UK Open 2022

KevIRL · 22-02-2022 2:22pm #1

The first major ranking event of the year, and a personal favourite of mine. Love the open draw 'FA cup' style format and multiple boards at once. A massive 159 player field will take to the boards. Details of the field here https://www.pdc.tv/news/2022/02/21/2022-cazoo-uk-open-field-confirmed, all tour card holders except for Michael Unterbuchner will compete.

The first round will see the Tour Card Holders ranked from 97-127 joined by the 16 Rileys Amateur Qualifiers and 16 players from the 2021 Challenge Tour and Development Tour.

The Tour Card Holders ranked from 65-96 will enter in round two, with the players ranked from 33-64 joining the event in round three. The top 32 join at fourth round stage on Friday evening

2022 Cazoo UK Open

Schedule of Play

Friday March 4

Afternoon Session (1145-1700 GMT live on ITV4. 1100 start on Stages 2-8)

First, Second & Third Rounds

Play across eight stages

Evening Session (1900-2300 GMT)

Fourth Round

Play across eight stages

Saturday March 5

Afternoon Session (1245-1700 GMT)

Fifth Round

Play across four stages

Evening Session (1900-2300 GMT)

Sixth Round

Play across two stages

Sunday March 6

Afternoon Session (1245-1700 GMT)

Quarter-Finals

Evening Session (1900-2300 GMT)

Semi-Finals

Final

Format

First Round (Best of 11 legs)

Second Round (Best of 11 legs)

Third Round (Best of 11 legs)

Fourth Round (Best of 19 legs)

Fifth Round (Best of 19 legs)

Sixth Round (Best of 19 legs)

Quarter-Finals (Best of 19 legs)

Semi-Finals (Best of 21 legs)

Final (Best of 21 legs)

The draw for the First Round, Second Round & Third Round will be made on Monday February 28.

Following the conclusion of the Third Round onwards, an open draw will be made for subsequent rounds.

Dillonb3 · 23-02-2022 3:57pm

Riley's qualifiers are a bunch of familiar names from the Q-School

Solihull Q1 – Graham Hall

Solihull Q2 – Dan Read

Benfleet – Paul Hogan

Norwich Q1 – Matt Good

Norwich Q2 – Paul Marsh

Coventry Q1 – Jelle Klaasen

Coventry Q2 – Prakash Jiwa

Liverpool Q1 – Adam Warner

Liverpool Q2 – Scott Taylor

Chorlton Q1 – Danny Lauby

Chorlton Q2 – Ryan Murray

Harlow – Ryan Harrington

Nottingham – Steve Clayson

Victoria – Diogo Portela

Chester Q1 – Kai Fan Leung

Chester Q2 – Mark Rice

ArmaniJeanss · 23-02-2022 9:29pm

Not sure it's within the 'couple of beers and throw a few arrows' spirit of Rileys qualifiers to have Jelle Klassen and Diogo Portela winning through.

Some sort of exclusion on players who've had a tour card within the last 2 or 3 years might be an idea. Let them qualify via the Challenge Tour.

Rikand · 23-02-2022 10:42pm

nice for the lads who want to throw some beers and drink arrows to have a game against the likes of a former world champion in Jelle though :)

KevIRL · 28-02-2022 6:45pm

Boris Koltsov unsurprisingly is also out.

Draw and board assignments for rounds 1-3 has been made.

https://www.pdc.tv/news/2022/02/28/2022-cazoo-uk-open-draw-stage-allocations

Dillonb3 · 28-02-2022 10:24pm

John O'Shea vs Nathan Rafferty first round.

Potentially fireworks if Vladimir Andersen makes it to third round against Lewis. He was given a 2 year ban a few years ago over some incident at a local tournament

US3 · 01-03-2022 3:10am

Good chance for keane Barry to get good run here if he avoids horrible draws. Hes playing well lately only losing to elite players.Starts in rd2 against David Evans, then de zwann in round 3 who's hopeless these days

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 12:10pm

John O Shea with a 6-0 win over Nathan Rafferty in round 1

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 12:14pm

Rowby John Rodriguez thrashes Bradley Brooks 6-1

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 12:29pm

Burness knocked out by a Riley's qualifier

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 12:41pm

Mickey Mansell beaten 6-4 by Jurgen van de Velde. Mansell having a stinker of a season so far, dont think hes won a match in any of the Pro tour evens and now this

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 12:54pm

Crowd shouting Jerry at Niko Springer. I don't think he gets the reference 😂

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 1:15pm

Keane Barry into round 3 with a 5-2 win

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 2:08pm

Danny Baggish comes from 5-1 down to win 6-5 against John Michael

Keane Barry into 4th round. Easily bet De Zwaan

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 2:10pm

KEane Barry into 4th round, beats De Zwann 6-2

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 2:29pm

John O Shea advances to 3rd round beating Peter Hudson 6-3

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 2:40pm

Steve Beaton out round 3

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 3:00pm

John O Shea exits in round 3

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 3:03pm

O'Connor not off to a good start against Scutt. 2 nil down

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 3:21pm

O'Connor fights back and wins 6-5

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 3:21pm

William O Connor comes back from 5-3 down to beat Conor Scutt 6-5

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 3:28pm

Steve Lennon takes out a 142 finish to win 6-5 v Ryan Harrington. Mad game, Lennon led 3-0 then Harrington took the next 5 legs before Lennon got 3 in a row to advance

