Coral look back at Phil Taylor’s three most memorable World Finals

He averaged over 100 in three of his five matches and dropped just one set en-route to a final match-up with John Part.

Part, competing in only his fourth PDC World Championship, was blown away. Taylor averaged 107.46 and dropped just three legs in recording a scintillating 7-0 victory over the Canadian in Purfleet.

It remains the most one of the most one-sided Darts finals to date.

Raymond van Barneveld 7-6 Phil Taylor (2007)

Taylor may have lost this dramatic tussle, but it’s impossible to ignore the part he played in one of darts’ most famous matches.

It was a game that had everything. The Power raced into a 3-0 sets lead before being pegged back to 3-2 by a resurgent van Barneveld.

From then on it was cat and mouse. Barney took the lead to go 6-5 up before Taylor pegged it back to 6-6 to create one of the most intense final sets in darts history in-front of raucous Essex crowd.

The final set would go right down to the wire. Barney and Taylor duelled to the death, taking the game to six sets and five legs apiece to force a sudden death decider.

In the last ever leg of World Championship darts thrown at the Circus Tavern, it was the Dutchman who prevailed.

Barneveld won the throw for the bull, which allowed him to start first. However, it was Taylor who opened the better, chalking up a 180 to claim an immediate advantage.

Barney responded with a 180 of his own before his opponent threw an uncharacteristic 40 to surrender his first-throw advantage.

From then on, Barneveld never looked back, eventually taking out double top to conclude the greatest match there has ever been.

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