Eddy Sims
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| Nickname | "Simsy" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 December 1971 Geelong, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Darts | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing since | 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Darts | 22 Gram Phil Taylor Signature Darts | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Laterality | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Walk-on music | "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| BDO | 2005–2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WDF major events – best performances | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship | Last 32: 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Masters | Last 128: 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| World Trophy | Last 32: 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Eddy Sims (born 2 December 1971) is an Australian former professional darts player.
Career
[edit]Sims began playing in WDF ranked events in 2006, mainly playing in events based in his homeland. He reached the quarter-finals of the Pacific Masters in 2006 and 2007 and followed it up by reaching the final of the 2007 Australian Masters where he lost to Simon Whitlock.
Sims made three ranked semi final appearances in 2008, in the Pacific Masters, Malaysian Open and the New Zealand Masters. He had earlier reached the semi-finals of the Central Coast Australian Classic, an unranked event. Sims then won the 2008 Australian Masters, defeating Adam Bainbridge 8–1 in the final.[1]
His good performances in 2008 earned Sims automatic qualification for the 2009 BDO World Darts Championship, entering as the number 16 seed. He was drawn with Welshman Robert Hughes in the first round and lost 3–2.[2]
Sims his second staged of the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship, he was losing with Belgium's Cedric Waegemans in the preliminary round by 3–1.
World Championship performances results
[edit]BDO
[edit]- 2009: Last 32: (lost to Robert Hughes 2–3) (sets)
- 2015: Last 40: (lost to Cedric Waegemans 1–3)
Personal life
[edit]Sims is not a full-time professional and works as a Telecommunication Technical Officer.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Australian Masters & Rene Stevenson – Geelong". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ 2009 BDO World Darts Championships Results
External links
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