2015 PDC World Darts Championship

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2015 William Hill World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates18 December 2014 –
4 January 2015
VenueAlexandra Palace
LocationLondon
Country England
Organisation(s)PDC
FormatLegs (preliminaries)
Sets (from Round 1)
Final – best of 13
Prize fund£1,250,000
Winner's share£250,000
Nine-dart finishEngland Adrian Lewis
High checkout170 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld
170 England Michael Smith
170 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Champion(s)
Scotland Gary Anderson
«2014 2016»

The 2015 William Hill World Darts Championship was the 22nd World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event was held at the Alexandra Palace, London between 18 December 2014 and 4 January 2015.

Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, having won his first World Championship title in 2014, but he lost 6–3 to Gary Anderson in the semi-finals. Anderson won the title by beating 16-time World Champion Phil Taylor 7–6 in the final.

Adrian Lewis threw the event's only nine-dart finish in his third round match with Raymond van Barneveld. John Michael and Boris Koltsov became the first players from Greece and Russia respectively to play in the first round of a PDC World Championship. Cristo Reyes became the first Spanish player to reach the last 16 in the history of the event.

Format and qualifiers[]

The tournament featured 72 players. The top 32 players on the PDC Order of Merit on 2 December 2014 (after the Players Championship Finals) were seeded for the tournament. They were joined by the 16 highest non-qualified players from the Pro Tour Order of Merit, based on the events played on the 2014 PDC Pro Tour.

These 48 players were joined by two PDPA qualifiers (as determined at a PDPA Qualifying event held in Coventry on 1 December 2014), the highest ranked non-qualified player on the PDC Challenge Tour Order of Merit, and 21 international players: the four highest names on the European Order of Merit not already qualified, and 17 further international qualifiers determined by the PDC and PDPA. Some of the international players, such as the four from the European Order of Merit, and the top American and Australian players were entered straight into the first round, while others, having won qualifying events in their countries, were entered into the preliminary round.

The field was set on 1 December 2014.[1] John Michael became the first Greek player to play in the PDC World Championship.

Qualifiers[]

1^ Jarkko Komula, who finished second in the Scandinavian Order of Merit, was ineligible to play due to a suspension from the Finnish Darts Organisation. Kim Viljanen, who finished third, therefore replaced Komula.
2^ Ryan de Vreede qualified after Richie Burnett was removed from the field due to personal reasons. As a result, Stuart Kellett moved into the top 32 seeds and Rowby-John Rodriguez qualified through the Pro Tour instead of the European Tour.[2]

Prize money[]

The 2015 World Championship featured a prize fund of at least £1,250,000 - an increase of £200,000 from the 2014 tournament.[3]

The prize money is allocated as follows:

Position (num. of players) Prize Money
(Total: £1,250,000)
Winner (1) £250,000
Runner-Up (1) £120,000
Semi-finalists (2) £60,000
Quarter-finalists (4) £35,000
Third round losers (8) £18,000
Second round losers (16) £12,000
First round losers (32) £8,000
Preliminary round losers (8) £3,500
Nine-dart finish (1) £10,000

Results[]

Preliminary round[]

The preliminary round was played in a first to four legs format. One match was played per session with the winners playing their first round matches later on the same day. The draw was held on 30 November 2014, two days before the main draw.[4] Gurney achieved the highest average in the history of the Preliminary round.

Av. Player Score Player Av.
89.90 Ian Perez Philippines 0–4 Spain Cristo Reyes 93.94
67.11 Kim Viljanen Finland 1–4 Germany Sascha Stein 91.30
93.76 Scott MacKenzie Hong Kong 3–4 Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney 96.11
65.09 Mark McGrath New Zealand 0–4 United States Scott Kirchner 83.50
79.27 Boris Koltsov Russia 4–2 Japan Haruki Muramatsu 75.69
83.77 Jani Haavisto Finland 1–4 Greece John Michael 94.82
84.68 Nolan Arendse South Africa 4–0 Hong Kong Alex Hon 79.22
82.77 Jermaine Wattimena Netherlands 3–4 Croatia Robert Marijanović 76.36

