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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Scott, Walklin top TTDA National 501 Open

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Sport Desk
390 days ago
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National 501 Open men's and women's champions James Walklin and Karen Scott.

National 501 Open men's and women's champions James Walklin and Karen Scott.

Karen Scott and James Walk­lin made a suc­cess­ful open­ing to the darts sea­son, emerg­ing the re­spec­tive women's and men's cham­pi­ons of the Na­tion­al 501 Open host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) last Tues­day (Jan­u­ary 23) at the home of darts, Kos­mos Mem­bers Club in Port-of-Spain.

In the women's cat­e­go­ry, Scott took on Pe­tri­cia Mes­si­ah in the fi­nal. Scott took an ear­ly lead but Mes­si­ah fought back to make it 1-1 and forced a de­cid­ing leg, af­ter some great ex­change of darts Scott was the win­ner and crowned the T&T Na­tion­al 501 Dou­ble In/Dou­ble out women's cham­pi­on 2024.

In the men's di­vi­sion, Walk­lin took on Joshua Bal­four. This fi­nal was a bat­tle of the two most in-form na­tion­al men's play­ers.

Walk­lin looked very com­fort­able ear­ly on tak­ing a 1-0 lead but Bal­four kept his com­po­sure mak­ing it 1-1. Walk­lin again took the lead but Bal­four be­ing the tena­cious play­er he is brought it back to 2-2 forc­ing a de­cid­ing leg, af­ter some nervy throws and a few missed at­tempts at dou­ble. Walk­lin with dou­ble twen­ty left, took it out on the first time of ask­ing to be crowned the T&T Na­tion­al 501 Dou­ble In/Dou­ble Out men's cham­pi­on.

Sim­i­lar to the Pre­mier League where the Com­mu­ni­ty Shield is the cur­tain rais­er, the Na­tion­al Open marks the of­fi­cial start of the new sea­son of darts. A new for­mat was pro­posed and this will be the for­mat through­out the sea­son. The league will be a 501 tour­na­ment so as to keep all na­tion­al play­ers sharp for the up­com­ing Caribbean Darts Cup to be held in Ja­maica in Ju­ly but to keep every­one even sharp­er the league will be a “dou­ble in /dou­ble out” for­mat mean­ing in or­der for the game to pro­ceed the play­ers must hit a dou­ble to start the game and as usu­al hit a dou­ble to win the game. The par­tic­i­pants for the Na­tion­al Open were split in­to men's and women's cat­e­gories and played a round-robin tour­na­ment.

The of­fi­cial league of darts is card­ed to be­gin on Tues­day (Jan­u­ary 30) at Kos­mos Mem­bers Club.


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