WDF Lakeside World Championship Draw 2022 and Outrights

Both miss doubles

Kirsty 2-1
1 leg away

Kirsty misses bull for 135
Rhian in 60
Decider

K 99
R 22
K 83
R 140
K 100
R 60
K 59 100 left
R 60 219 left
K 55
Rhian 96 for match
Kirsty 20 for match
K in 1

What a win.
Thirsty Kirsty

Semi final
Kirsty wins 3-2 against Rhian the 1/4 hot fav

Lakeside in full swing with a crowd singalong

Grease Lightning...you're the one that I want.
Lakeside crowd fever!

Kirsty "I didn't expect to win."
Keeping her expectations low in the pressure cooker of her mind.

Averages 76 v 76

Next up curly top v red hand
Veenstra 1/2 v Duff 6/4

Veenstra Over 5.5 180s @ 8/13 Sportsbook

Beau 8/1 ticket holders with even bigger smiles now

What time is it? Session has finished.
Totally wrapped up in the ladies match.
Rhian was under pressure all the way.

Just rewoud you tube deciding leg
K 160 for match scores 55
R 219 scores 123 leaves 96
K 105 for match
20,T15,20, match dart missed
R T5,15,10 leaves 56
Kirsty D10 1st dart

Rhian stunned and takes in on the chin like a rottweiler without a bone.
Kirsty in tears.

Evening session semi finals 8pm UK
Veenstra v Duff best of 9 sets
Lorraine v Beau best of 5 sets
Tricole v Menzies best of 9 sets

Prize fund:
Mens Champion 50k
R up 25k
Semi 12.5k

Ladies Champion 25k
R up 12.5k
Semi 6.5k

Beau in an interview has already stuck 2 fingers up to the pdc coin and it's behind closed doors hush hush sterile environment. She's very happy in WDF with its friendly party atmosphere. It's said money doesn't buy happiness but 25k goes a long way to keeping Beau in the WDF and 2 of the greatest ever young ladies players apart, as Fallon continues to milk it flying the PDC flag. Be interesting which way Lisa goes as she's currently playing Challenge tour, online live league, and PDC super series along side Fallon. Win a WDF ranking event and put herself in a qualifying position for Lakeside too. Mikuru set to stay in Japan with big earnings in soft tip, along with her endorsements.For the top ladies an intriguing 4 way split across the darting world. Who said there's no money in the ladies game?

If and when Beau becomes World Champion and continues to hit big averages, come Matchplay in Blackpool, will the comms/presenter's acknowledge her or simply ignore? Mardle's a big darts fan so I'd say he'd comment on her. If he doesn't he's a c@nt, owned by bigger corporate c@nts. Still to see him make an appearance at Lakeside.

Semi final
Lorraine v Beau

Lorraine is in good form and has vast experience winning lots of events. Beau has quality, high winning averages and also experience.

Lorraine comes into the semi final with the bookies giving her less chance of winning than Kirsty and we saw what happened there. The key was winning the bull. What makes Beau even more dangerous is her mind set. She is totally calm and says she doesn't care if she loses though obviously wants to win. Another player keeping the pressure off with herself.

I didn't see how Kirsty could win 3 sets against a rampant Rhian. In the match there was nothing in it on the averages and Rhian clearly under perfumed. Chased the game throughout as Kirsty held her nerve to win.

Could be the same outcome tonight if Lorraine throws first and takes the 1st set. Another belter on the cards which I expect Beau to win. 1/6 is skinny. Straight sets only evs. Beau to win 3-1 @ 11/5

F@ck! Just switched you tube on as Veenstra hit tops for 1-1 set all

No more posting...

Great set from red hand to lead 3-2.
Veenstra over the line on 180s.
Wolfie always in and around this party environment. No charisma Taylor is no where to be seen other than craving glory on stage. And people ridiculed Wolfie as spineless etc. If you play darts you understand the difference. Players are back...more supping Modelo. Cheers!

Oooooo8h
Duff breaks to lead 4-2 sets.
All aboard Veenstra for the fight back Lakeside style

1w dart hold Duff looking hot

12 ^

One more leg...

Duff's done it!
Red hand mania!

Duff 5-2 Veenstra

Duff £25K guaranteed.
Daughter's 18th birthday tomorrow.
Dreams are made at Lakeside.

Great stuff
Crowd singing along to Bad Manners- Lip Up Fatty

I'm gonna combust.
Next up 2nd ladies semi final
Lorraine v Beau

Duff played superb in patches.
Thoroughly deserved the win.
His daughter is in the crowd.
He is absolutely buzzing.
I cannot wait for the final.

