The very finest in tungsten action kicks off tonight with legends Phil Taylor and John Part in action. The tournament has a traditional slow start with world qualifiers getting a taste of the biggest stage in world darts. Richie Burnett V Dean Winstanley is the pick of tonight’s games. Here’s the draw for round 1
Michael Smith v Hashimoto/Lim
Justin Pipe v Arron Monk
Adrian Lewis v Dennis Smith
Mark Webster v Mensur Suljovic
Paul Nicholson v Stuart Kellett
Richie Burnett v Dean Winstanley
Ronnie Baxter v Ricky Evans
Ian White v Kyle Anderson
Colin Lloyd v Beau Anderson
Kim Huybrechts v Ronny Huybrechts
Peter Wright v Joe Cullen
Andy Hamilton v Barbero/Welge
Robert Thornton v Max Hopp
Jamie Caven v Jelle Klaasen
Steve Beaton v Petersen/Sapup
Wayne Jones v Kevin McDine
Gary Anderson v Mark Dudbridge
Kevin Painter v Tomas Seyler
Mark Walsh v Jarkko Komula
John Part v Mareno Michels
Brendan Dolan v Lindskjold/Santos
Raymond van Barneveld v Jamie Lewis
Mervyn King v Darin Young
Vincent van der Voort v Matt Clark
Wes Newton v Vos/Lam
Phil Taylor v Szabo/Moss
Andy Smith v Steve Brown
Simon Whitlock v Ross Smith
Dave Chisnall v John Henderson
James Wade v Darren Webster
Michael van Gerwen v Lerchbacher/Ward
Terry Jenkins v McGarry/Laursen
Shocking disrespect here from Sandymount Red as he writes “Darts” in lower case lettering in the thread title. It just goes to how the Oi Oi Oi brigade merely see the sport as a vehicle for a three week long Christmas piss-up and even then they can’t help but belittle the sport.
For those of us in the BDO, it’s a year round passion. We are Darts.
