The 2019
Betfred
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World Matchplay was the 26th annual staging of the
World Matchplay, organised by the
Professional Darts Corporation
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the World ...
. The tournament took place at the
Winter Gardens,
Blackpool
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, from 20–28 July 2019.
Gary Anderson was the defending champion, after defeating
Mensur Suljović
Mensur Suljović (Serbian Cyrillic: Менсур Суљовић; born 5 March 1972) is an Austrian professional darts player. He plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, having previously played in the British Darts Organisation (BD ...
21–19 after extra time in the longest final in the tournament's history. However, he lost 11–8 to
Mervyn King in the second round.
Rob Cross won his first World Matchplay title with an 18–13 win over
Michael Smith in the final. He also became just the fourth player in history to win both the
PDC World Championship and the World Matchplay.
Prize money
The prize fund rose from £500,000 to £700,000, with the winner's earnings being up from £115,000 in 2018 to £150,000.
Format
In previous stagings of the event all games had to be won by two clear legs with no sudden-death legs. However, after consulting the host broadcaster
Sky Sports
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in 2013, the PDC decided that games will now only proceed for a maximum of six extra legs before a tie-break leg is required. For example, in a first to 10 legs first round match, if the score reaches 12-12 then the 25th leg will be the decider.
Qualification
The top 16 players on the
PDC Order of Merit The PDC Order of Merit is a world ranking system used by one of the darts organisations, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Following the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship it superseded a world ranking system based on points being awarded fo ...
as of 30 June 2019 were seeded for the tournament. The top 16 players on the
ProTour Order of Merit, not to have already qualified on the cut-off date were unseeded.
The following players qualified for the tournament:
PDC Order of Merit
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Michael van Gerwen
Michael van Gerwen (; born 25 April 1989) is a Dutch professional darts player. He is currently ranked number 3 in the world, having been number 1 from 2014 to 2021. He is also a three-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2014, 2 ...
''(Second round)''
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Rob Cross (Champion)
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Daryl Gurney
Daryl Gurney (born 22 March 1986) is a Northern Irish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Gurney is a winner of two majors, having won the World Grand Prix in 2017 in his native Ireland, and the P ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Gary Anderson ''(Second round)''
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Michael Smith ''(Runner-Up)''
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Peter Wright ''(Quarter-finals)''
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Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Stephen Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is cu ...
''(First round)''
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James Wade
James Martin Wade (born 6 April 1983) is an English professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). He became the youngest player to win a major PDC title, when he won the 2007 World Matchplay at the ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Mensur Suljović
Mensur Suljović (Serbian Cyrillic: Менсур Суљовић; born 5 March 1972) is an Austrian professional darts player. He plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, having previously played in the British Darts Organisation (BD ...
''(Second round)''
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Ian White ''(Second round)''
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Simon Whitlock
Simon Whitlock (born 3 March 1969) is an Australian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments, having also played in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) between 2004 and 2009. He uses the nickname T ...
''(Second round)''
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Dave Chisnall
Dave Chisnall (born 12 September 1980) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He began his career in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) and was the runner-up in their World Champions ...
''(First round)''
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Nathan Aspinall
Nathan Aspinall (born 15 July 1991) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the 2019 UK Open with a 170 checkout in the final leg against former World Champion Rob Cross.
...
''(First round)''
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Jonny Clayton
Jonny Clayton (born 4 October 1974) is a Welsh professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed The Ferret, he was half of the Welsh team that won the 2020 PDC World Cup of Darts before winning his ...
''(First round)''
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Darren Webster
Darren Michael Webster (born 10 June 1968) is an English darts player nicknamed Demolition Man.
Career
Webster won the 2005 Open Oust Nederland, beating Co Stompé in the final.
Originally nicknamed The Sniper, Webster reached the quarter-fina ...
''(First round)''
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Adrian Lewis
Adrian Lewis (born 21 January 1985) is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas ...
''(First round)''
PDC ProTour Qualifiers
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Krzysztof Ratajski
Krzysztof Ratajski (Polish pronunciation: ; born 1 January 1977) is a Polish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2017 World Masters. Ratajski also pla ...
''(Second round)''
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Ricky Evans ''(First round)''
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Glen Durrant
Glen Durrant (born 24 November 1970), nicknamed "Duzza", is an English former professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He previously won the BDO World Darts Championship three times consecutively fr ...
''(Semi-finals)''
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Joe Cullen ''(First round)''
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Steve Beaton
Steve Beaton (born 5 April 1964) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the BDO World Darts Championship in 1996 and is a former World No. 1.
Background
Beaton was born in Co ...
''(First round)''
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Stephen Bunting
Stephen Bunting (born 9 April 1985) is an English professional darts player who competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Nicknamed The Bullet, Bunting won the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship and is a twice former Worl ...
''(Quarter-finals)''
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Jermaine Wattimena
Jermaine Wattimena (born 9 March 1988) is a Dutch darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments.
Career
Wattimena won the first event he entered as he claimed the 2008 Malta Open by beating Vincent Busuttil in th ...
