Robert "Bob" Sinnaeve (born October 10, 1949) is a Canadian former professional

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player.

Early career

Sinnaeve took up darts in 1973 as an alternative to bowling, as he felt the darts circuit would give him more time to spend with his wife, Judy. He first appeared at the World Masters in 1979 and made his

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debut in 1982, but lost in the first round to

Alan Evans David "Alan" Evans (14 June 1949 – 12 April 1999) was a Welsh professional darts player and former World No. 1 who competed in the 1970s and 1980s. Evans was one of the early faces of television darts and had some tournament success in the ...

World Championship record

Sinnaeve appeared at the World Championship on ten occasions, but managed to win only three matches in that time. He lost in the first round on his first four attempts (1982, 1984, 1985 and 1986), and finally won a match in 1987, producing a major upset by beating

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, who reached the final in the previous year. His only other match wins came in 1988 against Horrie Seden, and in 1991 against Eric Burden. His last appearance at the World Championship came in 1992, when he lost 1–3 to

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Career record

Sinnaeve once managed to reach number four in the world rankings, and his best performance in a major tournament was reaching the final of the

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in 1986 – an event in which he competed each year between 1979 and 1991. Internationally, he was part of the Canadian

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winning team of 1989 – the only time they have taken the team event title. Sinnaeve finished as Runner-Up in the 1986 Butlins Grand Masters, the 1987 World Cup Singles and the 1988 MFI World Matchplay, victim to Eric Bristow each time. He was also runner-up to John Lowe in the Canadian Open in 1986. He reached the semi-finals of this event in 1990 and further semi-final places in the 1987 Denmark Open and 1988 North American Open. He received recognition as one of Canada's greatest ever players, winning a record five national titles (1979, 1983, 1986, 1987 & 1991) – a record which stood until

John Part John Part (born June 29, 1966) is a Canadian former professional darts player and current commentator. Nicknamed Darth Maple, he is a three-times World Champion, having won the 1994 BDO World Darts Championship on his world championship debut, a ...

equalled it in 2007. He also won the Ontario Singles five times (1978, 1980, 1983, 1984 and 1987) and four All-Canada Cup singles titles (1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988). Sinnaeve was Canada's number one ranked player between 1981 and 1992. He retired from competitive darts in 1992, and was inducted into the Canadian Darts Hall of Fame in 2002.National Darts Federation Canada Hall of Fame
Recently, he has teamed up with American Larry Butler and is once again playing darts in North America.

World Championship results

BDO

* 1982: Last 32: (lost to

1–2) (sets) * 1984: Last 32: (lost to

0–2) * 1985: Last 32: (lost to

Willy Logie Willy Logie (born 17 November 1952) is a retired Belgian professional darts player who competed in the 1980s and 1990s. He competed in the 1985 BDO World Darts Championship, beating Bob Sinnaeve in the first round before being defeated by Eric ...

1–2) * 1986: Last 32: (lost to Alan Glazier 1–3) * 1987: Last 16: (lost to

0–3) * 1988: Last 16: (lost to

Dennis Hickling Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometim ...

0–3) * 1989: Last 32: (lost to

0–3) * 1990: Last 32: (lost to

Leo Laurens Leo Laurens (born 30 July 1952) is a professional Belgian former darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) events. At the end of 1993, he was number one in the WDF world rankings after all of the BDO's top players broke away ...

2–3) * 1991: Last 16: (lost to

Dennis Priestley Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is an English former professional darts player. He has won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC (now PDC) world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He is ...

0–3) * 1992: Last 32: (lost to

1–3)

Performance timeline

References

External links

Profile and Stats on Darts Database
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