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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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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
editThe 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
editPDC Qualifying Tournaments
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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 | |||||
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| Tournament | Event | Position | Player | Qualifiers | |
| 2019 European Tour | |||||
| European Darts Open | Winner |  Michael van Gerwen
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Ian White
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| German Darts Championship | Winner |  Daryl Gurney
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| German Darts Grand Prix | Winner | Michael van Gerwen
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| German Darts Open | Winner | Michael van Gerwen
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| Austrian Darts Open | Winner | Michael van Gerwen
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| European Darts Grand Prix | Winner | Ian White
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| Dutch Darts Masters | Winner | Ian White
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| Danish Darts Open | Winner | Dave Chisnall
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| Czech Darts Open | Winner | Jamie Hughes
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| Austrian Darts Championship | Winner |  Mensur Suljović
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| European Darts Matchplay | Winner | Joe Cullen
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| International Darts Open | Winner | Gerwyn Price
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| Gibraltar Darts Trophy | Winner |  Krzysztof Ratajski
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| 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
editA 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
editThe 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 |
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| BDO World Darts Championship | 2019 | Men's Winner | Glen Durrant
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| Women's Winner |  Mikuru Suzuki
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| BDO World Trophy | 2019 | Winner | Jim Williams
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BDO Ranking qualifiers
editThe top ranked male and female players were invited.
Three more invitations were given to the next highest ranked men's players:
Pools
edit| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | Pool D |
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| (PDC Seeded Players) | (PDC Qualifiers) | (BDO Representatives) | |
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Draw
editGroup stage
editAll 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 Aedit
9 November
10 November
12 November
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Group Bedit
9 November
10 November
12 November
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Group Cedit
9 November
10 November
12 November
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Group Dedit
9 November
10 November
12 November
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Group Eedit
9 November
10 November
11 November
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Group Fedit
9 November
10 November
11 November
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Group Gedit
9 November
10 November
11 November
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Group Hedit
9 November
10 November
11 November
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Knockout stage
edit| 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
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "bwin Grand Slam Remains In Wolverhampton". PDC.
- ^ "Grand Slam of Darts: Gerwyn Price beats Gary Anderson in bad-tempered final". BBC Sport. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
- ^ "Prize Money Soars Above £14m". PDC. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Phillips, Josh. "BDO representatives confirmed for 2019 Grand Slam". PDC. Retrieved 17 October 2019.