2009 World Grand Prix (darts)

Skybet World Grand Prix
Tournament information
Dates	5–11 October 2009
Venue	Citywest International Event & Convention Centre
Location	Dublin
Country	Republic of Ireland
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Sets "double in, double out" Final – best of 11
Prize fund	£350,000
Winners share	£100,000
High checkout	167 Adrian Lewis
Champion(s)
Phil Taylor
«2008 2010»

The 2009 Skybet World Grand Prix was the twelfth instance of the darts tournament held by the Professional Darts Corporation, the World Grand Prix. It was held from October 5 to October 11. It was staged at the Citywest International Event & Convention Centre in Dublin.^[1] The event featured a tournament record prize fund of £350,000 with £100,000 going to the winner.

Phil Taylor successfully defended his title, beating Raymond van Barneveld 6-3 in the final to win the World Grand Prix for the ninth time.

Format

The tournament's usual format was in play with the usual 501 legs double-in double-out format (the World Grand Prix remains the only televised darts tournament to use the double-in format). The first round's games were best of 3 sets - the quickfire nature of this round means shocks are frequent in this round, not least involving eight-time champion Phil Taylor who, three times, has gone out the in first round here. Second round games were best of 5 sets, the quarter finals best of 7 sets, the semi finals best of 9 sets, and the final was best of 11 sets. All sets were best of 5 legs/first to three legs.^[2]

Prize money

A tournament record prize fund of £350,000 was available to the participants, divided based on the following performances:

Champion - £100,000
Runner-up - £40,000
Semi-finalists - £20,500
Quarter-finalists - £12,500
Second round losers - £7,000
First round losers - £4,000

Qualification

The field of 32 players was mostly made up from the top 16 players in the PDC Order of Merit on September 7, following the two Players Championship events in Salzburg, Austria. The top 8 from these rankings were also the seeded players. The remaining 16 places went to the top 12 non-qualified players from the 2009 Players Championship Order of Merit, and then to the top 4 non-qualified residents of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from the 2009 Players Championship Order of Merit who have competed in at least six Players Championship events.^[3]

PDC Top 16 Phil Taylor James Wade Raymond van Barneveld John Part Terry Jenkins Ronnie Baxter Mervyn King Adrian Lewis Colin Lloyd Dennis Priestley Alan Tabern Colin Osborne Mark Walsh Wayne Mardle Kevin Painter Andy Hamilton

PDPA Players Championship qualifiers Gary Anderson Robert Thornton Jamie Caven Steve Beaton Wayne Jones Andy Smith Vincent van der Voort Mark Dudbridge Michael van Gerwen Paul Nicholson Wes Newton Denis Ovens

Irish qualifiers Brendan Dolan John MaGowan Mick McGowan Jacko Barry

Draw

	Round One Best of 3 sets[4][5]					Round Two Best of 5 sets[6][7]					Quarter Finals Best of 7 sets[8]					Semi Finals Best of 9 sets[9]					Final Best of 11 sets[10]
	1	Phil Taylor (98.33)	2
		Brendan Dolan (86.01)	0
						1	Phil Taylor (99.37)	3
							Wayne Jones (89.31)	0
		Wayne Jones (85.64)	2
		Paul Nicholson (82.92)	1
											1	Phil Taylor (98.59)	4
											8	Adrian Lewis (89.29)	0
	8	Adrian Lewis (89.15)	2
		Robert Thornton (74.41)	0
						8	Adrian Lewis (90.86)	3
							Gary Anderson (85.81)	2
		John MaGowan (82.44)	0
		Gary Anderson (96.86)	2
																1	Phil Taylor (99.76)	5
																5	Terry Jenkins (85.67)	2
	5	Terry Jenkins (88.39)	2
		Wayne Mardle (69.63)	0
						5	Terry Jenkins (93.47)	3
							Mark Dudbridge (89.97)	1
		Denis Ovens (83.76)	1
		Mark Dudbridge (89.24)	2
											5	Terry Jenkins (86.04)	4
												Andy Smith (87.00)	0
	4	John Part (86.44)	0
		Colin Lloyd (94.63)	2
							Colin Lloyd (87.62)	2
							Andy Smith (81.92)	3
		Andy Smith (83.83)	2
		Vincent van der Voort (84.59)	1
																					1	Phil Taylor (97.07)	6
																					3	Raymond van Barneveld (86.62)	3
	2	James Wade (92.17)	1
		Dennis Priestley (96.47)	2
							Dennis Priestley (79.61)	1
							Kevin Painter (79.83)	3
		Kevin Painter (80.36)	2
		Michael van Gerwen (79.23)	0
												Kevin Painter (85.76)	1
												Andy Hamilton (87.05)	4
	7	Mervyn King (85.34)	2
		Colin Osborne (81.60)	0
						7	Mervyn King (84.38)	0
							Andy Hamilton (89.51)	3
		Andy Hamilton (89.53)	2
		Mark Walsh (87.55)	1
																	Andy Hamilton (88.29)	2
																3	Raymond van Barneveld (87.72)	5
	6	Ronnie Baxter (73.97)	0
		Steve Beaton (79.59)	2
							Steve Beaton (77.74)	2
							Jacko Barry (80.13)	3
		Jacko Barry (77.45)	2
		Mick McGowan (72.33)	0
												Jacko Barry (76.44)	0
											3	Raymond van Barneveld (90.85)	4
	3	Raymond van Barneveld (87.06)	2
		Alan Tabern (81.56)	1
						3	Raymond van Barneveld (84.79)	3
							Wes Newton (82.23)	2
		Wes Newton (94.65)	2
		Jamie Caven (85.55)	0

