The 2011 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship was the 18th World Championship organised by the Professional Darts Corporation since it separated from the British Darts Organisation. The event took place at the Alexandra Palace, London from 16 December 2010 and 3 January 2011. A total of 72 players took part, 16 of whom began at the preliminary round stage, with the eight winners joining the remaining 56 players in the first round proper.

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2011 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship
Tournament information
Dates	16 December 2010 – 3 January 2011
Venue	Alexandra Palace
Location	London
Country	England
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs (preliminaries) Sets (from Round 1) Final – best of 13
Prize fund	£1,000,000
Winner's share	£200,000
Nine-dart finish	Adrian Lewis
High checkout	170  Tony Eccles  Terry Jenkins
Champion(s)
Adrian Lewis
«2010 2012»

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Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having won the 2010 tournament. He was knocked out of the tournament at the quarter-final stage by Mark Webster, who in turn was defeated by Adrian Lewis in the semi-finals. Lewis went on to win the tournament, beating Gary Anderson 7–5 in the final to become only the fifth different PDC World Champion and the first to have won it without having won the rival BDO World Championship.^[1]

The final between Adrian Lewis and Gary Anderson was notable for a number of reasons. It was the last match that Sid Waddell commentated on at the PDC World Darts Championship before his death in 2012. It was the first ever nine-dart finish in a PDC World Championship final, hit by Lewis in the third leg of the match and not accomplished again until Michael Smith did so in 2023 against Michael van Gerwen. And it was also the first PDC World Championship final involving 2 players that were playing in their first World final.

4-time PDC World Championship semi-finalist Wayne Mardle was a notable absentee, missing out on his first World Championship since 1999. The 3-time PDC World Championship finalist Peter Manley was also another notable absentee, having missed out since 1998.

The televised stages featured 72 players from a minimum of 22 countries. The top 32 players in the PDC Order of Merit on 29 November 2010 were seeded for the tournament.^[2] They were joined by the 16 highest non qualified players in the Players Championship Order of Merit from events played on the PDC Pro Tour.

These 48 players were joined by two PDPA qualifiers (which were determined at a PDPA Qualifying event held in Derby on November 29, 2010), and 22 international players: the 4 highest names in the European Order of Merit not already qualified, the 2 highest names in the North American Order of Merit not already qualified and 16 further international qualifiers determined by the PDC and PDPA.

Some of the international players, such as the 4 from the European Order of Merit, and the top American and Australian players were entered straight into the first round, while others, having won qualifying events in their countries, were entered into the preliminary round.

1^ Rob Modra was unable to get a visa, so therefore, he was replaced by Kirk Shepherd, the next highest ranked player in the Players Championship Order of Merit.^[3]

The 2011 World Championship featured a prize fund of £1,000,000 – the same as in the previous year. The Third Place Playoff did not take place this year.

The prize money is allocated as follows:^[2]

