2019 Grand Slam of Darts explained

Tournament Name:	2019 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts
Dates:	9–17 November 2019
Venue:	Aldersley Leisure Village
Location:	Aldersley, Wolverhampton
Organisation:	PDC
Format:	Legs
Prize Fund:	£550,000
Winners Share:	£125,000
High Checkout:	167 Steve Lennon (group stage)
Winner:	Gerwyn Price
Prev:	2018
Next:	2020

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	align=center	(1)	align=center	£125,000
Runner-up	align=center	(1)	align=center	£65,000
Semi-finalists	align=center	(2)	align=center	£40,000
Quarter-finalists	align=center	(4)	align=center	£20,000
Last 16 (second round)	align=center	(8)	align=center	£10,000
Third in group	align=center	(8)	align=center	£7,500
Fourth in group	align=center	(8)	align=center	£4,000

Group winner bonus	align=center	(8)	align=center	£3,500

Qualifying

PDC Qualifying Tournaments

PDC Main Tournaments
width=300	Tournament	width=50	Year	width=80	Position	width=200	Player	width=200	Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship	2019	Winner	Michael van Gerwen	Michael van Gerwen Gerwyn Price Rob Cross Nathan Aspinall Daryl Gurney Gary Anderson Peter Wright Michael Smith Dave Chisnall Martin Schindler James Wade Danny Noppert Steve Lennon William O'Connor
Grand Slam of Darts	2018	Winner	Gerwyn Price
Premier League Darts	2019	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Matchplay	2019	Winner	Rob Cross
World Grand Prix	2019	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	2018	Winner
Masters	2019	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
UK Open	2019	Winner	Nathan Aspinall
European Championship	2019	Winner	Rob Cross
Players Championship Finals	2018	Winner	Daryl Gurney
Champions League of Darts	2019	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Series of Darts Finals	2019	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Cup of Darts	2019	Winners	Gary Anderson Peter Wright
PDC World Darts Championship	2019	Runner-up	Michael Smith
Grand Slam of Darts	2018	Runner-up	Gary Anderson
Premier League Darts	2019	Runner-up	Rob Cross
World Matchplay	2019	Runner-up	Michael Smith
World Grand Prix	2019	Runner-up	Dave Chisnall
PDC World Youth Championship	2018		Martin Schindler
Masters	2019	Runner-up	James Wade
UK Open	2019	Runner-up	Rob Cross
European Championship	2019	Runner-up	Gerwyn Price
Players Championship Finals	2018	Runner-up	Michael van Gerwen
Champions League of Darts	2019	Runner-up	Peter Wright
World Series of Darts Finals	2019	Runner-up	Danny Noppert
PDC World Cup of Darts	2019	Runners-Up	Steve Lennon 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
width=150	Tournament	width=200	Event	width=80	Position	width=200	Player	width=200	Qualifiers
2019 European Tour
	Winner		Ian White<	--16-->
	Winner	Daryl Gurney
German Darts Grand Prix	Winner
German Darts Open	Winner
Austrian Darts Open	Winner
European Darts Grand Prix	Winner	Ian White
Dutch Darts Masters	Winner	Ian White
Danish Darts Open	Winner	Dave Chisnall
Czech Darts Open	Winner	Jamie Hughes
	Winner
European Darts Matchplay	Winner	Joe Cullen
International Darts Open	Winner	Gerwyn Price
Gibraltar Darts Trophy	Winner	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]

width=300	Tournament	width=50	Year	width=80	Position	width=200	Player
	2019	Men's Winner
	2019		Mikuru Suzuki
BDO World Trophy	2019	Winner	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

(PDC Seeded Players)	(PDC Qualifiers)		(BDO Representatives)
width=220	Pool A	width=220	Pool B	width=220	Pool C	width=220	Pool D
Rob Cross (2) Michael Smith (3) Gary Anderson (4) Gerwyn Price (5) Daryl Gurney (6) Peter Wright (7) James Wade (8)	Dave Chisnall Ian White Nathan Aspinall Adrian Lewis Darren Webster Danny Noppert Brendan Dolan	Steve Lennon Gabriel Clemens Ross Smith Martin Schindler Jamie Hughes Robert Thornton Ryan Harrington	Glen Durrant Mikuru Suzuki Jim Williams Wesley Harms Lisa Ashton Dave Parletti 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

