2007 World Darts Trophy


The 2007 Bullit World Darts Trophy was the sixth and last edition of the World Darts Trophy, a professional darts tournament held at the :nl:Vechtsebanen|De Vechtsebanen in Utrecht, the Netherlands, run by the British Darts Organisation and the World Darts Federation.
It had a playing format comparable with both World Championships and features the majority of top ranked players from both organisations. The event featured the top 12 ranked players from the PDC and BDO, seven world champions and 23 world title winners – making it possibly the strongest field assembled since the split in 1992/93.
Raymond van Barneveld, the PDC World Champion, was beaten in the first round by fellow countryman Jelle Klaasen. The BDO World Champion Martin Adams fell at the quarter-final stage to Andy Hamilton. The final featured Gary Anderson against Phil Taylor. Taylor wasn't able to successfully defend his title despite hitting 17 maximum 180s in the final. Both players averaged over 100 in an excellent final – played over the same 13 set format as the BDO & PDC World Finals. Anderson captured his second major title – adding to his International Darts League success back in May.

Prize fund

The players in bold automatically qualify for the main stage and are seeded. The players in regular text automatically qualify for the main round but are not seed. The players in italics must go through the qualifiers:

BDO / WDF

World Darts Trophy Merit Table
1 to 8 on WDT Merit Table can be told based on seedings.
  1. Gary Anderson
  2. Mark Webster
  3. Martin Adams
  4. Darryl Fitton
  5. Simon Whitlock
  6. Scott Waites
  7. Tony O'Shea
  8. Remco van Eijden
9 to 12 on WDT Merit Table can be told based on rest of the automatic qualifiers.
Exact order of which players are 9 to 12 is unknown.
Likely BDO / WDF qualifiers or wildcards
PDC Order of Merit
  1. Phil Taylor
  2. Raymond van Barneveld
  3. Colin Lloyd
  4. Peter Manley
  5. Terry Jenkins
  6. Dennis Priestley
  7. Adrian Lewis
  8. John Part
  9. Roland Scholten
  10. Andy Hamilton
  11. James Wade
  12. Wayne Mardle
  13. Barrie Bates
  14. Ronnie Baxter
  15. Kevin Painter
  16. Andy Jenkins
PDC qualifiers
Wildcards
The top 12 players from the PDC Order of Merit and the top 12 BDO / WDF Players from the World Darts Trophy Merit Table automatically qualified for the event. Following controversy regarding the number of players promised an invitation, a qualifying competition was held to fill the other eight places in the first round. Seven PDC players progressed to the first round including Dutchmen Michael van Gerwen, Jelle Klaasen and Vincent van der Voort. The other four PDC players were Denis Ovens, Kevin Painter, Mervyn King and Wayne Atwood. The only BDO player who made it through was Shaun Greatbatch.
First preliminary round
Score
Andy Jenkins3–0 Phill Nixon
Paul Hanvidge0–3 Wayne Atwood
Dietmar Burger0–3 Andy Smith
Michael van Gerwen3–0 Robert Grant
Ronnie Baxter3–0 Steve Duke
Jarkko Komula0–3 Denis Ovens
Michael Rosenauer3–1 Bob Anderson
Jelle Klaasen3–1 Edwin Max
Kevin Painter3–1 Shane Tichowitsch
Mario Robbe3–1 Gary Spedding
Steve West3–0 Peter Allen
Mervyn King3–1 Craig Pullen
Shaun GreatbatchBye Barrie Bates
Martin Atkins3–0 Alan Caves
Gary Robson3–0 Mark Walsh
Vincent van der Voort3–0 Mark Barilli

Second preliminary round
Score
Andy Jenkins2–3 Wayne Atwood
Andy Smith1–3 Michael van Gerwen
Ronnie Baxter2–3 Denis Ovens
Michael Rosenauer0–3 Jelle Klaasen
Kevin Painter3–0 Mario Robbe
Steve West1–3 Mervyn King
Shaun Greatbatch3–2 Martin Atkins
Gary Robson0–3 Vincent van der Voort

Tournament Proper

Television coverage

The tournament was broadcast by SBS6 in the Netherlands, but was not shown in the UK. An internet feed from SBS was available - however this may be restricted to the Netherlands only due to contractual restrictions.