By Paul Newman
Published: 03 January 2007
At 39 he has probably made too many visits to the oche ever to supersede Phil Taylor as the greatest player to have thrown a dart, but Raymond van Barneveld's performance in beating the 13-times world champion on Monday night underlined the status of the Dutchman and the Englishman as the best current exponents of the game.
Van Barneveld won an epic three-hour final at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex, to take the Professional Darts Corporation's version of the world championship for the first time. Recovering from 3-0 down, the former postman from The Hague won a sudden-death final leg after the scores had finished at 6-6 in sets and 5-5 in legs in the decider.
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