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Mervyn King (born March 15, 1966) is a professional darts player. Nicknamed "The King", he is recognized as the World Number One player in the WDF rankings.

He is considered to be one of the best players in the BDO curcuit. He made his debut in the World Professional Darts Championship in 1997, where he hit 30 180s for the whole tournament, a new record at that time. He went on to reach the semi-finals, where he lost 5-3 to Les Wallace, who won the title that year. In 2002, he reached the final where he lost to Australian haemophiliac Tony David by 6 sets to 3. In 2003, King went out in the semi-finals, losing 5-2 to Raymond van Barneveld. After the match, he blamed his loss on the BDO organisers' failure to turn off the air conditioning, claiming it affected the travel of his darts. The organisers, however, insisted that it was turned off for the entire match. In 2004, he caused controversy again, when during his first round match against another Dutchman Rick Hofstra he stopped play and demanded the oche's length to be remeasured. His actions didn't go down too well with the crowd, and it resulted with King being booed during the delay. King eventually won the match 3-1. He went on to reach his second World final, but again finished as the runner up, losing 6-3 to Andy Fordham. In 2005 he lost in the second round to Dutch debutant, Andre Brantjes 3-2, and in 2006 he lost again in the second round to yet another Dutchman, Jelle Klaasen, who ended up the eventual winner.

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