Tuesday 24th June 2008

	HOUSTON OPEN 2008 Carolyn Mars won the Women's Singles at the Houston Open which was played at the weekend. The Men's Singles event went to Brian Blake. Results: MEN                                          Results: WOMEN
	1. Brian Blake 2. Peter Kigano 3. Chris Linkous & Fred Kreuger. 5. Mike Sansoucie, Daryl Montgomery,     Gordon Goodwin, Chuck Pankow. 9. Jason Dutton, John Summers,     Brad Rouillard, Brett Gaffney,     John Husman, Joe Swick,     Steve Brown, Jim Widmayer.	1. Carolyn Mars 2. Christina Medina 3. Gwen Olds & Stacy Bromberg. 5. Dana Wair, Kathleen Hewitt,     Suzie Hall, Deb Chatagnier, 9. Marilyn Popp, Lynda Hinds,     Christie Zimmerman, Andrea Taylor,     KC Adamcewicz, Kathy Podraza,     Janet Watkins, Janie Ramos

Monday 23rd June 2008

	BRITISH PENTATHLON 2008 WINNERS LISA ASHTON AND MARTIN ADAMS
Apylee, Karen, Lisa and Trina		John Boy, Wolfie, Marko and Paul
England's Lisa Ashton set an amazing record at the 2008 British Pentathlon, when she won every discipline and was crowned Women’s Champion on her Pentathlon debut. The England International triumphed with 335 points with England Captain Trina Gulliver in runner-up spot on 298 points. Karen Lawman took the third spot with 283 points and Apylee Jones in fourth with 270 points The 2008 Men’s Pentathlon Champion is England Captain Martin Adams on 437 points, closely followed by International team-mate John Walton on 421 points. Finland's Marko Kantele also passed the 400 mark with 404 points. Paul Dawkins was fourth with 374 points. Full Results:  ... here  (Microsoft Excel reader required)

SHAUN GREATBATCH  -     UPDATE. Firstly, Shaun, Barbara, Sandra and all the family, would sincerely like to express thanks, to everyone who has sent messages, of best wishes, and support , through what has been a difficult two weeks.   Shaun, has been diagnosed with Myeloma, which is cancer in the bone marrow. He is now at home, and is expecting his chemotherapy treatment, to start this week. This treatment is tablet form, and will be for a duration of about 8 months. After this phase is completed, he will be admitted to Addenbrookes Hospital, for a Stem Cell Transplant. Shaun will than be in hospital for about 4 weeks. Once the full treatment is completed, the Myeloma should be in full remission.

Saturday 21st June 2008

GERMANY ANNOUNCES EUROPE CUP TEAMS The DDV have selected the following players to represent Germany in the forthcoming Europe Cup. MEN:      Andree Welge, Karsten Koch, Kevin Münch and Andreas Kröckel WOMEN: Bianka Strauch and Monique Lessmeister

	EUROPE CUP YOUTH 2008 The draw for the 2008 Europe Cup Youth has been conducted, and can be viewed on the link below. The Boys Singles and Pairs are both "knockout" events and the complete draw is shown. The Boys Team Event, the Girls Singles and the Girls Pairs are all Round Robin events where the draw for the groups are shown but not the individual matches in each group. View the draw

Wednesday 18th June 2008

	NORWEGIAN EUROPE CUP TEAM ANNOUNCED   The following players will be representing Norway at Europe Cup 2008 in Denmark.   MEN:       Robert Wagner, Øyvind Aasland, Jacques Langston & Vegar Elvevoll. WOMEN:  Hege Løkken & Tone Eriksen Wagner

Monday 16th June 2008

	BDO INTERNATIONAL OPEN 2008 England's Davy Richardson took his greatest ever triumph when winning the BDO British International yesterday He defeated Scotland's Ross Montgomery by 4 sets to 1. Francis Hoenselaar shrugged off her failure to make the Dutch Europe Cup team with a 3-2 victory over Patsy Fletcher. In the Youth final Santino Broer from the Netherlands defeated Mitch Davies 3-0.
	Complete results:     Youth        Women        Men

Sunday 15th June 2008

	CANADIAN OPEN 2008: WINS FOR JERRY HULL AND JENELLE LEGGE
		Men: 1 Jerry Hull. 2 Danny McInnes. 3 Gerry Convery & Kerry Way. Jt.5 Jason Coombs, Ken Macneil, Dave Hendy and Brian Cyr. Jt.9 Frank Hoskins, Tim Prokop, Greg Lewis, Trevor Hobbs, Chris Scutt, Dean Blake, Clint Clarkson & Jonathan Gray. Women: 1 Jenelle Legge. 2 Roxanne van Tassel. 3 Mandy Fleck & Sandra Squires. Jt.5 Bonnie Lapierre, Angie Wark, Diane Gobeil & Kellie Brady. Jt.9 Cindy Veith, Georgine Ratt, Nikki Huber, Tammy Perry, Linda Wilder, Darlene Macleod, Paula Gooder & Denise Martin.

