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About World Championship Men 2023
The 2023 Lakeside WDF World Championship was held from December 2 till 10 at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green. Forty-eight players from around the world will qualify for a shot at the title. Northern Irishman Neil Duff is the defending champion, beating Thibault Tricole in the final in 2022. For the first time in history, the tournament gets a Belgian winner, Andy Baetens beats the Dutchman Chris Landman in the final.
For the first time in the World Championship history, the tournament will be held in December. This also means it’s been well over a year and a half since the last tournament was played. Forty-eight players from around the world will qualify for a shot at the title, and the Belgian Baetens is number one in the rankings.
He’s up against the Polish Sebastian Bialecki in the first round, whom he beats 3-0. Next up is the Scotsman Gary Stone who manages to take a set away from him but ends up losing 3-1. In the quarter final Baetens has a tough match against New Zealander Jonny Tata, who keeps up with the pace for a long time before he eventually loses steam and beats him 4-2. In the semifinal he beats Dennis Nilsson from Sweden, who also only manages to win 2 sets. Nilsson had managed to beat the Dutch World Master Wesley Plaisier in the quarter final.
On the other side of the bracket it’s defending champion Neil Duff that manages to make it to the quarter final, but then loses out to the Dutchman Chris Landman in the seventh and deciding set. Landman managed to barely edge out the Swiss Thomas Junghans in the previous round. The other quarter final is between former Lakeside World Champion Jelle Klaasen, who has returned to Lakeside for the first time in 15 years and the American Danny Lauby. It’s a spectacular match that’s played in high tempo. In the end it’s the Dutchman that wins with 4-1. Klaasen is then the favorite to win the semifinal from Landman, who manages to surprise the crowd by beating Klaasen 5-3.
Baetens starts the final spectacularly. Hij takes the first two sets 3-0 with an average above 100. From that moment on Landman manages to get into the rhythm, but the third set also goes to Baetens, and by then the distance becomes too big to bridge for the Dutchman. He takes the fourth set, but after that Andy Baetens only loses two more legs, and brings home the first ever title for Belgium.
Competitors Of World Championship Men 2023
Antony Allen
Sebastian Białecki
Moreno Blom
Jarno Bottenberg
Jordan Brooks
Reece Colley
Brian Corbett
Leonard Gates
Mike Gillet
Christian Gödl
Thomas Junghans
Laszlo Kadar
David Kirwan
Arjan Konterman
Patrik Kovacs
Jamie Lewis
Liam Maendl-Lawrance
Scott Marsh
Shaun McDonald
Ricky Nauman
Dennis Nilsson
Dennie Olde Kalter
David Pallett
Danny Porter
Benjamin Pratnemer
Dave Prins
James Richardson
John Scott
Gábor Takács
Jonny Tata
Edwin Torbjörnsson
Aaron Turner
Jim Widmayer
Callers Of World Championship Men 2023
World Championship Men 2023
Frimley Green, ENG
Frimley Green, ENG
Andy Baetens
Reigning Champion
