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.

Frustrated with the semi-final jinx, Fordham continued to qualify for the quarters and semis for the next four years. He finally broke all previous barriers and claimed his maiden world title in 2004 by knocking out former Masters champion who called the Steam Engine, Tony West, 3-0 initially and then a hard fought semi-final in which he came back out of nowhere, as he was down and out 0-3 and 2-4. Finally he pulled off a magical 5-4 victory. This match is considered to be one of the best matches in the history of the BDO. He claimed the title by defeating the King 6-3 in the finals.

However, ever since that victory, Hamilton has not won a single victory at Lakeside and his world rankings have dropped drastically. He had major health issues in past couple of years and after crashing out in the first round on two consecutive occasions in 2005 and 2006, he withdrew from competition in 2007 due to bad health. Finally he decided to make a comeback, but he chose the PDC over BDO as he had a bad time from 2005 to 2008 and he wishes to start fresh.

Looking at his personal life, Hamilton was known as the “Whippet” during school days on account of his agility and interest in track-and-field events. He supports Scottish football club the Rangers and was a player himself. On account of his awesome victory in 2004, he was nicknamed “The Viking” and only time can tell whether the Viking would ever be able to replicate such brilliant performance as that of the 2004 World Championship.

Nickname: The Viking
Date of birth: 2nd February 1962
Place of birth: London, England
Resides: Dartford, Kent, England
Height: -
Marital Status: Married         
Sponsors: N/A
Professional organisation: BDO from 1994 to 2009, PDC 2009 until date
Type of darts used: N/A

Hobbies and interests: Fordham is interested in athletics, football with his favourite team being the Rangers and music. His favourite song is “I'm Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred. Titles: Fordham was World Champion in 2004 and won the World Masters Winner Winmau in 1999. Moreover, he is also interested in tattooing but until now there is no any tattoo on his body yet.

OTHER INFO: Andy Fordham, an English Darts master, is a legendary BDO player, who has recently shifted to PDC this year. He was a member of the BDO for over 15 years from 1994 to 2008 and his best performances include the World Championship 2004, World Masters Winner 1999 victories and he has been also been semi-finalist in the World Darts Trophy 2002.

He knocked out Mervyn King in the finals of the World Championship 2004 to claim his first world title. Moreover, he has also been the semi-finalist on four occasions. The BDO legend made his stage debut in the year 1995 and made his way directly to the semi-finals. The critics expected him to grab the title, but his run was put to an end by Richie Burnett. He suffered the same fate next year at the hands of Steve Beaton, who eventually won the title. History repeated for the third time in a row, in the semi-finals of 1999, when he lost to Ronnie Baxter.

This time he made it all the way to the quarter-finals in style, eliminating Mick Manning and Mark Thomson 3-0. He even defeated the former world champion, Steve Beaton, 4-2, but his glorious run was ended by Bob Anderson as he defeated Andy 5-1 in the quarter-finals.

Continuing his excellent run next year, Hamilton came back strongly knocking out Anderson 3-2 in first round and Terry Jenkins 4-1 in the second, but Andy fell prey to the aggressive game play of Phil Taylor and lost 0-4 in the third round of the championship. Nonetheless, he did manage to score a superb 170 finish, an almost unparalleled feat only matched by the champion, Taylor.

Hamilton also attained the quarter-finals stage of Las Vegas Desert Classic 2006, but lost to Raymond van Barneveld 1-3. Suffering two losses in the year, an infuriated Hamilton despatched the No. 4 seed, Peter Manley, 10-2 in his debut at World Match-Play Darts tournament in the same year. He scored another sensational 15-13 victory over Adrian Lewis and then came with another 16-9 upset over the local hero, Wayne Mardle. His glorious run was sadly ended again by the world champion, Taylor, in the semis as Andy lost 17-11 in a hard fought battle.

Surprisingly the trend continued the next year, in 2007, as Hamilton again fell prey to Taylor in the semi-finals of the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship.

Name: Andy Hamilton

Nickname: The Hammer

Date of birth: 16th March 1967

Place of birth: Stoke-on-Trent, England

Resides: Stoke-on-Trent, England

Height: 5’7”

Marital Status: Married

Sponsors: Unicorn

Type of Darts Used: 25g Unicorn Maestro Andy Hamilton

Hobbies and Interests: Hamilton enjoys partying and drinking beer as well as music. He states that his favourite song is “U Can't Touch This” by MC Hammer.

Organisation: PDC since 2004

Titles: He won the title for the Players Championship in 2007 and the same year he won the UK Open Midlands Regional. In 2008 he won the Antwerp Open.

Other Info: Hamilton is a right-handed player and has been playing darts since 1983. He is currently ranked No. 13 in the professional darts PDC list. Right from the early age of 16 years, Hamilton had good companionship in the form of his brother Darren to learn the game of darts and within a couple of years he entered the county level. He went through a long break in his career as he became low in confidence to take his game to the next level as well as having other personal reasons. Hamilton left the game of darts for about two decades.

Re-entering the world of professional darts in the year 2004, Hamilton made his TV debut in UK championship, but did not really impress his fans as he lost to Eddie Lovely 2-5 in the first round. However, he did not give up and qualified once again next year for the World Darts Championship.

He entered the semi-finals twice in 1999 and 2003, though he is still looking for his maiden title.

He made his public television appearance with the show Bullseye. Little has also played darts for charity. He made his World Championship debut in the year 1989, but he badly crashed out of the championships. Before this, he had already won his first major tournament, the Isle of Man Open in the year 1986. The year 1990 was one of the memorable ones for Little as he won several tournaments, such as the 1990 British Open and made his way rapidly to the top of the British player ratings.

Little won the honour of the World Championship Runner-up in 1993 and the World Masters Runner-up in 1998. As far as his best performances in PDC Premier Events are concerned, Little has been the World Championship Semi-finalist in 1999 as well as 2003; World Matchplay Runner-up in 1997 & 2000 and World Grand Prix Winner in 2001.

He has won several other tournaments such as the Atlantic City Open, Cleveland Darts Extravaganza, Belgium Open, Finnish Open, British Open, Dutch Open as well as the England Open.

The World Final in 1993 is considered to be his biggest loss as he fell prey to John Lowe losing out 3-6 and, despite all his efforts, he has not yet been able to win the world crown.