2008 World Matchplay
2008 Stan James World Matchplay | |||
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Tournament information | |||
Dates | 20–26 July 2008 | ||
Venue | Winter Gardens | ||
Location | Blackpool | ||
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Organisation(s) | PDC | ||
Format | Legs | ||
Prize fund | £300,000 | ||
Winner's share | £60,000 | ||
High checkout | 161 ![]() | ||
Champion(s) | |||
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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.
Prize fund
A total of £300,000 was available for the players, divided based on the following performances:[1]
Position (no. of players) | Prize money (Total: £300,000) | |
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Winner | (1) | £60,000 |
Runner-Up | (1) | £30,000 |
Semi-finalists | (2) | £17,000 |
Quarter-finalists | (4) | £12,000 |
Second round | (8) | £8,000 |
First round | (16) | £4,000 |
Nine-dart finish | (0) | £10,000 |
Qualification
The qualification process for the World Matchplay differed this year. The top 16 in the PDC Order of the Merit after the 2008 UK Open qualified automatically as the 16 seeds. The other 16 places would be made up of the 16 highest ranked players (not already in the top 16) from the 2008 Players Championship Order of Merit - decided by the various Player Championship events taking place on the PDC Pro Tour from January 2008 - the cutoff point was the Las Vegas Players Championship just before the 2008 Las Vegas Desert Classic.[2][3]
Thus, the participants were:
PDC Top 16
| PDPA Players Championship qualifiers
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Draw
First round (best of 19 legs) 20–22 July[4][5] | Second round (best of 25 legs) 22–23 July | Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs) 24 July | Semi-finals (best of 33 legs) 25 July | Final (best of 35 legs) 26 July | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Statistics
[6][7]
Player | Eliminated | Played | Legs Won | Legs Lost | LWAT | 100+ | 140+ | 180s | High Checkout | 3-dart Average |
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![]() | Winner | 5 | 74 | 34 | 30 | 143 | 92 | 36 | 160 | 104.81 |
![]() | Final | 5 | 65 | 46 | 28 | 120 | 95 | 42 | 157 | 99.49 |
![]() | Semi-finals | 4 | 47 | 51 | 16 | 133 | 65 | 12 | 155 | 89.20 |
![]() | Semi-finals | 4 | 47 | 50 | 18 | 131 | 62 | 13 | 155 | 94.10 |
![]() | Quarter-finals | 3 | 40 | 30 | 16 | 91 | 44 | 6 | 138 | 89.57 |
![]() | Quarter-finals | 3 | 29 | 33 | 9 | 87 | 35 | 15 | 160 | 92.69 |
![]() | Quarter-finals | 3 | 35 | 26 | 11 | 75 | 34 | 9 | 161 | 90.80 |
![]() | Quarter-finals | 3 | 37 | 31 | 14 | 98 | 52 | 14 | 120 | 93.31 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 60 | 26 | 12 | 96 | 97.72 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 44 | 19 | 10 | 110 | 96.93 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 44 | 23 | 4 | 102 | 93.20 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 52 | 30 | 9 | 160 | 92.79 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 23 | 25 | 9 | 64 | 29 | 8 | 112 | 90.68 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 48 | 20 | 8 | 156 | 90.03 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 26 | 24 | 7 | 120 | 87.75 |
![]() | Second round | 2 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 54 | 11 | 4 | 157 | 86.78 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 76 | 86.57 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 81 | 84.63 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 80 | 84.45 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 102 | 82.17 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 152 | 97.91 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 4 | 116 | 88.75 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 23 | 18 | 5 | 160 | 88.28 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 35 | 18 | 4 | 140 | 92.59 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 96 | 92.25 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 116 | 91.49 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 127 | 91.37 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 27 | 13 | 2 | 116 | 91.32 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 1 | 116 | 91.04 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 110 | 90.59 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 74 | 90.56 |
![]() | First round | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 115 | 81.97 |
References
- ^ "Prize money". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ 2008 Order of Merit explanation Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine obtained 6 July 2008
- ^ "Seeds". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ 2008 Stan James World Matchplay tickets Archived 2008-09-15 at the Wayback Machine obtained 6 July 2008
- ^ "Averages all the way". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "Tournament Averages". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "180s". Darts Database. Retrieved 10 December 2014.