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.
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. 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.
Position (no. of players) Prize money(Total: £550,000)Winner (1) £125,000Runner-up (1) £65,000Semi-finalists (2) £40,000Quarter-finalists (4) £20,000Last 16 (second round) (8) £10,000Third in group (8) £7,500Fourth in group (8) £4,000Group 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 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 Tournament Event Position Player Qualifiers 2019 European Tour Winner Ian White Winner Daryl Gurney German Darts Grand PrixWinner German Darts OpenWinner Austrian Darts OpenWinner European Darts Grand PrixWinner Ian White Dutch Darts MastersWinner Ian White Danish Darts OpenWinner Dave Chisnall Czech Darts OpenWinner Jamie Hughes Winner European Darts MatchplayWinner Joe Cullen International Darts OpenWinner Gerwyn Price Gibraltar Darts TrophyWinner 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.
Tournament Year Position Player 2019 Men'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 APool BPool CPool D(PDC Seeded Players)(PDC Qualifiers)(BDO Representatives) 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 Pos.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 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 0
9 November 87.48 Adrian Lewis 5 – 2 Ross Smith 86.11
10 November 5 – 2 Adrian Lewis 96.29 85.63 Ross Smith 1 – 5
12 November 5 – 2 Ross Smith 101.10 96.69 Adrian Lewis 5 – 3
Group B Pos.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 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 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.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 1 3 3 0 15 9 +6 6 Q 2 Robert Thornton (Q) 3 2 1 14 12 +2 4 3 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
10 November 92.12 Gerwyn Price
12 November 97.14 Gerwyn Price 5 – 2 5 – 3 Mikuru Suzuki 85.60
Group D Pos.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 1 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
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.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 1 Dave Chisnall 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 3 2 1 13 11 +2 4 3 3 1 2 12 11 +1 2 Eliminated 4 3 0 3 4 15 0
9 November 93.19 Rob Cross 5 – 2 Lisa Ashton 80.70
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.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 1 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2 3 2 1 12 10 +2 4 3 Danny Noppert 3 1 2 11 11 0 2 Eliminated 4 3 0 3 4 15 0
9 November 98.16 Peter Wright 5 – 2 Wayne Warren 88.65
10 November 101.11 Peter Wright 5 – 2 Ryan Harrington 86.34
11 November 99.77 Peter Wright 5 – 2 5 – 1 Wayne Warren 74.72
Group G Pos.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 1 Gabriel Clemens (Q) 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 3 2 1 14 7 +7 4 3 Brendan Dolan (Q) 3 1 2 8 11 –3 2 Eliminated 4 3 0 3 3 15 0
9 November 91.65 Daryl Gurney
10 November 5 – 1 Richard Veenstra 79.76
11 November 95.03 Daryl Gurney 5 – 2 Brendan Dolan 92.34
Group H Pos.PlayerPWLLFLA+/−PtsStatus 1 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
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
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