''(First round)''
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Jamie Hughes ''(First round)''
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Jeffrey de Zwaan
Jeffrey de Zwaan (born 26 March 1996) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
Career
De Zwaan progressed through to the last 16 of the 2014 World Masters, where he lost 3–0 to Glen ...
''(First round)''
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Chris Dobey
Chris Dobey (born 31 May 1990) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
His first major TV appearance came in the 2015 UK Open where he lost 5–1 in the first round to Na ...
''(First round)''
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Danny Noppert
Danny Noppert (born 31 December 1990) is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He is a former BDO World Darts Championship finalist, as well as being a Finder Darts Masters champion in 2017, b ...
''(First round)''
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Max Hopp
Max Hopp (born 20 August 1996) is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
Hopp reached the final of the 2011 WDF World Cup boys' singles, and won the boys' singles event at the 2012 ...
''(Second round)''
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Mervyn King ''(Quarter-finals)''
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John Henderson ''(First round)''
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Keegan Brown
Keegan Brown (born 5 November 1992) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the 2014 PDC World Youth Championship.
Career Early career
Brown began playing darts at the age of ni ...
''(Second round)''
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Vincent van der Voort
Vincent van der Voort (born 18 December 1975) is a Dutch professional darts player on the PDC circuit. As of the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship, his nickname is the "Dutch Destroyer", although he used to go by "Grease Lightning". He is bes ...
''(First round)''
Draw
Statistics
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! Player
! Eliminated
! Played
! Legs Won
! Legs Lost
! 100+
! 140+
! 180s
! High Checkout
! 3-dart Average
! Checkout Success
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, Winner
, 5
,
,
,
,
,
, 170
, 98.14
, 43.90%
, -
, align="left",
, Runner up
, 5
,
,
,
,
,
, 147
, 97.61
, 38.42%
, -
, align="left",
, Semi-finals
, 4
,
,
,
,
,
, 137
, 97.08
, 44.55%
, -
, align="left",
,
, 4
,
,
,
,
,
, 124
, 94.63
, 32.31%
, -
, align="left",
,
, 3
,
,
,
,
,
, 170
, 102.53
, 48.84%
, -
, align="left",
, Quarter-finals
, 3
,
,
,
,
,
, 160
, 94.60
, 42.67%
, -
, align="left",
, Quarter-finals
, 3
,
,
,
,
,
, 120
, 93.97
, 39.71%
, -
, align="left",
,
, 3
,
,
,
,
,
, 160
, 91.90
, 43.42%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 121
, 96.44
, 32.35%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 134
, 95.84
, 32.81%
, -
, align="left",
,
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 101
, 94.84
, 42.00%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 160
, 94.35
, 35.29%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 148
, 94.02
, 40.43%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 128
, 93.85
, 42.86%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 160
, 91.84
, 45.45%
, -
, align="left",
, Second round
, 2
,
,
,
,
,
, 124
, 91.21
, 46.15%
, -
, align="left",
,
, 1
, 5
, 10
, 17
, 3
, 4
, 127
, 102.96
, 26.32%
, -
, align="left",
,
, 1
, 8
, 10
, 24
, 16
, 4
, 97
, 101.33
, 47.06%
, -
, align="left",
Dave Chisnall
Dave Chisnall (born 12 September 1980) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He began his career in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) and was the runner-up in their World Champions ...
, First round
, 1
, 9
, 11
, 26
, 9
, 10
, 81
, 97.69
, 29.03%
, -
, align="left",
Jamie Hughes
, First round
, 1
, 7
, 10
, 25
, 13
, 2
, 128
, 97.54
, 36.84%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 5
, 10
, 21
, 12
, 2
, 52
, 97.40
, 31.25%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 12
, 13
, 28
, 21
, 6
, 119
, 95.26
, 37.50%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 4
, 10
, 15
, 8
, 6
, 80
, 94.69
, 40.00%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 8
, 10
, 23
, 13
, 2
, 101
, 93.46
, 44.44%
, -
, align="left",
Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Stephen Price (born 7 March 1985) is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is cu ...
, First round
, 1
, 12
, 13
, 23
, 11
, 6
, 106
, 92.02
, 51.17%
, -
, align="left",
Chris Dobey
Chris Dobey (born 31 May 1990) is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
His first major TV appearance came in the 2015 UK Open where he lost 5–1 in the first round to Na ...
, First round
, 1
, 3
, 10
, 17
, 5
, 2
, 145
, 91.34
, 33.33%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 6
, 10
, 22
, 6
, 4
, 46
, 89.86
, 35.29%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 7
, 10
, 20
, 8
, 2
, 85
, 89.33
, 58.33%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 0
, 10
, 8
, 6
, 2
,
, 88.63
, 00.00%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 5
, 10
, 18
, 12
, 1
, 105
, 88.61
, 33.33%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 6
, 10
, 16
, 10
, 2
, 86
, 87.77
, 31.58%
, -
, align="left",
, First round
, 1
, 1
, 10
, 9
, 3
, 3
, 32
, 82.02
, 14.29%
, -
References
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