24-539: Robert Cross or Crosse may refer to: Rob Cross (born 1990), English darts player Rob Cross (basketball) , American basketball coach Robert Cross (footballer) (1914–?), Scottish footballer Robert Cross (Canadian politician) , mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, 1994–1999 Robert Craigie Cross (1911–2000), professor of logic at Aberdeen University Robert Thomas Cross (1850–1923), British astrologer Robert J. Cross (1803–1873), American pioneer and member of
48-628: A 6–3 win against Adrian Lewis to move into the top 32 for the first time. Cross reached the final of two events in the 2017 PDC European Tour , the German Darts Grand Prix and the European Darts Trophy , both times losing to Michael van Gerwen. He reached his first premier event final in October at the 2017 European Championship , again losing to van Gerwen. Cross made his World Championship debut in 2018 as
72-641: Is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is currently the World No. 5 , having reached a peak of World No. 2 from 2018 to 2019. Nicknamed " Voltage ", he is a former world champion having won the 2018 World Championship , defeating Phil Taylor in the final. Cross won the World Championship on his debut, having turned professional just 11 months prior to
96-510: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rob Cross European Tour Events Players Championships World Series of Darts Challenge Tour 2017 Breaks into the top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit for the first time (In his debut year on the circuit) 2018 Breaks into the top 4 in the PDC Order of Merit for the first time Robert Cross (born 21 September 1990)
120-540: The 2016 UK Open as an amateur Rileys qualifier; making it to the last 32 before falling to world number one Michael van Gerwen , who achieved a nine-dart finish in the process. Following this, he competed in the PDC Challenge Tour , winning three of the 16 events and ultimately topping the Order of Merit, consequently earning a Tour Card for the 2017 PDC Pro Tour . At the 2017 UK Open , Cross reached
144-676: The 2019 UK Open in Minehead. Cross was the eventual runner-up at the tournament, as he lost heavily to Nathan Aspinall . Cross made his second televised final of the year (4th major, 7th televised) at the 2019 Premier League Darts . After finishing 2nd in the league format, Cross went to the O2 in London for the Play-Offs. He took on James Wade in the semi-final and was successful in victory. He then took on World Number One, Michael van Gerwen in
168-468: The 20th seed, reaching the final against Phil Taylor following wins over Seigo Asada , Michael Smith (in which Cross survived two match darts ), John Henderson , Dimitri Van den Bergh and Michael van Gerwen (in which Cross survived six match darts). In the final he defeated Taylor, who had previously announced that he would retire after the tournament, 7–2 in sets. He is the only player to have survived match darts in two rounds and then go on to win
192-578: The Illinois General Assembly Bobby Cross (1931–1989), American football player Robert Crosse (theologian) (1606–1683), English theologian Robert Crosse (MP) (died 1611), English politician See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Robert Cross Roberts cross , a technique used in image processing and computer vision for edge detection Robert Cross Smith (1795–1832), British astrologer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
216-739: The World title. Winning the World Championship meant that he finished at number 3 in the PDC Order of Merit and earned automatic qualification for the 2018 Premier League Darts . Cross was tipped by a few pundits to have an off year as they thought that the pressure of being world champion would get to him, despite this he made a good showing on his Premier League debut making it to the semi-finals. However, he only won one players' championship title in comparison to 2017 where he won 4, he won players' championship 13 by defeating Peter Wright in
240-478: The best of 5 sets. The televised stages feature 16 players. The top 8 players in the BDO rankings over the 2014/15 season are seeded for the tournament. Top 8 Other qualifiers Hull qualifiers Trina Gulliver won her tenth world title, while Deta Hedman lost her third final. For the second time a youth championship is held. Over 64 players played down to the final in October 2015. The final
264-544: The event. Cross has won 19 senior PDC titles, including the World Matchplay in 2019 and the European Championship in 2019 and 2021 . In October 2015, Cross attempted to qualify for the 2016 BDO World Darts Championship , where he was knocked out in the last 64 by Tony Martin . He also competed in the 2015 World Masters , losing to Darius Labanauskas in the last 48. Cross competed in
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#1732775841417288-544: The fifth round before being knocked out by the eventual winner Peter Wright . The following week, he won his first PDC title by defeating Mervyn King 6–5 in the final of the third Players Championship . His first year on the tour continued positively, winning the 12th event with a 6–5 victory over Ian White , who missed five darts for the title. Cross then beat Peter Wright 6–2 in the 19th Players Championship in Dublin and quickly added his 4th Players Championship (PC21) with
