WDF World Cup Women Pairs 1993

The ninth WDF World Cup is played for the second time in the largest gambling city of the world; Las Vegas. In 1979 WDF World Cup II was also held there, back then with only men's teams. Just like two years ago in Zandvoort Netherlands, there were 32 countries in the men’s competition. In the ladies, 26 countries started for their sixth WDF World Cup Darts.

Traditionally, there are relatively many Caribbean countries when playing in North America. There are also three debuting countries; The Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa have joined the WDF World Cup family. The Sahara Hotel is the place to be from 13 to 16 October, just like 14 years ago. That does not apply to a lot of trusted names. This WDF World Cup goes down in history as the first after the split, with a large number of top players having set up their own darts association, later known as the PDC.

In the ladies pairs event, the countries were divided into groups for the first time. In a round-robin they all played each other in the group. The top two pairs from each group qualified for the last 16 where the knocked-out phase started. In the last sixteen was one big surprise. Lucy Jemtai & Mary Njogu from Kenya qualified for the quarterfinals by beating Joan Flynn and Sharon O'Brien from the Republic of Ireland 4-1.

The Kenyan ladies produced a lot of good scores but had some problems on the doubles otherwise they certainly would have been closer in the quarterfinals where the ladies from Kenya were defeated 4-1 by Sandra Greatbatch & Rhian Speed from Wales. The Finns won the Scandinavian battle 4-2 over Denmark. The Dutch duo Francis Hoenselaar & Valerie Maytum had to work hard to beat the ladies from the USA, Kathy Maloney & Stacey Bromberg. Their fanatical fans supported team USA, but the Orange ladies eventually won it. The English pair Mandy Solomons & Sue Talbot did not have it easy either against the Australian players Carol Forwood & Christine Clarke, but narrowly won 4-3. I

In the semi-finals the English ladies defeated the ladies from Wales 4-3. The Dutch tandem had experienced less difficulty in their semi-final and beat Finland’s Paivi Jussila & Sirpa Levanen 4-1. In the final, the English ladies led 2-0 after legs in 19 and 16 darts, but the next three legs went to the Netherlands in 23, 23 and 21 darts. The longer the game lasted the more the nerves set in with both pairs. Solomons and Talbot forced a deciding leg and took a comfortable lead in it, but 11 match darts were not enough to win the title. The Dutch ladies, who were also clearly nervous, eventually did find the winning double and Francis Hoenselaar & Valerie Maytum crowned themselves as WDF World Cup Pairs champions. The first ever gold for the Netherlands in the ladies pairs.

WDF World Cup Women Pairs

About WDF World Cup Women Pairs 1993

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Women Pairs 1993

Frederique Apffel

Andrea Beres

Sabine Beutler

Madeleine Borter

Chiara Brachetti

Stacy Bromberg

Nuala Coney

Ione De Lima

Rebecca Donnellan

Patricia Farrell

Joan Flynn

Carol Forwood

Sandra Greatbatch

Rhonda Henry

Francis Hoenselaar

Gabriela Holcova

Brenda Hutton

Lucy Jemtai

Heike Jenkins

Jannette Jonathan

Paivi Jussila

Yoko Koyama

Ewa Kristiansson

Attila Laibl

Sirpa Levanen

Hege Løkken

Jill MacDonald

Kathy Maloney

Asa-Torma Martensson

Valerie Maytum

Glaucia Monteiro

Nadia Moschion

Gaby Niewind

Karin Nordahl

Sharon O'Brien

Lynn O'Donovan

Ann-Louise Peters

Vicky Pruim

Christine Richardson-Clark

Donna Robertson

Yoshie Sato

Elizabeth Simons

Gerda Søgaard-Weltz

Mandy Solomons

Rhian Speed

Judy Sweeting

Martine Symons

Sue Talbot

Frantiska Tomancova

Terry Turtle

Mary Warimu-Njogu

Janette Youngson

Callers Of WDF World Cup Women Pairs 1993

Barry Twomlow

Martin Fitzmaurice

Tom Fleetwood

WDF World Cup Women Pairs 1993