• The 2008 Stan James World Matchplay was the 15th annual staging of the World Matchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament...
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    The World Matchplay, also known as the Betfred World Matchplay for sponsorship purposes, is a professional darts tournament and one of three legs of the...
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    Terry Jenkins (section 2008)
    2007 Premier League, 2007 Las Vegas Desert Classic, 2007 and 2009 World Matchplay, 2008 Grand Slam of Darts, 2014 UK Open and 2014 European Championship...
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  • Professional Darts Corporation Triple Crown (category World Matchplay (darts))
    in the Professional Darts Corporation: the World Championship, Premier League Darts, and the World Matchplay. Players who win all three tournaments over...
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  • The 2007 Stan James World Matchplay was the 14th annual staging of the World Matchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held...
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  • The 2002 Stan James World Matchplay was a professional darts tournament held from 28 July to 3 August 2002 at the Empress Ballroom in the Winter Gardens...
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  • The 2009 Stan James World Matchplay was the 16th annual staging of the World Matchplay tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament...
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    annual PDC World Darts Championship, the World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, UK Open, Premier League, and Grand Slam. It also runs its own world rankings...
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    Phil Taylor (darts player) (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    from the spring of 2008, by winning his fourth Las Vegas Desert Classic title. Taylor then went on to win the World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, the inaugural...
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  • Belfast Birmingham Blackpool The 1956 World Professional Match-play Championship was a snooker tournament that took place from 9 January to 10 March 1956...
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    Premier League Darts and World Matchplay, it is considered part of the Triple Crown. The PDC championship began in 1994 as the WDC World Darts Championship...
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  • Mair, Lewine (23 June 2008). "Matchplay's 44-year run at Wentworth ends". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2020. "Volvo World Match Play - Qualification...
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    Wayne Mardle (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    just two legs to Adrian Lewis. He reached the semi-finals of the 2008 World Matchplay, losing 17–5 to James Wade. At the 2009 Premier League, Mardle amassed...
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    James Wade (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    the youngest player to win a major PDC title, when he won the 2007 World Matchplay at the age of 24. This record has since been broken by Michael van...
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    Michael Smith (darts player) (category PDC world darts champions)
    previously been a runner-up at the World Championship (2019 and 2022), the Premier League (2018), the World Matchplay (2019), the European Championship...
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    Glen Durrant (category BDO world darts champions)
    EDO England Matchplay. After adding the 2012 Jersey Open, Durrant retained the England Classic in 2013. Durrant made his debut at the World Championship...
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    com World Matchplay Day One". PDC. 17 July 2010. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013. "2010 World Matchplay Player...
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    Colin Lloyd (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) – the 2004 World Grand Prix and the 2005 World Matchplay. A former builder, Lloyd broke onto the scene in 1999, making his TV...
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    Gary Anderson (darts player) (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    Finals in 2014, the UK Open in 2018, World Matchplay in 2018, the Champions League of Darts in 2018 and the 2019 PDC World Cup of Darts. He has also won 36...
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    Peter Wright (darts player) (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    Championship in 2020 and 2022. He is also a World Matchplay champion and has been ranked as the World No. 1 in the PDC twice (both times occurring in 2022)...
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    The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular...
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  • Winter Gardens in Blackpool, against Chris Mason in the televised World Matchplay Championship in 2002. He has achieved the feat 11 times on television...
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    Dennis Priestley (category PDC world darts champions)
    Priestley's ascendancy was forcefully ended by Taylor's World Championship and World Matchplay triumphs in 1995. He did, however, notch up a further major...
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    Eric Bristow (category BDO world darts champions)
    become a founding member of the Professional Darts Corporation. At the World Matchplay event in Blackpool, Bristow made six appearances without winning a...
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  • and concluded 2015 as world No. 1, but Day's continued good form took him back to number one after winning the WGC Matchplay in March 2016. On February...
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    John Lowe (darts player) (category BDO world darts champions)
    his three world titles, Lowe has also won two World Masters titles, two British Open titles, two British Matchplay championships, two World Cup Singles...
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    quarter-finals in the 2001 BDO World Championship before losing 5–2 to Andy Fordham. Painter entered another PDC event, the 2001 World Matchplay, but lost in the first...
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  • Championship, which converted to stroke play format in 1958, and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the...
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  • selections to make up the eight-person field. Alongside the World Championship and the World Matchplay, it is considered part of the sport's Triple Crown. While...
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    Adrian Lewis (category PDC world darts champions)
    quarter-final which came in the World Matchplay, where he lost to Colin Lloyd. This result saw him break in the top 32 in the world for the first time. He then...
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