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Lakeside World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates4–12 January 2014
VenueLakeside Country Club
LocationFrimley Green, Surrey
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Organisation(s)BDO
FormatSets
Finals:
best of 13 (men's)
best of 3 (women's)
Prize fund£329,000
Winner's share£100,000 (men), £12,000 (women)
Nine-dart finishTBC
High checkout£5,000 (men)
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The 2014 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship is the 37th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 29th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green.

Scott Waites is the defending men's champion, having won the title for the first time in the 2013 championship. The defending women's champion is Anastasia Dobromyslova, who won her third title in 2013.

This tournament sees the biggest ever field for a BDO world championships. 56 players - 40 men, up from 32 in 2013, and 16 women - up for 8 in 2013 - will compete for the world titles.

Players from around the globe compete to reach the BBC televised finals, which run from 4 to 12 January at Frimley Green.

Format and qualifiers

Prize money

The prize money will be increased to £300,000 for the men's event and £29,000 for the women's event.

  • Men's Champion: £100,000
  • Runner-Up: £35,000
  • Semi-Finalists (2): £15,000
  • Quarter-Finalists (4): £6,500
  • Last 16 (8): £4,500
  • Last 32 (16): £3,250
  • Preliminary Round losers (8): £2,000
  • Women's Champion: £12,000
  • Runner-Up: £5,000
  • Semi-Finalists (2): £2,000
  • Quarter-Finalists (4): £1,000
  • Last 16 (8): £500

There is also a High Checkout prize of £5,000 in the men's event.

Men's

The televised stages feature 40 players - an increase from 32 in previous years. The top 16 players in the BDO Invitational Rankings over the 2012/13 season are seeded for the tournament. Players who finish between 17th and 24th in the invitational rankings receive a bye into the last 32. The remaining 16 players enter in the preliminary rounds - this includes recent world champions not in the top 24, a qualifier from each of the eight WDF regions, four players who came through the pre-qualifying knockout tournament, and the Winmau World Masters winner (if not already qualified). Should there be fewer than 40 players qualified after the above process, the next unqualified player from the invitational rankings will be entered until the total reaches 40.[1]

Preliminary round

WDF regional qualifiers
  1. Japan Hiroaki Shimizu
  2. Australia Harley Kemp
  3. Latvia Madars Razma
  4. Canada David Cameron
  5. Czech Republic Karel Sedlacek
  6. New Zealand Mike Day
  7. United States Jim Widmayer
  8. Netherlands Jeroen Geerdink
Hull qualifiers
  1. England Paul Hogan
  2. Republic of Ireland Michael Meaney
  3. Greece John Michael
  4. England Dave Prins
25-26 in Invitational rankings
  1. England Garry Thompson
  2. England Sam Head
Recent world champions not in Top 24 of Invitational rankings
  1. Netherlands Christian Kist
  2. England Martin Adams

Last 32

Top 16 in Invitational rankings (seeds)
  1. England Stephen Bunting
  2. England James Wilson
  3. England Tony O'Shea
  4. England Robbie Green
  5. England Darryl Fitton
  6. Netherlands Jan Dekker
  7. England Scott Waites
  8. Netherlands Jeffrey de Graaf
  9. Netherlands Remco van Eijden
  10. England Glen Durrant
  11. Belgium Geert De Vos
  12. Netherlands Wesley Harms
  13. England Gary Robson
  14. Scotland Ross Montgomery
  15. England Scott Mitchell
  16. Wales Jim Williams
17-24 in Invitational rankings
  1. England Paul Jennings
  2. England Martin Atkins
  3. England Richie George
  4. Netherlands Benito van de Pas
  5. Netherlands Rick Hofstra
  6. England Tony Eccles
  7. England Alan Norris
  8. Netherlands Ron Meulenkamp

Women's

The televised stages feature 16 players, an increase from 8 in previous years. The top 8 players in the WDF/BDO rankings over the 2012/13 season are seeded for the tournament.[2]

