2007 World Matchplay

2007 Stan James World Matchplay 22–28 July 2007 Winter Gardens Blackpool, England Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) Legs £200,000 £50,000 170 Kevin Painter James Wade ENG 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 and 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. Prize fund Position (no. of players) Prize money(Total: £200,000)Winner (1) £50,000Runner-Up (1) £20,000Semi-finalists (2) £10,000Quarter-finalists (4) £7,500Second round (8) £5,000First round (16) £2,500Nine-dart finish (0) £10,000 Qualification PDC Top 16 ENG Phil Taylor (semi-finals) NED Raymond van Barneveld (quarter-finals) ENG Colin Lloyd (first round) ENG Peter Manley (first round) ENG Terry Jenkins (runner-up) ENG Dennis Priestley (second round) ENG Adrian Lewis (semi-finals) ENG Wayne Mardle (second round) NED Roland Scholten (quarter-finals) ENG Andy Hamilton (second round) ENG James Wade (winner) CAN John Part (second round) ENG Ronnie Baxter (quarter-finals) ENG Andy Jenkins (second round) WAL Barrie Bates (second round) ENG Kevin Painter (second round) PDPA Players Championship qualifiers ENG Chris Mason (first round) ENG Mark Dudbridge (first round) ENG Mark Walsh (first round) ENG Colin Osborne (first round) ENG Denis Ovens (first round) ENG Wayne Jones (first round) ENG Alan Tabern (first round) ENG Wes Newton (first round) ENG Andy Smith (first round) ENG Alan Warriner-Little (first round) IRE Mick McGowan (first round) ENG Mervyn King (quarter-finals) NED Michael van Gerwen (second round) ENG Adrian Gray (first round) ENG Steve Beaton (first round) ENG Bob Anderson (first round) Draw First round (best of 19 legs)22–24 JulyAverages all the way http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/EventResults.aspx?EventKey=188&showAverages=Y Darts Database 10 December 2014Seeds http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/EventSeeding.aspx?EventKey=188 Darts Database 10 December 2014 Second round (best of 25 legs)24–25 July Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs)26 July Semi-finals (best of 33 legs)27 July Final (best of 35 legs)28 July 200 1 ENG Phil Taylor 97.89 10 ENG Wes Newton 84.07 2 16 ENG Kevin Painter 89.78 12 ENG Adrian Gray 84.79 10 8 ENG Wayne Mardle 89.38 10 ENG Mark Dudbridge 87.09 7 9 NED Roland Scholten 90.58 13 ENG Chris Mason 88.63 11 5 ENG Terry Jenkins 95.23 10 ENG Alan Tabern 92.79 5 12 CAN John Part 94.62 10 ENG Alan Warriner-Little 85.00 5 4 ENG Peter Manley 79.57 9 NED Michael van Gerwen 88.00 11 13 ENG Ronnie Baxter 85.61 10 ENG Bob Anderson 84.78 6 2 NED Raymond van Barneveld 95.62 10 ENG Denis Ovens 94.81 7 15 WAL Barrie Bates 92.36 10 ENG Andy Smith 85.32 8 7 ENG Adrian Lewis 90.00 10 ENG Steve Beaton 83.24 4 10 ENG Andy Hamilton 79.63 10 IRL Mick McGowan 73.68 6 6 ENG Dennis Priestley 93.13 10 ENG Colin Osborne 92.31 5 11 ENG James Wade 88.88 10 ENG Wayne Jones 87.40 7 3 ENG Colin Lloyd 89.62 4 ENG Mervyn King 92.08 10 14 ENG Andy Jenkins 88.89 10 ENG Mark Walsh 89.58 6 1 ENG Phil Taylor 101.15 13 16 ENG Kevin Painter 95.40 6 8 ENG Wayne Mardle 94.40 6 9 NED Roland Scholten 93.25 13 5 ENG Terry Jenkins 92.98 13 12 CAN John Part 91.83 8 NED Michael van Gerwen 87.81 12 13 ENG Ronnie Baxter 87.75 14 2 NED Raymond van Barneveld 100.53 13 15 WAL Barrie Bates 83.27 5 7 ENG Adrian Lewis 100.45 13 10 ENG Andy Hamilton 93.42 9 6 ENG Dennis Priestley 90.89 14 11 ENG James Wade 86.67 16 ENG Mervyn King 96.85 13 14 ENG Andy Jenkins 91.88 4 1 ENG Phil Taylor 97.06 16 9 NED Roland Scholten 85.33 1 5 ENG Terry Jenkins 91.61 16 13 ENG Ronnie Baxter 87.03 13 2 NED Raymond van Barneveld 94.25 14 7 ENG Adrian Lewis 96.81 16 11 ENG James Wade 89.53 16 ENG Mervyn King 88.58 11 1 ENG Phil Taylor 98.44 11 5 ENG Terry Jenkins 96.33 17 7 ENG Adrian Lewis 101.26 7 11 ENG James Wade 101.90 17 5 ENG Terry Jenkins 91.62 7 11 ENG James Wade 96.83 18 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)BARB viewing summary https://web.archive.org/web/20071016045743/http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/weekreports.cfm?report=weeklytop30&requesttimeout=500&flag=viewingsummary 2007-10-16 References Planetdarts Netzone Results and reports from tournament Category:World Matchplay (darts) Category:2000s in Lancashire World Matchplay Darts Category:2007 in English sport Category:July 2007 sports events in the United Kingdom