2004 PDC World Darts Championship

The 2004 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 10th anniversary of the PDC version of the World Darts Championship. The tournament took place between 27 December 2003 and 4 January 2004 at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet, England.

2004 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates27 December 2003 –
4 January 2004
VenueCircus Tavern
LocationPurfleet
Country England
Organisation(s)PDC
FormatSets
Final – best of 13
Prize fund£257,000
Winner's share£50,000
High checkout
Champion(s)
 Phil Taylor
«2003 2005»

An extra round was added, with the top 16 seeds given a bye to the third round, bringing the total players at the televised stages to 48. Ladbrokes, who sponsored the event initially for one year in 2003, decided to extend their deal and the prize fund was increased to £256,000. The Dutch television station, RTL 5 and Sky Sports both extended their deals with the PDC by three years. PDC chairman Barry Hearn announced that the tournament would be shown in Malaysia on pay-per-view.

Defending champion and number two seed, John Part suffered a surprise first-round defeat to Mark Dudbridge, his first match of the 2004 campaign.

The final became only the second ever (and first PDC) world final to go to a sudden-death leg. The first time it happened was when Phil Taylor beat Mike Gregory in the 1992 BDO final, Taylor was again involved and came out victorious against Kevin Painter. He came from 4–1 down to win his 11th world title.

The two losing semi-finalists came from different ends of darts experience. 56-year-old Bob Anderson, a World Champion 16 years earlier lost to Painter and Wayne Mardle was making his first PDC World Championship semi-final appearance. Mardle lost to Taylor for the second year running, following a third-round defeat as an unseeded player in 2003.

Seeds edit

There were sixteen seeds in the World Championship.[1]

International qualifing tournaments edit

Prize money edit

Position (num. of players) Prize money
(Total: £257,000)[2]
Winner (1) £50,000
Runner-Up (1) £25,000
Semi-finalists (2) £12,500
Quarter-finalists (4) £7,500
Fourth round losers (8) £5,250
Third round losers (16) £3,250
Second round losers (8) £2,500
First round losers (8) £1,500
Highest finish bonus (1) £1,000

New format edit

To accommodate the change in the number of entries into the competition to 48, the format of the World Championship was again changed. 16 qualifiers would contest the first round, with the eight winners going through to the second round to meet players ranked between 25 and 32 in the PDC. The eight second round winners would go through to join the top 24 in the third round, where the tournament proceeded from the last 32 to the Final.

Results edit

Players in bold denote match winners.[3][4][5]

Rounds 1-2 edit

First round (best of 5 sets)
27 December
Second round (best of 5 sets)
28 December
  Rory Orvis 82.000  Mark Holden 75.630
  Colin McGarry 88.603  Colin McGarry 86.213
  Ritchie Buckle 87.153  Steve Brown 83.420
  Jan van der Rassel 83.761  Ritchie Buckle 91.713
  Tony Payne 73.210  Cliff Lazarenko 80.532
  Steve Maish 82.043  Steve Maish 82.203
  Dan Lauby 65.590  Mark Walsh 72.290
  Erik Clarys 79.243  Erik Clarys 79.213
  Barry Jouannet 75.512  Lionel Sams 85.833
  Alex MacKay 85.153  Alex MacKay 84.772
  Wayne Atwood 77.343  Mick Manning 80.570
  Toru Sano 66.520  Wayne Atwood 87.943
  Norman Madhoo 74.061  Mark Dudbridge 81.703
  Steve Smith 80.493  Steve Smith 78.260
  Robbie Widdows 84.643  Simon Whatley 80.343
  Henry O'Neill 82.062  Robbie Widdows 81.861

Round 3 onwards edit

Third round (best of 7 sets)
29–31 December
Fourth round (best of 7 sets)
1 January
Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets)
2 January
Semi-finals (best of 11 sets)
3 January
Final (best of 13 sets)
4 January
               
1   Phil Taylor 97.89 4
Q   Colin McGarry 81.79 0
1   Phil Taylor 94.50 4
16   Dennis Priestley 87.06 1
16   Dennis Priestley 83.02 4
Q   Ritchie Buckle 84.18 3
1   Phil Taylor 98.15 5
9   Alan Warriner 90.35 1
8   Denis Ovens 85.70 3
  Alex Roy 85.49 4
  Alex Roy 85.33 3
9   Alan Warriner 82.97 4
9   Alan Warriner 94.95 4
  John Lowe 90.26 3
1   Phil Taylor 99.61 6
12   Wayne Mardle 96.49 2
5   Colin Lloyd 98.62 4
  Peter Evison 78.84 1
5   Colin Lloyd 87.39 3
12   Wayne Mardle 91.01 4
12   Wayne Mardle 92.61 4
Q   Steve Maish 87.09 2
12   Wayne Mardle 87.93 5
  Simon Whatley 77.24 1
4   Roland Scholten 88.05 2
  Lionel Sams 88.78 4
  Lionel Sams 83.77 1
    Simon Whatley 82.84 4
13   Richie Burnett 82.21 3
  Simon Whatley 80.06 4
1   Phil Taylor 96.00 7
10   Kevin Painter 90.47 6
2   John Part 90.09 3
  Mark Dudbridge 88.99 4
    Mark Dudbridge 84.36 4
  Steve Beaton 77.62 1
15   Jamie Harvey 79.00 0
  Steve Beaton 87.58 4
  Mark Dudbridge 83.37 1
10   Kevin Painter 90.26 5
7   Ronnie Baxter 86.85 4
Q   Erik Clarys 82.53 2
7   Ronnie Baxter 89.62 2
10   Kevin Painter 90.74 4
10   Kevin Painter 88.62 4
  Paul Williams 82.47 3
10   Kevin Painter 96.71 6
  Bob Anderson 88.95 0
6   Dennis Smith 81.77 4
  Les Fitton 82.24 2
6   Dennis Smith 86.21 3
  Bob Anderson 86.23 4
11   Andy Jenkins 77.97 1
  Bob Anderson 83.98 4
  Bob Anderson 90.91 5
3   Peter Manley 89.87 2
3   Peter Manley 89.34 4
Q   Wayne Atwood 85.60 3
3   Peter Manley 93.33 4
  Keith Deller 92.58 2
14   Dave Askew 75.32 3
  Keith Deller 76.60 4

Representation from different countries edit

This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including round 1&2.

 
ENG
 
NED
 
SCO
 
AUS
 
WAL
 
NIR
 
BEL
 
CAN
 
USA
 
JPN
 
GUY
Total
Final 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Semis 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Quarters 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Round 4 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
Round 3 25 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 32
Round 2 11 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 16
Round 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 16
Total 32 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 48


References edit

  1. ^ "2004 PDC World Championship Seeds". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  2. ^ "2004 PDC World Championship Player Prize Money". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  3. ^ "2004 PDC World Championship Results". Darts Database. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Results of PDC World Championship 2004". Mastercaller. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  5. ^ "PDC World Championship 2004 – Bracket". Mastercaller. Retrieved 5 February 2024.

External links edit