Top 8
  1. England Deta Hedman
  2. England Trina Gulliver
  3. Russia Anastasia Dobromyslova
  4. Wales Julie Gore
  5. England Rachel Brooks
  6. England Fallon Sherrock
  7. Netherlands Aileen de Graaf
  8. Germany Irina Armstrong
Other qualifiers
  1. England Lorraine Farlam
  2. Norway Rachna David
  3. Netherlands Sharon Prins
  4. England Lisa Ashton
  5. Netherlands Karin Krappen
Hull qualifiers
  1. Denmark Ann-Louise Peters
  2. Netherlands Rilana Erades
  3. Netherlands Tamara Schuur

Draw

Men

Preliminary round

Av. Player Score Player Av.
Netherlands Jeroen Geerdink England Dave Prins
United States Jim Widmayer England Garry Thompson
Czech Republic Karel Sedlacek England Paul Hogan
Japan Hiroaki Shimizu Netherlands Christian Kist
New Zealand Mike Day England Sam Head
Latvia Madars Razma Greece John Michael
Australia Harley Kemp Republic of Ireland Michael Meaney
Canada David Cameron England Martin Adams

Last 32 onwards

First Round (best of 5 sets)
4–6 January 		Last 16 (best of 7)
7–8 January 		Quarter-Finals (best of 9)
9–10 January 		Semi-Finals (best of 11)
11 January 		Final (best of 13)
12 January
               
1 England Stephen Bunting
United States Widmayer/England Thompson
 
 
16 Wales Jim Williams
Netherlands Geerdink/England Prins
 
 
8 Netherlands Jeffrey de Graaf
England Martin Atkins
 
Netherlands
9 Netherlands Remco van Eijden
Netherlands Rick Hofstra
 
 
5 England Darryl Fitton
England Tony Eccles
England
 
12 Netherlands Wesley Harms
England Paul Jennings
 
 
4 England Robbie Green
England Richie George
England
 
13 England Gary Robson
Netherlands Ron Meulenkamp
 
 
2 England James Wilson
Japan Shimizu/Netherlands Kist
 
 
15 England Scott Mitchell
Czech Republic Sedlacek/England Hogan
 
 
7 England Scott Waites
England Alan Norris
England
 
10 England Glen Durrant
New Zealand Day/England Head
 
 
6 Netherlands Jan Dekker
Netherlands Benito van de Pas
Netherlands
 
11 Belgium Geert De Vos
Latvia Razma/Greece Michael
 
 
3 England Tony O'Shea
Canada Cameron/England Adams
 
 
14 Scotland Ross Montgomery
Australia Kemp/Republic of Ireland Meaney

Women's

First Round (best of 3 sets)
4–8 January 		Quarter-Finals (best of 3 sets)
9–10 January 		Semi-Finals (best of 3 sets)
11 January 		Final (best of 5 sets)
11 January
            
1 England Deta Hedman
England Lorraine Farlam
England
 
8 Germany Irina Armstrong
Netherlands Sharon Prins
 
 
4 Wales Julie Gore
Norway Rachna David
 
 
5 England Rachel Brooks
Denmark Ann-Louise Peters
 
 
2 England Trina Gulliver
Netherlands Tamara Schuur
 
 
7 Netherlands Aileen de Graaf
England Lisa Ashton
 
 
3 Russia Anastasia Dobromyslova
Netherlands Karin Krappen
 
 
6 England Fallon Sherrock
Netherlands Rilana Erades

Media Coverage

On the 6th January 2013 it was announced the BBC had signed a 3 year deal to show the Lakeside World Championships from 2014-2016, on the 4th December 2013 it was announced the BBC will show the tournament exclusively in Britain which they did from 1978-2011 with ESPN now owned by BT Sport dropping Darts. This means every dart will be shown live on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Red Button, BBC Website and the BBC i-player. It was also announced the coverage would still be presented by Colin Murray and Bobby George which it has been since 2010 despite Colin Murray leaving Match of the Day 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live to move to Talksport.

References

  1. ^ "BDO men's rankings". British Darts Organisation. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  2. ^ "BDO women's rankings". British Darts Organisation. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
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