| Royden Lam | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Lam Ting Chi Royden | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "The Wolf" | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1975-09-08)8 September 1975 (age 50) Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||
| Darts information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Playing darts since | 2003 | |||||||||||||||||
| Darts | 21 g Cosmo Darts | |||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Hungry Like the Wolf" byDuran Duran | |||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (seesplit in darts) | ||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2007–2013 | |||||||||||||||||
| PDC | 2013– | |||||||||||||||||
| PDC premier events – best performances | ||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship | Last 64:2014 | |||||||||||||||||
| UK Open | Last 128:2013,2017 | |||||||||||||||||
| World Series Finals | Last 24:2018 | |||||||||||||||||
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Royden Lam (Chinese:林鼎智; born 8 September 1975) is adarts player fromHong Kong.
Royden Lam is best known as a soft tip darts player but also plays steel tip darts. In 2009 he won theHong Kong Open by beating Liu Cheng from China in the final.[1] In 2010, he lost in the final of theJapan Open toKyle Anderson and in the quarter-finals of the Asia Pacific Cup toMorihiro Hashimoto.[2] In 2011, he almost managed to qualify for the PDC World Championship, but was defeated byScott MacKenzie 4–3 in the final of the Chinese qualifier.[3]
In 2013, Lam registered for PDC Qualifying School and earned a Tour Card on the final day.[4] However, he only played in three events during the year which included a 5–3 first round loss againstWayne Jones in theUK Open.[5] Lam qualified for the2014 World Championship by whitewashing Deng Yin 5–0 in the final of the Chinese qualifier.[6] He beat world number 65Gino Vos 4–1 in the preliminary round, before losing by three sets to one againstWes Newton in the first round.[7] Lam made his debut in theWorld Cup of Darts in June as he represented Hong Kong withScott MacKenzie. They defeated Norway 5–2 in the first round to face Australia in the second round.[8] Lam lost his singles match againstSimon Whitlock, before MacKenzie saw offPaul Nicholson to mean a doubles match was required to settle the tie, which Hong Kong were whitewashed in 4–0.[9]
In the2015 World Cup, Lam and MacKenzie caused a couple of shocks. First they defeated Wales'Mark Webster andJamie Lewis 5–3. Lam then beat Ireland'sWilliam O'Connor 4–1, but MacKenzie lost 4–3 toConnie Finnan meaning a doubles match was needed to settle the tie which Hong Kong won 4–3 to reach the quarter-finals.[10] However, the Scottish number two seeds ofGary Anderson andPeter Wright proved a step too far as they won both their singles matches 4–2 to eliminate Hong Kong.[11]
In the2016 World Cup, the Hong Kong pair lost to Ireland 5–4 in the first round.[12] Lam won the Malaysian Open by beating Mark Jumin in the final and the same opponent defeated him in the semi-finals of the South Asian Qualifier for the2017 World Championship.[13][14] Lam claimed a two-year PDC Tour Card for 2017 and 2018 when he beatJosé de Sousa 5–2 in the last round on the second day of Q School and said he would continue to play a mix of events in Asia and Britain.[15] Lam and new teammate Kai Fan Leung were eliminated in the first round of the2017 World Cup 5–3 by Russia.[16]