More Modelo. Keep on glugging.
Crowd singing come on Eileen.
You Lakeside doubters need to
go along and sample and saviour
this atmosphere.

I'm not there and I'm buzzing me b@loocks off.
Beau walking onto rocking all over the world.
Here we go oh....game on...
Beau throws first.

1st set Beau 3-0 legs
75 v 65 ave

2nd set Beau 3-0 legs
Leaving Lorraine legless

Beau 3-0 sets Lorraine

Final tomorrow best of 7 sets
Kirsty v Beau

Menzies v Tricole
Menzies -1.5 sets @ 8/11

Superb from Tricole leads 2-0 sets
Menzies no option but to get his game head on or go home.
Long way to go...Amarillo raising Lakeside roof.
Tricole ave 97 v 90

Tricole did well to win that.  Have him fav now to win against Duff

My financial interest is over, the latter stages of the tourney has been a breath of fresh air, very enjoyable…

Coming up a tale of two, but first the Ladies Final:

WDF World Championship 2022 - The Lakeside
Best of 7 Sets
Beau n Arrow 1/7 v Thirsty Kirsty 5/1

Kirsty:
I posed the thought in her semi final. How will she find a way to win 3 Sets against a red hot opponent in Rhian? Well she did it. Rhian clearly underperformed which is partly down to Kirsty scoring well and hitting doubles. 2-0 up in sets soon became 2-2 sets each and 2 legs each with Kirsty having the darts in the deciding leg. She scored lovely and missed D20'for the match. Rhian got close and with 96'for the match never had a shot at a double. Kirsty first dart D10 and into the final.

Beau:
Comms said she started the tournament as the fav but 8/1 was clearly available as I posted the outrights on here. How long 8/1 lasted or how much anyone got on I've no idea as I've looked for a timeline on the outrights moves on @ddschecker but can't find anything. Hindsight being a wonderful thing with Beau's recent form flashing up like a beacon and a big missed opportunity gone forever. That and being blinkered by the sensational Mikuru I completely swerved her, though I'd followed her career from her first bursting onto the scene as a teenage sensation. And did I pay the price.

Beau is so at ease taking everything in her stride and what I like most is her totally laid back approach. She took care of Lorraine with little fuss in her semi final and she expects to win the final but doesn't care either way. She said "You know what, if I win I will buy a car." The Champion receives £ 25K!

How many legs, let alone sets will Kirsty win?
It's gonna big a big ask from Kirsty. Her stats are way below Beau and on paper as one sided a match as they come. However, this is a Ladies World Championship Final. Kirsty can score big and hit her doubles. She has to do that throughout the match.

Who wins:

Beau 4-0, 4-1

All the very best to the ladies. Hope it's a great match with a few added twists and turns.

WDF World Championship Final 2022 - The Lakeside
Best of 11 Sets

Thibault Tricole 1/1 v Neil Duff 10/11
(at time of writing)

These are two players whom at the start of the week most wouldn't have heard of.

Dare I take this all the way back to "The Heart of Midlands," (Wiki) the original venue for the very first World Darts Championship. I always thought it was Jollies? Only then I was too young to remember, let alone have any real interest. The BDO record books tell me it was Bristow beating Lowe in 1981 that started my love affair with darts aged 14.

The following year is clear as day when Jocky Wilson beat Eric in the final. That's when I changed my Asda bought brass darts and ventured into town to Cartwright's sport shop for a set of Jocky Wilson tungsten darts. These were the best darts I ever owned. They sat up in the board as the barrel was slightly thicker and weighted on the end. I lost count of the amount of times the dart hit its target in off the barrel. Where are they now? That's another story for another time.

What has this got to do with gambling you might ask?

Well, Bristow, Wilson, and Lowe became the big house hold names back then.

Along came Deller in 1983 to not only win the World Championship as a complete unknown to the majority of the darting world (even though he played for and represented England.) He beat all three of those afore mentioned top players, the biggest of them all in the final against Eric Bristow, checking out the now famous Deller "138.'

From this he became an overnight sensation. In comms Sid said Eric played the percentage shot as he turned down the bull to make it 2 -2 in the deciding set, hitting big 18 to leave his fav D16. Deller stepped up - T20, T18, D12. 138 out and Game, Set, Match to the Milky bar kid.

Deller has lived off that moment ever since. When asked in a tv interview Bristow simply said "I didn't think he'd hit it."

Some 40 years on we have a Frenchman who could not only make history as their only dart player known to us but start a darting revolution with the Parisians, thus spearing a new country on the darting map. Tricole's relevance right now albeit WDF is huge!

