He was also the 2008 UK Open Winner and was awarded the PDC Young Player of the Year in 2006. He also boasts about three 9-dart finishes during a calendar year in 2006, which is an unparalleled feat to date. He had an extremely successful run from 2006-08 and he was also chosen as the PDC Player of the Year in 2007.

In 2001 Wade reached the British Classic final, but lost to John Walton. However, the following year he managed to win the Swiss Open and in 2003 he made his debut in television during the Lakeside World Championship, although in the first round he lost to Dennis Harbour 2-3. During 2003, he participated in several other BDO Open events and he managed to reach the Norway Open final, the Belgian Open semi-finals and the Dutch Open quarter-finals.

The year 2004 is considered to be the turning point in his life as he made the most important decision of his career when he decided to shift to the PDC, even after qualifying for most of the upcoming BDO tournaments next year.


The 2006 World Match-play victory was one of the most sensational events in his career as he achieved glory after a series of close fights. He knocked out former World Championship finalist, Kevin Painter, 13-9 and even displayed fantastic recovery skills by making a dramatic comeback from 1-5 “down-and-out-situation” against Roland Scholten. He went on to secure the victory in tiebreaker as he finished 19-17.

Name: James Wade

Nickname: The Machine

Date of birth: 6th April 1983

Place of birth: Aldershot, England

Resides: Aldershot, England

Height: -

Marital status: Married

Sponsors: Unicorn

Professional Organisation: BDO 2001 to 2004, PDC 2004 to present

Type of darts used: 20g Unicorn James Wade

Hobbies and interests: music, golf and football. His favourite track is Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Two Tribes.”

Titles: 2006 PDC Young Player of the Year, UK Open Regional (NW) 2008, UK Open Regional 2007.

Other info: Playing darts since 2001, left-handed player, Current World Ranking No. 2. James Wade is an aggressive British player. He happens to be the youngest player to win any major PDC title. He did it by winning the World Match-Play that took place in July 2007.

He started with BDO in the year 2001, continuing there up to 2004 until deciding to shift to PDC in the year 2004 and has been with them since.

Looking at his best performances in the PDC Premier events, he was a semi-finalist this year though he had went out in the initial rounds last year. He has been the World Match-play     winner in 2007 as well as the World Grand Prix winner in the same year. He was also the runner-up in the 2008 Premier League, though he crashed out in the second round of grand slams in both 2007 as well as 2008.