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Player	Eliminated	Played	Sets Won	Sets Lost	Legs Won	Legs Lost	100+	140+	180s	High checkout	Average
Adrian Lewis	Winner	6	29	13	101	70	221	119	60	167	97.35
Gary Anderson	Runner-up	6	27	12	93	62	167	136	58	164	103.06
Mark Webster	Semi-finals	5	20	9	73	49	148	102	24	167	96.76
Terry Jenkins	Semi-finals	5	18	13	71	54	182	91	29	170	93.73
Phil Taylor	Quarter-finals	4	13	6	46	32	109	68	17	126	97.60
Raymond van Barneveld	Quarter-finals	4	12	10	50	43	112	79	23	156	95.88
Wes Newton	Quarter-finals	4	15	5	51	32	103	61	11	136	92.47
Vincent van der Voort	Quarter-finals	4	13	9	44	42	111	60	19	148	91.98
Simon Whitlock	Third round	3	9	4	33	17	57	46	16	164	96.69
Andy Smith	Third round	3	7	8	31	28	85	40	19	140	93.09
Mark Hylton	Third round	3	9	8	37	33	87	47	18	138	91.82
Mark Walsh	Third round	3	7	8	32	36	86	45	16	146	91.53
Robert Thornton	Third round	3	8	5	27	28	87	33	10	125	91.21
Colin Osborne	Third round	3	10	5	35	29	71	37	14	139	91.16
Mensur Suljović	Third round	3	7	7	29	31	76	32	13	136	88.27
Peter Wright	Third round	3	8	7	32	29	77	48	6	120	87.57
Dennis Priestley	Second round	2	5	4	21	17	47	28	12	111	94.74
Ronnie Baxter	Second round	2	3	4	15	15	32	27	6	118	94.55
Mervyn King	Second round	2	6	4	22	18	63	36	6	136	94.35
Brendan Dolan	Second round	2	3	4	15	14	42	20	5	108	93.70
Paul Nicholson	Second round	2	5	4	18	18	37	35	7	141	93.66
Wayne Jones	Second round	2	5	5	20	18	60	31	9	120	92.76
James Wade	Second round	2	5	4	22	17	48	28	2	121	90.54
Mark Dudbridge	Second round	2	4	5	18	21	42	19	12	107	90.13
Per Laursen	Second round	3	3	4	17	19	56	23	3	106	89.30
Alan Tabern	Second round	2	6	6	27	25	86	32	12	160	89.30
Steve Brown	Second round	2	4	5	15	19	43	19	9	126	88.48
Colin Lloyd	Second round	2	5	6	19	25	45	29	6	136	87.75
Denis Ovens	Second round	2	3	5	13	18	36	22	2	106	87.69
Jamie Caven	Second round	2	3	5	17	20	54	17	6	161	86.60
Kevin McDine	Second round	2	4	5	17	22	48	14	8	120	84.79
Andy Hamilton	Second round	2	3	4	15	15	42	10	6	106	82.96
Tony Eccles	First round	1	0	3	6	9	13	11	8	170	94.84
Steve Farmer	First round	1	0	3	3	9	10	15	1	161	93.90
Steve Maish	First round	1	0	3	2	9	10	9	2	58	93.76
Justin Pipe	First round	1	1	3	7	9	21	11	4	167	91.83
Nigel Heydon	First round	1	1	3	8	10	30	12	2	61	91.53
Steve Beaton	First round	1	2	3	11	13	29	14	4	75	89.79
Co Stompé	First round	1	1	3	6	11	18	11	4	111	88.74
Chris Thompson	First round	1	1	3	6	10	26	10	2	96	88.47
Shane Tichowitsch	First round	1	1	3	3	11	15	12	2	40	87.58
Morihiro Hashimoto	First round	2	0	3	4	11	19	6	4	61	87.37
Steve Evans	First round	1	0	3	2	9	18	8	0	35	87.35
John Part	First round	1	0	3	5	9	15	7	7	100	86.76
Roland Scholten	First round	2	0	3	7	11	21	12	4	112	86.40
Richie Burnett	First round	1	2	3	7	10	27	10	2	64	86.02
Antonio Alcinas	First round	1	0	3	2	9	14	6	2	20	85.92
Kirk Shepherd	First round	1	1	3	5	10	16	9	1	40	85.74
Steve Hine	First round	1	1	3	7	11	29	6	1	88	85.70
Alex Roy	First round	1	1	3	7	10	14	8	4	68	85.70
Devon Petersen	First round	2	1	3	12	14	22	13	5	146	84.99
Gary Mawson	First round	2	0	3	8	10	16	14	3	81	84.97
Kevin Painter	First round	1	0	3	2	9	17	5	1	156	84.84
Andree Welge	First round	1	2	3	9	10	25	6	3	63	84.65
Michael van Gerwen	First round	1	1	3	6	9	12	9	4	82	84.17
Jelle Klaasen	First round	1	1	3	5	10	13	9	2	111	84.03
Bernd Roith	First round	1	0	3	2	9	16	7	0	96	83.12
Jyhan Artut	First round	2	1	3	10	14	29	10	4	112	82.29
Magnus Caris	First round	2	0	3	6	12	25	8	2	55	81.96
Joe Cullen	First round	1	2	3	6	13	20	7	4	59	81.77
Darin Young	First round	1	0	3	3	9	12	6	2	32	80.57
Dennis Smith	First round	1	0	3	3	9	15	7	1	40	80.10
Barrie Bates	First round	1	1	3	8	9	29	10	0	116	78.80
Preston Ridd	First round	2	0	0	5	9	13	6	1	104	77.99
Juanito Gionzon	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	1	4	11	2	1	96	90.81
Scott MacKenzie	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	3	4	8	4	0	60	84.94
Boris Krčmar	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	2	4	4	4	1	76	84.89
Matt Padgett	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	2	4	6	3	0	40	83.10
Michael Mansell	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	0	4	5	5	0	—	82.70
Norman Madhoo	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	3	4	6	4	1	36	82.05
Dietmar Burger	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	3	4	12	1	0	64	76.81
Veijo Viinikka	Prelim. Round	1	0	0	2	4	6	2	1	40	75.93

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This table shows the number of players by country in the World Championship, the total number including the preliminary round.

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	ENG	NED	SCO	AUS	WAL	AUT	GER	NIR	NZL	CAN	SPA	RSA	USA	JPN	FIN	PHI	DEN	CRO	HKG	SWE	GUY	Total
Final	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Semis	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Quarters	4	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Round 3	8	2	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
Round 2	21	2	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	32
Round 1	34	6	3	3	4	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	64
Prelim.	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	16
Total	35	6	3	3	4	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	72

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Sky Sports broadcast all 72 matches live in high-definition in the United Kingdom. Dave Clark presented the coverage with analysis from Rod Harrington and Eric Bristow. They also commentated on matches along with Sid Waddell (in his final PDC World Darts Championship commentating appearance), John Gwynne, Nigel Pearson, Rod Studd and Stuart Pyke. This was the first PDC World Championship where Dave Lanning wasn't commentating having retired prior to the tournament. Due to the ill health of Harrington, Wayne Mardle replaced him post-Christmas and featured both commentating and co-presenting alongside Clark. Former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff was also a guest commentator twice during tournament. Interviews were handled by either Clark, Bristow or Studd.

In the Netherlands SBS6 broadcast all matches live through a live stream on the SBS6 website and Sport1 broadcast all the matches on television, both with commentary provided by Jacques Nieuwlaat and Leo Oldenburger. In Germany it was broadcast live on Sport1 with co-commentary provided by Roland Scholten, and in Australia it was broadcast live on Fox Sports.