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2007 BDO World Darts Championship
| Lakeside World Darts Championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 6–14 January 2007 | ||
| Venue | Lakeside Country Club | ||
| Location | Frimley Green, Surrey | ||
| Country | England, United Kingdom | ||
| Organisation(s) | BDO | ||
| Format | Sets Finals: best of 13 (men's) best of 3 (women's) | ||
| Prize fund | £278,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £70,000 (men's) £6,000 (women's) | ||
| High checkout | 170  Ted Hankey | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
| Martin Adams Trina Gulliver | |||
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The 2007 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 30th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation (BDO), and the 22nd to be held at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey. It ran from 6–14 January 2007.
Ahead of the tournament, the BDO announced a new stage set and player walk-on area. The markers – the two officials who manually calculated player scores – were replaced by on-stage plasma television screens. Thus, the only official on stage was the referee/caller.[1]
The defending champion, Jelle Klaasen, who was unseeded after a poor season, lost in straight sets in the first round to fellow Dutchman Co Stompé. This was the first Lakeside tournament since 1994 without four-time winner Raymond van Barneveld, who had switched to the rival Professional Darts Corporation soon after losing to Klaasen in the previous year's BDO final, the first time that a finalist from one World Championship had played in the other World Championship the following year, in direct contravention of the 1997 Tomlin Order. The day after the final, Klaasen himself also defected to the PDC, along with two other Dutch players, Michael van Gerwen and Vincent van der Voort (both of whom had also lost in the first round).[2]
Martin Adams, the number 1 seed and long known as the nearly man at the Lakeside, as the 2005 losing finalist and a three-time beaten semi-finalist, won the title. Phill Nixon, an unfancied qualifier and 150–1 outsider, also progressed to the final. Adams led 6–0 in the best-of-13-sets final, only for Nixon to mount a comeback and level the match at 6–6, before Adams finally won the deciding set.
In the women's tournament, Trina Gulliver maintained her unbeaten record as she won her seventh successive final. However, she needed a sudden-death leg to defeat Francis Hoenselaar. This was the fourth time in succession, and fifth overall, that Hoenselaar had lost in the final.
- ^ "Exciting New Look for Lakeside 2007". British Darts Organisation. Archived from the original on 15 January 2007. Retrieved 17 December 2006.
- ^ "Dutch trio defect to PDC circuit". BBC Sport. 15 January 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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