Statistics

Player	Played	Sets Won	Sets Lost	Legs Won	Legs Lost	LWAT	100+	140+	180s	High Checkout	3-dart Average
Phil Taylor	5	20	5	68	36	21	143	88	28	164	98.62
James Wade	1	1	2	6	7	2	17	9	4	76	92.17
Gary Anderson	2	4	3	17	13	8	40	18	12	100	91.34
Colin Lloyd	2	4	3	17	13	6	45	23	3	156	91.13
Adrian Lewis	3	5	6	25	24	10	62	25	13	167	89.77
Mark Dudbridge	2	3	4	15	14	5	33	15	13	88	89.61
Andy Hamilton	4	11	7	42	34	15	92	42	11	149	88.60
Wes Newton	2	4	3	18	13	5	36	19	6	141	88.44
Terry Jenkins	4	11	6	39	32	15	103	49	17	116	88.39
Dennis Priestley	2	3	4	12	16	3	45	21	4	125	88.04
Mark Walsh	1	1	2	6	8	2	23	9	0	84	87.55
Wayne Jones	2	2	4	11	14	3	35	18	2	114	87.48
Raymond van Barneveld	5	17	11	59	59	17	149	58	24	130	87.41
John Part	1	0	2	2	6	2	8	5	1	79	86.44
Brendan Dolan	1	0	2	2	6	0	8	5	2	55	86.01
Jamie Caven	1	0	2	2	6	1	7	5	1	65	85.55
Mervyn King	2	2	3	8	13	3	19	14	4	76	84.86
Vincent van der Voort	1	1	2	7	7	3	22	6	2	136	84.59
Andy Smith	3	5	7	23	30	25	59	25	12	105	84.25
Denis Ovens	1	1	2	4	7	1	14	1	4	66	83.76
Paul Nicholson	1	1	2	5	8	1	15	4	4	120	82.92
John Magowan	1	0	2	1	6	1	12	4	1	100	82.44
Kevin Painter	3	6	5	25	21	10	35	35	13	140	81.98
Colin Osborne	1	0	2	4	6	2	11	7	1	78	81.60
Alan Tabern	1	1	2	6	6	1	17	8	1	92	81.56
Michael van Gerwen	1	0	2	3	6	1	11	5	1	50	79.23
Steve Beaton	2	4	3	15	12	5	33	15	4	141	78.67
Jacko Barry	3	5	6	22	25	7	63	24	4	92	78.01
Robert Thornton	1	0	2	1	6	0	8	3	1	72	74.41
Ronnie Baxter	1	0	2	1	6	0	11	1	1	40	73.97
Mick McGowan	1	0	2	4	6	2	11	7	0	38	72.33
Wayne Mardle	1	0	2	2	6	1	6	5	1	48	69.63

Television coverage and sponsorship

As usual and since its inception the tournament was screened by Sky Sports.

The tournament was sponsored for the last time by Sky Bet after five years.

References

1. Venue Boost For World Grand Prix obtained 02-10-2009
2. Skybet World Grand Prix Schedule of Play obtained 02-10-2009
3. "Skybet World Grand Prix Field". Planet Darts. September 7, 2009.
4. "Skybet World Grand Prix - Monday". Planet Darts. October 5, 2009.
5. "Skybet World Grand Prix - Tuesday". Planet Darts. October 6, 2009.
6. "Skybet World Grand Prix - Weds". Planet Darts. October 7, 2009.
7. "Skybet World Grand Prix - Thurs". Planet Darts. October 8, 2009.
8. "Skybet World Grand Prix - Friday". Planet Darts. October 9, 2009.
9. "Skybet World Grand Prix Semis". Planet Darts. October 10, 2009.
10. "Battling Taylor's Dublin Joy". Planet Darts. October 11, 2009.

External links

• World Grand Prix page on the PDC's official website