round
30th EnglandEngland Steve Beaton 2nd round
31. EnglandEngland Bob Anderson 1 round
32. EnglandEngland Adrian Gray 1 round

Tournament overview

Preliminary round

The preliminary round games were played on December 17 and 18, 2007. You only needed 5 legs to move into the first main round.

Player # 1 Result Player # 2
JapanJapan Akihiro Nagakawa 2-5 BarbadosBarbados Anthony Forde
PhilippinesPhilippines Rizal Barellano 0-5 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Miloslav Navratil
New ZealandNew Zealand Alan Bolton 0-5 NetherlandsNetherlands Erwin Extercatte
IndiaIndia Ashfaque Sayed 0-5 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shi Yongsheng

First round

The matches took place from December 19-22, 2007 according to the best of 5 mode (sets and legs).

Player # 1 Result Player # 2 Player # 1 Result Player # 2
(1) Phil Taylor 91.11EnglandEngland 3-2 NetherlandsNetherlands Michael van Gerwen 85.99 (2) R. van Barneveld 89.12NetherlandsNetherlands 3-0 BarbadosBarbados Anthony Forde 81.84
(32) Adrian Gray 88.01EnglandEngland 2-3 EnglandEngland Mark Walsh 87.63 (31) Bob Anderson 91.07EnglandEngland 2-3 ScotlandScotland Jason Clark 89.70
(16) Andy Jenkins 86.80EnglandEngland 3-2 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Miloslav Navratil 83.12 (15) Kevin Painter 96.45EnglandEngland 3-0 United StatesUnited States Gary Mawson 83.86
(17) Alan Tabern 87.96EnglandEngland 3-1 DenmarkDenmark Per Laursen 84.17 (18) Chris Mason 84.72EnglandEngland 3-1 EnglandEngland Steve Brown 77.61
(8) Roland Scholten 94.25NetherlandsNetherlands 3-2 EnglandEngland Matt Clark 93.88 (7) Adrian Lewis 96.79EnglandEngland 3-1 EnglandEngland Dave Askew 90.46
(25) Mervyn King 95.97EnglandEngland 3-2 GermanyGermany Michael Rosenauer 86.60 (26) V. van der Voort 86.94NetherlandsNetherlands 3-2 NetherlandsNetherlands Jelle Klaasen 90.27
(9) Wayne Mardle 91.13EnglandEngland 3-2 United StatesUnited States Ray Carver 90.30 (10) Dennis Priestley 92.06EnglandEngland 1-3 EnglandEngland Steve Maish 92.59
(24) Wes Newton 87.15EnglandEngland 0-3 EnglandEngland Jamie Caven 89.36 (23) Wayne Jones 83.71EnglandEngland 0-3 EnglandEngland Tony Eccles 91.17
(5) Peter Manley 90.09EnglandEngland 3-2 NetherlandsNetherlands Toon Greebe 89.60 (6) Andy Hamilton 90.20EnglandEngland 3-1 NetherlandsNetherlands Leroy Kwadijk 74.17
(28) Warriner-Little 80.98EnglandEngland 3-1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shi Yongsheng 76.38 (27) Alex Roy 86.41EnglandEngland 3-2 New ZealandNew Zealand Warren Parry 83.56
(12) Colin Lloyd 85.75EnglandEngland 2-3 NetherlandsNetherlands Jan van der Rassel 90.66 (11) John Part 94.08CanadaCanada 3-1 South AfricaSouth Africa Charles Losper 85.21
(21) Denis Ovens 85.08EnglandEngland 3-0 EnglandEngland Colin Monk 69.48 (22) Andy Smith 81.11EnglandEngland 2-3 AustriaAustria Scale length Suljović 83.26
(4) Terry Jenkins 83.62EnglandEngland 2-3 EnglandEngland Kirk Shepherd 79.09 (3) James Wade 89.82EnglandEngland 3-0 AustraliaAustralia Steve MacArthur 75.66
(29) Mick McGowan 86.66IrelandIreland 3-0 IrelandIreland Jason Barry 87.75 (30) Steve Beaton 76.99EnglandEngland 3-0 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Steve Evans 75.56
(13) Barrie Bates 82.99WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg 3-0 CanadaCanada Gerry Convery 79.50 (14) Ronnie Baxter 94.80EnglandEngland 3-2 CanadaCanada Dan Olson 85.17
(20) Colin Osborne 90.33EnglandEngland 1-3 NetherlandsNetherlands Erwin Extercatte 92.58 (19) Mark Dudbridge 85.46EnglandEngland 3-1 EnglandEngland Steve Hine 83.07

