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Andy Smith (darts player)

Andy Smith
Personal information
Full name Andrew Smith
Nickname The Pie Man
Born (1967-06-22) 22 June 1967 (age 49)
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Home town Studley, Warwickshire
England
Darts information
Playing darts since 1974
Darts 20.5g Tungsten A180 Darts
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music Eat It by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 1997–2004
PDC 2004–2017
BDO majors - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 32: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
World Masters Last 64: 1999
World Darts Trophy Last 32: 2002
Int. Darts League Last 32 group: 2003
PDC premier events - best performances
World Ch'ship Last 16: 2006, 2011
World Matchplay Last 16: 2012
World Grand Prix Quarter-final: 2006, 2009, 2011
Ch'ship League Initial groups, Semi-finals 2008
Desert Classic Last 32: 2005, 2006, 2007
European Ch'ship Last 16: 2010
UK Open Last 16: 2009, 2010, 2011
US Open/WSoD Last 32: 2007, 2008
Players Ch'ship Finals Quarter-final: 2011
Other tournament wins
England Open 1997
Norway Open 2002
Redditch Open 2009
Welsh Open 1999

Players Championships

Players Championship (BAR) 2011
Players Championship (GER) 2009
Players Championship (HOL) 2010
Players Championship (SCO) 2007

UK Open Regionals

Regional Final (SCO) 2004
Regional Final (SWE) 2005
Other achievements
2009 Nine dart finish at PDPA Players Championship Germany.

Players Championships

UK Open Regionals

Andrew 'Andy' Smith (born 22 June 1967 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) is a former darts player who competed in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He uses the nickname Pie Man for his matches. His best performances have come in the "floor" events (non-televised tournaments with many boards being used simultaneously) - where he has won six PDC Pro Tour titles.

A former England international, Smith won the England, Welsh and Norway Opens in his early career, as well as qualifying for the British Darts Organisation version of the world championship on four occasions (losing in the first round each time), before switching from the BDO to the PDC. His wins in the Scottish and South-West Regional Finals for the 2005 UK Open saw him enter the televised finals as number one seed, and he later qualified for the Las Vegas Desert Classic.

Smith narrowly missed out on an automatic place in the 2006 PDC World Championship after jumping to 33rd in the rankings, but came through the PDPA qualifiers to book his place at the Circus Tavern. He overcame Colin Monk and Ray Carver to reach the last 16, before losing out to Alan Warriner-Little.

Smith did not win another Pro Tour title until October 2007, when he took the PDPA Scottish Players Championship in Irvine - beating James Wade with a 108 average in the final. He won a Players Championship in Dinslaken, Germany in June 2009, hitting a nine-dart finish in his quarter final before defeating Colin Lloyd to take the title.


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