2008 Stan James World Matchplay
Tournament information
Dates	20–26 July 2008
Venue	Winter Gardens
Location	Blackpool
Country	England
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£300,000
Winner's share	£60,000
High checkout	161Matt Clark
Champion(s)
Phil Taylor
«2007 2009»

The2008 Stan James World Matchplay was the 15th annual staging of theWorld Matchplay darts tournament by theProfessional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place at theWinter Gardens,Blackpool, from 20–26 July 2008.

World number threeJames Wade went into the competition as the defending champion and managed to reach the final for the third year in a row, but was defeated by top seedPhil Taylor 18–9 who won his ninth World Matchplay championship.

A total of £300,000 was available for the players, divided based on the following performances:^[1]

The qualification process for the World Matchplay differed this year. The top 16 in thePDC Order of the Merit after the2008 UK Open qualified automatically as the 16 seeds. The other 16 places would be made up of the 16 highest ranked players (not already in the top 16) from the2008 Players Championship Order of Merit - decided by the various Player Championship events taking place on thePDC Pro Tour from January 2008 - the cutoff point was the Las Vegas Players Championship just before the2008 Las Vegas Desert Classic.^[2][3]

Thus, the participants were:

	First round(best of 19 legs) 20–22 July[4][5]					Second round(best of 25 legs) 22–23 July					Quarter-finals(best of 31 legs) 24 July					Semi-finals(best of 33 legs) 25 July					Final(best of 35 legs) 26 July
	1	Phil Taylor103.53	10
		Steve Beaton97.91	6
						1	Phil Taylor109.70	13
						16	Colin Osborne97.08	5
	16	Colin Osborne96.78	10
		Mervyn King91.48	7
											1	Phil Taylor95.78	16
												Kevin McDine89.76	6
	8	Adrian Lewis88.75	8
		Kevin McDine96.02	10
							Kevin McDine92.29	13
							Mark Walsh95.02	9
	9	Colin Lloyd91.37	6
		Mark Walsh100.41	10
																1	Phil Taylor105.59	17
																12	Dennis Priestley96.56	8
	5	Terry Jenkins92.48	10
		Alex Roy91.32	6
						5	Terry Jenkins93.10	11
						12	Dennis Priestley94.60	13
	12	Dennis Priestley91.13	10
		Adrian Gray84.63	8
											12	Dennis Priestley94.10	16
											13	Alan Tabern90.65	14
	4	John Part85.24	10
		Chris Mason81.97	3
						4	John Part90.26	7
						13	Alan Tabern93.53	13
	13	Alan Tabern95.75	10
		Vincent van der Voort92.25	8
																					1	Phil Taylor109.47	18
																					3	James Wade102.58	9
	2	Raymond van Barneveld88.41	11
		Mark Frost82.17	9
						2	Raymond van Barneveld90.99	13
							Tony Eccles84.83	3
	15	Kevin Painter86.57	8
		Tony Eccles88.73	10
											2	Raymond van Barneveld89.32	16
											10	Wayne Mardle87.90	18
	7	Andy Hamilton92.59	12
		Michael van Gerwen93.22	14
							Michael van Gerwen88.13	9
						10	Wayne Mardle91.70	13
	10	Wayne Mardle88.29	11
		Mark Dudbridge88.28	9
																10	Wayne Mardle88.92	5
																3	James Wade102.73	17
	6	Roland Scholten90.56	4
		Matt Clark90.75	10
							Matt Clark88.39	13
						11	Peter Manley88.91	6
	11	Peter Manley91.14	10
		Denis Ovens90.59	4
												Matt Clark93.27	12
											3	James Wade96.58	16
	3	James Wade96.31	10
		Wayne Jones91.04	4
						3	James Wade97.99	13
						14	Ronnie Baxter93.06	7
	14	Ronnie Baxter93.33	10
		Andy Smith84.45	4

^[6][7]

Player	Eliminated	Played	Legs Won	Legs Lost	LWAT	100+	140+	180s	High Checkout	3-dart Average
Phil Taylor	Winner	5	74	34	30	143	92	36	160	104.81
James Wade	Final	5	65	46	28	120	95	42	157	99.49
Wayne Mardle	Semi-finals	4	47	51	16	133	65	12	155	89.20
Dennis Priestley	Semi-finals	4	47	50	18	131	62	13	155	94.10
Raymond van Barneveld	Quarter-finals	3	40	30	16	91	44	6	138	89.57
Kevin McDine	Quarter-finals	3	29	33	9	87	35	15	160	92.69
Matt Clark	Quarter-finals	3	35	26	11	75	34	9	161	90.80
Alan Tabern	Quarter-finals	3	37	31	14	98	52	14	120	93.31
Mark Walsh	Second round	2	19	19	7	60	26	12	96	97.72
Colin Osborne	Second round	2	15	20	5	44	19	10	110	96.93
Ronnie Baxter	Second round	2	17	17	7	44	23	4	102	93.20
Terry Jenkins	Second round	2	21	19	9	52	30	9	160	92.79
Michael van Gerwen	Second round	2	23	25	9	64	29	8	112	90.68
Peter Manley	Second round	2	16	17	5	48	20	8	156	90.03
John Part	Second round	2	17	16	6	26	24	7	120	87.75
Tony Eccles	Second round	2	13	21	4	54	11	4	157	86.78
Kevin Painter	First round	1	8	10	3	26	10	2	76	86.57
Adrian Gray	First round	1	8	10	3	23	7	3	81	84.63
Andy Smith	First round	1	4	10	1	22	5	2	80	84.45
Mark Frost	First round	1	9	11	5	29	13	2	102	82.17
Steve Beaton	First round	1	6	10	0	19	14	4	152	97.91
Adrian Lewis	First round	1	8	10	3	17	14	4	116	88.75
Mark Dudbridge	First round	1	9	11	2	23	18	5	160	88.28
Andy Hamilton	First round	1	12	14	5	35	18	4	140	92.59
Vincent van der Voort	First round	1	8	10	3	18	15	5	96	92.25
Mervyn King	First round	1	7	10	1	22	13	1	116	91.49
Colin Lloyd	First round	1	6	10	2	22	5	2	127	91.37
Alex Roy	First round	1	6	10	3	27	13	2	116	91.32
Wayne Jones	First round	1	4	10	1	18	12	1	116	91.04
Denis Ovens	First round	1	4	10	1	22	10	3	110	90.59
Roland Scholten	First round	1	4	10	0	17	6	1	74	90.56
Chris Mason	First round	1	3	10	1	26	3	0	115	81.97

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