UK Open 2007 - Mastercaller

Raymond van Barneveld comes to Bolton as a World Champion. Jelle Klaasen, Michael van Gerwen and Vincent van der Voort switched the BDO for the PDC and competed in Bolton as well, and Toon Greebe, Rico Vonck, Josephus Schenk and Roland Scholten complete the 8 Dutch contestants. Scholten loses for the first time in his career his first match at the UK Open and Greebe, Vonck, Schenk, Klaasen and Van Gerwen leave the tournament early.

Van Barneveld plays John Part in the last 32 and in a last leg decider; a 111-finish from Barney brings him a beautiful victory. Vincent van der Voort reaches the last 16 as well. In this round Phil Taylor hits a nine darter, Dennis Priestley loses to Phil Taylor, Colin Osborne defeats Mervyn King and both Dutch players go through to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals Van Barneveld faces Phil Taylor and he shows his class. He defeats Taylor 11-4 and sees his fellow Dutchman Van der Voort beat Terry Jenkins 11-10. Van der Voort and Van Barneveld do not play each other in the semis. Van der Voort takes a narrow victory over Colin Osborne (11-10) while Barney ends the hopes of former world number 1 Colin Lloyd. A Dutch final in Bolton and the victory goes to the World Champion. He is the first player ever to successfully defend his UK Open title.

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Competitors Of UK Open 2007

Chris Allen

Peter Allen

Bob Anderson

Rick Andrews

Dave Askew

Wayne Atwood

Michael Barnard

James Barton

Barrie Bates

Ronnie Baxter

Steve Beaton

Nigel Birch

Gary Blades

Dave Blenkarne

Ian Branks

Wayne Brown

Steve Brown

Martin Burchell

Richie Burnett

John Burton

Owen Caffrey

Andy Callaby

Roger Carter

Ray Carver

Brian Cathcart

Alan Caves

Matt Chapman

Jason Clark

Matt Clark

Dylan Cook

Andrew Coulter

Mark Cox

Simon Craven

Bob Crawley

Jason Crawley

Steve Cusick

Chris Daglish

Matty Dalwood

Stephen Davidson

Lyndon Davies

Keith Deller-MBE

Brendan Dolan

Kevin Dowling

Sean Dowling

Mark Dudbridge

Stuart Dutton

Tony Eccles

Ray Farrell

Barry French

Mark Frost

Andrew Gourlay

Adrian Gray

Garrett Gray

Toon Greebe

Robbie Green

Alan Green

Peter Green

Ian Gunion

Johnny Haines

Andy Hamilton

Stephen Hardy

Geoff Harkup

Kevin Harris

Jamie Harvey

Rob Hawker

Justin Henshaw

Nigel Heydon

Steve Hine

Mark Holden

Stuart Holden

Dave Honey

Chris Hook

Eddie Hughes

Mark Hylton

Terry Jenkins

Andy Jenkins

Darren Johnson