	DENMARK ANNOUNCE EUROPE CUP TEAMS The following players have been selected to represent Denmark at the forthcoming Europe Cup. MEN:       Per Laursen, Preben Krabben, Frede Johansen and Stig Jørgensen. WOMEN:  Mette Funch and Janni Larsen.

Saturday 14th June 2008

SHAUN GREATBATCH DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER We are sorry to announce that Shaun Greatbatch has been diagnosed with cancer. Shaun is in hospital at the moment undergoing tests. No further details are known at this time. We wish Shaun a speedy recovery and expect to see him back on the oche soon.

EUROPE CUP YOUTH 2008 The complete list of teams for the Europe Cup Youth 2008 is now available. The event will take place in Swansea, Wales on 17 - 19 July. View the team line-ups ... here

Friday 13th June 2008

	LATEST NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND The July edition of the New Zealand Darts Council's newsletter is now available. This edition contains articles on the forthcoming New Zealand Championships, the Asia/Pacific Cup and results and reports from events in New Zealand. The newsletter is available ... here

Wednesday 11th June 2008

	SWEDEN ANNOUNCE EUROPE CUP TEAMS The following players will represent Sweden in the forthcoming Europe Cup. MEN: Magnus Caris,  Markus Korhonen,  Daniel Larsson and Oskar Lukasiak. WOMEN: Carina Ekberg and Grethel Glasö

Tuesday 10th June 2008

	DUTCH EUROPE CUP TEAMS ANNOUNCED After an extensive series of play-offs the following players have qualified to represent the Netherlands in the 2008 WDF Europe Cup which will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark 27-30 August.
	MEN Joey ten Berge Daniel Brouwer Fabien Roosenbrand Willy van de Wiel	WOMEN Carla Molema Sharon Prinz

Monday 9th June 2008

AUSTRIAN NATIONAL SINGLES 2008

From left: Barbara, Sonia, Ann and Daniela		Left: Sascha, Christopher and Bernhard
		The Austrian National Championship was played last weekend 7.-8. of June. A great surprise was 13 year old Christopher Mosser ( Carintia) winning the title in the boy’s single event. That the Austrian Nr. 1 Barbara Kuntner (Vienna) won the Women's event was not quite so unexpected. Dietmar Burger retained his title in the Men's Singles.

Youth: 1: Christopher Mosser. 2: Sascha Frank. 3: Bernhard Tschinkowitz.

Women: 1: Barbara Kuntner. 2: Sonia Tschinkowitz. 3: Ann Scott and Daniela Piassoni.

Men: 1: Dietmar Burger. 2: Alireza Ghafouri. 3: Franz Thaler and Martin Kurecka.

WELSH INDIVIDUAL 2008

	Robbie Green (Clwyd)  came back from a set down against Robert Hughes (Pembrokeshire) to claim the Men's title, while in the all Gwent Women's final Natalie Tucker also hit back from two legs down for her 3 - 2 victory over Jan Robbins. Women last 32                Men last 64
Natalie (left) and Jan		Robert (left) and Robbie

Saturday 7th June 2008

DOUBLE DUTCH AT THE SWISS OPEN

Both Men's and Women's singles titles went to the Netherlands at the 2008 Swiss Open which was played today. Joey ten Berge got the better of England's Dave Prins with a narrow 3 sets to 2 victory. Martin Atkins (ENG) and Edwin Max (NL) shared third place. Carla Molema edged out Irina Armstrong in the Women's Final by 2 sets to 1 with Scotland taking both the third positions through Joyce Elder and Louise Hepburn. WDF World Ranking Tables are now fully updated. Details of the brackets for all events can be found ... here

GREEK OPEN 2008

The first Greek Open was successfully arranged in the beautiful Athens suburb of Nea Makri last weekend. The event attracted players from Sweden, Netherlands, Rumania, Latvia and Cyprus in addition to the best of the Greek players. The Men's Singles was won by local star John Michael who had a 5-1 win over Andreas Laos from Cyprus. Third places went to Ron Meulenkamp (NL) and Cristian Popa Vlad from Rumania. The women's title went to Areti Trevilla of Greece who Beat Ann Rose from Cyprus by 5 legs to nil. Third places were shared by Evi Nakka and Giota Sfakioti both from Greece.

Women's last 16         Men's last 16

HOSTS WALES SELECT THEIR EUROPE CUP YOUTH TEAM 

2008 WDF Europe Cup Youth hosts Wales have selected their team for the event which will be staged at the Swansea University Campus between 16th and 19th July.

Young veteran Jamie Lewis with four Europe Cup Youth events under his belt, will be joined by Shane Parry, and newcomers Ross Robson and Jake Yates to lead the boys team challenge, while the selectors have recalled the Europe Cup 2006 Girls Singles champion Kimberley Lewis to team-up with Rachael Williams in the girls tournament.

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