• The 1992 Coalite World Matchplay was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 12 December 1992 at The Dome Leisure...
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  • The World Matchplay was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament established in 1988 and last held in 1992. In 1988 Barry Hearn created an invitational...
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    annual PDC World Darts Championship, the World Matchplay, World Grand Prix, UK Open, Premier League, and Grand Slam. It also runs its own world rankings...
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  • Mair, Lewine (23 June 2008). "Matchplay's 44-year run at Wentworth ends". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2020. "Volvo World Match Play - Qualification Criteria"...
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    Premier League Darts and World Matchplay, it is considered part of the Triple Crown. The PDC championship began in 1994 as the WDC World Darts Championship...
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  • The WDC UK Matchplay was a professional darts tournament held from 1993 to 1996. It was broadcast on ITV's Yorkshire Television and sponsored by Skol...
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  • Jocky Wilson (category BDO world darts champions)
    1994 World Matchplay, losing to eventual champion Larry Butler. Wilson's final appearance in a televised tournament came in the 1995 World Matchplay. He...
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    John Lowe (darts player) (category BDO world darts champions)
    his three world titles, Lowe has also won two World Masters titles, two British Open titles, two British Matchplay championships, two World Cup Singles...
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    1995 World Matchplay, beating Dennis Smith, Shayne Burgess, and Nigel Justice along the way, before losing to Dennis Priestley. He was also a Matchplay quarter-finalist...
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    Dennis Priestley (category PDC world darts champions)
    Priestley's ascendancy was forcefully ended by Taylor's World Championship and World Matchplay triumphs in 1995. He did, however, notch up a further major...
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    John Part (category PDC world darts champions)
    has competed in PDC sanctioned events ever since then. In the 1997 World Matchplay, Part lost to Drew O'Neill 4–6. Joining the PDC, however, did not initially...
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  • The 1991 Coalite World Matchplay was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place in December 1991 in Doncaster, England. Gary Wilkinson...
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    Eric Bristow (category BDO world darts champions)
    become a founding member of the Professional Darts Corporation. At the World Matchplay event in Blackpool, Bristow made six appearances without winning a...
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    In 2001 the event moved to Mainz, and shifted from a round-robin to a matchplay format - the defending champion Viswanathan Anand defended his title in...
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    Phil Taylor (darts player) (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    the 1994 World Championship, and in the Last 16 of the 1995 UK Matchplay. However, since Taylor's win over Priestley in the 1995 World Matchplay final,...
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  • Rod Harrington (category World Matchplay (darts) champions)
    professional career including the prestigious Winmau World Masters in 1991 and two successive World Matchplays in 1998 and 1999. At the PDC Awards Dinner held...
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  • Winter Gardens in Blackpool, against Chris Mason in the televised World Matchplay Championship in 2002. He has achieved the feat 11 times on television...
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    surprisingly exited in the first round. Baxter did reach the final of 1998 World Matchplay whilst still a BDO player. The event was Baxter's first serious breakthrough...
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  • and concluded 2015 as world No. 1, but Day's continued good form took him back to number one after winning the WGC Matchplay in March 2016. On February...
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  • World Masters after the 1988 event, leaving the BBC as the only broadcaster of darts until 1992. The PDC introduced a new version of World Matchplay in...
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  • to Mike Gregory in the last 16. Gilman then played in the 1996 PDC World Matchplay losing in the first round to Jamie Harvey. He then disappeared from...
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    debut in the 1978 BDO World Darts Championship. He won the News of the World Darts Championship in 1989, the British Matchplay, the Swedish Open 3 times...
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    Keith Deller (category BDO world darts champions)
    the 1998 PDC World Championship and also the semi-finals of the 1998 PDC World Matchplay. Deller dropped out of the top 32 of the PDC's World Rankings around...
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  • 1999 at their World Championship, but never managed to progress beyond the group stages. He also competed in the WDC/PDC's World Matchplay tournament in...
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    Raymond van Barneveld (category PDC world darts champions)
    tournament titles in 2007 – the World Championship, UK Open, Las Vegas Desert Classic, World Matchplay and the World Grand Prix ended when he was defeated...
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  • Richie Burnett (category BDO world darts champions)
    Open, Welsh Open, British Matchplay and the Denmark Open. He then added one of the two BDO major titles, the Winmau World Masters beating Steve Beaton...
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  • Butlins Grand Masters (1984), the MFI World Matchplay (1986), the WDF Europe Cup (1988), the WDC UK Masters (1992 and 1993) and the European Masters (1995)...
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    quarter-finals in the 2001 BDO World Championship before losing 5–2 to Andy Fordham. Painter entered another PDC event, the 2001 World Matchplay, but lost in the first...
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    Steve Beaton (category BDO world darts champions)
    tournaments – the 2001 World Matchplay when he lost to Richie Burnett, the 2004 UK Open when he lost to Roland Scholten, the 2004 World Grand Prix when he...
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    Bob Anderson (darts player) (category BDO world darts champions)
    (originally known as the World Darts Council) which separated from the existing governing body, the British Darts Organisation in 1992–93. Anderson reached...
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