As a result of Phil Taylor not advancing past the quarter-final stages, Raymond van Barneveld became the world number one. Phil Taylor was the defending champion, but was beaten in the Last 16 by Michael van Gerwen, who went on to make the final, but lost 16–14 to Raymond van Barneveld. The PDC Chairman Barry Hearn announced on 21 February 2007 that all major tournament finalists for the past two years from both the BDO and PDC will be invited to the event. Also World Championship semi-finalists from the same period would receive an invite. The Merthyr man went through a horrible spell with gout and arthritis, which left him unable to walk at times.

Kirk Shepherd became the youngest player to ever reach a Darts World Championship ( PDC or BDO) final. Bates made his PDC televised debut at the 2003 UK Open reaching the third round. In 2005 he narrowly lost a last-32 match to Lionel Sams at the UK Open and made a superb run to the final in 2006 before losing to Raymond van Barneveld.The 16 PDPA members were made up from the top eight players (who had not already qualified) in the PDC Pro Tour Events during 2007: Jelle Klaasen, Mark Walsh, Tony Eccles, Michael van Gerwen, Steve Brown, Dave Askew, Jason Clark and Matt Clark. [3] Most 180s Scored, Individual: 34 John Part, 33 Kirk Shepherd, 24 Wayne Mardle, 24 Kevin Painter, 22 Adrian Lewis. BDO players Gary Anderson, Mark Webster, Shaun Greatbatch, Niels de Ruiter, Phill Nixon and Scott Waites all accepted invites to the event leaving Martin Adams (the BDO World Champion) as the only player to have rejected the opportunity to play. [4] He participated in the 2007 Winmau World Masters instead, losing at the quarter-final stage. He overcame some leading names in the process, defeating seeded players Co Stompe and Jamie Caven to reach the last 16, where he overcame his fellow countryman Richie Burnett 6-3. Now I’ve lost my card I want it again! It’s crazy isn’t it? When I had it, it was awful, but now I want it!’

Quarter-Finals (Losers €240) Ross Smith 2–1 Joey ten Berge, Ronny Huybrechts 2–1 Rob Radsma, Gary Robson 2–0 Fabian Roosenbrand, Dean Winstanley 2–1 Jan Dekker Semi-Finals (Losers €480) Ronny Huybrechts 2–0 Ross Smith, Dean Winstanley 2–1 Gary Robson Final (Winner €2,400 Runner-up €1,200) Dean Winstanley 3–2 Ronny HuybrechtsAkihiro Nagakawa 68.85 2– 5 Anthony Forde 69.83 Rizal Barellano 68.58 0– 5 Miloslav Navrátil 74.96 Alan Bolton 60.38 0– 5 Erwin Extercatte 63.15 Ashfaque Sayed 72.03 0– 5 Shi Yongsheng 78.28 Draw [ edit ] Netherlands (Michael van Gerwen & Raymond van Barneveld) def Wales (Gerwyn Price & Mark Webster) 3-1

a b c d "William Hill Grand Slam - Sunday Evening". PDC. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012 . Retrieved 12 November 2012. John Part became the first player to win the world championship in three different venues – having won the 1994 BDO World Championship at the Lakeside, the 2003 PDC title at the Circus Tavern and in 2008 at Alexandra Palace. You just knew, he could do exhibitions, anything, before he was even really playing darts. He was beating players that had played darts for years.In Group B, it was Chas Barstow who sealed top spot as he completed a perfect record on Night 2 in winning four matches from four and dropping just six legs along the way. Despite finishing bottom with two points on Night 2, Paul Hogan also secured his place in Saturday’s finale after he was the league winner on Night 1 of Group B. Elsewhere, Joe Davis and Richie Burnett ended with six points across the two nights, whereas Colin Monk finished bottom with just two points. Hopefully it will be healed before then and I can play in the World Darts Trophy but we'll wait and see, and I'm not going to the Players Championships in Atlanta and Windy City. Painter, who entered Tuesday’s play on 10 points from the opening day of Group A, won four matches from five to maintain his position at the top of the table heading into the final day on Wednesday, as ‘The Artist’ recorded victories over Matt Clark, Barrie Bates, Mike Symes and David Davies. I know I’m never going to be world champion because of my age, although you never know… But I just want to have a good go. My aim is to be on TV for one more time. Ovens edged two of the next three to move a leg away from victory at 5-3, but missed two darts for the match in leg nine and a further one dart for victory in the tenth as Bates forced a decider.

None of the 4 semi-finalists from this tournament, the first at Alexandra Palace, have played at World Championship since the 2019 edition with Mardle not having qualified since 2010, Shepherd since 2011, champion Part since 2015, and Painter who failed to qualify in 2019 for the first time since 2001. Taylor said "When I was 3 sets to nil up, I thought I'm going to beat him 5–0... If he gets his game together now he's got the biggest chance of his life to win it". a b "William Hill Grand Slam Schedule". PDC. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013 . Retrieved 11 November 2012. Netherlands (Michael van Gerwen & Raymond van Barneveld) def Scotland (Peter Wright & Gary Anderson) 3-1Kevin Painter maintained his position at the top of the table on Tuesday, after winning four of his five matches on Day 2 and looks set to secure his place in Saturday’s finale, going into the final day of Group A on Wednesday. I played in a local pub, it’s only round the corner and at one point it took me two hours to get home.