Early Career
Anderson began his career playing in the BDO events and made his breakthrough by winning the 2001 Welsh Open. The win ensured he qualified for the following year's World Championship for the first time, where he suffered a first round defeat to Sweden's Stefan Nagy, going down 0–3. The following year Anderson reached the semi-final stage before bowing out to losing Welsh finalist Ritchie Davies.
Anderson would not win another match at the Lakeside Country Club, however, until 2006, when he beat Gary Robson in the first round before again falling to the eventual finalist this time in Raymond van Barneveld in the second round. In the following two years, Anderson was knocked out of the World Championship in the first round by Dutch players - in 2007, he lost to Albertino Essers, and in 2008, he was defeated by Fabian Roosenbrand.
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