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PDC World Cup Of Darts
Hamburg, Germany February 3 – 5 2012
New Zealand World Cup Team
Warren French and Preston Ridd
FIVE new countries will compete in the 2012 World Cup of Darts in Hamburg next month - including
South Africa, the Philippines and Malaysia.
The second PDC World Cup will be staged from February 3-5 at the Alsterdorfer Sporthalle in
Hamburg, featuring 24 countries competing for a £150,000 prize fund.
The Netherlands, who won the tournament in December 2010, will be the number three seeds as
Raymond van Barneveld and Vincent van der Voort defend the title in Hamburg.
The English pair of world number one Phil Taylor and World Champion Adrian Lewis will be the top
seed, with Australian duo Simon Whitlock and Paul Nicholson the number two seeds.
Scotland's Gary Anderson and Peter Wright are seeded four, Welsh pair Mark Webster and Richie
Burnett are five, Northern Ireland's Brendan Dolan & Michael Mansell are six, Belgium's Kim
Huybrechts and Kurt Van De Rijck are seven and the German pair of Jyhan Artut and Bernd Roith are
the eighth seed on home soil.
The top eight seeds will enter the tournament at the second round stage, with the teams ranked
9-24 contesting the first round in the opening session on Friday
February 3.
The Spanish pair of Antonio Alcinas and Carlos Rodriguez famously won through to the semi-finals
of the last World Cup, knocking out England's Phil Taylor & James Wade along the way.
William O'Connor and Mick McGowan represent Ireland, Darin Young is partnered by Gary Mawson for
the USA, World Championship qualifiers Mensur Suljovic and Dietmar Burger team up for Austria and
Magnus Caris will play alongside Dennis Nilsson for Sweden.
Finland's Petri Korte, who met Wade in the World Championship, partners Marko Kantele in the
event, while Dylan Duo and Dyson Parody represent Gibraltar, Per Laursen and Jann Hoffmann will
play for Denmark and Boris Krcmar plays for Croatia alongside Tonci Restovic.
The remaining six countries have been invited by virtue of having one ranked player on the PDC
Order of Merit, with Japan and New Zealand joined by South Africa, the Philippines, Malaysia and
Hungary - giving many recent Ladbrokes World Darts Championship qualifiers further top-level
experience.
Japan's Haruki Muramatsu - who won through to play Phil Taylor in the World Championship - is
partnered by popular ace Morihiro Hashimoto, who had taken on Gary Anderson at Alexandra Palace
12 months earlier.
New Zealander Warren French is joined by Preston Ridd, while South Africa's Devon Petersen will
be partnered by Shawn Hogan as he looks to build on his second round appearance in the World
Championship.
Former World Championship qualifier Lourence Ilagan partners Christian Perez for the Philippines,
while Malaysia recent Alexandra Palace qualifier Lee Choon Peng is joined by Amin Bin Abdul Ghani
and Hungary's Nandor Bezzeg will play with Kristian Kaufmann, who has experience on the PDC
ProTour in Europe.
The teams are ranked based on the cumulative totals of the competing players on the PDC Order of
Merit, with the first round draw seeing the teams drawn 9v24, 10v23, 11v22, 12v21, 13v20, 14v19,
15v18 and 16v17.
This means that Canada meet Hungary, Ireland play Malaysia, USA face the Philippines, Austria
take on New Zealand, Sweden clash with Japan, Spain challenge South Africa, Finland battle
Croatia and Gibraltar come up against Denmark.
PDC World Cup of Darts Teams
PDC World Cup of Darts
Second Round Draw Bracket
Friday February 3
Saturday February 4
Sunday February 5
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