2019 Grand Slam of Darts

2019 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates9–17 November 2019
VenueAldersley Leisure Village
LocationAldersley, Wolverhampton
Country England
Organisation(s)PDC
FormatLegs
Prize fund£550,000
Winner's share£125,000
High checkout167 Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon (group stage)
Champion(s)
Wales Gerwyn Price
«2018 2020»
Darts tournament

The 2019 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts was the thirteenth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 9–17 November 2019 in Wolverhampton, England, and like in 2018, it took place at Aldersley Leisure Village.[1]

The tournament's defending champion was Gerwyn Price, who won his first PDC major title by defeating Gary Anderson 16–13, in a highly controversial final in 2018.[2] Price successfully defended the title to win his second PDC major, beating Peter Wright 16–6 with the second highest average in a Grand Slam final.

Prize money

The prize fund for the Grand Slam increased from £450,000 in 2018 to £550,000 this year, with the winner getting £125,000.[3]

Position (no. of players) Prize money
(Total: £550,000)
Winner (1) £125,000
Runner-up (1) £65,000
Semi-finalists (2) £40,000
Quarter-finalists (4) £20,000
Last 16 (second round) (8) £10,000
Third in group (8) £7,500
Fourth in group (8) £4,000
Group winner bonus (8) £3,500

Qualifying

PDC Qualifying Tournaments

PDC Main Tournaments
Tournament Year Position Player Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship 2019 Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Wales Gerwyn Price
England Rob Cross
Belgium Dimitri Van den Bergh
England Nathan Aspinall
Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney
Scotland Gary Anderson
Scotland Peter Wright
England Michael Smith
England Dave Chisnall
Germany Martin Schindler
England James Wade
Netherlands Danny Noppert
Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon
Republic of Ireland William O'Connor
Grand Slam of Darts 2018 Winner Wales Gerwyn Price
Premier League Darts 2019 Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
World Matchplay 2019 Winner England Rob Cross
World Grand Prix 2019 Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Youth Championship 2018 Winner Belgium Dimitri Van den Bergh
Masters 2019 Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
UK Open 2019 Winner England Nathan Aspinall
European Championship 2019 Winner England Rob Cross
Players Championship Finals 2018 Winner Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney
Champions League of Darts 2019 Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
World Series of Darts Finals 2019 Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Cup of Darts 2019 Winners Scotland Gary Anderson
Scotland Peter Wright
PDC World Darts Championship 2019 Runner-up England Michael Smith
Grand Slam of Darts 2018 Runner-up Scotland Gary Anderson
Premier League Darts 2019 Runner-up England Rob Cross
World Matchplay 2019 Runner-up England Michael Smith
World Grand Prix 2019 Runner-up England Dave Chisnall
PDC World Youth Championship 2018 Runner-up Germany Martin Schindler
Masters 2019 Runner-up England James Wade
UK Open 2019 Runner-up England Rob Cross
European Championship 2019 Runner-up Wales Gerwyn Price
Players Championship Finals 2018 Runner-up Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Champions League of Darts 2019 Runner-up Scotland Peter Wright
World Series of Darts Finals 2019 Runner-up Netherlands Danny Noppert
PDC World Cup of Darts 2019 Runners-Up Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon
Republic of Ireland William O'Connor
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

At most sixteen players could qualify through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.

As the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than sixteen players, the field of sixteen players is filled from the reserve lists. The first list consists of the winners from 2019 European Tour events, in which the winners are ordered by number of event wins then in Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

PDC European Tour
Tournament Event Position Player Qualifiers
2019 European Tour
European Darts Open Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen England Ian White
German Darts Championship Winner Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney
German Darts Grand Prix Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
German Darts Open Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Austrian Darts Open Winner Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
European Darts Grand Prix Winner England Ian White
Dutch Darts Masters Winner England Ian White
Danish Darts Open Winner England Dave Chisnall
Czech Darts Open Winner England Jamie Hughes
Austrian Darts Championship Winner Austria Mensur Suljović
European Darts Matchplay Winner England Joe Cullen
International Darts Open Winner Wales Gerwyn Price
Gibraltar Darts Trophy Winner Poland Krzysztof Ratajski
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

If there were still less than sixteen qualified players after the winners of European Tour events are added, then the winners of 2019 Players Championships events would have been added, firstly by winners of multiple events followed by Order of Merit order, but that was not needed for this year's competition.

