Dave Askew
| Dave Askew | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Nickname | Diamond Dave |
| Born |
3 April 1963 Redhill, Surrey, England |
| Home town | Redhill, Surrey England |
| Darts information | |
| Playing darts since | 1980s |
| Darts | 19g Phil Taylor adapted |
| Laterality | Right-handed |
| Walk-on music | Diamonds Are Forever by Shirley Bassey |
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |
| BDO | 1988-2000 |
| PDC | 2000-2011 |
| BDO majors - best performances | |
| World Ch'ship | Last 16: 1995 |
| World Masters | Quarter Final: 1993 |
| PDC premier events - best performances | |
| World Ch'ship | Semi Final: 2001, 2002 |
| World Matchplay | Last 16: 2001, 2002, 2005 |
| World Grand Prix | Quarter Final: 2001 |
| UK Open | Last 16: 2005 |
| US Open/WSoD | Last 64: 2007 |
| Other tournament wins | |
| Tournament | Years |
| Denmark Open French Open Cockney Classic WDF World Cup Windy City Open Mill Rythe Darts Festival |
1988 1989 1989 1993 2000 |
| Updated on 17 February 2008. | |
Dave Askew (born 3 April 1963 in Redhill, Surrey) is an English former darts player who competed in the Professional Darts Corporation. Askew is a twice semi-finalist in the PDC World Championship, both in 2001 and 2002 and on both occasions losing to eventual winner Phil Taylor.
Askew began competing in major tournaments in the late 1980s, prior to the split in the game during 1992-94. He won the Danish Open in 1988 and the French Open the following year. After the top players left the British Darts Organisation during mid-1993, Askew began to produce some more good results, reaching the final of the British Open and the quarter-finals of the Belgian Open and the Winmau World Masters, performances which secured his debut at the 1994 BDO World Darts Championship (the first year after the split) but he lost to Ian Sarfas - an Englishman who made his only World Championship appearance that year. In 1995, Askew came back from 2 sets down to beat the number one seed Steve Beaton in the first round of the World Championship before losing by three sets to nil to Raymond van Barneveld, who went on to reach his first world final that year.
After the 1995 World Championships and Scottish Open, Askew virtually disappeared off the circuit for around five years - but did lose narrowly in the final of the British Matchplay later that year. Thereafter there were only 4 notable tournament appearances until 2000. Runs to the quarter final of the Finnish and Dutch Open and a semi final finish in the British Open as well as knocking Raymond Van Barneveld out in a run to the Last 32 of Winmau World Masters of 1998. He then joined the Professional Darts Corporation in May 2000, and a few months later was reaching the semi finals of the 2001 World Championship. Later in 2001, he reached the final of the Irish Masters (losing to Denis Ovens). He beat Chris Mason, Roland Scholten and Dennis Priestley in another fine run to the semi-final of the 2002 World Championship. Shortly after the Worlds he reached the semi-finals of the Irish Masters again.
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