2011 BDO World Darts Championship

Lakeside World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	1–9 January 2011
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	£329,000
Winner's share	£100,000 (men's) £10,000 (women's)
High checkout	170 Gary Robson
Champion(s)
Martin Adams Trina Gulliver
«2010 2012»

The 2011 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 34th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 26th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Martin Adams was the defending men's champion, having won the title for the second time in the previous year's final against Dave Chisnall.

Adams became the first to successfully defend his BDO title since Raymond van Barneveld in 1999, as he beat Dean Winstanley, who is one of only a handful of players to reach the final at their first attempt. The final score was 7–5 in sets which saw Martin Adams retain the championship. Trina Gulliver successfully defended her Women's world title having beaten Rhian Edwards in a repeat of the 2010 final. It was Gulliver's ninth title.

Arguably the two standout matches of the tournament were Adams's victory over John Walton in the second round - the match going all the way to a sudden death leg - and Jan Dekker's comeback victory over Garry Thompson which was reminiscent of Chris Mason's comeback against Adams twelve years earlier (much like Adams in that match, Thompson missed nine darts at double to reach the semi-final).

Players from around the globe competed to reach the BBC televised finals, which run from 1–9 January at Frimley Green.

Format and qualifiers

Men's

The televised stages featured 32 players. The top 16 players in the Lakeside Table over the 2009/10 season were seeded for the tournament. Other places were made up of other qualifiers from the Lakeside Table, a number of qualifying spaces from the International Qualifiers (held in Hull on 28 October), and spaces for the 2008 & 2009 champions and 2010 semi-finalists if not already qualified and still eligible for the tournament. The draw took place on 12 November.

For the first time since the tournament's inception Australia was a notable absentee without any players involved.

This left England and Scotland as the only countries to be represented in each BDO World Championship since the very beginning.

Top 16 Martin Adams Stuart Kellett Dean Winstanley Steve West Joey ten Berge Scott Waites Ross Montgomery Tony O'Shea Willy van de Wiel Garry Thompson Brian Woods Mark Barilli Gary Robson Robbie Green Scott Mitchell Dave Prins

Other qualifiers Martin Atkins Stephen Bunting Darryl Fitton Alan Norris John Walton Ross Smith Tony West Steve Douglas Dave Chisnall Ted Hankey Martin Phillips

Hull qualifiers Shaun Griffiths Alan Soutar Jan Dekker Arno Merk Andy Boulton

Women's

The televised stages featured 8 players. The top 4 players in the Lakeside Table over the 2009/10 season will be seeded for the tournament. Other places were made up of other qualifiers from the Lakeside Table, a number of qualifying spaces from the International Qualifiers ( held in Hull on 28 October), and spaces for the 2008 & 2009 champions and 2010 finalists if not already qualified and eligibled for the tournament. The draw took place on 12 November.

Top 4 Trina Gulliver Deta Hedman Julie Gore Irina Armstrong

Hull qualifiers Lorraine Farlam Patricia De Peuter Wendy Reinstadtler

Other qualifiers Rhian Edwards

Prize money

Men's Champion: £100,000

Runner-Up: £30,000

Semi-Finalists (2): £11,000

Quarter-Finalists (4): £6000

Last 16 (8): £4250

Last 32 (16): £3000

There was also a shared 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £3000.

Women's Champion: £10,000 (up from £6,000)

Runner-Up: £2,000

Semi-Finalists (2): £1,000

Quarter-Finalists (4): £500

The total prize fund was £329,000 – a £4000 increase on last year. All levels of prize money remained the same as 2010 (except for the Ladies winner).

