The countdown is on to the World Darts Championship, which begins on 15 December. The Machine also pinned a brilliant Shanghai finish but it was all to no avail.

De Sousa's brilliant finish saw him clinch the title in spectacular fashion. PSG and Basaksehir unite against racism as game restarts.

Jose: Man Utd among Europa favourites - but shouldn't be in it. Grealish, Barkley avoid punishment after Covid rule break. The number of legs required to win in each round increases as the tournament progresses in the following increments:.

As we have come to expect from many PDC ranking tournaments, Phil Taylor has the most victories to his name at this moment in time. Taylor won six Grand Slam of Darts titles during his illustrious career, reaching the final a total of seven times from his 11 appearances.

Michael van Gerwen is next on the list with three Grand Slam victories to his name, all of which came in successive years from to However, Gerwyn Price has been the dominant player of the Grand Slam in recent years, winning each of the last two Grand Slams, defeating Scots Gary Anderson and Peter Wright in the finals of and respectively.

Waites defeated James Wade in the final having also reached the final just 12 months earlier, but was beaten by Taylor. Raymond van Barneveld is the other winner of the Grand Slam, being crowned champion in after an epic final against fellow Dutchman van Gerwen.

OfficialOLDarts Brilliant interview!!! Huge fan of Fsherrock and think she is absolute class in the way she plays and conducts herself.

Phenomenal player. Partly because the tournament in Wolverhampton is now a PDC ranking event. Also due to the restrictions being lifted on BDO players making it to Q-School, many have either switched or have desires to switch in the future.

The WDF have previously said that they have been in discussions about taking these spots but the Coronavirus pandemic has paid heed to those plans for at least this year.

Now though with only two spots filled it will be interesting to see who will fill the rest if they are not filled by main PDC players and whether other routes including the Challenge and Development Tour are explored.

Dimitri Van den Bergh broke the record for the highest individual average for this tournament when he beat Ricky Evans 5—1 in the group stage, averaging Additionally, Simon Whitlock broke Adrian Lewis ' record of hitting the most s in a Grand Slam match by scoring 20 maximums in his quarter-final match against Michael van Gerwen.

The qualification criteria was changed from , with the number of entrants from the British Darts Organisation being reduced from eight to two, with a corresponding increase in PDC players.

At most twenty-two players could have qualified through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.

Since the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than twenty-two players, the field of twenty-two players was filled from the reserve lists.

The first list consisted of the winners from European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered by Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

Since there were still less than twenty-two qualified players after the winners of European Tour events were added, the winners of Players Championships events were added, in Order of Merit order.

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

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Deutsch Nederlands Edit links. When I hit the finish I knew I was going to cry straight away. It's amazing and I'm very proud of myself.

The wait for a tenth televised PDC title goes on for Wade, who was left visibly frustrated at the conclusion of his third unsuccessful Grand Slam final appearance.