2007 BDO World Darts Championship
| Lakeside World Darts Championship | |||
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| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 6–14 January 2007 | ||
| 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) |
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| Prize fund | £278,000 | ||
| Winners share | £70,000 (men's) £6,000 (women's) |
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| High checkout |
170  Ted Hankey
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| Champion(s) | |||
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Martin Adams Trina Gulliver
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The 2007 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 30th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation (BDO), and the 22nd to be held at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey. It ran from 6–14 January 2007.
Ahead of the tournament, the BDO announced a new stage set and player walk-on area. The markers - the two officials who manually calculated player scores - were replaced by on-stage plasma television screens. Thus, the only official on stage was the referee/caller.
The defending champion, Jelle Klaasen, lost in straight sets in the first round to fellow Dutchman Co Stompé. The day after the final, Klaasen defected to the rival Professional Darts Corporation along with two other Dutch players, Michael van Gerwen and Vincent van der Voort (both of whom had also lost in the first round). They followed the lead of Raymond van Barneveld, who had switched soon after losing to Klaasen in the previous year's BDO final and then won the PDC's World Championship at his first attempt, a few days before the BDO's tournament began. (This was the first time that a finalist from one World Championship had played in the other World Championship the following year, in direct contravention of the 1997 Tomlin Order.)
Martin Adams, the number 1 seed, won his first world title, despite being subjected to a remarkable comeback by opponent Phill Nixon in the final. Adams had led 6–0 in the best-of-13-sets match, but Nixon levelled at 6–6 before Adams finally won the deciding set.
In the women's tournament, Trina Gulliver maintained her unbeaten record as she won her seventh successive final. However, she needed a sudden-death leg to defeat Francis Hoenselaar. This was the fourth time in succession, and fifth overall, that Hoenselaar had lost in the final.
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