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	Martin Adams 92.52	3
		Tony West 86.58	1
						1	Martin Adams 92.49	4
							John Walton 92.04	3
	16	Dave Prins 76.86	1
		John Walton 81.15	3
											1	Martin Adams 90.27	5
												Ross Smith 87.36	1
	8	Tony O'Shea 84.24	1
		Ross Smith 84.39	3
							Ross Smith 84.03	4
						9	Willy van de Wiel 81.63	1
	9	Willy van de Wiel 86.73	3
	Q	Alan Soutar 88.44	1
																1	Martin Adams 90.90	6
																	Martin Phillips 85.89	4
	4	Steve West 84.39	2
		Dave Chisnall 86.52	3
							Dave Chisnall 91.17	1
						13	Gary Robson 90.54	4
	13	Gary Robson 87.78	3
		Steve Douglas 86.64	0
											13	Gary Robson 87.93	4
												Martin Phillips 86.97	5
	5	Joey ten Berge 86.52	3
	Q	Shaun Griffiths 82.74	0
						5	Joey ten Berge 82.41	3
							Martin Phillips 83.58	4
	12	Mark Barilli 76.65	0
		Martin Phillips 86.07	3
																					1	Martin Adams 92.13	7
																					3	Dean Winstanley 89.08	5
	2	Stuart Kellett 94.35	3
		Darryl Fitton 87.91	0
						2	Stuart Kellett 79.59	1
						Q	Jan Dekker 82.29	4
	15	Scott Mitchell 81.39	0
	Q	Jan Dekker 84.93	3
											Q	Jan Dekker 87.78	5
											10	Garry Thompson 86.67	4
	7	Ross Montgomery 82.02	1
		Alan Norris 86.01	3
							Alan Norris 78.12	2
						10	Garry Thompson 79.95	4
	10	Garry Thompson 78.06	3
	Q	Arno Merk 70.02	1
																Q	Jan Dekker 85.92	2
																3	Dean Winstanley 89.91	6
	3	Dean Winstanley 89.91	3
		Martin Atkins 92.40	2
						3	Dean Winstanley 89.25	4
						14	Robbie Green 85.98	1
	14	Robbie Green 90.25	3
	Q	Andy Boulton 83.18	0
											3	Dean Winstanley 91.74	5
												Stephen Bunting 90.93	1
	6	Scott Waites 91.17	3
		Ted Hankey 85.08	0
						6	Scott Waites 86.85	2
							Stephen Bunting 89.79	4
	11	Brian Woods 91.23	0
		Stephen Bunting 94.62	3

Women's

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

	Quarter-finals 1–2 January					Semi-finals 6 January					Final 7 January
	1	Trina Gulliver 84.27	2
		Wendy Reinstadtler 70.29	0
						1	Trina Gulliver 77.01	2
						4	Irina Armstrong 73.86	0
	4	Irina Armstrong 71.52	2
		Lorraine Farlam 71.52	0
											1	Trina Gulliver 73.95	2
											WC	Rhian Edwards 73.86	0
	2	Deta Hedman 66.24	2
		Patricia De Peuter 64.00	1
						2	Deta Hedman 60.84	0
						WC	Rhian Edwards 68.85	2
	3	Julie Gore 67.95	1
	WC	Rhian Edwards 75.99	2

Television coverage

The tournament was again broadcast by BBC Sport, who have done so every year since its inception. Colin Murray reprised his role as host, after taking over from Ray Stubbs in 2010, Bobby George was again the main pundit, hosting with Colin Murray for live and afternoon coverage sometimes joining Rob Walker for the highlight shows, Bobby George has been the BBC main darts pundit since the early 2000s. Rob Walker, the Master of Ceremonies at BBC's snooker events and host of the BBC's 2009 Winmau World Masters continued to present the late night highlights and Darts Extra through the night on BBC2.

The commentary team was headed by David Croft, who has been commentating for the BBC since 2003 and Vassos Alexander, making his Lakeside debut covering for the ill Tony Green. Guest commentators included Martin Adams and Tony O'Shea.

Most of the weekend coverage was shown live on either BBC One or BBC Two, included both semi finals and the final itself. All other matches were shown live via the BBC's interactive coverage on its Red Button service.

External links

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