2011 PDC Under-21 World Championship


The 2011 PDC Under-21 World Championship was the first edition of the PDC World Youth Championship, a tournament organised by the Professional Darts Corporation for darts players aged between 14 and 21.
The knockout stages from the last 64 to the semi-finals were played in Barnsley on 16 November 2010, and were not broadcast live on TV. The final took place on 3 January 2011, before the final of the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship, which was shown live on Sky Sports. The two finalists became PDC Pro Tour card holders for 2011 and 2012 and received sponsorship from Rileys Dart Zones. They also received invitations to the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts.
Arron Monk defeated Michael van Gerwen 6–4 in the final to win the inaugural PDC World Youth Championship.

Qualification

Qualification was achieved at 50 Rileys Dart Zone tournaments throughout the UK and also various national tournaments throughout the world. The leading eight eligible PDPA members in the PDC Order of Merit on 20 September were seeded into the last 64.
The participants are:

Seeds

  1. Michael van Gerwen
  2. Joe Cullen
  3. Arron Monk
  4. Michael Smith
  5. Tom Martin
  6. Ryan Harrington
  7. Tony Clark
  8. Sean White

International qualifiers

Rileys qualifiers

Draw

Preliminary round

Shaun Griffiths 4–1 Josh Payne
Dan Dean 4–3 Jack Marriner
Mitchell Clegg 4–3 Alexis Toylo