Gulliver misses out at Dutch Open

Saturday 8 February 2003

The Dutch Open appears to be a bit of a hurdle for World No.1 and 2003 Embassy Champion Trina Gulliver (pictured right). Knocked out in the quarter finals last year by Tricia Wright, Trina was defeated again today in the round of 16 by Scottish Louise Hepburn 3-2

Day three of the Dutch Open saw the second half of the Singles draw played out to the last four players in the Open and Ladies competitions. These four players will meet the four players who made it through Fridays draw on stage on Sunday when all finals will be played. Big numbers continued at this event with about 6000 viewers and participators watching all of the games. A big stand was erected for all the spectators to get a better view of the action who watched all the matches while the players were competing before the television cameras (SBS6). Playing format for the early rounds is best of 5 x 501.

On this day we saw the emergence of top players like Trina Gulliver in the ladies event and the Dutch Embassy players Raymond van Barneveld, Vincent van der Voort, Albertino Essers Mervyn King, Steve Coote, and Ted Hankey in the Men's.

Action started on the boards at 11.00 again with early upsets right from the start. Big name players to miss early were Peter Evison who lost in the first round, Mervyn King lost to Swedish player Oberg in the round of 256 as did fellow Englishman Matt Clark losing to Dahlgren from Sweden.

Those to make the quarterfinals were Dutch super star and new 2003 Embassy Champion Raymond van Barneveld (right). He did not make it through without some extremely tough competition. Nick named "Barney" had could have easily been eliminated early. In the round of 64, Belgians Tanguy

Borra missed 3 darts for victory when he was 2-1 up. Given a chance Barney took that leg, and then produced an 11-dart leg for victory. The tough games continued for him as he defeated Englishman Colin Lloyd 3-1 in the very next round. Again he won (3-1) to reach last 8 he had to finish a 146 to win the match, against Reinier Schouten who was on 57.

Other big players to miss out losing in the round of 32 were Embassy players John Walton (Eng) and Dutchman Vincent van de Voort.

Four Dutch players are among the last eight players in the Open singles. Three Englishmen and one Finish player join them. The Dutchmen are Raymond van Barneveld, Roland Scholten, Jan van de Rassel, Peter Nederlof, the English Ted Hankey, Terry Jenkins, James Wade and Finland's Jarkko Komula.

Jarkko Komula

Ted Hankey

Results men: 2nd half last 32:

Raymond van Barneveld defeated Colin Lloyd (Eng): 3-1 Reinier Schouten defeated Vincent van de Voort: 3-1 James Wade (Eng) defeated Tony Martin (Eng): 3-1 Thomas Seyler (Ger) defeated Daniel Brouwer: 3-0 Ted Hankey (Eng) defeated Eric Ebben: 3-2 Johnny Petermans (Bel) defeated John Walton (Eng): 3-1 Jarkko Komula (Fin) defeated Pascal Rabau (Bel): 3-2 Dirk Koster defeated Jean-Paul van Acker: 3-2

2nd half last 16:

Raymond van Barneveld defeated Reinier Schouten: 3-1 James Wade (Eng) defeated Thomas Seyler (Ger) : 3-0 Ted Hankey (Eng) defeated Johnny Petermans (Bel) : 3-2 Jarkko Komula (Fin) defeated Dick Koster : 3-1

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Ladies Singles

The tournament has opened up for Francis Hoenselaar (right) after the big shock of the day being the loss of Embassy winner Trina Gulliver. She exited the tournament after losing against Scottish Louise Hepburn.

Dutch international and 2003 Embassy player Karin Krappen (left) has put in another outstanding performance to join fellow countrymen Francis Hoenselaar and Mieke de Boer in the finals. Belgium's Vicky Pruim just missed out again after losing at the semi final stage last year. Crissy Howat continued her good form defeating Vicki to progress to Sunday.

Results Ladies: 2nd half last 16:

Karin Krappen defeated Petra Louwerse 3-0 Sandra Pollet (Bel) defeated Carina Ekberg (Swe) 3-2 Crissy Howat (Eng) defeated Vicky Pruim (Bel) 3-1 Louise Hepburn (Sco) defeated Trina Gulliver (Eng) 3-2

Complete program for Sunday 9 February. All on stage.

Quarter final matches ladies 10:30 am Francis Hoenselaar v Maud Jansson (Swe) Barbara Lee (Eng) v Mieke de Boer Karin Krappen v Sandra Pollet (Bel) Crissy Howat (Eng) v Louise Hepburn

Quarter final matches from 12:00 noon: Roland Scholten v Jan van de Rassel Terry Jenkins (Eng) v Peter Nederlof Raymond van Barneveld v James Wade (Eng) Ted Hankey (Eng) v Jarkko Komula (Fin)

Semi final matches ladies pairs from 14:00 hrs Sally Smith & Clare Bywaters (Eng) v Nicole van Grinsven & Denise Winter (Neth/Sui) Miranda Haasnoot & Danielle Hartog v Francis Hoenselaar & Trina Gulliver (Ned/Eng)

Semi final matches men's pairs from 15:00 hrs Andy Smith & Terry Jenkins (Eng) v Shaun Greatbatch & Bob Taylor (Eng/Sco) Tony Martin & Mark Dudbridge (Eng) v Raymond van Barneveld & Tony David (Ned/Aus)

Ladies pairs final 16:00 hour Men's pairs final 16:30 Ladies single semi finals from 17:00 hour Men's single semi finals from 18:00 hour Ladies single final from 20:00 hour Men single final after the ladies final.

Game format Singles:

Ladies:	First rounds 501 best of 5 legs Semi final 501 best of 3 sets, best of 5 legs Final 501 best of 5 sets, best of 5 legs
Men:	First rounds 501 best of 5 legs Semi final 501 best of 5 sets, best of 5 legs Final 501 best of 7 sets, best of 5 legs

Game format Pairs:

All Pairs until the quarterfinals	701 best of 5
Ladies/Men-pairs semifinals	701 best of 7 legs
Ladies/men-pairs finals	701 best of 5 legs, best of 3 sets

Results sent by Hans Senders NDF.