2007 World Matchplay (darts)

2007 Stan James World Matchplay
Tournament information
Dates 22–28 July 2007
Venue Winter Gardens
Location Blackpool
Country  England
Organisation(s) PDC
Format Legs
Prize fund £200,000
Winners share £50,000
High checkout 170 England Kevin Painter
Champion(s)
England James Wade
«2006 2008»

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 at its traditional home, the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, between 22–28 July 2007. James Wade won his first major title, defeating Terry Jenkins 18–7 in the final.

Defending and eight times champion, Phil Taylor suffered a semi-final defeat to Jenkins, meaning that he had surrendered both the World Championship and World Matchplay titles for the first time since the PDC began in 1994. Raymond van Barneveld, who went into this event having won the first three Sky TV majors of the year (World Championship, UK Open and Las Vegas Desert Classic) saw his hopes of the clean-sweep evaporate with a quarter-final defeat to Adrian Lewis. Barneveld was making his debut in the event having failed to qualify in 2006.

Both Lewis and Jenkins suffered hangovers from their victories over the two favourites as they lost their next matches - with James Wade capitalising. He beat Lewis in the semi-final and Jenkins in the final. Wade became the youngest winner of a PDC televised title at the age of 24 and also rose to number three in the world rankings.

Qualification

PDC Top 16
  1. England Phil Taylor (Semi-finals)
  2. Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld (Quarter-finals)
  3. England Colin Lloyd (First round)
  4. England Peter Manley (First round)
  5. England Terry Jenkins (Runner-Up)
  6. England Dennis Priestley (Second round)
  7. England Adrian Lewis (Semi-finals)
  8. England Wayne Mardle (Second round)
  9. Netherlands Roland Scholten (Quarter-finals)
  10. England Andy Hamilton (Second round)
  11. England James Wade (Winner)
  12. Canada John Part (Second round)
  13. England Ronnie Baxter (Quarter-finals)
  14. England Andy Jenkins (Second round)
  15. Wales Barrie Bates (Second round)
  16. England Kevin Painter (Second round)
PDPA Players Championship qualifiers
  1. England Chris Mason (First round)
  2. England Mark Dudbridge (First round)
  3. England Mark Walsh (First round)
  4. England Colin Osborne (First round)
  5. England Denis Ovens (First round)
  6. England Wayne Jones (First round)
  7. England Alan Tabern (First round)
  8. England Wes Newton (First round)
  9. England Andy Smith (First round)
  10. England Alan Warriner-Little (First round)
  11. Republic of Ireland Mick McGowan (First round)
  12. England Mervyn King (Quarter-finals)
  13. Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (Second round)
  14. England Adrian Gray (First round)
  15. England Steve Beaton (First round)
  16. England Bob Anderson (First round)

Prize fund

Winner: £50,000
Runner-Up: £20,000
Semi-finalists: £10,000
Quarter-finalists: £7,500
Last 16: £5,000
1st round losers: £2,500
Total: £200,000
Nine-dart jackpot: £10,000 - not won, becomes £15,000 for World Grand Prix

Draw

Round 1 22–24 July
best of 19 legs[1][2] 		Round 2 24–25 July
best of 25 legs 		Quarter Finals 26 July
best of 31 legs 		Semi Finals 27 July
best of 33 legs 		Final 28 July
best of 35 legs
               
1 England Phil Taylor 97.89 10
England Wes Newton 84.07 2
1 England Phil Taylor 101.15 13
16 England Kevin Painter 95.40 6
16 England Kevin Painter 89.78 12
England Adrian Gray 84.79 10
1 England Phil Taylor 97.06 16
9 Netherlands Roland Scholten 85.33 1
8 England Wayne Mardle 89.38 10
England Mark Dudbridge 87.09 7
8 England Wayne Mardle 94.06 6
9 Netherlands Roland Scholten 93.25 13
9 Netherlands Roland Scholten 90.58 13
England Chris Mason 88.63 11
1 England Phil Taylor 98.44 11
5 England Terry Jenkins 95.58 17
5 England Terry Jenkins 95.23 10
England Alan Tabern 92.79 5
5 England Terry Jenkins 92.98 13
12 Canada John Part 91.83 8
12 Canada John Part 94.62 10
England Alan Warriner-Little 85.00 5
5 England Terry Jenkins 91.61 16
13 England Ronnie Baxter 87.03 13
4 England Peter Manley 79.57 9
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 88.00 11
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 87.81 12
13 England Ronnie Baxter 87.75 14
13 England Ronnie Baxter 85.61 10
England Bob Anderson 84.78 6
5 England Terry Jenkins 91.62 7
11 England James Wade 96.83 18
2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 95.23 10
England Denis Ovens 94.81 7
2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 100.53 13
15 Wales Barrie Bates 83.27 5
15 Wales Barrie Bates 92.36 10
England Andy Smith 85.32 8
2 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 94.25 14
7 England Adrian Lewis 96.81 16
7 England Adrian Lewis 90.00 10
England Steve Beaton 83.24 4
7 England Adrian Lewis 100.45 13
10 England Andy Hamilton 93.42 9
10 England Andy Hamilton 79.63 10
Republic of Ireland Mick McGowan 73.58 6
7 England Adrian Lewis 101.26 7
11 England James Wade 101.90 17
6 England Dennis Priestley 93.13 10
England Colin Osborne 92.31 5
6 England Dennis Priestley 90.89 14
11 England James Wade 86.67 16
11 England James Wade 88.88 10
England Wayne Jones 87.40 7
11 England James Wade 89.53 16
England Mervyn King 88.58 11
3 England Colin Lloyd 89.62 4
England Mervyn King 92.08 10
England Mervyn King 96.85 13
14 England Andy Jenkins 91.88 4
14 England Andy Jenkins 88.89 10
England Mark Walsh 89.58 6

Television coverage

Sky Sports broadcast the event live in the UK & Ireland for the 14th year running. The final between Wade & Jenkins achieved viewing figures of 183,000 - although that was surpassed by the quarter-finals on Thursday (188,000) and the semi-finals on Friday received the highest viewing figures with 240,000 (the third highest-rated programme on Sky Sports 1 for that week) [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Averages all the way". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Seeds". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ↑ BARB viewing summary Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine.
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