2016 Grand Slam of Darts

The 2016 Singha Beer Grand Slam of Darts, was the tenth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 12 to 20 November 2016 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England.[1]

2016 Singha Beer Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates	12–20 November 2016
Venue	Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Location	Wolverhampton
Country	England
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£400,000
Winner's share	£100,000
High checkout	170 Jeff Smith 170 Michael van Gerwen
Champion(s)
Michael van Gerwen
«2015 2017»

The tournament's defending champion was Michael van Gerwen, who won the tournament in 2015 beating Phil Taylor in the final 16–13,[2] and he retained his title by defeating James Wade 16–8 in the final.

Prize Money

Position (num. of players)		Prize Money (Total: £400,000)[3][4]
Winner	(1)	£100,000
Runner-up	(1)	£50,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£25,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£15,000
Last 16 (Second round)	(8)	£7,500
Third in group	(8)	£5,000
Fourth in group	(8)	£2,500
Group winner bonus	(8)	£2,500

Qualifying

[5][6][7]

PDC Qualifying Tournaments

PDC Main Tournaments
Tournament	Year	Position	Player		Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship	2016	Winner	Gary Anderson		Gary Anderson Michael van Gerwen Max Hopp Adrian Lewis Phil Taylor Peter Wright Dave Chisnall Mensur Suljović Nathan Aspinall Raymond van Barneveld
Grand Slam of Darts	2015	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Premier League Darts	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Matchplay	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Grand Prix	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Youth Championship	2015	Winner	Max Hopp
Masters	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
UK Open	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
European Championship	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Players Championship Finals	2015	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
World Series of Darts Finals	2016	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
Champions League of Darts	2016	Winner	Phil Taylor
PDC World Cup of Darts	2016	Winners	Phil Taylor Adrian Lewis
PDC World Darts Championship	2016	Runner-Up	Adrian Lewis
Grand Slam of Darts	2015	Runner-Up	Phil Taylor
Premier League Darts	2016	Runner-Up	Phil Taylor
World Matchplay	2016	Runner-Up	Phil Taylor
World Grand Prix	2016	Runner-Up	Gary Anderson
PDC World Youth Championship	2015	Runner-Up	Nathan Aspinall
Masters	2016	Runner-Up	Dave Chisnall
UK Open	2016	Runner-Up	Peter Wright
European Championship	2016	Runner-Up	Mensur Suljović
Players Championship Finals	2015	Runner-Up	Adrian Lewis
World Series of Darts Finals	2016	Runner-Up	Peter Wright
Champions League of Darts	2016	Runner-Up	Michael van Gerwen
PDC World Cup of Darts	2016	Runners-Up	Michael van Gerwen Raymond van Barneveld
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.

PDC European Tour
Tournament	Event	Position	Player		Qualifiers
2016 European Tour
	Dutch Darts Masters	Winner	Michael van Gerwen		James Wade Alan Norris
	German Darts Masters	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Gibraltar Darts Trophy	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	European Darts Matchplay	Winner	James Wade
	Austrian Darts Open	Winner	Phil Taylor
	European Darts Open	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	International Darts Open	Winner	Mensur Suljović
	European Darts Trophy	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	European Darts Grand Prix	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	German Darts Championship	Winner	Alan Norris
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

In case 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 2016 European Tour events, in which the winners shall be selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

PDC Players Championships
Tournament	Event	Position	Player		Qualifiers
2016 Players Championships	Players Championship 1	Winner	Peter Wright		Benito van de Pas Ian White Gerwyn Price Simon Whitlock
	Players Championship 2	Winner	Stephen Bunting
	Players Championship 3	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 4	Winner	Benito van de Pas
	Players Championship 5	Winner	Ian White
	Players Championship 6	Winner	Josh Payne
	Players Championship 7	Winner	Gerwyn Price
	Players Championship 8	Winner	Gerwyn Price
	Players Championship 9	Winner	Benito van de Pas
	Players Championship 10	Winner	Dave Chisnall
	Players Championship 11	Winner	Ian White
	Players Championship 12	Winner	Gary Anderson
	Players Championship 13	Winner	Ian White
	Players Championship 14	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 15	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 16	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 17	Winner	Michael van Gerwen
	Players Championship 18	Winner	Simon Whitlock
	Players Championship 19	Winner	Simon Whitlock
	Players Championship 20	Winner	Benito van de Pas
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

In case the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments and the European Tour produced fewer than sixteen players, the field of sixteen players is filled from the reserve lists. The second list consists of the winners from 2016 Players Championship events, in which the winners were selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

PDC Qualifying Event

A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier in Barnsley on 23 October 2016.

• Robert Thornton
• Dimitri Van den Bergh
• Ted Evetts
• Brendan Dolan
• Chris Dobey
• James Wilson
• Nathan Derry
• Darren Webster

BDO Qualifying Tournaments

Tournament	Year	Position	Player
BDO World Darts Championship	2016	Winner	Scott Waites
		Runner-Up	Jeff Smith
World Masters	2015	Winner	Glen Durrant
BDO World Trophy	2016	Winner	Darryl Fitton

BDO Ranking Qualifiers

The remaining four BDO representatives were the top four non-qualified players from the BDO Invitational Rankings on 30 September.

