| Lakeside World Darts Championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 2–10 January 2010 | ||
| Venue | Lakeside Country Club | ||
| Location | Frimley Green, Surrey | ||
| Country | England, United Kingdom | ||
| Organisation(s) | BDO | ||
| Format | Sets Finals: best of 13 (men's) best of 3 (women's) | ||
| Prize fund | £325,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £100,000 (men's) £6,000 (women's) | ||
| High checkout | 170  Martin Adams | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
| Martin Adams Trina Gulliver | |||
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The 2010 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 33rd World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 25th staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green. Ted Hankey was the defending men's champion having won the title for the second time in the previous year's final against Tony O'Shea. The defending women's champion was Francis Hoenselaar, having beaten seven-time champion Trina Gulliver in the 2009 final.
Players from 32 countries around the globe competed to reach the BBC televised finals, which ran from 2–10 January at Frimley Green. The men's top seed was O'Shea. Julie Gore was top women's seed, ahead of Gulliver. There were 11 debutants at the world championships. Also for the first time two brothers, Tony and Steve West, were playing in the same world championship.
The tournament is also remembered for the first round match between Martin Adams and Anthony Fleet, which featured what has been called "the worst leg of darts ever".[1] The opening leg included visits of 26, 41, 5, 41, 22 and 11 by a visibly nervous Fleet. Adams himself had visits of 47, 44 and 32, but eventually won the 54-dart leg and went on to win the match 3–0. Fleet's match average of 65.34 was the lowest of the championship and described as "pub standard".[2][3][4]
Martin Adams was the winner of the men's championship beating unseeded Dave Chisnall 7–5 in the final. Trina Gulliver won the Women's Championship for the eighth time beating Rhian Edwards 2–0.
- ^ "Not-so-happy Halloween: Sport's five biggest howlers". Yahoo. 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Tony Fleet falls apart against Martin Adams". Daily Mirror. 5 January 2010.
- ^ "This clip of the most excruciating three darts ever thrown is a timely reminder of brilliance of PDC". JOE.co.uk. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Video – Fleet sunk by first-round nerves against Adams". BBC Sport. 4 January 2010.