WDF World Cup Men Singles 1993

The ninth WDF World Cup is played for the second time in the largest gambling city of the world; Las Vegas. In 1979 WDF World Cup II was also held there, back then with only men's teams. Just like two years ago in Zandvoort Netherlands, there were 32 countries in the men’s competition. In the ladies, 26 countries started for their sixth WDF World Cup Darts.

Traditionally, there are relatively many Caribbean countries when playing in North America. There are also three debuting countries; The Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa have joined the WDF World Cup family. The Sahara Hotel is the place to be from 13 to 16 October, just like 14 years ago. That does not apply to a lot of trusted names. This WDF World Cup goes down in history as the first after the split, with a large number of top players having set up their own darts association, later known as the PDC.

In the singles, there were no English players in the last eight. However, there were three Welshmen in the quarterfinals; Martin Phillips, Sean Palfrey and Eric Burden, the latter had won his four previous matches with 4-3. Wales thus took an advance on the Overall WDF World Cup title.

In the first quarterfinal Dutchman Roland Scholten beat Martin Phillips convincingly 4-0 (17, 11, 11, and 14 darts). Tony Payne (USA) lost 3-4 to Sean Palfrey. Troels Rusel from Denmark defeated Belgian ace Leo Laurens 4-2. Laurens was 2-1 in front, but Rusel pinched the last three legs in 15, 14 and 15 darts. Eric Burden who defeated the Scot Alan Brown 4-2 won the last quarterfinal.

In the first semi-final Roland Scholten kept playing well, he brushed aside Sean Palfrey from Wales 4-1, with beautiful legs in 13 and 14 darts. To make the surprise final complete, the Dane Troels Rusel defeated Eric Burden 4-2. This final was the first ever at the WDF World Cup without a native English-speaking player.

In the final both players didn’t perform like they had during the rest of the tournament, nerves played a big part. Rusel led 2-0, but Scholten took the last four legs of the match to complete a 4-2 victory. This singles title was the first WDF World Cup singles title ever for the Netherlands in the men.

WDF World Cup Men Singles

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Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Singles 1993

Øyvind Aasland

Albert Anstey

Dave Askew

Beat Basler

Ronnie Baxter

Steve Beaton

Jonas Bergström

Robert Boch

Alan Brown

Eric Burden

Larry Butler

Magnus Caris

John Catanach

Yves Chamberland

Torben Christensen

Roy-Thore Christensen

Conrado Chua

Mitchell Crooks

William Dalzell

Vernon Daniels

Alfredo Deen

Stephan Eeckelaert

Steven Els

Enrico Flores

Arild Folgerø

Finian Fox

Leon Garcia

John Govender

Siaw Guan-Goh

Mauri Hakkala

Wayne Harvey

Steven Hayward

Kexi Heinaharju

Jann Hoffmann

Graham Hunt

Peter Hunt

Reynaldo Ilagan

Paul Jacobs

Trevor Johnson

Tony Kamernicky

Thomas Kamusina

Toshioki Kaneko

Marko Kantele

Blaine Karst

Dave Kelly

Kevin Kenny

Goran Klemme

Karoly Kocsis

Sandor Kovacs

Andreas Krockel

Bruno Ladovaz

Leo Laurens

Jean-Luc Leclercq

Yannick Letutour

Harith Lim

Mauricio Maia

Jan Mares

Attila Mayer

Francis McMahon

Carl Mercer

Prescott Minnis

Tony Moree

Patrick Moylan

John-Mugo Munyui

Stefan Nagy

Sayid Nasiruddin

Robert Ngirigacha

Aulis Nissinen

Trevor Nurse

John Nyingi-Macharia

John-Joe O'Shea

Dmitri Ostashev

Oleg Ostashev

Sean Palfrey

John Part

Andrei Patriki

Tony Payne