Second round to final

  Second round (Best of 7)
December 22-27, 2007
Round of 16 (Best of 7)
December 27 and 28, 2007
Quarterfinals (Best of 9)
December 29, 2007
Semi-finals (Best of 11)
December 30, 2007
Final (Best of 13)
January 1st, 2008
                                               
1  EnglandEngland Taylor 94.52 4th                
 EnglandEngland Walsh 89.52 3  
1  EnglandEngland Taylor 96.71 4th
  17th  EnglandEngland Tabern 93.42 3  
16  EnglandEngland Jenkins 80.04 0
17th  EnglandEngland Tabern 86.04 4th  
1  EnglandEngland Taylor 92.32 4th
  9  EnglandEngland Mardle 92.20 5  
8th  NetherlandsNetherlands Scholten 93.10 4th    
25th  EnglandEngland King 90.31 2  
8th  NetherlandsNetherlands Scholten 91.86 3
  9  EnglandEngland Mardle 89.28 4th  
9  EnglandEngland Mardle 89.61 4th
 EnglandEngland Caven 82.35 1  
9  EnglandEngland Mardle 92.36 4th
   EnglandEngland Shepherd 88.77 6th  
5  EnglandEngland Manley 88.96 4th
28  EnglandEngland Warriner-Little 82.55 1  
5  EnglandEngland Manley 87.75 4th
   NetherlandsNetherlands van der Rassel 86.76 1  
 NetherlandsNetherlands vd rattle 90.99 4th
21st  EnglandEngland Ovens 90.22 1  
5  EnglandEngland Manley 94.27 4th
   EnglandEngland Shepherd 89.70 5  
 EnglandEngland Shepherd 87.18 4th    
29  IrelandIreland McGowan 85.09 3  
 EnglandEngland Shepherd 85.86 4th
  13  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Bates 85.61 2  
13  WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Bates 82.36 4th
 NetherlandsNetherlands Extercatte 84.00 3  
 EnglandEngland Shepherd 85.10 2
11  CanadaCanada Part 92.86 7th
2  NetherlandsNetherlands van Barneveld 92.31 4th
 ScotlandScotland Clark 87.96 1  
2  NetherlandsNetherlands van Barneveld 90.75 2
  15th  EnglandEngland Painter 95.20 4th  
15th  EnglandEngland Painter 92.04 4th
18th  EnglandEngland Mason 83.91 0  
15th  EnglandEngland Painter 87.51 5
  7th  EnglandEngland Lewis 86.26 2  
7th  EnglandEngland Lewis 91.81 4th    
26th  NetherlandsNetherlands van der Voort 96.46 2  
7th  EnglandEngland Lewis 94.19 4th
   EnglandEngland Eccles 97.20 3  
 EnglandEngland Maish 87.29 3
 EnglandEngland Eccles 91.08 4th  
15th  EnglandEngland Painter 91.94 2
  11  CanadaCanada Part 92.84 6th  
6th  EnglandEngland Hamilton 90.97 1
27  EnglandEngland Roy 91.33 4th  
27  EnglandEngland Roy 85.16 0
  11  CanadaCanada Part 91,32 4th  
11  CanadaCanada Part 99.06 4th
 AustriaAustria Suljović 91.26 1  
11  CanadaCanada Part 94.81 5
  3  EnglandEngland Wade 91.48 4th  
3  EnglandEngland Wade 90.92 4th    
30th  EnglandEngland Beaton 87.80 3  
3  EnglandEngland Wade 84,54 4th
  19th  EnglandEngland Dudbridge 84.96 2  
14th  EnglandEngland Baxter 91.82 2
19th  EnglandEngland Dudbridge 87.92 4th  

Participants per country and round

EnglandEngland
CLOSELY
NetherlandsNetherlands
NED
ScotlandScotland
SCO
WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg
WHALE
IrelandIreland
IRL
CanadaCanada
CAN
GermanyGermany
GER
AustriaAustria
AUT
New ZealandNew Zealand
NZL
AustraliaAustralia
OUT
United StatesUnited States
United States
South AfricaSouth Africa
RSA
DenmarkDenmark
THE
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
CHN
BarbadosBarbados
BAR
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
CZE
JapanJapan
JPN
PhilippinesPhilippines
PHI
IndiaIndia
IND
total
final 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Semifinals 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th
Quarter finals 7th 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8th
Round of 16 11 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
2nd round 22nd 5 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
1 round 36 9 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 64
Preliminary round 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8th
total 36 9 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 68

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