Exhibition[]

The event also included a single-leg exhibition between two England cricket teammates – fast bowler James Anderson and opening batsman and Test captain Alastair Cook.[5]

Av. Player Score Player Av.
40.42 James Anderson England 0–1 England Alastair Cook 41.75

Last 64[]

First round (best of 5 sets)
18–23 December
[6][7][8][9][10][11] 		Second round (best of 7 sets)
27–29 December
[12][13][14] 		Third round (best of 7 sets)
29–30 December
[14][15] 		Quarter-finals (best of 9 sets)
1–2 January
[16][17] 		Semi-finals (best of 11 sets)
3 January
[18] 		Final (best of 13 sets)
4 January
[19]
                  
1 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen 96.96 3
England Joe Cullen 93.14 1
1 Netherlands van Gerwen 99.87 4
Germany Stein 89.09 1
32 England Stuart Kellett 73.08 1
Germany Sascha Stein 79.34 3
1 Netherlands van Gerwen 99.62 4
16 England Jenkins 96.92 1
16 England Terry Jenkins 98.73 3
Australia John Weber 79.86 1
16 England Jenkins 96.45 4
Australia Ryder 86.69 0
17 England Justin Pipe 86.28 2
Australia Laurence Ryder 83.59 3
1 Netherlands van Gerwen 105.26 5
9 Scotland Thornton 101.49 2
8 England Dave Chisnall 86.08 3
Netherlands Ryan de Vreede 75.24 0
8 England Chisnall 93.08 2
Netherlands van de Pas 91.44 4
25 Australia Paul Nicholson 85.49 2
Netherlands Benito van de Pas 86.28 3
Netherlands van de Pas 89.35 0
9 Scotland Thornton 96.50 4
9 Scotland Robert Thornton 97.65 3
England Andrew Gilding 92.00 0
9 Scotland Thornton 93.78 4
24 England Baxter 84.48 0
24 England Ronnie Baxter 94.64 3
Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney 88.78 1
1 Netherlands van Gerwen 101.35 3
4 Scotland G. Anderson 102.20 6
5 Scotland Peter Wright 98.80 3
Wales Gerwyn Price 93.90 0
5 Scotland Wright 95.52 4
Belgium R. Huybrechts 87.52 1
28 England Andy Smith 86.66 0
Belgium Ronny Huybrechts 87.75 3
5 Scotland Wright 102.60 4
12 England Hamilton 90.94 0
12 England Andy Hamilton 91.09 3
Canada Dave Richardson 86.04 2
12 England Hamilton 90.06 4
Australia K. Anderson 90.96 2
21 England Steve Beaton 82.24 0
Australia Kyle Anderson 85.99 3
5 Scotland Wright 95.66 1
4 Scotland G. Anderson 102.12 5
4 Scotland Gary Anderson 86.20 3
United States Scott Kirchner 86.21 1
4 Scotland G. Anderson 103.02 4
29 Netherlands Klaasen 100.72 3
29 Netherlands Jelle Klaasen 96.97 3
Netherlands Christian Kist 93.63 1
4 Scotland G. Anderson 104.54 4
Spain Reyes 98.52 1
13 England Wes Newton 94.61 2
Spain Cristo Reyes 93.47 3
Spain Reyes 88.41 4
20 England Painter 90.22 3
20 England Kevin Painter 89.57 3
Russia Boris Koltsov 78.14 1
4 Scotland G. Anderson 97.68 7
2 England Taylor 100.69 6
2 England Phil Taylor 100.57 3
Germany Jyhan Artut 87.47 0
2 England Taylor 101.92 4
31 Wales M. Webster 93.09 0
31 Wales Mark Webster 81.91 3
Netherlands Ron Meulenkamp 77.78 1
2 England Taylor 102.52 4
18 Belgium K. Huybrechts 96.93 3
15 England Ian White 86.72 3
Greece John Michael 81.02 1
15 England White 93.94 3
18 Belgium K. Huybrechts 93.74 4
18 Belgium Kim Huybrechts 99.40 3
Northern Ireland Mickey Mansell 87.65 0
2 England Taylor 100.08 5
23 Netherlands van der Voort 99.22 3
7 Australia Simon Whitlock 87.29 1
England Darren Webster 94.24 3
England D. Webster 93.59 3
26 England Winstanley 92.68 4
26 England Dean Winstanley 93.66 3
England Wayne Jones 94.01 2
26 England Winstanley 91.36 2
23 Netherlands van der Voort 93.90 4
10 England Mervyn King 90.67 2
Germany Max Hopp 96.60 3
Germany Hopp 86.55 0
23 Netherlands van der Voort 91.48 4
23 Netherlands Vincent van der Voort 93.39 3
Scotland John Henderson 89.13 2
2 England Taylor 102.39 6
14 Netherlands van Barneveld 99.52 2
6 England James Wade 97.14 3
Wales Jamie Lewis 87.75 1
6 England Wade 90.93 1
27 England Bunting 93.38 4
27 England Stephen Bunting 90.20 3
Croatia Robert Marijanović 86.82 1
27 England Bunting 102.34 4
22 England M. Smith 102.78 2
11 Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan 90.18 3
South Africa Nolan Arendse 83.85 0
11 Northern Ireland Dolan 92.89 2
22 England M. Smith 98.90 4
22 England Michael Smith 97.47 3
Austria Mensur Suljović 98.91 1
27 England Bunting 98.36 4
14 Netherlands van Barneveld 98.37 5
3 England Adrian Lewis 101.90 3
England David Pallett 90.05 0
3 England A. Lewis 100.41 4
England Brown 93.09 2
30 Canada John Part 84.78 2
England Keegan Brown 88.07 3
3 England A. Lewis 97.55 3
14 Netherlands van Barneveld 92.23 4
14 Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 99.93 3
Austria Rowby-John Rodriguez 79.22 0
14 Netherlands van Barneveld 93.32 4
19 England Caven 94.96 3
19 England Jamie Caven 80.87 3
Scotland Jason Hogg 83.85 2

