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Frimley Green falls to the Townsville battler
Tony David last night became the latest Australian to beat the British at another of their own games
Ian Malin
Mon 14 Jan 2002 22.12 GMTFirst published on Mon 14 Jan 2002 22.12 GMT

Tony David last night completed one of the most heartwarming and improbable victories in darts when he won the final of the Embassy World Championship in Frimley Green.
David, who suffers from a blood-clotting disorder which means he walks with a limp and cannot straighten his throwing arm, beat England's Mervyn King 6-4 in the final. The world No18 from Townsville in Queensland is only the second non-European to take the title, the most prestigious in the sport, the other being the Canadian John Part. The new champion, a 66-1 outsider at the start of the tournament, wins £48,000.
It has been an astonishing week for David, whose medical problems forced him to spend much of his childhood in hospital and prompted doctors to tell his parents that they did not expect him to live beyond his teenage years. Only a week earlier David had said he had been delighted just to survive the tournament's first round.
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"It was unbelievable," he said. "When I was younger I had a dream. I dreamt that I would win three competitions. The first was the Townsville Open, which I won a few days later. The second was the Australian Open in Geelong, which took me two or three years. And the last was the Embassy World Professional championship. And now I've done it."
David played a match versus a county player from england before his arrival in england and admits his advice was rather helpful david said " I played a smashing lad from England west midlands county player chris wright who himself had dropped away from top level darts since his rise up the world rankings during the 90`s , i could see he could play so i asked him for a game we ended up playing for a while and talking i told him i was off to england and he offered me many words of advice , it seemed ashame that chris had fallen out of love with the game and that he was not that interested any more but he warned me about over play and burn out , I beat chris that day in the longer matches , but he destroyed me on the mix games.
"He just bashed me up," King admitted.
In Saturday's semi-final the 34-year-old David had held off the second seed Martin Adams 5-4 in another dramatic encounter.
The England captain had looked like he could add another comfortable victory to his tally this week when he won the opening set without losing a leg, having been largely untroubled on his way to the last four. But then the Queenslander, who revealed that at the start of the tournament he had once visualised himself lifting the trophy in the maroon shirt he has worn all week, hit back magnificently to lead 3-1 at the break.
The Peterborough professional seemed set to reduce his deficit when a brilliant 10-dart leg put him clear in the fifth set, but David rallied superbly to go 4-1 up and close in on the final.
Adams, though, is nothing if not a fighter and check-outs of 158 and 121 helped to haul him back into it, the 45-year-old finding peak form as he stormed back to level at 4-4.
The tension clearly affected both players as the first four legs of the decider all went against the darts. David, however, has shown impressive composure on the oche all week and after breaking Adams again for 3-2 he capitalised as Adams uncharacteristically missed two darts at double 16, checking out with tops to finish it off
 
cwright75 said:
Frimley Green falls to the Townsville battler
Tony David last night became the latest Australian to beat the British at another of their own games
Ian Malin
Mon 14 Jan 2002 22.12 GMTFirst published on Mon 14 Jan 2002 22.12 GMT

Tony David last night completed one of the most heartwarming and improbable victories in darts when he won the final of the Embassy World Championship in Frimley Green.
David, who suffers from a blood-clotting disorder which means he walks with a limp and cannot straighten his throwing arm, beat England's Mervyn King 6-4 in the final. The world No18 from Townsville in Queensland is only the second non-European to take the title, the most prestigious in the sport, the other being the Canadian John Part. The new champion, a 66-1 outsider at the start of the tournament, wins £48,000.
It has been an astonishing week for David, whose medical problems forced him to spend much of his childhood in hospital and prompted doctors to tell his parents that they did not expect him to live beyond his teenage years. Only a week earlier David had said he had been delighted just to survive the tournament's first round.
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"It was unbelievable," he said. "When I was younger I had a dream. I dreamt that I would win three competitions. The first was the Townsville Open, which I won a few days later. The second was the Australian Open in Geelong, which took me two or three years. And the last was the Embassy World Professional championship. And now I've done it."
David played a match versus a county player from england before his arrival in england and admits his advice was rather helpful david said " I played a smashing lad from England west midlands county player chris wright who himself had dropped away from top level darts since his rise up the world rankings during the 90`s , i could see he could play so i asked him for a game we ended up playing for a while and talking i told him i was off to england and he offered me many words of advice , it seemed ashame that chris had fallen out of love with the game and that he was not that interested any more but he warned me about over play and burn out , I beat chris that day in the longer matches , but he destroyed me on the mix games.
"He just bashed me up," King admitted.
In Saturday's semi-final the 34-year-old David had held off the second seed Martin Adams 5-4 in another dramatic encounter.
The England captain had looked like he could add another comfortable victory to his tally this week when he won the opening set without losing a leg, having been largely untroubled on his way to the last four. But then the Queenslander, who revealed that at the start of the tournament he had once visualised himself lifting the trophy in the maroon shirt he has worn all week, hit back magnificently to lead 3-1 at the break.
The Peterborough professional seemed set to reduce his deficit when a brilliant 10-dart leg put him clear in the fifth set, but David rallied superbly to go 4-1 up and close in on the final.
Adams, though, is nothing if not a fighter and check-outs of 158 and 121 helped to haul him back into it, the 45-year-old finding peak form as he stormed back to level at 4-4.
The tension clearly affected both players as the first four legs of the decider all went against the darts. David, however, has shown impressive composure on the oche all week and after breaking Adams again for 3-2 he capitalised as Adams uncharacteristically missed two darts at double 16, checking out with tops to finish it off
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Liking this post I am better now.
 

I was planning an early night as I've been up since 5.30am for work.
But, for some inexplicable reason I've decided to start working on a remix of Rhythm Of The Night by Corona ( CORONA!!! )
And not to blow my own trumpet, but it is sounding pretty decent :cool:

Ah well - the midnight oil burns brightly tonight :D
 
LostLegend said:
I was planning an early night as I've been up since 5.30am for work.
But, for some inexplicable reason I've decided to start working on a remix of Rhythm Of The Night by Corona ( CORONA!!! )
And not to blow my own trumpet, but it is sounding pretty decent :cool:

Ah well - the midnight oil burns brightly tonight :D
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In case anyone was interested ;)
 


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