1. Scott Mitchell
2. Danny Noppert
3. Jamie Hughes
4. Martin Adams

Pools

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
(PDC Seeded Players)	(PDC Qualifiers)		(BDO Qualifiers)
Michael van Gerwen (1) Gary Anderson (2) Adrian Lewis (3) Phil Taylor (4) Peter Wright (5) James Wade (6) Mensur Suljović (7) Robert Thornton (8)	Dave Chisnall Ian White Raymond van Barneveld Benito van de Pas Simon Whitlock Gerwyn Price Alan Norris Brendan Dolan	James Wilson Max Hopp Darren Webster Chris Dobey Dimitri Van den Bergh Nathan Aspinall Nathan Derry Ted Evetts	Glen Durrant Scott Mitchell Danny Noppert Jamie Hughes Martin Adams Scott Waites Darryl Fitton Jeff Smith

Draw

Group stage

All group matches are best of nine legs
From each group the numbers one and two after three games qualify for the knock-out stage, the numbers three and four are eliminated
NB in Brackets: Number = Seeds; BDO = BDO Darts player; Q = Qualifier
NB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/− = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Average = 3-dart average; 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 4 +11 6 Q 2 Brendan Dolan (Q) 3 2 1 11 12 –1 4 3 Max Hopp 3 1 2 10 13 –3 2 Eliminated 4 Martin Adams (BDO) 3 0 3 8 15 –7 0 12 November 93.65 Brendan Dolan 5 – 4 Max Hopp 89.00 93.64 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 2 Martin Adams 91.47 13 November 104.58 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 1 Brendan Dolan 95.13 86.36 Max Hopp 5 – 3 Martin Adams 80.47 14 November 95.93 Michael van Gerwen 5 – 1 Max Hopp 87.37 80.87 Brendan Dolan 5 – 3 Martin Adams 80.96

Group B Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Gerwyn Price 3 2 1 14 10 +4 4 Q 2 Robert Thornton (8, Q) 3 2 1 13 12 +1 4 Nine-dart shootout 3 Dimitri Van den Bergh (Q) 3 2 1 14 13 +1 4 4 Scott Waites (BDO) 3 0 3 9 15 –6 0 Eliminated 12 November 92.26 Gerwyn Price 4 – 5 Dimitri Van den Bergh 90.15 96.00 Robert Thornton 5 – 3 Scott Waites 91.15 13 November 96.90 Robert Thornton 5 – 4 Dimitri Van den Bergh 90.56 84.46 Gerwyn Price 5 – 2 Scott Waites 84.83 15 November 93.48 Robert Thornton 3 – 5 Gerwyn Price 91.73 91.60 Dimitri Van den Bergh 5 – 4 Scott Waites 93.13

Nine dart shootout With Robert Thornton and Dimitri Van den Bergh finishing level on points and leg difference, a nine-dart shootout between the two took place to see who would play Michael van Gerwen in the second round. The match took place after the conclusion of Tuesday's group matches, and was the first time since the 2013 Grand Slam of Darts that a nine-dart shootout was required. Van den Bergh threw first. POS Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pts Status 2 Robert Thornton 60 20 60 20 60 60 20 20 25 345 Advanced to the last 16 3 Dimitri Van den Bergh 20 20 60 60 20 60 20 60 20 340 Eliminated

Group C Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Peter Wright (5) 3 3 0 15 4 +11 6 Q 2 Jeff Smith (BDO) 3 2 1 11 13 –2 4 3 Simon Whitlock 3 1 2 9 11 –2 2 Eliminated 4 Ted Evetts (Q) 3 0 3 8 15 –7 0 12 November 92.08 Simon Whitlock 5 – 1 Ted Evetts 85.69 93.78 Peter Wright 5 – 1 Jeff Smith 86.33 13 November 107.36 Peter Wright 5 – 0 Simon Whitlock 87.95 90.43 Ted Evetts 4 – 5 Jeff Smith 89.29 15 November 100.39 Peter Wright 5 – 3 Ted Evetts 100.39 101.74 Simon Whitlock 4 – 5 Jeff Smith 96.98

Group D Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Phil Taylor (4) 3 2 1 10 7 +3 4 Q 2 Darryl Fitton (BDO) 3 2 1 11 13 –2 4 3 Darren Webster (Q) 3 1 2 12 10 +2 2 Eliminated 4 Ian White 3 1 2 10 13 –3 2 12 November 93.62 Ian White 5 – 3 Darren Webster 93.49 104.30 Phil Taylor 5 – 1 Darryl Fitton 84.90 13 November 92.94 Phil Taylor 5 – 1 Ian White 84.13 88.99 Darren Webster 4 – 5 Darryl Fitton 87.30 14 November 87.08 Phil Taylor 0 – 5 Darren Webster 96.35 88.86 Ian White 4 – 5 Darryl Fitton 87.27

