Archive for the 'Phill Catterick' Category
Monday, November 16th, 2009
The following article was graciously submitted by Phill Catterick:
Some people said including women in the Grand Slam of Darts was a pointless exercise. Others said they just weren’t good enough to deserve their place in the competition.
Admittedly I used to be one of them.
Against the likes of Phil Taylor and Raymond Van Barneveld then I […]
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
By Phill Catterick, who may be reached at phillcatterick@hotmail.com
PHIL TAYLOR has finally achieved the pinnacle in the darting calendar by winning all five major televised events after beating Raymond Barneveld 6-3 in yesterday’s Grand Prix final in Dublin.
Taylor was aiming to secure his ninth title and the elusive Grand Slam which would mean `The Power` […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
by Phill Catterick:
FOR the spectator it was perhaps slightly disappointing that the first semi final wasn’t the game that concluded the championships in Bridlington, with Martin Adams and Tony O’Shea locking horns in a battle of the titans.
It seemed likely that the victor of that match would go onto win the competition, and that proved […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
WITH the players in the PDC taking a short break away from their busy schedules in the darting calendar; it would be a good time to look back over the year so far.
And it would be very difficult to say this hasn’t been one of Phil Taylor’s `better` years in his career, having been […]
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
by Phill Catterick:
PHIL `THE POWER` Taylor continued his dominance of the 2009 PDC Darting calendar by winning the stanjames.com World Matchplay Championship by beating Terry Jenkins 18-3 in Blackpool last night.
It’s the tenth time the man from Stoke has won the tournament, and he will now be looking towards the Grand Slam and the […]
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
by Phill Catterick:
WITH the Stan James World Matchplay now in full swing, players won’t just be thinking about immediate success in the tournament, but about gaining the ranking points required to gain a Premier League spot when the competition kicks off again in February next year.
The top six in the PDC order of merit gain […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
PHIL TAYLOR clinched his fifth Las Vegas Desert Classic Title by beating Raymond Van Barneveld in Sunday’s final.
The Englishman recorded a 13-11 win over the Dutchman in a fascinating encounter which could have swung either way, but the experience of `The Power` finally shone through to claim yet another major tournament.
Aswell as winning the title […]
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
by Phill Catterick:
PHIL TAYLOR will be hoping to follow up his success at the UK Open in Bolton with another tournament win in Las Vegas next week for the annual Desert Classic.
`The Power` is the defending champion after defeating James Wade in last year’s final, and he has to be the firm favourite after […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
by Phill Catterick:
THE PDC has announced that a third-fourth placed play-off will be introduced for the 2010 ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship.
The final will be held on January the 3rd, and the aforementioned match will be the `sequel` to the main event-presumably to make the evening much longer and to provide viewers and visitors to more […]
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
by Phill Catterick
AFTER three days of continuous competition and a number of tremendous upsets and shocks, only one out of 129 players could hold aloft the Blue Square UK Open trophy, and to no-ones amazement it was Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor.
The man from Stoke overcame Colin Osbourne (otherwise known as ‘The Wizard’) 11-6 in […]
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