TARGET PROPLAYER KEITH DELLER DARTS PROFESSIONAL

On the defence of his world title, he lost in the first round to Nicky Virachkul, and he only won three further matches in the BDO World Championship in subsequent years. ĭespite a meteoric rise to World Champion, his career results failed to maintain that level.

Deller then hit treble 20, treble 18, double 12 for the title, and even to this day commentators often refer to 138 as the 'Deller checkout' if a player is left with that score. Bristow had left himself 50 to stay in the match, but decided to throw for single 18 with his last dart to leave double 16 instead of a more difficult attempt at the bullseye. His checkout of 138 to clinch the trophy is amongst the most memorable in darting history. The champion's prize money in 1983 was £8,000. The tabloid headlines the following day were 'Killed Three', an anagram of his name. He had also beaten world number 3 John Lowe in the quarter-finals and defending champion and world number 2 Jocky Wilson in the semi-final to become the only player in history to defeat the world's top three ranked players in the World Championship.

For his world championship win, Deller used 18-gram spring-loaded darts, later banned for tournament play but now legal again.ĭeller's victory over Eric Bristow in the 1983 BDO World Darts Championship by 6 sets to 5 was probably the biggest upset in the history of the championship.

He was the first qualifier ever to win the championship and remains one of the youngest champions in history.

TARGET PROPLAYER KEITH DELLER DARTS PROFESSIONAL

Keith Kelvin Deller (born 24 December 1959) is an English former professional darts player best known for winning the 1983 BDO World Darts Championship and Unipart British Professional Championship in 1987.

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