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===Day One - Thursday 7th June 2007=== |
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The first round will be played on Thursday and features 81 players competing for a place in the second round. [[Winmau World Masters]] champion [[Michael van Gerwen]] faces 37 year-old Chris McTernan a pub qualifier from Bacup. Former World Champion [[Richie Burnett]] and [[Cliff Lazarenko]] also play on the opening day. |
The first round will be played on Thursday and features 81 players competing for a place in the second round. [[Winmau World Masters]] champion [[Michael van Gerwen]] faces 37 year-old Chris McTernan a pub qualifier from Bacup. Former World Champion [[Richie Burnett]] and [[Cliff Lazarenko]] also play on the opening day. |
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===Day Two - Friday 8th June 2007=== |
===Day Two - Friday 8th June 2007=== |
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Revision as of 16:05, 7 June 2007
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The 2007 Blue Square UK Open is the fifth year of the PDC darts tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players compete in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. Blue Square take over as title sponsor after Budweiser's three-year deal expired.
There are two changes being introduced this year where a tournament bracket is introduced from the quarter-final stage to prevent players being forced into playing long back-to-back matches. Previously there had been a random draw after each round and the tournament had earned the nickname the "FA Cup of darts" as a result. The number of players is being expanded from 128 to 168 for the 2007 tournament.
Results
For latest results from the UK Open see Planetdarts website
Collated results from later stages:-
Fourth Round
Fifth Round
Sixth Round
Quarter Finals
Semi Finals
Final
Prize money
- Champion £30,000
- Runner-up £15,000
- Semi-finalists £8,500
- Quarter-finalists £4,000
- Last 16 £2,000
- Last 32 £1,500
- Last 64 £1,000
- Total Prize fund £150,000
Tournament Review
Day One - Thursday 7th June 2007
The first round will be played on Thursday and features 81 players competing for a place in the second round. Winmau World Masters champion Michael van Gerwen faces 37 year-old Chris McTernan a pub qualifier from Bacup. Former World Champion Richie Burnett and Cliff Lazarenko also play on the opening day.
Day Two - Friday 8th June 2007
The draw for the fourth round, featuring the top 32 players in the world will be staged at the end of Friday's play.
Day Three - Saturday 9th June 2007
The fourth, fifth and sixth rounds will be staged on the Saturday.
Day Four - Sunday 10th June 2007
The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will be played on Sunday.
Format
Qualifying events are held at Punch Taverns pubs across the UK - winners from each pub event progress to one of four Regional Finals, to be staged in their relevant area. Players who reach the final eight in the Regional Finals will qualify for the televised stages of the UK Open in Bolton.
In addition there are eight UK Open Regional Finals for the "professional" players. All events are open to all darts players on payment of an entry fee - which means that players from both the PDC and BDO are eligible to enter. Players who enter through the Punch Taverns Qualifying Round are not eligible to play in the regional qualifying events and vice-versa.
The results of the eight qualifiers are then collated into an Order of Merit table (Winner £4000; Runner-up £2000; 3-4 £1000; 5-8 £500; 9-16 £250; 17-32 £100; 33-64 £50). This was raised to Winner £5000; Runner-up £2500; 3-4 £1250; 5-8 £600; 9-16 £300; 17-32 £150; 33-64 £75 from January 2007. The top 128 players (plust ties) in this Order of Merit join the 32 Punch Taverns qualifiers at the televised stages in Bolton.
The format for the event changes in 2007 to allow the tournament to expand by an extra day, and increase the number of players in the field.
- Day 1, Preliminary Round - best of 15 legs
16 Matches drawn from a pool of 32 Punch Taverns Qualifiers and the 31 players with £50 or £75 in UK Open Order of Merit
- 1st round - best of 15 legs
32 Matches with 16 Preliminary Round survivors, the remaining 31 players who were not drawn in Preliminary Round and players ranked 97-113 in UK Open Order of Merit
- Day 2, 2nd round - best of 15 legs
Players ranked 65 to 96 join the first round winners.
- 3rd round - best of 15 legs
Players ranked 33 to 64 join the join the second round winners.
- Day 3, 4th round - best of 21 legs
Players ranked in the top 32 join the join the third round winners.
- 5th round - best of 21 legs
Last 32 of competition
- 6th round - best of 21 legs
Last 16 of competition followed by draw for quarter-finals in bracket form to avoid players being drawn in consecutive matches.
- Day 4, Quarter finals - best of 21 legs
- Semi finals - best of 21 legs
- Final - best of 31 legs
UK Open Regional Final results
The UK Open Order of Merit was based on the results of the eight qualifying events across the UK. The eight final results were:-
- 24 September, 2006 (Wales) Phil Taylor 2-1 Adrian Lewis
- October 22 (Ireland) Raymond van Barneveld 2-1 Colin Lloyd
- November 5 (Scotland) Raymond van Barneveld 2-0 Barrie Bates
- January 6, 2007 (North-East) Raymond van Barneveld 2-0 Roland Scholten
- February 11 (South-West) Dennis Priesley 2-0 James Wade
- March 4 (South) Phil Taylor 2-0 Wayne Mardle
- March 18 (North-West) James Wade 2-0 Terry Jenkins
- April 1 (Midlands) Andy Hamilton 2-0 James Wade