2019 Grand Slam of Darts

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]

2019 BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates	9–17 November 2019
Venue	Aldersley Leisure Village
Location	Aldersley, Wolverhampton
Country	England
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£550,000
Winner's share	£125,000
High checkout	167 Steve Lennon (group stage)
Champion(s)
Gerwyn Price
«2018 2020»

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	Michael van Gerwen		Michael van Gerwen Gerwyn Price Rob Cross Dimitri Van den Bergh 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
PDC World Youth Championship	2018	Winner	Dimitri Van den Bergh
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	Runner-up	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
Tournament	Event	Position	Player		Qualifiers
2019 European Tour
	European Darts Open	Winner	Michael van Gerwen		Ian White
	German Darts Championship	Winner	Daryl Gurney
	German Darts Grand Prix	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	German Darts Open	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Austrian Darts Open	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	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
	Austrian Darts Championship	Winner	Mensur Suljović
	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:

• Gabriel Clemens
• Ryan Harrington
• Robert Thornton
• Brendan Dolan
• Jamie Hughes
• Darren Webster
• Ross Smith
• Adrian Lewis

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	Glen Durrant
		Women's Winner	Mikuru Suzuki
BDO World Trophy	2019	Winner	Jim Williams

BDO Ranking qualifiers

The top ranked male and female players were invited.

• Wesley Harms
• Lisa Ashton

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

• Richard Veenstra
• Dave Parletti
• Wayne Warren

Pools

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
(PDC Seeded Players)	(PDC Qualifiers)		(BDO Representatives)
Michael van Gerwen (1) 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 Dimitri Van den Bergh Danny Noppert Brendan Dolan	Steve Lennon William O'Connor Gabriel Clemens Ross Smith Martin Schindler Jamie Hughes Robert Thornton Ryan Harrington	Glen Durrant Mikuru Suzuki Jim Williams Wesley Harms Lisa Ashton Richard Veenstra 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 Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Michael van Gerwen (1) 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2 Adrian Lewis (Q) 3 2 1 12 10 +2 4 3 Jim Williams (BDO) 3 1 2 10 11 –1 2 Eliminated 4 Ross Smith (Q) 3 0 3 5 15 –10 0 9 November 97.89 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 2 Jim Williams 83.34 87.48 Adrian Lewis 5 – 2 Ross Smith 86.11 10 November 104.53 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 2 Adrian Lewis 96.29 85.63 Ross Smith 1 – 5 Jim Williams 92.35 12 November 111.38 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 2 Ross Smith 101.10 96.69 Adrian Lewis 5 – 3 Jim Williams 91.38

Group B Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 James Wade (8) 3 2 1 14 11 +3 4 Q 2 Ian White 3 2 1 14 11 +3 4 3 Steve Lennon 3 2 1 12 13 –1 4 Eliminated 4 Wesley Harms (BDO) 3 0 3 10 15 –5 0 9 November 93.72 James Wade 5 – 2 Wesley Harms 86.78 88.94 Ian White 5 – 2 Steve Lennon 90.42 10 November 99.84 James Wade 5 – 4 Ian White 98.17 88.31 Steve Lennon 5 – 4 Wesley Harms 82.78 12 November 86.66 James Wade 4 – 5 Steve Lennon 91.73 97.09 Ian White 5 – 4 Wesley Harms 97.66

Group C Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Gerwyn Price (5) 3 3 0 15 9 +6 6 Q 2 Robert Thornton (Q) 3 2 1 14 12 +2 4 3 Dimitri Van den Bergh 3 1 2 11 11 0 2 Eliminated 4 Mikuru Suzuki (BDO) 3 0 3 7 15 –8 0 9 November 88.21 Gerwyn Price 5 – 3 Mikuru Suzuki 84.24 95.44 Dimitri Van den Bergh 4 – 5 Robert Thornton 91.46 10 November 92.12 Gerwyn Price 5 – 4 Robert Thornton 93.26 90.80 Dimitri Van den Bergh 5 – 1 Mikuru Suzuki 84.65 12 November 97.14 Gerwyn Price 5 – 2 Dimitri Van den Bergh 91.59 94.25 Robert Thornton 5 – 3 Mikuru Suzuki 85.60

Group D Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Gary Anderson (4) 3 2 1 14 9 +5 4 Q 2 Darren Webster (Q) 3 2 1 13 11 +2 4 3 William O'Connor 3 1 2 10 13 –3 2 Eliminated 4 Dave Parletti (BDO) 3 1 2 8 12 –4 2 9 November 94.75 Gary Anderson 5 – 1 Dave Parletti 86.20 96.70 Darren Webster 3 – 5 William O'Connor 98.87 10 November 105.08 Gary Anderson 5 – 3 William O'Connor 92.21 91.61 Darren Webster 5 – 2 Dave Parletti 85.05 12 November 97.17 Gary Anderson 4 – 5 Darren Webster 100.86 88.87 William O'Connor 2 – 5 Dave Parletti 83.97