Final[]

Final: Best of 13 sets.
Referees: England George Noble (first half) and England Russ Bray (second half).
Alexandra Palace, London, England, 4 January 2015.
(4) Gary Anderson Scotland 7 – 6 England Phil Taylor (2)
3 – 2, 2 – 3, 3 – 1, 3 – 1, 0 – 3, 0 – 3, 1 – 3, 3 – 2, 3 – 2, 3 – 1, 0 – 3, 2 – 3, 3 – 0
97.68 Average (3 darts) 100.69
19 180 scores 13
121 Highest checkout 141
39.39% (26/66) Checkout summary 32.93% (27/82)

Statistics[]

Player Eliminated Played Sets Won Sets Lost Legs Won Legs Lost 100+ 140+ 180s High Checkout Checkout Av.% Average[20]
Scotland Gary Anderson Winner 6 29 15 102 84 219 142 64 126 40 99.29
England Phil Taylor Runner-up 6 28 15 99 75 234 135 36 141 41.42 101.36
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen Semi-finals 5 19 11 75 62 146 108 43 170 42.37 100.61
Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld Semi-finals 5 18 16 70 68 161 81 41 170 41.42 96.67
Scotland Peter Wright Quarter-finals 4 12 6 45 32 127 61 13 144 46.88 98.15
Scotland Robert Thornton Quarter-finals 4 13 5 47 31 106 65 29 156 39.17 97.36
England Stephen Bunting Quarter-finals 4 15 9 53 41 121 75 24 161 40.46 96.07
Netherlands Vincent van der Voort Quarter-finals 4 14 9 56 41 116 70 22 157 42.28 94.50
England Adrian Lewis Third round 3 10 6 40 32 85 59 22 157 35.40 99.95
England Michael Smith Third round 3 9 7 35 31 74 49 27 170 39.77 99.72
England Terry Jenkins Third round 3 8 5 32 18 60 43 17 164 48.48 97.37
Belgium Kim Huybrechts Third round 3 10 7 36 34 87 40 10 146 34.95 96.69
Spain Cristo Reyes Third round 4 8 9 39 40 97 59 17 142 43.33 93.47
England Dean Winstanley Third round 3 9 9 41 37 98 57 22 136 40.59 92.57
England Andy Hamilton Third round 3 7 8 30 28 71 33 9 116 41.67 90.70
Netherlands Benito van de Pas Third round 3 7 8 28 32 79 36 10 127 31.82 89.02
Netherlands Jelle Klaasen Second round 2 6 5 22 24 60 35 8 127 30.99 98.85
England James Wade Second round 2 4 5 19 18 43 37 6 96 35.19 94.04
England Darren Webster Second round 2 6 5 25 23 82 41 6 136 47.83 93.92
Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan Second round 2 5 4 17 13 41 19 6 128 35.42 91.54
Germany Max Hopp Second round 2 3 6 19 25 62 30 14 161 31.15 91.09
England Keegan Brown Second round 2 5 6 26 21 54 32 9 124 37.68 90.58
England Ian White Second round 2 6 5 24 20 51 32 13 113 35.82 90.33
England Kevin Painter Second round 2 6 5 24 18 51 28 6 141 41.38 89.90
England Dave Chisnall Second round 2 5 4 21 15 50 19 8 116 37.50 89.58
England Ronnie Baxter Second round 2 3 5 15 19 36 15 7 106 31.91 89.56
Australia Kyle Anderson Second round 2 5 4 19 18 41 27 6 156 35.19 88.48
England Jamie Caven Second round 2 6 6 26 22 60 27 8 127 32.50 87.92
Belgium Ronny Huybrechts Second round 2 4 4 16 15 40 20 4 104 41.03 87.64
Wales Mark Webster Second round 2 3 5 13 19 41 19 8 125 23.64 87.50
Germany Sascha Stein Second round 3 4 5 22 21 61 28 7 120 34.92 84.77
