The 2008 Stan James World Matchplay was the 15th annual staging of the World Matchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, from 20–26 July 2008.
World number three James Wade went into the competition as the defending champion and managed to reach the final for the third year in a row, but was defeated by top seed Phil Taylor 18–9 who won his ninth World Matchplay championship.
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The 2008 Stan James WorldMatchplay was the 15th annual staging of the WorldMatchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament...
The 2009 Stan James WorldMatchplay was the 16th annual staging of the WorldMatchplay tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament...
just two legs to Adrian Lewis. He reached the semi-finals of the 2008WorldMatchplay, losing 17–5 to James Wade. At the 2009 Premier League, Mardle amassed...
The 2002 Stan James WorldMatchplay was a professional darts tournament held from 28 July to 3 August 2002 at the Empress Ballroom in the Winter Gardens...
The 2007 Stan James WorldMatchplay was the 14th annual staging of the WorldMatchplay darts tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held...
has competed in PDC sanctioned events ever since then. In the 1997 WorldMatchplay, Part lost to Drew O'Neill 4–6. Joining the PDC, however, did not initially...
the youngest player to win a major PDC title, when he won the 2007 WorldMatchplay at the age of 24. This record has since been broken by Michael van...
Winter Gardens in Blackpool, against Chris Mason in the televised WorldMatchplay Championship in 2002. He has achieved the feat 11 times on television...
Mair, Lewine (23 June 2008). "Matchplay's 44-year run at Wentworth ends". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 May 2020. "Volvo World Match Play - Qualification...
annual PDC World Darts Championship, the WorldMatchplay, World Grand Prix, UK Open, Premier League, and Grand Slam. It also runs its own world rankings...
Priestley's ascendancy was forcefully ended by Taylor's World Championship and WorldMatchplay triumphs in 1995. He did, however, notch up a further major...
Premier League Darts and WorldMatchplay, it is considered part of the Triple Crown. The PDC championship began in 1994 as the WDC World Darts Championship...
the 2008 Las Vegas Desert Classic by beating No. 2 seed and reigning champion van Barneveld 8–4 in the second round. In the 2008WorldMatchplay, Tabern...
Birmingham: Everton's News Agency. June 1976. p. 24. Turner, Chris (2008). "WorldMatchplay". Chris Turner's Snooker Archive. Archived from the original on...
an average of 120+ in the last 8 legs. McDine qualified for the 2008WorldMatchplay through the PDC's Pro Tour Order of Merit. He beat Adrian Lewis 10–8...
quarter-finals in the 2001 BDO World Championship before losing 5–2 to Andy Fordham. Painter entered another PDC event, the 2001 WorldMatchplay, but lost in the first...
1995 WorldMatchplay, beating Dennis Smith, Shayne Burgess, and Nigel Justice along the way, before losing to Dennis Priestley. He was also a Matchplay quarter-finalist...
in the Professional Darts Corporation: the World Championship, Premier League Darts, and the WorldMatchplay. Players who win all three tournaments over...
throughout 2008, losing out in the last 64 in the UK Open and failing to qualify for the Las Vegas Desert Classic and the 2008WorldMatchplay championship...
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In 2001 the event moved to Mainz, and shifted from a round-robin to a matchplay format - the defending champion Viswanathan Anand defended his title in...
Championship, which converted to stroke play format in 1958, and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the...
to Colin Lloyd. Maish then got his own back on 'Jaws' in the 2006 WorldMatchplay in which Lloyd entered as the defending champion. Maish beat him 10–6...
become a founding member of the Professional Darts Corporation. At the WorldMatchplay event in Blackpool, Bristow made six appearances without winning a...
and concluded 2015 as world No. 1, but Day's continued good form took him back to number one after winning the WGC Matchplay in March 2016. On February...