2008 World Matchplay

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Template:Infobox individual darts tournament The 2008 Stan James World Matchplay was the 15th annual staging of the World Matchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, from 20–26 July 2008.

World number three James Wade went into the competition as the defending champion and managed to reach the final for the third year in a row, but was defeated by top seed Phil Taylor 18–9 who won his ninth World Matchplay championship.

Prize fund

A total of £300,000 was available for the players, divided based on the following performances:[1]

Position (no. of players) Prize money
(Total: £300,000)
Winner (1) £60,000
Runner-Up (1) £30,000
Semi-finalists (2) £17,000
Quarter-finalists (4) £12,000
Second round (8) £8,000
First round (16) £4,000
Nine-dart finish (0) £10,000

Qualification

The qualification process for the World Matchplay differed this year. The top 16 in the PDC Order of the Merit after the 2008 UK Open qualified automatically as the 16 seeds. The other 16 places would be made up of the 16 highest ranked players (not already in the top 16) from the 2008 Players Championship Order of Merit - decided by the various Player Championship events taking place on the PDC Pro Tour from January 2008 - the cutoff point was the Las Vegas Players Championship just before the 2008 Las Vegas Desert Classic.[2][3]

Thus, the participants were:

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Draw

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Statistics

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Player Eliminated Played Legs Won Legs Lost LWAT 100+ 140+ 180s High Checkout 3-dart Average
Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor Winner 5 74 34 30 143 92 36 160 104.81
Template:Flagicon James Wade Final 5 65 46 28 120 95 42 157 99.49
Template:Flagicon Wayne Mardle Semi-finals 4 47 51 16 133 65 12 155 89.20
Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley Semi-finals 4 47 50 18 131 62 13 155 94.10
Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld Quarter-finals 3 40 30 16 91 44 6 138 89.57
Template:Flagicon Kevin McDine Quarter-finals 3 29 33 9 87 35 15 160 92.69
Template:Flagicon Matt Clark Quarter-finals 3 35 26 11 75 34 9 161 90.80
Template:Flagicon Alan Tabern Quarter-finals 3 37 31 14 98 52 14 120 93.31
Template:Flagicon Mark Walsh Second round 2 19 19 7 60 26 12 96 97.72
Template:Flagicon Colin Osborne Second round 2 15 20 5 44 19 10 110 96.93
Template:Flagicon Ronnie Baxter Second round 2 17 17 7 44 23 4 102 93.20
Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins Second round 2 21 19 9 52 30 9 160 92.79
Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen Second round 2 23 25 9 64 29 8 112 90.68
Template:Flagicon Peter Manley Second round 2 16 17 5 48 20 8 156 90.03
Template:Flagicon John Part Second round 2 17 16 6 26 24 7 120 87.75
Template:Flagicon Tony Eccles Second round 2 13 21 4 54 11 4 157 86.78
Template:Flagicon Kevin Painter First round 1 8 10 3 26 10 2 76 86.57
Template:Flagicon Adrian Gray First round 1 8 10 3 23 7 3 81 84.63
Template:Flagicon Andy Smith First round 1 4 10 1 22 5 2 80 84.45
Template:Flagicon Mark Frost First round 1 9 11 5 29 13 2 102 82.17
Template:Flagicon Steve Beaton First round 1 6 10 0 19 14 4 152 97.91
Template:Flagicon Adrian Lewis First round 1 8 10 3 17 14 4 116 88.75
Template:Flagicon Mark Dudbridge First round 1 9 11 2 23 18 5 160 88.28
Template:Flagicon Andy Hamilton First round 1 12 14 5 35 18 4 140 92.59
Template:Flagicon Vincent van der Voort First round 1 8 10 3 18 15 5 96 92.25
Template:Flagicon Mervyn King First round 1 7 10 1 22 13 1 116 91.49
Template:Flagicon Colin Lloyd First round 1 6 10 2 22 5 2 127 91.37
Template:Flagicon Alex Roy First round 1 6 10 3 27 13 2 116 91.32
Template:Flagicon Wayne Jones First round 1 4 10 1 18 12 1 116 91.04
Template:Flagicon Denis Ovens First round 1 4 10 1 22 10 3 110 90.59
Template:Flagicon Roland Scholten First round 1 4 10 0 17 6 1 74 90.56
Template:Flagicon Chris Mason First round 1 3 10 1 26 3 0 115 81.97

References

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  2. ↑ 2008 Order of Merit explanation Template:Webarchive obtained 6 July 2008
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