2015 BDO World Trophy Preview

Updated: February 23, 2015

This coming Thursday, February 26, sees the start of the second BDO World Trophy. Held in Manchester, the event runs until March 2. The Men’s event comprises 32 of the world’s top players, and the Women’s event 16. American interest centers on New York’s Jim Widmayer.

Jim is no stranger to the international stage, and only last month competed in the BDO’s Lakeside World Championship, losing to three-time World Champion Martin Adams in the second round. On Thursday, Jim and Martin square up again in the last of the evening’s first round clashes. Hopefully it will be a repeat of Jim’s opening match in the 2014 BDO World Trophy, when he inflicted a 6-4 defeat upon Number 8 Seed, Tony O’Shea.

The full line up for the first round (in playing order) is :

WOMEN
Rachel Brooks	(Eng)	(7)	vs	Irina Armstrong	(Ger)
Fallon Sherrock	(Eng)	(4)	vs	Paula Jacklin	(Eng)
Lorraine Winstanley	(Eng)	(8)	vs	Rhian Griffiths	(Wal)
Deta Hedman	(Eng)	(2)	vs	Trina Gulliver MBE	(Eng)
Zoe Jones	(Eng)	(6)	vs	Anneke Kuijten	(NL)
Aileen de Graaf	(NL)	(5)	vs	Anne-Louise Peters	(Den)
Lisa Ashton	(Eng)	(3)	vs	Maud Jansson	(Swe)
Anastasia Dobromyslova	(Rus)	(1)	vs	Casey Gallagher	(Eng)

MEN
Tony O’Shea	(Eng)	(12)	vs	Stefaan Deprez	(Bel)
Rick Hofstra	(NL)	(15)	vs	Geert de Vos	(Bel)
Gary Robson	(Eng)	(6)	vs	Darius Labanauskas	(Lit)
Remco van Eiden	(NL)	(11)	vs	Mark McGeeney	(Eng)
Madars Razma	(Lat)	(16)	vs	Wayne Warren	(Wal)
Wesley Harms	(NL)	(7)	vs	Peter Sajwani	(Swe)
Scott Waites	(Eng)	(9)	vs	Ted Hankey	(Eng)
Martin Adams	(Eng)	(2)	vs	Jim Widmayer	(USA)
Jamie Hughes	(Eng)	(5)	vs	Hiroaki Shimizu	(Jap)
Jeffrey de Graaf	(NL)	(13)	vs	Eddy Sims	(Aus)
Pip Blackwell	(Eng)	(14)	vs	Paul Jennings	(Eng)
Glen Durrant	(Eng)	(3)	vs	Karel Sedlacek	(Cz)
Martin Phillips	(Wal)	(4)	vs	Willem Mandigers	(NL)
Darryl Fitton	(Eng)	(10)	vs	Ritchie Edhouse	(Eng)
Scott Mitchell	(Eng)	(1)	vs	David Cameron	(Can)
Ross Montgomery	(Sco)	(8)	vs	Jeff Smith	(Can)