Group E Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Dave Chisnall 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 Rob Cross (2) 3 2 1 13 11 +2 4 3 Jamie Hughes (Q) 3 1 2 12 11 +1 2 Eliminated 4 Lisa Ashton (BDO) 3 0 3 4 15 –11 0 9 November 93.19 Rob Cross 5 – 2 Lisa Ashton 80.70 97.19 Dave Chisnall 5 – 3 Jamie Hughes 95.75 10 November 95.19 Rob Cross 3 – 5 Dave Chisnall 94.61 94.42 Jamie Hughes 5 – 1 Lisa Ashton 86.80 11 November 92.10 Rob Cross 5 – 4 Jamie Hughes 85.65 94.61 Dave Chisnall 5 – 1 Lisa Ashton 82.50

Group F Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Peter Wright (7) 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2 Ryan Harrington (Q) 3 2 1 12 10 +2 4 3 Danny Noppert 3 1 2 11 11 0 2 Eliminated 4 Wayne Warren (BDO) 3 0 3 4 15 –11 0 9 November 98.16 Peter Wright 5 – 2 Wayne Warren 88.65 95.34 Danny Noppert 4 – 5 Ryan Harrington 93.65 10 November 101.11 Peter Wright 5 – 2 Ryan Harrington 86.34 97.50 Danny Noppert 5 – 1 Wayne Warren 92.46 11 November 99.77 Peter Wright 5 – 2 Danny Noppert 98.58 78.58 Ryan Harrington 5 – 1 Wayne Warren 74.72

Group G Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Gabriel Clemens (Q) 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 Daryl Gurney (6) 3 2 1 14 7 +7 4 3 Brendan Dolan (Q) 3 1 2 8 11 –3 2 Eliminated 4 Richard Veenstra (BDO) 3 0 3 3 15 –12 0 9 November 91.65 Daryl Gurney 5 – 0 Richard Veenstra 75.69 92.55 Brendan Dolan 1 – 5 Gabriel Clemens 99.40 10 November 100.80 Daryl Gurney 4 – 5 Gabriel Clemens 97.43 91.56 Brendan Dolan 5 – 1 Richard Veenstra 79.76 11 November 95.03 Daryl Gurney 5 – 2 Brendan Dolan 92.34 110.27 Gabriel Clemens 5 – 2 Richard Veenstra 90.26

Group H Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Michael Smith (3) 3 3 0 15 8 +7 6 Q 2 Glen Durrant (BDO) 3 2 1 13 9 +4 4 3 Nathan Aspinall 3 1 2 6 10 –4 2 Eliminated 4 Martin Schindler 3 0 3 8 15 –7 0 9 November 99.28 Michael Smith 5 – 3 Glen Durrant 93.08 98.88 Nathan Aspinall 5 – 0 Martin Schindler 91.54 10 November 113.62 Michael Smith 5 – 1 Nathan Aspinall 104.65 88.74 Martin Schindler 4 – 5 Glen Durrant 89.52 11 November 91.38 Michael Smith 5 – 4 Martin Schindler 86.18 86.26 Nathan Aspinall 0 – 5 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

Michael van Gerwen (1) 101.41

10

B2

Ian White 97.50

7

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 103.05

16

A2

Adrian Lewis (Q) 86.28

6

B1

James Wade (8) 93.23

9

A2

Adrian Lewis (Q) 95.99

10

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 101.91

12

C1

Gerwyn Price (5) 100.73

16

C1

Gerwyn Price (5) 98.75

10

D2

Darren Webster (Q) 90.56

1

C1

Gerwyn Price (5) 95.69

16

D1

Gary Anderson (4) 91.37

9

D1

Gary Anderson (4) 90.97

10

C2

Robert Thornton (Q) 87.36

8

C1

Gerwyn Price (5) 107.86

16

F1

Peter Wright (7) 96.28

6

E1

Dave Chisnall 102.02

10

F2

Ryan Harrington (Q) 96.47

3

E1

Dave Chisnall 98.64

12

F1

Peter Wright (7) 101.25

16

F1

Peter Wright (7) 98.59

10

E2

Rob Cross (2) 89.06

3

F1

Peter Wright (7) 97.34

16

H2

Glen Durrant (BDO) 94.28

11

G1

Gabriel Clemens (Q) 98.34

9

H2

Glen Durrant (BDO) 96.47

10

H2

Glen Durrant (BDO) 98.15

16

H1

Michael Smith (3) 97.95

12

H1

Michael Smith (3) 101.56

10

G2

Daryl Gurney (6) 100.49

7