Australia Laurence Ryder Second round 2 3 6 10 19 38 21 3 101 30.30 85.14
Austria Mensur Suljović First round 1 1 3 9 11 40 10 3 120 60.00 98.91
England Wes Newton First round 1 2 3 13 13 38 18 4 130 34.21 94.61
England Wayne Jones First round 1 2 3 8 12 19 24 4 68 40.00 94.01
Wales Gerwyn Price First round 1 0 3 5 9 16 7 5 40 41.67 93.90
Netherlands Christian Kist First round 1 1 3 7 9 21 8 3 136 46.67 93.63
England Joe Cullen First round 1 1 3 9 11 27 15 4 161 47.37 93.14
Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney First round 2 1 3 11 14 27 15 7 108 42.31 92.45
England Andrew Gilding First round 1 0 3 2 9 18 8 1 56 20.00 92.00
England Mervyn King First round 1 2 3 13 14 32 25 3 120 39.39 90.67
England David Pallett First round 1 0 3 3 9 10 9 3 161 37.50 90.05
Scotland John Henderson First round 1 2 3 9 12 30 13 4 101 27.27 89.13
Greece John Michael First round 2 1 3 10 11 35 12 2 120 52.63 87.92
Wales Jamie Lewis First round 1 1 3 5 11 17 10 3 141 45.45 87.75
Northern Ireland Michael Mansell First round 1 0 3 5 9 15 10 5 101 33.33 87.65
Germany Jyhan Artut First round 1 0 3 2 9 11 9 1 95 33.33 87.47
Australia Simon Whitlock First round 1 1 3 4 11 23 6 3 40 16.67 87.29
England Andy Smith First round 1 0 3 2 9 16 9 2 75 14.29 86.66
England Justin Pipe First round 1 2 3 7 10 22 9 2 116 29.17 86.28
Canada Dave Richardson First round 1 2 3 6 11 15 7 7 96 35.29 86.04
Australia Paul Nicholson First round 1 2 3 8 10 23 11 5 116 26.67 85.49
United States Scott Kirchner First round 2 1 3 12 9 25 14 2 124 31.58 84.86
Canada John Part First round 1 2 3 6 12 21 8 1 115 31.58 84.78
South Africa Nolan Arendse First round 2 0 3 4 9 22 4 0 60 28.57 84.27
Scotland Jason Hogg First round 1 2 3 8 11 19 8 5 76 29.63 83.85
England Steve Beaton First round 1 0 3 3 9 16 6 0 36 30.00 82.24
Croatia Robert Marijanović First round 2 1 3 7 13 21 7 4 52 25.93 81.59
Australia John Weber First round 1 1 3 4 10 18 5 1 128 50.00 79.86
Austria Rowby-John Rodriguez First round 1 0 3 2 9 11 4 1 40 18.18 79.22
Russia Boris Koltsov First round 2 1 3 7 11 21 6 4 60 36.84 78.71
Netherlands Ron Meulenkamp First round 1 1 3 7 9 21 12 1 60 18.92 77.78
Netherlands Ryan de Vreede First round 1 0 3 3 9 15 1 2 56 27.27 75.24
England Stuart Kellett First round 1 1 3 7 11 19 3 3 108 41.18 73.08
Hong Kong Scott MacKenzie Preliminary round 1 0 0 3 4 10 6 1 81 42.86 93.76
Philippines Christian Perez Preliminary round 1 0 0 0 4 6 1 2 – 0.00 89.90
Finland Jani Haavisto Preliminary round 1 0 0 1 4 6 3 1 48 50.00 83.77
Netherlands Jermaine Wattimena Preliminary round 1 0 0 3 4 12 3 0 64 20.00 82.77
Hong Kong Alex Hon Preliminary round 1 0 0 0 4 5 3 1 – 0.00 79.22
Japan Haruki Muramatsu Preliminary round 1 0 0 2 4 12 2 0 56 20.00 75.69
Finland Kim Viljanen Preliminary round 1 0 0 1 4 2 1 0 18 33.33 67.11
New Zealand Mark McGrath Preliminary round 1 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 – 0.00 65.09