PDC Qualifying Event

A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier in Wigan on 4 November. These are the qualifiers:

BDO Qualifying Tournaments

The men's and women's champions from the 2019 BDO World Darts Championship were invited, as was the winner of the 2019 BDO World Trophy.[4]

Tournament Year Position Player
BDO World Darts Championship 2019 Men's Winner England Glen Durrant
Women's Winner Japan Mikuru Suzuki
BDO World Trophy 2019 Winner Wales Jim Williams

BDO Ranking qualifiers

The top ranked male and female players were invited.

Three more invitations were given to the next highest ranked men's players:

Pools

Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D
(PDC Seeded Players) (PDC Qualifiers) (BDO Representatives)

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1)
England Rob Cross (2)
England Michael Smith (3)
Scotland Gary Anderson (4)
Wales Gerwyn Price (5)
Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney (6)
Scotland Peter Wright (7)
England James Wade (8)

England Dave Chisnall
England Ian White
England Nathan Aspinall
England Adrian Lewis
England Darren Webster
Belgium Dimitri Van den Bergh
Netherlands Danny Noppert
Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan

Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon
Republic of Ireland William O'Connor
Germany Gabriel Clemens
England Ross Smith
Germany Martin Schindler
England Jamie Hughes
Scotland Robert Thornton
England Ryan Harrington

England Glen Durrant
Japan Mikuru Suzuki
Wales Jim Williams
Netherlands Wesley Harms
England Lisa Ashton
Netherlands Richard Veenstra
England Dave Parletti
Wales Wayne Warren

Draw

Group stage

All group matches are best of nine legs
After three games, the top two in each group qualify for the knock-out stage

NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs for; LA = Legs against; +/− = Plus/minus record, in relation to legs; Pts = Points; Status = Qualified to knockout stage

Group A

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q
2 England Adrian Lewis (Q) 3 2 1 12 10 +2 4
3 Wales Jim Williams (BDO) 3 1 2 10 11 –1 2 Eliminated
4 England Ross Smith (Q) 3 0 3 5 15 –10 0

9 November

97.89 Michael van Gerwen Netherlands 5 – 2 Wales Jim Williams 83.34
87.48 Adrian Lewis England 5 – 2 England Ross Smith 86.11

10 November

104.53 Michael van Gerwen Netherlands 5 – 2 England Adrian Lewis 96.29
85.63 Ross Smith England 1 – 5 Wales Jim Williams 92.35

12 November

111.38 Michael van Gerwen Netherlands 5 – 2 England Ross Smith 101.10
96.69 Adrian Lewis England 5 – 3 Wales Jim Williams 91.38


Group B

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 England James Wade (8) 3 2 1 14 11 +3 4 Q
2 England Ian White 3 2 1 14 11 +3 4
3 Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon 3 2 1 12 13 –1 4 Eliminated
4 Netherlands Wesley Harms (BDO) 3 0 3 10 15 –5 0

9 November

93.72 James Wade England 5 – 2 Netherlands Wesley Harms 86.78
88.94 Ian White England 5 – 2 Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon 90.42

10 November

99.84 James Wade England 5 – 4 England Ian White 98.17
88.31 Steve Lennon Republic of Ireland 5 – 4 Netherlands Wesley Harms 82.78

12 November

86.66 James Wade England 4 – 5 Republic of Ireland Steve Lennon 91.73
97.09 Ian White England 5 – 4 Netherlands Wesley Harms 97.66