The other finalist is a c@ck sure red hand Irishman, but they've had their fair share of top darters over the years so it's nothing new. An Irish World Champion would add another notch.

Onto the Final:
The stats say Duff is getting down to doubles ahead of Tricole with bunches of 12,13,14 darts winning legs. Whereas "The French Fancy," that's what I call a nickname is getting pokes at 15,16,17. This could be the decisive factor when it comes to break of throw attempts.

An intriguing match with both players having survived match darts against them. Non more so than Tricole, where he was dead and buried and on his way home until Burt somehow squandered six (6) match darts in the same leg!

Duff was completely owned by McEwan (1.01 busted in running) but he too missed match doubles as 3-0 in sets quickly became a 4-3 loss as Duff steamrolled through the match gaining confidence set by set. A brilliant turnaround.

Question:
When is the last time a World Championship Final from either codes consisted of two players who both survived match darts against them, and who were they?

Tricole:
Being an modus online live league geek I saw plenty of Tricole. He started off patchy and grew into the experience, but one thing has remained constant, his lack of 180s in that and the world champs.

I marked him down as Under/Over 4.5x180 for the final. Billies were Under 5.5 @ 8/13 and that is my main bet. At the time no others had 180 markets and I haven't checked since.

Duff with his scoring and getting down to finishes first versus Tricole with his set decided winning legs? Tricole has played an extra 23 legs, the equivalent of 1 match more than Duff in the tournament.

Duff played in the 1st semi final and Tricole in the 2nd.

Do any of these have any baring or advantages?

Who wins:
Duff 6-3, 6-4.

To take a quote or two from Beau - "You know what, I don't care."

Here's to a great final full of anticipation, excitement and drama. May it be a Lakeside classic and go down to a sudden death leg decider where both have and miss match darts.

Good luck everyone

WDF World Championship Finals Day 2022.

5pm Girls Best of 3 sets - Eleanor Cairns v Wibke Riemann
6pm Boys Best of 3 sets - Charlie Large v Bradly Roes
7pm Ladies Best of 7 sets - Kirsty Hutchinson v Beau Greaves
8pm Men Best of 11 sets - Thibault Tricole v Neil Duff

Game on...girls Match in progress...
Elaenor wins 1st leg

Reimann nails the bull...1-1

Eleanor in the madhouse 2-1

Great write ups DartsnBooze

Eleanor 3-1 and 1st set

Eleanor does it! 2-0 sets

How miserable was the loser in the Girls Final, what an attitude to have at that age!

Beau only averaged 105 to win the first set 3-0

Colu, she's German so beep beep her

11 dart leg from Beau

Beau only 4x180 from 7 legs

Beau 2-0 sets...Best performance in a World Championship Final from a woman ever. Incredible standard. Missed a few doubles...98.66 ave

7 legs played
Beau
4x180
128 c/o
98.66 ave

Kirsty
D1
72 ave

Beau had darritus the same as Bristow and both still ruled the World

Beau 5x180
Kirsty replies 180

Great stuff ladies

Beau 3-0 sets

Uncle Barry is out of retirement and on the blower...Rallying the PDC hierarchy to a Zoom call emergency meeting. Panicking as their golden star is being upstaged by an 18 year old teen sensation - Beau Geeaves, who's taking all the plaudits. Not only that, she has the greatest nickname for a marketing dream.

We salute you Beau n Arrow.

Result
Beau 4-0 Kirsty

Stats to follow...

Ladies World Championship Final 2022

Beau Greaves 4-0 Kirsty Hutchinson

Beau 5 x180
Beau 128 c/o
Beau 12-1 legs
Beau 92.05 ave

Kirsty 1 x180
Kirsty 2 c/o
Kirsty 72.52

Beau winning legs
15,12,16 set 1-0
X,11,17,19,19 set 2-0
19,16,18 set 3-0
16,19,16 Game, set, match

Top class performance by Beau.  Her stats were tremendous

Trickle goes 3 nil up I’ll have a play on the Duff Man…

Stupid autocorrect

Haha I'm familiar seeing Trickle appear.
Aucocorrect so annoying indeed.
I've jumped on Duff too. Won zero legs in 2 sets...long way to go

Cash out £2 green..
I'll wait thanks

£15 green..I'm out
I'll leave the exchange and the in play fast pictures to the big boys.
Scooting over to check the 180s spreads

Averages dont make good reading
84 x 78

Sorry Neil...Duff is Guff.

Absolute shambles...then plays a blinding leg.