Group E Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/– Pts Status 1 Gary Anderson (2) 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2 Glen Durrant (BDO) 3 2 1 14 6 +8 4 3 Nathan Derry (Q) 3 1 2 5 14 –9 2 Eliminated 4 Alan Norris 3 0 3 7 15 –8 0 12 November 97.65 Alan Norris 4 – 5 Nathan Derry 91.56 100.66 Gary Anderson 5 – 4 Glen Durrant 98.52 13 November 89.46 Gary Anderson 5 – 0 Nathan Derry 82.44 95.25 Alan Norris 1 – 5 Glen Durrant 94.87 14 November 97.33 Gary Anderson 5 – 2 Alan Norris 94.60 76.20 Nathan Derry 0 – 5 Glen Durrant 97.60

Group F Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/− Pts Status 1 Raymond van Barneveld 3 3 0 15 6 +9 6 Q 2 Danny Noppert (BDO) 3 2 1 12 10 +2 4 3 Mensur Suljović (7) 3 1 2 11 13 –2 2 Eliminated 4 Nathan Aspinall 3 0 3 6 15 –9 0 12 November 98.40 Mensur Suljović 3 – 5 Danny Noppert 101.06 110.15 Raymond van Barneveld 5 – 1 Nathan Aspinall 97.46 13 November (104.66) Raymond van Barneveld 5 – 2 Danny Noppert (103.88) (99.50) Mensur Suljović 5 – 3 Nathan Aspinall (97.79) 15 November 94.58 Mensur Suljović 3 – 5 Raymond van Barneveld 100.29 88.56 Nathan Aspinall 2 – 5 Danny Noppert 90.24

Group G Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/– Pts Status 1 Jamie Hughes (BDO) 3 2 1 13 10 +3 4 Q 2 James Wade (6) 3 2 1 13 11 +2 4 3 James Wilson (Q) 3 1 2 12 12 0 2 Eliminated 4 Dave Chisnall 3 1 2 8 13 –5 2 12 November 88.73 Dave Chisnall 2 – 5 James Wilson 84.13 91.31 James Wade 5 – 3 Jamie Hughes 86.55 13 November 95.85 James Wade 5 – 3 James Wilson 85.21 102.51 Dave Chisnall 1 – 5 Jamie Hughes 106.32 15 November 100.58 James Wade 3 – 5 Dave Chisnall 98.92 91.00 James Wilson 4 – 5 Jamie Hughes 91.96

Group H Pos. Player P W L LF LA +/– Pts Status 1 Benito van de Pas 3 3 0 15 7 +8 6 Q 2 Chris Dobey (Q) 3 2 1 14 11 +3 4 3 Scott Mitchell (BDO) 3 1 2 9 11 –2 2 Eliminated 4 Adrian Lewis (3) 3 0 3 6 15 –9 0 12 November 95.91 Benito van de Pas 5 – 4 Chris Dobey 94.36 97.62 Adrian Lewis 1 – 5 Scott Mitchell 107.78 13 November 95.61 Benito van de Pas 5 – 1 Scott Mitchell 83.35 108.68 Adrian Lewis 3 – 5 Chris Dobey 97.42 14 November 100.19 Adrian Lewis 2 – 5 Benito van de Pas 100.90 92.74 Chris Dobey 5 – 3 Scott Mitchell 92.61

Knockout stage

Second round (best of 19 legs) 16–17 November [8][9]

Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs) 18–19 November [10][11]

Semi-finals (best of 31 legs) 20 November [12]

Final (best of 31 legs) 20 November [12]

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 103.24

10

B2

Robert Thornton (8, Q) 94.23

5

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 97.33

16

A2

Brendan Dolan (Q) 88.24

3

B1

Gerwyn Price 89.38

9

A2

Brendan Dolan (Q) 91.36

10

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 111.17

16

C1

Peter Wright (5) 102.13

10

C1

Peter Wright (5) 99.69

10

D2

Darryl Fitton (BDO) 92.14

3

C1

Peter Wright (5) 103.37

16

D1

Phil Taylor (4) 100.57

10

D1

Phil Taylor (4) 98.04

10

C2

Jeff Smith (BDO) 91.54

5

A1

Michael van Gerwen (1) 98.74

16

G2

James Wade (6) 90.73

8

E1

Gary Anderson (2) 101.12

10

F2

Danny Noppert (BDO) 100.01

9

E1

Gary Anderson (2) 103.81

16

F1

Raymond van Barneveld 98.24

13

F1

Raymond van Barneveld 98.19

10

E2

Glen Durrant (BDO) 95.50

7

E1

Gary Anderson (2) 98.36

14

G2

James Wade (6) 91.93

16

G1

Jamie Hughes (BDO) 90.38

9

H2

Chris Dobey (Q) 94.01

10

H2

Chris Dobey (Q) 92.00

5

G2

James Wade (6) 92.18

16

H1

Benito van de Pas 88.81

2

G2

James Wade (6) 92.87

10

References

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External links

• PDC netzone, Schedule, results