Steve West | |||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||
Nickname | Simply | ||||||||||||
Born |
Epping, Essex, England |
5 June 1975 ||||||||||||
Home town |
Den Haag Netherlands |
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Darts information | |||||||||||||
Playing darts since | 1989 | ||||||||||||
Darts | 22g Rovadel Steve West | ||||||||||||
Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||
Walk-on music | "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey | ||||||||||||
Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||
BDO | 2005–2012 | ||||||||||||
PDC | 2012– | ||||||||||||
Current world ranking | 43 | ||||||||||||
BDO majors - best performances | |||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 32: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 | ||||||||||||
World Masters | Quarter Final: 2008, 2009 | ||||||||||||
World Darts Trophy | Last 40: 2007 | ||||||||||||
Int. Darts League | Preliminary Round: 2007 | ||||||||||||
Zuiderduin Masters | Quarter Final: 2007, 2009 | ||||||||||||
PDC premier events - best performances | |||||||||||||
World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2017 | ||||||||||||
World Grand Prix | Last 16: 2016 | ||||||||||||
Grand Slam | Group Stage: 2015 | ||||||||||||
European Ch'ship | Last 32: 2016 | ||||||||||||
UK Open | Last 16: 2013 | ||||||||||||
Players Ch'ship Finals | Last 64: 2016 | ||||||||||||
Other tournament wins | |||||||||||||
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Steve West (born 5 June 1975) is an English darts player who plays for the Professional Darts Corporation. He is the younger brother of 2003 World Master Tony West and resides in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
West showed signs of a promising career quickly by reaching the final of the 2005 French Open, losing to local Dominique le Roy. He also reached the last 32 of the 2005 World Masters where he lost to Gary Anderson. In 2007, West reached another Open final in the 2007 Dutch Open, one of the BDO's biggest Open tournaments. Amongst his scalps were Dutchmen Co Stompé and Edwin Max before losing in the final to Scott Waites. Following this and three further quarter-finals, he qualified for the 2007 International Darts League, but was knocked out at the Preliminary Group Stage.
West then won his first Open title, winning the 2007 Denmark Open, beating the Netherlands' Niels de Ruiter in the semi-finals and then beat fellow Englishman James Wilson in the final. His performances earned him qualification for the 2008 BDO World Championship. He faced former World Champion Ted Hankey in the first round and lost 3–2 despite leading 2–1. West bounced back from his Lakeside defeat to win the 2008 German Gold Cup beating Andree Welge in the final. He then won the Finnish Open, beating local favourite and former Masters finalist Jarkko Komula in the semi-finals and then beat Norway's Robert Wagner in the final. He also made two semi-final showings in the Belgium Open and the French Open and reached the quarter-finals of the Northern Ireland Open. These performances helped West qualify automatically for the 2009 BDO World Championship at the Lakeside, where he was the number 13 seed. However, he was outclassed by Alan Norris 3–0 in the first round. West could not better this in 2010 either, as once again he relinquished a 2–1 lead this time to Irish débutante Martin McCloskey. In 2011, West once more lost in the first round to 2010 finalist Dave Chisnall after missing three darts at double top to win before Chisnall came back to force a tiebreak in the final set and eventually win. In 2012, West lost in the first round of the BDO World Championship for the fifth year in a row against former runner-up and world #1 Tony O'Shea. This levelled him with Davy Richardson and Tony Payne for the record of most first-round losses at the World Championship before finally winning.