| 2010 Rileys Darts Zones UK Open | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament information | |||
| Dates | 3–6 June 2010 | ||
| Venue | Reebok Stadium | ||
| Location | Bolton | ||
| Country |  England | ||
| Organisation(s) | PDC | ||
| Format | Legs Final – best of 21 | ||
| Prize fund | £200,000 | ||
| Winner's share | £40,000 | ||
| Nine-dart finish | Mervyn King | ||
| High checkout | 167 Phil Taylor (final) | ||
| Champion(s) | |||
| Phil Taylor | |||
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The 2010 Rileys Darts Zones UK Open was the eighth year of the PDC darts tournament where, following numerous regional qualifying heats throughout Britain, players competed in a single elimination tournament to be crowned champion. The tournament was held at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, England, from 3–6 June 2010, and had the nickname, "the FA Cup of darts" as a random draw was staged after each round until the final.
It was eventually won by Phil Taylor who defeated Scotland's Gary Anderson 11–5 to make it his fourth UK Open and second consecutive championship. Earlier in the tournament, Anderson was the on the wrong side of a nine-dart finish from Mervyn King.
In the fourth round of this tournament, Phil Taylor beat Kevin Painter 9–0 with a 3–dart average of 118.66, which at the time was the all-time highest 3–dart average for a televised darts match. It was eventually beaten on 25 February 2016 in the 2016 Premier League Darts meeting in Aberdeen, when Michael van Gerwen averaged 123.40 in beating Michael Smith 7–1.
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2010 UK Open qualifiers
There were eight qualifying events staged between February and May 2010 to determine the UK Open Order of Merit Table. The tournament winners were:
| No. | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Total Prize Money |
Winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mervyn King
|
6–1 | .svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_(converted).svg.png){kind=small} Simon Whitlock
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 2 | Mark Walsh
|
6–2 | Phil Taylor
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 3 | Phil Taylor
|
6–0 | Jamie Caven
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 4 |  Gary Anderson
|
6–5 | Wes Newton
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 5 | Mark Walsh
|
6–3 | .svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_(Pantone).svg.png){kind=small} John Part
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 6 | Phil Taylor
|
6–2 | Peter Wright
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 7 | Colin Lloyd
|
6–3 | Colin Osborne
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
| 8 | James Wade
|
6–2 | Gary Anderson
|
£31,200 | £6,000 | £3,000 |
Format and qualifiers
The tournament featured 138 players. As in previous years, eight regional UK Open events were staged across the UK where players winning were collated into the UK Open Order Of Merit. The top 96 players and ties in the list, who played a minimum of three events received a place at the final stages.[1]
Top 32 in Order of Merit (receiving byes into third round)
- Mark Walsh
- Phil Taylor
- Gary Anderson
- James Wade
- Colin Lloyd
- Mervyn King
- Jamie Caven
- Wes Newton
- John Part
- Colin Osborne
- Andy Hamilton
- Simon Whitlock
Vincent van der Voort- Wayne Jones
Mark Webster- Peter Wright
- Jelle Klaasen
- Kevin Painter
- Co Stompé
- Adrian Lewis
- Michael van Gerwen
- Mark Dudbridge
- Alan Tabern
- Steve Maish
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Brendan Dolan- Terry Jenkins
- Dennis Priestley
- Matt Clark
- Ronnie Baxter
- Denis Ovens
- Tony Eccles
- Nigel Heydon
The Rileys qualifiers and the players outside the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit began the tournament on the Thursday night. They played down to 32 players, and they were joined by the top 32 of the UK Open Order of Merit the following night, to provide the competition's last 64. A random draw was made after each subsequent round.
Number 33-64 of the Order of Merit (receiving byes into second round)
Andy Smith Paul Nicholson Chris Thompson Mark Frost Justin Pipe Mark Lawrence Nick Fullwell Colin Monk Steve Beaton Barrie Bates Darren Johnson Dennis Smith Adrian Gray Robert Thornton Chris Mason Roland Scholten Steve Evans Steve Brown Mark Cox Michael Barnard Wayne Mardle
Mick McGowan Kirk Shepherd Arron Monk Michael Smith Kevin McDine Stephen Hardy Peter Manley Wayne Atwood Tony Ayres Alex Roy Stuart Dutton
