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Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Jamie Robert Caven | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Jabba | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Royston, England |
10 March 1976 ||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town |
Royston England |
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Darts information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing darts since | 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Darts | 23g Unicorn Jamie Caven | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Walk-on music | Tom Hark by The Piranhas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC | 2007– | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Current world ranking | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 16: 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
World Matchplay | Last 16: 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
World Grand Prix | Last 32: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Ch'ship League | Semi-finals: 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Desert Classic | Last 32: 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
European Ch'ship | Quarter-finals: 2010, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
UK Open | Quarter-finals: 2009, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
US Open/WSoD | Last 16: 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Players Ch'ship Finals | Quarter-finals: 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Players Championships
UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers
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Players Championships
UK Open Regionals/Qualifiers
Jamie Robert Caven (born 10 March 1976 in Leicester) is an English professional darts player. He has won seven events on the PDC Pro Tour, including two in the same weekend in May 2013. Caven was also the World Youth Masters champion in 1993.
Caven has no sight in his right eye, after being stung by a bee when he was 18 months old. At the age of 17, Caven won the World Youth Masters. When he was 20, tumours were found in his pancreas resulting in its removal and his requirement to have four insulin injections a day for the rest of his life. This is where his darts nickname Jabba originated.
Caven qualified for the 2008 World Championship at Alexandra Palace, and defeated Wes Newton in the first round 3–0, before playing Wayne Mardle in the second round, taking the first set before losing 4–1.
Caven won his first PDC title, by edging Alan Tabern in a final leg decider to win the UK Open Welsh Regional in Newport in May 2009. A month later he reached his first PDC major quarter-final at the UK Open, where he lost 10–3 to Colin Osborne.
Caven lost in the first round of the 2010 PDC World Championship to Gary Anderson 3–2.
He won his first round match of the 2011 World Championship by defeating South Africa's Devon Petersen, 3–2, but was then whitewashed 4–0 by Colin Osborne in the last 32.