312-472: The final 11–8. At the 2022 World Championship , Cross started his campaign with a 3–1 win against Raymond van Barneveld . In the next round he beat Daryl Gurney in a last set decider, before eventually succumbing 4–3 to Gary Anderson in the fourth round. At the 2023 World Championship Cross reached the fourth round, losing to Chris Dobey 4–2. At the Grand Slam , Cross was the runner-up, losing
336-479: The final and he won his first World Series event which was the Brisbane Darts Masters by defeating Michael Van Gerwen 10–6 in the final. He had made two previous World Series finals that year: Las Vegas and Shanghai . In defence of his world title at the 2019 World Championship , Cross lost 4–2 in the fourth round to Luke Humphries . Cross made his 3rd major final and 6th televised final at
360-514: The final to Luke Humphries 16–8. At the 2024 World Championship Cross whitewashed Thibault Tricole in his second round match 3–0, won against Jeffrey de Graaf 4–2 in the third round, whitewashed Jonny Clayton 4–0 in the fourth round and came back from 4 sets down to defeat Chris Dobey 5–4 to reach the semi-finals. He lost his semi-final to Luke Littler 6–2. Cross spent the majority of his early life living in Edenbridge, Kent . He
384-722: The final. On 27 November 2015, Hull qualifier Vladimir Andersen was removed from the field after being suspended by the Danish Darts Union and was replaced by Sam Hewson, the player next in line according to the rankings. 17–24 in BDO Rankings (First round qualifiers) 25–27 in BDO rankings (preliminary-round qualifiers) Standby player (preliminary-round qualifier) 2015 Semi-Finalist not in top 28 (preliminary-round qualifier) Hull Qualifiers (preliminary-round qualifiers) WDF Regional Qualifiers (preliminary-round qualifiers) All matches are
408-437: The final. He eventually lost the tournament by 11–6. He won the World Matchplay against Michael Smith by beating him 18–13 in legs. Cross became only the fourth player to ever win the World Championship and World Matchplay (previously achieved by Phil Taylor , Michael van Gerwen and Gary Anderson ). On his way to the final he beat Chris Dobey , Krzysztof Ratajski , Stephen Bunting and Daryl Gurney , (from 15–9 down in
432-456: The roving reporter. BT Sport coverage was presented by Ray Stubbs alongside current BDO players Tony O'Shea, Scott Mitchell and Ted Hankey with Reshmin Chowdhury replacing Helen Skelton as roving reporter. Commentary for both broadcasters was provided by John Rawling, Vassos Alexander, George Riley and Tony Green. Although it was not known at the time it was the final BDO event to be covered by
456-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Cross&oldid=1253149047 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
480-461: The second round. At the World Series of Darts Finals he beat Michael Smith and James Wade en route to the final, before eventually succumbing to Gerwyn Price . Cross suffered another early exit at the 2021 World Championship , losing to Dirk van Duijvenbode 3–2 in the second round. Cross won his 4th PDC major at the 2021 European Darts Championship beating Michael van Gerwen in
504-463: The semi-finals). Cross reached his 4th World Series Final at the 2019 Brisbane Darts Masters . He lost to the winner Damon Heta in a last leg decider 8–7. On 27 October 2019, Cross won his 3rd major PDC title, the European Championship , beating Gerwyn Price 11–6 in the final in Göttingen, Germany . Cross had a poor showing in the 2020 World Championship , losing to Kim Huybrechts 3–0 in
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#1732775841417528-515: Was Scott Mitchell , who won his first world title in 2015 , but lost in the Quarter-finals to Richard Veenstra . 2013 world champion Scott Waites won the title by defeating Jeff Smith 7–1 in the final. Lisa Ashton was the defending women's champion, having won the previous two editions, but lost to Trina Gulliver in the Quarter-finals. Gulliver then went on to win her 10th world championship title after defeating Deta Hedman 3–2 in
552-603: Was an electrician before turning professional. His nickname, " Voltage ", comes from his former profession. PDC European Tour PDC Players Championships 2016 BDO World Darts Championship The 2016 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship was the 39th World Championship organised by the British Darts Organisation, and the 31st staging at the Lakeside Country Club at Frimley Green . The defending men's champion
576-461: Was played on 7 January between Republic of Ireland player Jordan Boyce and England's Joshua Richardson in a best of five sets match. Richardson won the title with the score being 3–2 in sets. As with the 2015 BDO World Darts Championship the rights for the 2016 Championships were shared between BBC Sport and BT Sport, BBC coverage was presented by Colin Murray with Bobby George with Rob Walker as
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