Group C

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 Wales Gerwyn Price (5) 3 3 0 15 9 +6 6 Q
2 Scotland Robert Thornton (Q) 3 2 1 14 12 +2 4
3 Belgium Dimitri Van den Bergh 3 1 2 11 11 0 2 Eliminated
4 Japan Mikuru Suzuki (BDO) 3 0 3 7 15 –8 0

9 November

88.21 Gerwyn Price Wales 5 – 3 Japan Mikuru Suzuki 84.24
95.44 Dimitri Van den Bergh Belgium 4 – 5 Scotland Robert Thornton 91.46

10 November

92.12 Gerwyn Price Wales 5 – 4 Scotland Robert Thornton 93.26
90.80 Dimitri Van den Bergh Belgium 5 – 1 Japan Mikuru Suzuki 84.65

12 November

97.14 Gerwyn Price Wales 5 – 2 Belgium Dimitri Van den Bergh 91.59
94.25 Robert Thornton Scotland 5 – 3 Japan Mikuru Suzuki 85.60


Group D

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 Scotland Gary Anderson (4) 3 2 1 14 9 +5 4 Q
2 England Darren Webster (Q) 3 2 1 13 11 +2 4
3 Republic of Ireland William O'Connor 3 1 2 10 13 –3 2 Eliminated
4 England Dave Parletti (BDO) 3 1 2 8 12 –4 2

9 November

94.75 Gary Anderson Scotland 5 – 1 England Dave Parletti 86.20
96.70 Darren Webster England 3 – 5 Republic of Ireland William O'Connor 98.87

10 November

105.08 Gary Anderson Scotland 5 – 3 Republic of Ireland William O'Connor 92.21
91.61 Darren Webster England 5 – 2 England Dave Parletti 85.05

12 November

97.17 Gary Anderson Scotland 4 – 5 England Darren Webster 100.86
88.87 William O'Connor Republic of Ireland 2 – 5 England Dave Parletti 83.97

Group E

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 England Dave Chisnall 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q
2 England Rob Cross (2) 3 2 1 13 11 +2 4
3 England Jamie Hughes (Q) 3 1 2 12 11 +1 2 Eliminated
4 England Lisa Ashton (BDO) 3 0 3 4 15 –11 0

9 November

93.19 Rob Cross England 5 – 2 England Lisa Ashton 80.70
97.19 Dave Chisnall England 5 – 3 England Jamie Hughes 95.75

10 November

95.19 Rob Cross England 3 – 5 England Dave Chisnall 94.61
94.42 Jamie Hughes England 5 – 1 England Lisa Ashton 86.80

11 November

92.10 Rob Cross England 5 – 4 England Jamie Hughes 85.65
94.61 Dave Chisnall England 5 – 1 England Lisa Ashton 82.50


Group F

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 Scotland Peter Wright (7) 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q
2 England Ryan Harrington (Q) 3 2 1 12 10 +2 4
3 Netherlands Danny Noppert 3 1 2 11 11 0 2 Eliminated
4 Wales Wayne Warren (BDO) 3 0 3 4 15 –11 0

9 November

98.16 Peter Wright Scotland 5 – 2 Wales Wayne Warren 88.65
95.34 Danny Noppert Netherlands 4 – 5 England Ryan Harrington 93.65

10 November

101.11 Peter Wright Scotland 5 – 2 England Ryan Harrington 86.34
97.50 Danny Noppert Netherlands 5 – 1 Wales Wayne Warren 92.46

11 November

99.77 Peter Wright Scotland 5 – 2 Netherlands Danny Noppert 98.58
78.58 Ryan Harrington England 5 – 1 Wales Wayne Warren 74.72

Group G

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 Germany Gabriel Clemens (Q) 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q
2 Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney (6) 3 2 1 14 7 +7 4
3 Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan (Q) 3 1 2 8 11 –3 2 Eliminated
4 Netherlands Richard Veenstra (BDO) 3 0 3 3 15 –12 0

