Organisation(s) PDC | ||
Dates 30 January – 1 February 2009 Format LegsFinal – best of 31 | ||
The 2009 Players Championship Finals (also known as the 2009 coral.co.uk Players Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural edition of the PDC tournament, the Players Championship Finals, which saw the top 32 players from the 2008 PDC Players Championship Order of Merit taking part. The tournament took place between January 30 and February 1, 2009 and was held at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet – the former venue of the PDC World Darts Championship.
Contents
Format
First round - best of eleven legs
Second round - best of eleven legs
Quarter-finals - best of seventeen legs
Semi-finals - best of twenty-five legs
Final - best of thirty-one legs
Prize money
The 2009 Players Championship Finals featured a prize fund of £200,000.
Qualification
The top 32 players from the PDC Players Championship Order of Merit after the last Players Championship of 2008 qualified for the event.
Draw
Scores after player's names are three-dart averages (total points scored divided by darts thrown and multiplied by 3)
Television Coverage
ITV4 screened live coverage of the tournament, becoming ITV's third televised tournament after the Grand Slam of Darts and the European Championship. Also, there was nightly highlights shown on ITV1. Again, Matt Smith presented the coverage, with analysis from Chris Mason (once he had lost to van der Voort) and Alan Warriner-Little, commentary from Mason, Stuart Pyke, John Rawling and Warriner-Little, and reports from Ned Boulting.