2013 PDC World Darts Championship


The 2013 Ladbrokes World Darts Championship was the 20th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at the Alexandra Palace, London between 14 December 2012 and 1 January 2013.
Adrian Lewis was the defending champion having won the last two editions of the tournament, but was beaten by Michael van Gerwen in the quarter-finals, thus ending Lewis' 15 match unbeaten run at the World Championship.
Phil Taylor claimed his 16th and last World Championship title with a 7–4 victory over Michael van Gerwen in the final, despite trailing 0–2 and then 2–4 after six sets. Taylor won five sets in a row for the win. Van Gerwen averaged between 105 and 108 in the early sets but as his average never dropped, Taylor's average levelled off at 103 as did his ascendancy over a rival he admitted in the post-match interview was 'hard to crack'.
With his 2013 PDC World Championship win, Taylor became the first winner of the newly created Sid Waddell Trophy, named after the legendary darts commentator who died of bowel cancer on 11 August 2012.

Format and qualifiers

The televised stages featured 72 players. The top 32 players in the PDC Order of Merit on 26 November 2012 were seeded for the tournament. They were joined by the 16 highest non-qualified players from the Pro Tour Order of Merit, based on the 33 events played on the PDC Pro Tour.
These 48 players were joined by two PDPA qualifiers, the highest ranked non-qualified player on the PDC Youth Tour Order of Merit, and 21 international players: the four highest names in the European Order of Merit not already qualified, and 17 further international qualifiers to be determined by the PDC and PDPA.
Some of the international players, such as the four from the European Order of Merit, and the top American and Australian players were entered straight into the first round, while others, having won qualifying events in their countries, were entered into the preliminary round.
Players were:
Order of Merit
Pro Tour
  1. Ian White
  2. Michael Smith
  3. Dean Winstanley
  4. James Hubbard
  5. Arron Monk
  6. Joe Cullen
  7. Scott Rand
  8. Darren Webster
  9. Dennis Priestley
  10. Johnny Haines
  11. Steve Brown
  12. James Richardson
  13. Peter Hudson
  14. Mickey Mansell
  15. Mark Jones
  16. Andy Jenkins
European Order of Merit
First Round Qualifiers
PDPA Qualifiers
First Round Qualifier
Preliminary Round Qualifier
PDC Youth Tour Qualifier
Preliminary Round Qualifier
International Qualifiers
First Round Qualifiers
Preliminary Round Qualifiers
The 2013 World Championship featured a prize fund of £1,000,000 – the same as in the previous three years.
The prize money was allocated as follows:

Draw

The draw for the Round of 64 took place on 4 December 2012, the preliminary round pairings were published on 26 November 2012.

Preliminary round

The winner played his first round match the same day.
Av.PlayerScorePlayerAv.
76.70 Andree Welge1–4 Leung Chen Nam80.10
90.51 Daryl Gurney4–3 Robert Marijanović82.16
87.00 Max Hopp4–1 Charl Pietersen81.79
82.32 Jarkko Komula2–4 Jani Haavisto88.18
81.92 Carlos Rodríguez2–4 John Bowles79.01
78.30 Lourence Ilagan4–3 Jamie Lewis81.84
87.13 Haruki Muramatsu4–0 Dave Harrington59.36
79.69 Paul Lim4–1 Mohd Latif Sapup65.58

Last 64

Final

Statistics

Representation from different countries

This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the Preliminary round.

Broadcasting

The tournament was available in the following countries on these channels.
CountryChannel
United Kingdom and IrelandSky Sports HD
NetherlandsRTL 7
GermanySport1
Middle EastOSN Sports
Czech Republic
Hungary
Romania
Slovakia		Sport TV
AustraliaFox Sports
New ZealandSky New Zealand

Additionally, the semi-finals and final were broadcast in 3D in the United Kingdom and Ireland.