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 3:52pm

Kciuk does a Jose

https://twitter.com/OfficialPDC/status/1499771557069078533?cxt=HHwWioCy9Z6SodApAAAA

😂

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 4:06pm

Willie Borland knocks out Barney

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 4:43pm

Keane Barry vs Graham Hall

O'Connor vs Jason Heaver

Steve Lennon vs James Wade

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 8:18pm

O Connor wins a close match 10-7

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 8:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118733500#Comment_118733500

Hundred average from him

Durrant giving Waites a game. He's hitting a few 180 140's

ThebitterLemon · 04-03-2022 8:28pm

Really enjoy this tournament

TbL

ThebitterLemon · 04-03-2022 8:37pm

Ricky Evans wins 10/9 after been 5/1 down

Got a soft spot for mad Ricky

TbL

KevIRL · 04-03-2022 8:47pm

Steve Lennon out 10-6 to James wade

ThebitterLemon · 04-03-2022 9:21pm

Camera work starting to irritate me

TbL

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 9:25pm

Keane Barry is through

Dillonb3 · 04-03-2022 9:54pm

Jose de sousa wins his match against Steve West without realising he won until the ref tells him 😅

ArmaniJeanss · 04-03-2022 11:19pm

Willie O'Connor has a winnable enough L32 tie against Stephen Bunting.

Keane Barry has Neils Zonnevald - just about as good a draw as he could have hoped for getting someone ranked 75 in the L32 round.

Both will be Board3/4 games obviously.

Nothing too stand-out in the rest of the draw - Jonny Clayton v Jose De Sousa the only Top16 v Top16 matchup. MVG (Damon Heta), Gerwyn Price (Jamie Hughes) and Peter Wright (Simon Whitlock) will likely be 3 of the 4 TV games in the afternoon. 4th game will either be Clayton v De Sousa or Michael Smith v Gabriel Clemens (which really should be bumped down to Board 2).

Big shout out to Scott Waites beard btw, impressive stuff.

Full L32 draw. 2022 UK Open - Wikipedia

Sultan of Bling · 04-03-2022 11:29pm

Searle v dvdb. the standout tie for me.

Sultan of Bling · 04-03-2022 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118733912#Comment_118733912

Yeah, it's been bad.

Rydz v Van Der voort in the next round.

I might give the cameraman a free pass on that one though 😁

Dillonb3 · 05-03-2022 1:36pm

Boris Krcmar hammered Chisnall. Reeled off 6 legs in a row

Dillonb3 · 05-03-2022 2:59pm

Keane Barry makes it through after a last leg decider. Took out 121 when Zonneveld was waiting on 40

KevIRL · 05-03-2022 3:02pm

Keane Barry takes out 121 to win the deciding leg against the throw for a 10-9 win

Dillonb3 · 05-03-2022 4:15pm

O'Connor makes it through after a last leg decider. Bunting had a mare with his finishing:

ArmaniJeanss · 05-03-2022 5:11pm

Peter Wright v Willie O'Connor. Ricky Evans v Keane Barry.

Full draw. 2022 UK Open - Wikipedia

2 Irish in the last 16 of a televised ranking event. First time since ?????

ThebitterLemon · 05-03-2022 7:31pm

KB had 6 darts at a double to go 9-4 up on Ricky E, hope it doesn’t come back to haunt him

TbL

ThebitterLemon · 05-03-2022 7:33pm

It didn’t he won 10-5

TbL

Sultan of Bling · 05-03-2022 7:33pm

It didn't thankfully. He wins 10-5.

Fantastic

Deeper Blue · 05-03-2022 8:10pm

Delighted Barry got through. It'd be great to have an Irish player to cheer on in the latter stages of big tournaments on a regular basis, hopefully KB can be just that!

ThebitterLemon · 05-03-2022 8:23pm

Lovely lovely 9 darter from Wade.

all centre of the bed

TbL

ThebitterLemon · 05-03-2022 8:41pm

Smith just hit a 9 darter as well.

9 darters are a piece of piss these days

time to reduce the size of the beds

TbL

Deeper Blue · 05-03-2022 8:53pm

Whenever they play Chelsea Dagger I'm expecting Roland Scholten to appear on stage, he had that as his walk on at some stage I'm nearly certain?

US3 · 05-03-2022 8:56pm

Itvs camera work is shocking.

ThebitterLemon · 05-03-2022 8:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118738300#Comment_118738300

Yep commented on it last night, it’s making me dizzy!

Shocking

TbL

Sultan of Bling · 05-03-2022 9:38pm

WOC doing well here.

6-4 up.

Let's hope he can keep it together.

UK Open 2022

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