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1		3	3	0	15	6	+9	6	Q
2	Adrian Lewis (Q)	3	2	1	12	10	+2	4	Q
3	Jim Williams (BDO)	3	1	2	10	11	–1	2	Eliminated
4	Ross Smith (Q)	3	0	3	5	15		0	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

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	5 – 2	Adrian Lewis 96.29
	1 – 5

12 November

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	5 – 2	Ross Smith 101.10
96.69 Adrian Lewis	5 – 3

Group B

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1	James Wade (8)	3	2	1	14	11	+3	4	Q
2		3	2	1	14	11	+3	4	Q
3		3	2	1	12	13	–1	4	Eliminated
4		3	0	3	10	15	–5	0	Eliminated

9 November

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93.72 James Wade	5 – 2	Wesley Harms 86.78
88.94 Ian White	5 – 2	Steve Lennon 90.42

10 November

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99.84 James Wade	5 – 4	Ian White 98.17
88.31 Steve Lennon	5 – 4	Wesley Harms 82.78

12 November

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	4 – 5	Steve Lennon 91.73
97.09 Ian White	5 – 4	Wesley Harms 97.66

Group C

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1		3	3	0	15	9	+6	6	Q
2	Robert Thornton (Q)	3	2	1	14	12	+2	4	Q
3		3	1	2	11	11	0	2	Eliminated
4	Mikuru Suzuki (BDO)	3	0	3	7	15	–8	0	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

12 November

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97.14 Gerwyn Price	5 – 2
	5 – 3	Mikuru Suzuki 85.60

Group D

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1		3	2	1	14	9	+5	4	Q
2	Darren Webster (Q)	3	2	1	13	11	+2	4	Q
3		3	1	2	10	13	–3	2	Eliminated
4	Dave Parletti (BDO)	3	1	2	8	12	–4	2	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

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105.08 Gary Anderson	5 – 3	William O'Connor 92.21
91.61 Darren Webster	5 – 2	Dave Parletti 85.05

12 November

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	4 – 5	Darren Webster 100.86
88.87 William O'Connor	2 – 5	Dave Parletti 83.97

Group E

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1		3	3	0	15	7	+8	6	Q
2		3	2	1	13	11	+2	4	Q
3		3	1	2	12	11	+1	2	Eliminated
4		3	0	3	4	15		0	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

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	3 – 5	Dave Chisnall 94.61
94.42 Jamie Hughes	5 – 1	Lisa Ashton 86.80

11 November

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

Group F

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1		3	3	0	15	6	+9	6	Q
2		3	2	1	12	10	+2	4	Q
3		3	1	2	11	11	0	2	Eliminated
4		3	0	3	4	15		0	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

11 November

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99.77 Peter Wright	5 – 2
	5 – 1	Wayne Warren 74.72

Group G

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1	Gabriel Clemens (Q)	3	3	0	15	7	+8	6	Q
2		3	2	1	14	7	+7	4	Q
3	Brendan Dolan (Q)	3	1	2	8	11	–3	2	Eliminated
4		3	0	3	3	15		0	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

11 November

Group H

width=20	Pos.	width=185	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	LF	width=20	LA	width=25	+/−	width=20	Pts	width=70	Status
1		3	3	0	15	8	+7	6	Q
2	Glen Durrant (BDO)	3	2	1	13	9	+4	4	Q
3		3	1	2	6	10	–4	2	Eliminated
4		3	0	3	8	15	–7	0	Eliminated

9 November

10 November

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113.62 Michael Smith	5 – 1	Nathan Aspinall 104.65
	4 – 5	Glen Durrant 89.52

11 November

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91.38 Michael Smith	5 – 4	Martin Schindler 86.18
	0 – 5	Glen Durrant 86.38

Knockout stage

Notes and References

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