2007 BDO World Darts Championship - Qualifiers

Qualifiers

On October 2, the BDO announced that the 2007 Championships would contain 16 seeded players for the first time since 1981. Two days later they announced that the top 26 players from the Invitational table would also qualify automatically. Defending champion Jelle Klaasen had slipped to 19 in the rankings at the time the seedings were announced, and has therefore missed out on being seeded. He was drawn against Co Stompé in the first round.

The qualifying event was held at Bridlington on Thursday October 12, the day before the Winmau World Masters event. From a field of 239 players playing the best of 3 sets, four players emerged as qualifiers for the 2007 World Finals. Former champion, Tony David was defeated by Kierion Carter of Wales in the first qualifying round. Despite a run of four victories Bobby George (WDF Ranking 165) fell two rounds short of qualification for the finals.

The eventual qualifiers from the event were:

• Davy Richardson (England) WDF Ranking: unranked
• Brian Woods (England) WDF Ranking: 86
• Paul Gibbs (England) WDF Ranking: 60
• Phill Nixon (England) WDF Ranking: 272

The final place at Lakeside was reserved for the winner of the World Masters - but as Michael van Gerwen had already booked a place it was taken by Gary Fenn, who had won a standy-by play-off a few days earlier. Ironically, if Fenn was to progress to the second round he could come up against Phill Nixon - the man who had already "knocked him out" of the qualifying event for the World Championship on October 12.

The draw for the event was made at Leisure World, Bridlington on October 13, 2006 at 10am by the owners of the Lakeside - Bob Potter and Barbara Leitch.