Tony David

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Tony David

Personal information
Nickname	The Deadly Boomerang
Date of birth	September 11, 1967(1967-09-11)
Place of birth	Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Home town	Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Darts information
Playing darts since	1993
Darts	23g Formula Sports Tony David
Walk-on music	Down Under by Men At Work
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	1999
Current World Ranking	13 (WDF, Feb 2008)
BDO Grand Slam Events - Best Performances
World Ch'ship	Winner 2002
World Masters	Semi finalist 2004
World Darts Trophy	Winner 2002
Int. Darts League	Finalist 2004
Other Tournament Wins
Tournament	Years
Doeland Grand Masters Australian Masters Australian Grand Masters Pacific Masters French Open Coronation Open Queensland Zone 7 Open Coolbellup Open Central Coast Classic New Zealand Open	2002 1996, 2000, 2001 2002 2003 2003 2003 2003 2004 2006 2006

Tony David (born September 11, 1967 in Townsville, Queensland) ^[1] is a darts player and is the only Australian player to have been a senior singles world champion. David won the 2002 Embassy World Championship, one version of darts world titles. He plays with the nickname The Deadly Boomerang

He started playing darts at the age of 25 and progressed into the Queensland State team in 1995. Four years later, he made the Australian WDF World Cup team for the first time.

Tony has haemophilia, which requires that he take medication frequently. On top of this, his throwing action is slightly limited by the condition, as he cannot bring his arm back as far as most players due to the blood circulation.

He made his first trip to the Lakeside Country Club in 2001 to play in the Embassy World Championship, losing to Andy Fordham 0-3 in the first round. In only his second attempt at the World Championship, and as a 66/1 outsider before the tournament began, he went all the way to the title beating Ritchie Davies, Marko Pusa, Bob Taylor and a tight semi-final against Martin Adams 5-4. He was a slight favourite for the title going into the final due to his results, and went on to beat Mervyn King, who was much higher in the world rankings, 6-4 in the final to become the first Australian player to win the title.

Later in 2002, he won the World Darts Trophy (WDT) in the Netherlands, one of the British Darts Organisation's other Grand Slam titles. He also reached the semi-finals of the WDT in 2003 and 2004 losing both times to Raymond van Barneveld.

The defence of his world title in 2003 started creditably, but ended with a heavy loss 0-5 at the quarter-final stages to Welshman Ritchie Davies. After that defeat, David has failed to win another match at the Lakeside event. He went out in the first round in 2004 to Darryl Fitton and in 2005 to Tony Eccles. He failed to qualify for the 2006 or 2007 events. He returned to Lakeside in 2008 but lost in the first round to Gary Robson.