Paul Lim Leong Hwa is a Singaporean professional darts player. He was the first player to hit a perfect 9-dart finish during the Embassy World Darts Championship in 1990. Lim has represented three countries at darts. He played briefly for Papua New Guinea, but settled in California.
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Paul Lim Leong Hwa is a Singaporean professional darts player. He was the first player to hit a perfect 9-dart finish during the Embassy World Darts Championship, which he achieved in 1990 during his second round match against Jack McKenna. Lim won £52,000 for his 9- darter, which was £28,000 more than Phil Taylor won for winning the tournament. Lim has represented three countries at darts. He played briefly for Papua New Guinea, but settled in California and represented the United States in international competition. He has also represented Singapore at the PDC World Cup of Darts, and reached the quarter-finals, defeating the top seeds Scotland in the first round. Lim made his first appearance in the World Championships for 11 years after being awarded a place in the 2013 PDC world championship.
He reached the last 16 of the Las Vegas Open in January 2007. He won many titles in and around his native country including five Singapore Opens, five Malaysian Opens and five Asian Cups, but his failure to reach the final stages of the British Darts Organisation and Professional Darts Corporation major tournaments has meant he will be best remembered for his 1990 nine- dart achievement. Lim lost in the final of the 2015 French Darts event to Leonard Gates, but won the Soft Tip Qualifier for the 2016 World Championship for the second time by seeing off Boris Krčmar 4–2. He went on to play in the 2016 Mens Mens Darts World Cup, but lost to Austria’s Aleksandr Okskin in the second round.
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