Darryl Fitton ended 2009 brilliantly. In the second weekend of December The Dazzler won the Zuiderduin Masters by defeating Martin Adams 5-2 in the final. Fitton ended the hopes of Alan Norris in the semi-finals and defeated the last Scotsman, Ross Montgomery, in the quarterfinals.
The semi-finals were all English matches. Next to Fitton, Adams and Norris played Gary Robson in the semi-finals. The Dutch players did not manage to give their home crowd much to cheer about, none of them came through the group phase.