Duff still guff. A very lucky lucky man

Breaks back 3-3 sets at Half Time.
Have to say he's been rancid.

Let's see what the 2nd half brings.

Tricole 2-0 180s

Almost painful watching both players trying so hard.
War of attrition indeed.
Slug fest as Tricole screams out again

9 darter is on from Duff...
Not to be.

Deciding leg 7th set

Duff leads for the first time
4-3 sets

Tricole matched 1.21
Duff matched 1.40

8th set...deciding leg

Tricole holds 4-4 sets...
Interval...cue the party music

Hey Jude bellows in the venue

180 count
Tricole 2-1

Correction

Duff 3-2 x180

86 v 85 aves
Duff improving in bits set by sets.

Tricole breaks 1-0 ninth set

9th set deciding leg

Duff holds 5-4 sets
Duff 3x180s in set

9 sets played
Duff 5-3 x180

Tricole on my nerves shouting come on.
I want something I don't understand in French
Tricole 4x180...2 away

TT goes 2 up in the 10th.
Looks like it's going all the way

Deciding set.
Duff throws first.
Who wins?

French president is watching.
The French nation going crazy.
Better win Tricole or the guillotine will be out

Tricole blows break darts.
Duff dodges one..1-0

Great keg from Duff
Breaks 2-0
Throws for match
Can he?

Opens 140

Tricole 5x180
Oi! No more

171 duff leaves tops
Tricole D12 misses

Duff's thinking about it

Yes red hand does it.
F@ck yes
Tl

Cant wait to go through the match leg on leg.
Well done to both.
Drama all the way

This match will have been ripped to shreds on the internet.
One thing remains...darts is darts no matter the level.
Duff WDF World Champion 2022

This wasn't a darts match, this was an endurance test.
Enjoy the night red hand mob and huge birthday wishes to Duff's lass on her 18th.
Dreams have come true...

I'm a man of my word...I told the missus I'll be back after the darts world champs. She thought it was after the PDC World Final. 4 months later my flight is booked after endless hrs over days and weeks to find a fair price. Maybe I'll be kicked out like Fred Flinstone once I open the front door. If I dont return here...

321 posts - dusty bin


Sets won:
Duff 6 -  World Champion
Tric 5 - Runner Up

Let's won:
Duff 20
Tric 23 - No bonus prize

Averages:
Duff 87.73
Tric 86.95

180's
Duff 6
Tric 5

171+
Duff 3
Tric 0

140's
Duff 23
Tric 22

101+
Duff 18
Tric 15

100's
Duff 38
Tric 37

Highest c/o
Duff 121
Tric 96

Checkout %
Duff
Tric


Duff winning legs:

X,X,X, Tricole breaks - Tricole leads 1-0 set
X,X,X, Tricole holds - Tricole leads 2-0 sets
17,X,17,21,20 Duff holds - Tricole leads 2-1 sets
X,X,X, Tricole holds - Tricole leads 3-1 sets
15,18,X,14, Duff holds - Tricole leads 3-2 sets
X,11,16,X,15, Duff breaks - Level 3-3 sets
X,X,17,14,16, Duff holds - Duff leads 4-3 sets
11,X,X,12,X, Tricole holds - Level 4-4 sets
X,X,14,15,13, Duff holds - Duff leads 5-4 sets with power set
X,X,X, Tricole holds - Level 5-5 sets
DECIDING SET
19,15,15, Duff holds - Game, Set & Match to Duff

Tricole winning legs:

21,18,16, Tricole holds - Tricole leads 1-0 sets
29,11,19, Tricole breaks - Tricole leads 2-0 sets
X,15,X,X, Duff holds - Tricole leads 2-1 sets
23,16,21, Tricole holds - Tricole leads 3-1 sets
X,X,16,X, Duff holds - Tricole leads 3-2 sets
14,X,X,22,X, Duff breaks - Level 3-3 sets
15,18,X,X,X, Duff holds 4-3 - Duff leads for first time 4-3 sets
X,15,17,X,13, Tricole holds - 4-4 sets
15,17,X,X,X, Duff breaks - 5--4 sets
13,13,17, Tricole holds - 5-5 sets - Great winning set to save the match
DECIDING SET
X,X,X, Duff holds - Game, set & Match to Duff

Stage time - Match lasted 1 hour & 52 minutes

Not a vintage final by any means but I’ve really enjoyed the 9 days yes the darts are not as good as the PDC but for me it’s much more enjoyable
To watch none of that you can’t afford a table rubbish let’s hope it’s back next year

A great tournament made all the better by the musings of Betfair’s Central America correspondent…

enjoyed the write ups DnB, cheers