27 Facts About Terry Jenkins

Terry Jenkins was born on 26 September 1963 and is an English former professional darts player who was nicknamed The Bull, having previously used the name "Tucker" for his matches.

Terry Jenkins reached number three in the world rankings and was a runner-up in nine major PDC televised finals, those being the 2006 and 2007 World Grand Prix, 2007 Premier League, 2007 Las Vegas Desert Classic, 2007 and 2009 World Matchplay, 2008 Grand Slam of Darts, 2014 UK Open and 2014 European Championship.

Terry Jenkins began to climb up the Professional Darts Corporation world rankings during 2005 by producing good performances in the tour events, which are played away from the television cameras.

Terry Jenkins played in several BDO events in the early stages of his career, including the Winmau World Masters where he once eliminated Tony O'Shea in the non-televised stages of the tournament.

Terry Jenkins is often in attendance for the BDO World Championship, although he has never played in the competition.

Terry Jenkins continued to perform well away from the cameras by winning two PDPA Players Championships in 2007 - the Antwerp Darts Trophy in April and the Isle Wight Players Championship at Hayling Island.

Terry Jenkins reached the final of the Las Vegas Players Championship, losing to Raymond van Barneveld.

Terry Jenkins played well after failing to hit a perfect 9 darter after missing treble 19 for double 12 during the closing stages of the match.

Terry Jenkins was chosen to play in the Grand Slam of Darts where he lost in the quarter-finals to Andy Hamilton.

Terry Jenkins lost to Shepherd in the first round of the 2008 PDC World Championship, a result which saw him lose confidence which saw his best form desert him on occasions.

Terry Jenkins finished 7th in the 2008 Premier League Darts and then suffered a number of early round exits in major tournaments.

Terry Jenkins started the year winning the Bobby Bourn Memorial Players Championship.

However, the 2010 Premier League Darts was the worst of his career so far with Terry Jenkins finishing in last place.

Terry Jenkins had a decent 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, beating Tony O'Shea in the 2nd round before succumbing to a final leg decider to James Wade.

Terry Jenkins made a nervy start to the 2011 World Championship, narrowly beating Bradford born Joe Cullen in the first round 3 sets to 2.

Terry Jenkins dropped just two sets as he made it through to the quarter-finals of the 2012 World Championship, beating Joe Cullen, Co Stompe and Justin Pipe.

Back to back first round defeats in major tournaments followed at the World Grand Prix and European Championship and Terry Jenkins failed to qualify from his group at the Grand Slam of Darts as he only won one of his three games.

Terry Jenkins defeated Steve Brown and John Part to ease into the last 16 of the 2013 World Championship, where he faced Andy Hamilton.

Terry Jenkins dropped to world number 16 after the tournament.

Terry Jenkins enjoyed wins over Jim Walker and Kim Huybrechts to play world number two Michael van Gerwen in the last 16.

Terry Jenkins twice fought back from a set down in the first round of the 2014 World Championship against Per Laursen to level the game and then threw a nine-dart finish in the second leg of the decider.

At two legs all Terry Jenkins missed two darts to break throw and then missed another three in the next leg as Laursen hit double nine to eliminate him.

Terry Jenkins became the sixth player to throw a nine darter in the history of the event and took out a 170 finish during the match.

Terry Jenkins announced that after the 2017 World Championship he would be semi-retiring from the PDC circuit, as travelling for the events like those on the European Tour was taking its toll on him and would instead do more exhibitions and practice sessions, as well as continuing his love of buying and selling antiques.

Terry Jenkins made his PDC World Darts Championship debut in 2005, losing his opening game to Ronnie Baxter.

In 2008, Terry Jenkins fell at the first hurdle to 21-year-old qualifier Kirk Shepherd who went on to reach the final of the competition.

Terry Jenkins suffered a second successive first round exit in the 2009 World Championship, losing to another qualifier in Dennis Smith.