WDF World Cup Men Singles 2009

In 2009, the United States are elected host for the third time. After previous two editions in Las Vegas in 1979 and 1993, it is now Charlotte's turn in North Carolina. The Blake Hotel is the venue where will be played from September 23-25. New faces on stage for the first time in a long time. Richard Ashdown and Jacques Nieuwlaat replace Martin Fitzmaurice as host on behalf of the WDF from 2009.

It will be a very relaxed WDF World Cup in beautiful weather conditions, with 32 men's, 31 women's and 10 youth teams competing for the medals. The Cayman Islands are making their debut. Besides the Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos, Trinidad & Tobago, Bermuda, Bahamas and Barbados are also present and this ensures that this WDF World Cup also gets a real Caribbean feel to it.

For the ninth time in history, an Englishman crowns himself the WDF World Cup singles champion. Tony O'Shea consecutively beats Martyn Freeman from Wales, Malaysian Joseph Clairines, Robert Wagner from Norway and Finnish ace Vesa Nuutinen en route to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, Silverback beats Martin McCloskey of Ireland. The second Irishman in the quarterfinals does win. Connie Finnan defeats Anthony Fleet of Australia 5-3. Joey ten Berge from the Netherlands wins 5-1 in the quarterfinals against Davis Smith-Hayes from Wales. The biggest surprise in the singles tournament is Eser Tekin from Turkey. The Turk beats a number of reputable players on his way to the quarterfinals and he even seems to beat Scott Waites in the quarterfinals, but he starts feeling the pressure too much. Waites is just a little bit better under pressure and wins the decisive leg. Tekin is the first Turk ever in the quarterfinals of a WDF World Cup.

In the semi-finals Tony O’Shea beats his fellow countryman Scott Waites 6-3. In the other semi-final, Dutchman Joey ten Berge beats Connie Finnan 6-4. The final never gets really tense. Tony O'Shea is simply too good for the Dutchman on this day. Silverback hits an average of 107 and Joey ten Berge is brushed aside 7-3. It is the biggest title in his career for Tony O'Shea.

WDF World Cup Men Singles

About WDF World Cup Men Singles 2009

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Singles 2009

Øyvind Aasland

Martin Adams

Daisuke Akamatsu

Toni Alcinas

Bahadir Alev

John Almeida

Alfonso Alvaro

Kyle Anderson

Beau Anderson

Tobias Anliker

Koji Aoki

Eddie Ballantyne

Pascal Barbezat

Mark Barilli

Ryan Barnette

Søren Behrendsen

Aegir Bjornsson

Brian Blake

Roman Bleistein

Daniel Brouwer

Harry Brown

Steve Brown

Winston Cadogan

Richard Campbell

Wayne Carey

Magnus Caris

Simon Carruthers

Luca Catallo

Richard Cedeno

Ulf Ceder

Joseph Clairines

Clint Clarkson

Sammy Cruz

Mark Cummins

Vernon Daniels

Lloyd Deveaux

Vivekanand Dyal

Hank Ebanks

John Elder

Gary Elliott

Vegar Elvevoll

Salvador Escarbajal

Harry Famaey

Connie Finnan

Aevar Finnsson

Darryl Fitton

Anthony Fleet

Marco Framboas

Martyn Freeman

Rhen Fuentes

James Fulford

Tony Fulford

Sidney Garland

Thorgeir Gudmundsson

Daryl Gurney

Frans Harmsen

John Henderson

Antonio Hibernon-Cano

Steven Hickmott

Jerry Hull

Kim Huybrechts

Ronny Huybrechts

Throsdur Ingimarsson

Kevin Jacob

Frede Johansen

Sylvan Jones

Stig Jorgensen

Marko Kantele

Geoff Kime

Karsten Koch

Willy Kolly

Jarkko Komula

Roman Konchikov

Preben Krabben

Andreas Krockel

Jacques Langston

Daniel Larsson