9 November

91.65 Daryl Gurney Northern Ireland 5 – 0 Netherlands Richard Veenstra 75.69
92.55 Brendan Dolan Northern Ireland 1 – 5 Germany Gabriel Clemens 99.40

10 November

100.80 Daryl Gurney Northern Ireland 4 – 5 Germany Gabriel Clemens 97.43
91.56 Brendan Dolan Northern Ireland 5 – 1 Netherlands Richard Veenstra 79.76

11 November

95.03 Daryl Gurney Northern Ireland 5 – 2 Northern Ireland Brendan Dolan 92.34
110.27 Gabriel Clemens Germany 5 – 2 Netherlands Richard Veenstra 90.26


Group H

Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status
1 England Michael Smith (3) 3 3 0 15 8 +7 6 Q
2 England Glen Durrant (BDO) 3 2 1 13 9 +4 4
3 England Nathan Aspinall 3 1 2 6 10 –4 2 Eliminated
4 Germany Martin Schindler 3 0 3 8 15 –7 0

9 November

99.28 Michael Smith England 5 – 3 England Glen Durrant 93.08
98.88 Nathan Aspinall England 5 – 0 Germany Martin Schindler 91.54

10 November

113.62 Michael Smith England 5 – 1 England Nathan Aspinall 104.65
88.74 Martin Schindler Germany 4 – 5 England Glen Durrant 89.52

11 November

91.38 Michael Smith England 5 – 4 Germany Martin Schindler 86.18
86.26 Nathan Aspinall England 0 – 5 England Glen Durrant 86.38

Knockout stage

Second round (best of 19 legs)
13–14 November
Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs)
15–16 November
Semi-finals (best of 31 legs)
17 November
Final (best of 31 legs)
17 November
            
A1 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 101.41 10
B2 England Ian White 97.50 7
A1 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 103.05 16
A2 England Adrian Lewis (Q) 86.28 6
B1 England James Wade (8) 93.23 9
A2 England Adrian Lewis (Q) 95.99 10
A1 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 101.91 12
C1 Wales Gerwyn Price (5) 100.73 16
C1 Wales Gerwyn Price (5) 98.75 10
D2 England Darren Webster (Q) 90.56 1
C1 Wales Gerwyn Price (5) 95.69 16
D1 Scotland Gary Anderson (4) 91.37 9
D1 Scotland Gary Anderson (4) 90.97 10
C2 Scotland Robert Thornton (Q) 87.36 8
C1 Wales Gerwyn Price (5) 107.86 16
F1 Scotland Peter Wright (7) 96.28 6
E1 England Dave Chisnall 102.02 10
F2 England Ryan Harrington (Q) 96.47 3
E1 England Dave Chisnall 98.64 12
F1 Scotland Peter Wright (7) 101.25 16
F1 Scotland Peter Wright (7) 98.59 10
E2 England Rob Cross (2) 89.06 3
F1 Scotland Peter Wright (7) 97.34 16
H2 England Glen Durrant (BDO) 94.28 11
G1 Germany Gabriel Clemens (Q) 98.34 9
H2 England Glen Durrant (BDO) 96.47 10
H2 England Glen Durrant (BDO) 98.15 16
H1 England Michael Smith (3) 97.95 12
H1 England Michael Smith (3) 101.56 10
G2 Northern Ireland Daryl Gurney (6) 100.49 7

References

  1. ^ "bwin Grand Slam Remains In Wolverhampton". PDC.
  2. ^ "Grand Slam of Darts: Gerwyn Price beats Gary Anderson in bad-tempered final". BBC Sport. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Prize Money Soars Above £14m". PDC. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  4. ^ Phillips, Josh. "BDO representatives confirmed for 2019 Grand Slam". PDC. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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