The 2009 Blue Square UK Open was the seventh year of the PDC darts tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competed in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held at the

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, between 4–7 June 2009 and has the nickname, "the

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of darts" as a random draw is staged after each round until the final. Phil Taylor won the title for the third time by defeating

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11–6 in the final.

2009 UK Open Regional Finals

There were eight regional final events staged between January and May 2009 to determine the UK Open Order of Merit Table. The tournament winners were: :11 January (North-East;

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): Colin Lloyd 6–1 Colin Osborne :8 March (Scotland; Irvine): Robert Thornton 6–2 Dennis Priestley :15 March (North-West;

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): James Wade 6–3 Kevin McDine :22 March (South-East; Brentwood): Phil Taylor 6–4 Terry Jenkins :29 March (West Midlands;

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): Phil Taylor 6–5 Wayne Jones :12 April (South-West;

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): Phil Taylor 6–0 Andy Hamilton :19 April (East Midlands;

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): Mark Walsh 6–5 Raymond van Barneveld :10 May (Wales; Newport): Jamie Caven 6–5 Alan Tabern

Format and qualifiers

The tournament features 129 players. As in previous years, eight regional UK Open events were staged across the UK where players winning are collated into the UK Open Order Of Merit. The top 96 players and ties in the list, who played a minimum of three events received a place at the final stages. The Holsten qualifiers and the players outside the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit began the tournament on the Thursday night. They played down to 32 players, and they were joined by the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit the following night, to provide the competition's last 64. A random draw was made after each subsequent round. 32 players were due to have qualified from four Holsten Pils qualifiers held in Aylesbury, Batley,

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and

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. However, Peter Green had to withdraw for unknown reasons, thus meaning there were only 31 qualifiers present in Bolton. Aylesbury * Phil Currie * Steve Dolan * Adrian Genery * ~~Peter Green~~ * John McGuirk * Steve Penney * Stuart Pickles * Coen Wiekamp *

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Batley * Alan Davie *

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* Chris Hornby * Stuart Monaghan * David Smurthwaite * Gary Stevens * Graham Usher * Darren Weaver Birmingham *

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* Mark Cox * Johnny Haines * Mike Langley * Mark Layton * Andy Pearce * Andy Roberts * Paul Rowley Salford * Kevin Beare *

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* Matthew Campbell * Les Fitton * Duane Garfield * Ken Mather * Harry Robinson * Derek Williams

Prize money

In addition, Holsten offered a £3,000 bonus to the Pub Qualifier to get the furthest into the tournament (shared by Ken Mather and Andy Roberts).

Draw

The draw for the preliminary, first and second rounds was made on 25 May, ahead of the 2009 Premier League Darts Play-Offs by

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and Keith Deller.

Preliminary round

This match was the best of eleven legs, and was played on 4 June.

First round

* All matches were the best of eleven legs, and were played on 4 June.

Second round

* All matches were the best of eleven legs, and were played on 4 June. † Mark Lawrence was given a bye into round three, as Paul Cook was disqualified.

Third round

* All matches were the best of seventeen legs, and were played on 5 June.

Fourth round

* All matches were the best of seventeen legs, and were played on 6 June.

Final stages

There was a draw after each round; this bracket has been compiled retrospectively.

References

External links

The official PDC page for the Blue Square UK Open
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