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29 May 2006 -

Former World Master and British Open Champion Colin Monk (pictured left) is the President of the Academy and over a dozen coaches are on hand to oversee the following programme every Wednesday between 7.00 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. at the Entertainer, King Arthurs Way:

28 May 2006 -

Read Unicorn Managing Director Edward Lowy's unique diary report by clicking the link below:

Unicorn in Japan

James beat Colin Monk in the final of the Frome Town FC Open event today. Colin had earlier beaten Andy Jenkins in the semi-final.

20 May 2006 -

He won his first match 6-1 against Tom Curtin at the world's second biggest casino before going down by 6-4 against Denis Ovens. Denis fought back from 3-1 down in the match to take his place in the last eight.

Of the American challengers only John Kuczynski won his opening match, against John Part. He now faces Wayne Mardle in his quest to claim the one million dollars on offer to a US winner of the event.

20 May 2006 -

There were 456 entries in the biggest event at the Novotel to date.

The last 64 in Adobe Acrobat can be found below by clicking on the following link which will open the file in a new browser window, or by right clicking and selecting "save target":

Last 64

18 May 2006 -

An alphabetic list of entries and the full draw in Adobe Acrobat can be found below by clicking on the following links which will open the files in a new browser window, or by right clicking and selecting "save target":

Alphabetic List

Draw

There are certainly some interesting names in the draw. While the top 16 PDC ranked players are in the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut for the $300,000 World Series of Darts, TV regulars such as James Wade, Dennis Smith, Colin Monk, Lionel Sams, reigning champion Mark Thomson (pictured left) and Jimmy Mann are all eager to win this prestigious event.

Back from his recent trip to Nijmegen for the Dutch TV major, the International Darts League Paul Hogan is the only top flight WDF player laying his reputation on the line but there are plenty of other quality players in the mix such as former World Champion Les Wallace, his brother Andy, who also represented Scotland.

Former World Boys Champions Danny Ballard and Aaron Turner are in the draw and former World Number 1 Jayne Moulsley is one of several ladies taking up the challenge.

Richie Gardner is a former World Pairs champion and used to be a TV regular in the 80s and early 90s.

Glenn Toms is a former British Teenage and English National Champion and Kirk Shepherd, another former World Boys Champion is the current national junior player of the year.

Add to this the cream of county talent from Hampshire and all of the other surrounding counties and the depth of quality is just astounding.

Saturday's winner will have survived a gruelling day and won eight or nine matches to call himself, or herself the Hampshire Open Champion 2006.

14 May 2006 -

Roy Brown, Linda Ithurralde and Jock Lyons win the Mixed Triples and Rick Williams is the Junior Singles Champion.

14 May 2006 -

Sven van Dun took the all Dutch final of the Bullit Junior event with a 6-4 win over Pieter Collijn.

13 May 2006 -

Dutch Master Raymond van Barneveld had to dig deep against Aussie Simon Whitlock before he won 9-7. Simon had led by 3-0 in the earlier part of the match.

Another great semi-final in the Bullit Junior event saw Pieter Collijn set up an all Netherlands final with a 5-3 win over Ireland's Jason Cullen.

12 May 2006 -

Sven van Dun beat Toon Greebe 5-2 in the all Dutch Bullit Junior event semi-final. Sven averaged almost 98 a throw and Toon 90.

11 May 2006 -

Roland Scholten just pips Ronnie Baxter 7-6 in a tremendous battle that really could have gone either way to qualify alongside Raymond.

Martin Adams averages 102 in beating Darryl Fitton to top group L but Michael van Gerwen (pictured left) has a sensational 7-2 win over Tony O'Shea to scrape through ahead of Darryl. Both Michael and Tony average over 105.

Lakeside champion Jelle Klaasen beats Phil Taylor in a close match by 7-6 but the thirteen time world champion still finishes in pole position in the group. Colin Lloyd beats Shaun Greatbatch to join him in the last eight.

Ted Hankey beats Simon Whitlock to win his group although both qualify.

The draw for the quarter finals which start tomorrow is: Raymond van Barneveld (NL) v Michael van Gerwen (NL), Phil Taylor (UK) v Simon Whitlock (AU), Colin Lloyd (UK) v Ted Hankey (UK) and Roland Scholten (NL) v Martin Adams (UK). Each match will be the best of eleven sets of best of three legs

Bookmakers www.bluesq.com are still covering the event with streaming video at the times that SBS6 are transmitting. It is free of charge, however registration with the site is necessary.

Pieter Collijn became the third Dutch teenager in the Bullit Junior event semi-finals with a narrow win over young Swede Oskar Lukasiak.

10 May 2006 -

Dutch Master Raymond van Barneveld beat Roland Scholten 7-1 in the other group match which ensured his place in the last eight.

Paul cannot now qualify for the quarter finals even if he wins his final match against four-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld tomorrow evening. Roland and Ronnie go head-to-head for the other spot from this group in the last eight.