Representation from different countries[]

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

England
ENG 		Netherlands
NED 		Scotland
SCO 		Australia
AUS 		Germany
GER 		Wales
WAL 		Northern Ireland
NIR 		Belgium
BEL 		Austria
AUT 		Canada
CAN 		Finland
FIN 		Hong Kong
HKG 		Spain
SPA 		Croatia
CRO 		Greece
GRE 		South Africa
RSA 		Russia
RUS 		United States
USA 		Japan
JPN 		New Zealand
NZL 		Philippines
PHI 		Total
Final 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Semis 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Quarters 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Round 3 7 4 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
Round 2 15 5 3 2 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
Round 1 25 8 5 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 64
Prelim. 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 16
Total 25 9 5 5 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 72

Broadcasting[]

The tournament was available in the following countries on these channels:[21]

Country Channel
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Republic of Ireland Ireland		 Sky Sports †
Netherlands Netherlands RTL7
Germany Germany Sport1/Sport1+
Denmark Denmark TV3 Sport1/TV3 Sport2
Australia Australia
Italy Italy		 Fox Sports
New Zealand New Zealand Sky Sport (New Zealand)
Romania Romania Sport TV
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Slovakia Slovakia
Hungary Hungary		 Sport TV (Sport 1 and Sport2)
 Arab world OSN
Bulgaria Bulgaria
Scandinavia
Baltic states		 Viasat

† Sky Sports 3 was renamed as Sky Sports Darts for the duration of the tournament. The channel's coverage of the event was later named the Best Sports of Live Event Coverage at the Broadcast Digital Awards.[22]

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