WDF Europe Cup Women Pairs 2016

From 20 to 24 September, the twentieth edition of the WDF Europe Cup was held in the Dutch seaside town of Egmond aan Zee. In the men’s event 32 different countries toe the oche, which is a new record for the WDF Europe Cup. Six countries leave their ladies at home, but this still means a very strong field of 26 countries in the ladies. In hotel Zuiderduin, for years the setting for the Zuiderduin/Finder Masters the NDB and WDF put together a fantastic tournament, which runs very smoothly.

From the 2015 WDF World Cup Nick Rolls joined the WDF team as one of the officials on stage alongside “Little” Richard Ashdown and Jacques Nieuwlaat, so 2016 is his first WDF Europe Cup. The Dutch Darts Association NDB is hosting this tournament for the third time, they also organized the WDF Europe Cup in The Hague in 1984 and Veldhoven in 2000. Welshman Martin Phillips participates for the thirteenth and last time in this event and is the record holder. Malta is returning to the WDF Europe Cup family for their first Cup since 2000. There are no debutants this year.

As usual, the English ladies were the big favourites for the title in the pairs, but there were certainly a few big challengers. The duo Rhian Griffiths and Rhian Edwards from Wales took out the first English pair Trina Gulliver & Fallon Sherrock 4-0 at the last 32 stage. The Welsh ladies also continued to reach the semi-finals. The Dutch duo Sharon Prins & Aileen de Graaf were also among the contenders, but they lost in the last 16 to the German duo Anne Willkomm & Silke Lowe.

Both duos from Germany reached the semi-finals. Anne Willkomm & Silke Lowe defeated the Czech duo Jana Kanovska & Jitka Cisarova in the quarterfinals. Steffi Luck & Steffi Zwitkowitsch were 4-1 too strong for the Dutch pair Anca Zijlstra & Anneke Kuijten. It is no surprise that the England pair Deta Hedman & Lorraine Winstanley also book their place in the top four with a 4-0 win over the Swedish duo Paulina Soderstrom & Maud Jansson.

The final is reached by the aforementioned pair from Wales and the English ladies. Wales beats Steffi Luck & Steffi Zwitkowitsch while England knocks out Anne Willkomm & Silke Lowe for the win. The final is won in an eleventh and deciding leg by Welsh Rhian Griffiths & Rhian Edwards, who beat Deta Hedman & Lorraine Winstanley, which means Wales takes the WDF Europe Cup pairs title for the fourth time in history.

WDF Europe Cup Women Pairs

About WDF Europe Cup Women Pairs 2016

Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Women Pairs 2016

Wendy Andrews

Nikki Bardsley

Irena Bauze

Katie Bellerby

Hana Belobradkova

Johanna Bergsdottir

Oana-Diana Birsan

Marija Bogunovic

Sharon Prins

Kirsten Byo

Robyn Byrne

Marzia Catino

Oana Cimpoca

Giada Ciofi

Jitka Císařová

Margaret Coulter

Lynn Cowan

Grace Crane

Monica Dan

Rachna David

Carine Dessein

Doriana Epuran

Emİne Erkan

Nora Fekete

Lise-Gro Finnestad

Angelique Flahauw

Carole Frison

Rhian Griffiths

Olafia Gudmundsdottir

Trina Gulliver-MBE

Janine Halsall

Linda Harte

Iselin Hauen

Deta Hedman

Angela Heinrich

Henriette Honoré

Klaudia Horvath

Lorraine Hyde

Maud Jansson

Marika Juhola

Algina Juknaite

Asta Jukniene

Jana Kanovska

Margaret Kelly

Viktoria Kiss

Dagmar Komorova

Anneke Kuijten

Kristine Kuzmane

Janni Larsen

Frances Lawson

Dorothee Lemaire

Silke Lowe

Steffi Luck

Ingibjorg Magnusdottir

Giada Marani

Malgorzata Markowska

Michela Michelini

Tamara Milic

Djurdjina Miscevic

Ramona Mostad-Eriksen

Gail Mullan

Evdokia Nakka

Sari Sauvola

Kayleigh O'Neill

Rhian O'Sullivan

Ayça Özmen

Anastasia Pentagioti

Karolina Podgorska

Jelena Popov

Ann-Marie Potts

Maria Poulidou

Vicky Pruim

Kristina Korpii

Kaisu Rekinen

Steffi Rennoch-Zwitkowitsch

Colette Rudin

Necla Sahin