Other highlights from the fifth day's play include another big win for top Australian Simon Whitlock (pictured left) against Gary Robson. Ted Hankey wins and joins Simon Whitlock in the quarter finals.

Phil Taylor maintains the only 100% record left in the event with a 7-1 win over Colin Lloyd and Shaun Greatbatch beats Lakeside champion Jelle Klaasen. Taylor is through and Lloyd and Greatbatch face off for the other place in group J.

Darryl Fitton has a good win over Michael van Gerwen and Martin Adams beats Tony O'Shea. All four players in group L are still in with a chance of progressing.

Irish teenager Jason Cullen is through to the semi-finals of the Bullit Junior event. He beats another impressive young Dutch talent in Jan Dekker who wins the first leg of the televised match on 170.

9 May 2006 -

Raymond van Barneveld defeated Ronnie Baxter 7-5 with a 100 average in the other match in Paul's group.

Paul must now lift himself for tomorrow's match against Ronnie Baxter and Thursday's final group match against "The Man" Raymond van Barneveld.

Other highlights on the fourth day include a marvellous win from the high scoring Aussie Simon Whitlock and a narrow victories for Darryl Fitton and Ted Hankey.

Colin Lloyd beats Lakeside champion Jelle Klaasen 7-2 and Phil Taylor (pictured left) powers his way to a 6-1 win over Shaun Greatbatch.

The precocious talent of seventeen year old Michael van Gerwen defeats Martin Adams 7-6. Van Gerwen hits 3 180s in the last two legs to snatch the win. He takes victory with an amazing 164 game shot and averages 108 to Martin's 107.

Another Dutch teenager, Toon Greebe makes the semi-finals of the Bullit Junior event beating British youngster Ross Smith.

8 May 2006 -

Paul will play in a tough group in Phase 2 with Raymond van Barneveld, Roland Scholten and Ronnie Baxter. The format rises to the best of 13 legs. Paul's guaranteed prize money now goes from €2000 to €3000. If he can secure one of the top two places in his second phase pool and qualify for the quarter finals this will increase to a minimum of €4500.

He starts his second phase pool matches tomorrow evening against Roland Scholten.

Other highlights on day 3 of the event see Dutch teenager Sven van Dun through to the semi-finals of the Bullit Junior event at the expense of Kevin Münch from Germany.

England captain Martin Adams and Lakeside sensation Jelle Klaasen both qualify for the second phase. Adams is only the second player after Taylor to maintain a 100% record in the opening phase.

Ronnie Baxter gets through by the skin of his teeth with a great 127 pressure finish on the bull. One more leg dropped in the match and he would have been out of the event at the expense of his opponent Niels de Ruiter. Instead he qualifies with an identical record by virtue of his win over de Ruiter. He is joined by Ted Hankey who beats an already eliminated John Walton.

The last two through are Shaun Greatbatch who beats Tony O'Shea who still tops the group.

The pools for Phase 2 are as follows:

Pool I - van Barneveld, Scholten, Baxter and Hogan

Pool J - Taylor, Lloyd, Greatbatch and Klaasen

Pool K - Hankey, Anderson, Robson and Whitlock

Pool L - O'Shea, Adams, Fitton and van Gerwen

Matches take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the top two players in each pool making the quarter finals on Thursday.

7 May 2006 -

Other highlights on day two of the event include a great fightback by Ronnie Baxter (pictured left) to beat former world champion John Walton. A good performance from Niels de Ruiter to beat another former World champion Ted Hankey. Another solid performance from Colin Lloyd and another narrow win, 6-5 again for Phil Taylor over Paul Hanvidge.

Roland Scholten had a big 6-1 win against Albertino Essers to qualify for phase 2 along with Simon Whitlock who has won open events in Cosham and Eastleigh on previous visits to the UK.

Raymond van Barneveld beats title holder Mervyn King 6-3 with a 100 average and knocks him out of the competition. World Darts Trophy holder Gary Robson also makes it through to the next phase from the group.

Phil Taylor maintains his unbeaten start to win his group by crushing Co Stompé 6-0 and is joined by Darryl Fitton. Phil is the only player thus far to have won all three of his group matches.

PDC number one Colin Lloyd loses 3-6 to seventeen year old Dutch sensation Michael van Gerwen who won last weekend's Open Holland. Colin tops the group but Michael qualifies alongside him. Michael wraps up victory with an excellent ten darter.

6 May 2006 -

Other highlights on the opening day are some big averages from Mervyn King (110), Raymond van Barneveld (104) and Michael van Gerwen (103) and a narrow miss for a nine darter from Tony O'Shea on the double twelve.

However van Barneveld and King have both lost a match and one of the two must be eliminated when they meet in their final pool match.

Colin Lloyd and Phil Taylor both have high averages in their opening matches but Taylor has to survive four darts for the match from Darryl Fitton.

Albertino Essers (pictured above) is impressive in 2 wins and also includes a 170 finish on the opening afternoon.