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unusual facts about nine-dart finish


Nine-dart finish

Wade's first televised nine-darter, came against Gary Anderson at the 2008 Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton on November 20, 2008, shown live on ITV4.


1997 WDC World Darts Championship

Paul Lim, who famously hit a nine-dart finish at the 1990 Embassy Championship appeared at his first WDC World Championship - he had only managed to qualify once for the Embassy since the split, losing a second round match to John Part in 1994.

Geert De Vos

Another remarkable achievement was throwing a nine-darter at the Denmark Open in 2008, a tournament in which he would lose the final against the Polish player Krzysztof Ratajski.

Jack McKenna

It was at the 1990 BDO World Darts Championship where McKenna become notorious within the game, as the man on the receiving end of the first nine-dart finish at the World Championship, achieved by Paul Lim of the United States.


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Justin Pipe

In June 2011, Pipe hit a nine-dart finish in a Players Championship match in Nuland against Colin Osborne.