Grand Slam of Darts 2024: Does winning in Wolverhampton correlate with winning the World Darts Championship? | Darts News
You have got gained the Grand Slam of Darts, you might be heading to Alexandra Palace for the Worlds – does all people assume you need to win all of it? It’s truthful to say that rather a lot of folks do.
In fact, on the fundamental rule of sporting kind, when you win the penultimate main earlier than heading to the World Darts Championship, you will be firing and feeling assured.
You have got simply proven you possibly can maintain your nerve underneath stress, you understand how to dig deep and hearth in the winning darts.
Now, you simply must do all of it once more. Easy, proper? It relies upon what, if any, impact one victory has on the likelihood of the different.
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Ryan Searle hit a nine-darter to win his Group D match towards Nathan Rafferty at the 2023 Grand Slam of Darts
Is it simply {that a} huge win comparable to the Grand Slam creates a change in the variable that could be a participant’s confidence stage and there’s a correlation between the two huge wins? Or would a participant merely not have gained the Worlds with out winning the Grand Slam in an instance of trigger and impact?
The reply to this most likely varies participant to participant. Luke Humphries and Michael Smith would say that winning majors in the lead-up to their maiden Worlds wins have been very important. Others would simply say exhibiting kind in one results in kind in the different only a few weeks later.
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Michael van Gerwen was one dart away from a nine-darter earlier than Michael Smith accomplished the achievement in the 2023 World Championship closing
Then there’s the scenario in which there appears to be no hyperlink between the two in any respect.
What is obvious although, is that when you decide up a Grand Slam victory, folks consider that your possibilities of leaving Ally Pally in January on prime of the darting world heighten.
Grand Slam of Darts winners
| 2007 | Phil Taylor |
| 2008 | Phil Taylor |
| 2009 | Phil Taylor |
| 2010 | Scott Waites |
| 2011 | Phil Taylor |
| 2012 | Raymond van Barneveld |
| 2013 | Phil Taylor |
| 2014 | Phil Taylor |
| 2015 | Michael van Gerwen |
| 2016 | Michael van Gerwen |
| 2017 | Michael van Gerwen |
| 2018 | Gerwyn Value |
| 2019 | Gerwyn Value |
| 2020 | Jose de Sousa |
| 2021 | Gerwyn Value |
| 2022 | Michael Smith |
| 2023 | Luke Humphries |
Phil Taylor (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014)
Taylor is the most adorned participant in darting historical past and the Grand Slam is a stage he liked, winning six occasions in seven years.
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On two of these events, when he gained the Grand Slam, he went on to win the huge prize too in 2009 and 2010.
The 5 occasions he did not go on to win the Worlds, victory got here for John Half in 2008, Adrian Lewis in 2011 and 2012, Michael van Gerwen in 2014, and Gary Anderson in 2015, Taylor ending as runner-up towards the Scotsman.
Scott Waites (2010)
Waites gained two BDO World titles from 2013 and 2016 however by no means gained a World Championship as a PDC participant. His 16-12 Grand Slam victory in 2010 towards James Wade had no impact on his Worlds-winning possibilities.
Raymond van Barneveld (2012)
Van Barneveld has one PDC World Darts title to his title which got here in 2007 in a 7-6 victory over Taylor however this was 5 years previous to his maiden Grand Slam win.
That got here in 2012 in a 16-14 thriller towards the ‘Inexperienced Machine’.
Michael van Gerwen (2015, 2016, 2017)
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Van Gerwen has gained the World Darts Championship thrice in his illustrious profession and on one of these events, he had gained the Grand Slam earlier than choosing up victory in the greatest present of all of them.
This was when he claimed a 16-8 win over Wade in the 2016 Grand Slam after which went onto defeat Anderson 7-3 at the Worlds in January 2017.
His different World Championship wins got here in 2014, a 12 months previous to his first Grand Slam victory, and 2019, when he didn’t function in the closing of the Grand Slam in November 2018.
Gerwyn Value (2018, 2019, 2021)
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Gerwyn Value thrashed Peter Wright 16-8 to triumph at the Grand Slam of Darts in 2021
Value is a participant that loves the Grand Slam, choosing up victory on three totally different occasions of asking, making him the joint-second most adorned participant in the event’s historical past with Van Gerwen.
Nevertheless, his Grand Slam wins didn’t line up with his Worlds win, which got here in 2021. He didn’t decide up victory in the Grand Slam 2020, which was gained by Jose de Sousa.
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Value was thrilled after winning the Grand Slam of Darts for the third time in Wolverhampton
Jose de Sousa (2020)
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Relive the dramatic end to Jose De Sousa’s thrilling 10-7 win over Dave Chisnall in the second spherical of the 2020 Grand Slam of Darts
De Sousa has not progressed previous the final 16 at the Worlds and so when he gained the Grand Slam in 2020, he didn’t capitalise and switch his momentum into glory at Ally Pally.
Certainly, he went out in the third spherical after getting into the event as the 14th seed.
Michael Smith (2022)
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Michael Smith ended his PDC main jinx in 2022 as he held aloft the Eric Bristow trophy following a 16-5 win over Nathan Aspinall
Over the previous couple of years, the pattern actually begins to come back into power that the Grand Slam winner goes on a run at the Worlds.
Smith picked up an enormous main win at the Grand Slam of Darts in 2022, defeating Nathan Aspinall in a dominant 16-5 win.
That was a milestone second in his profession and after losses in the closing of the World Darts Championship in 2019 and 2022, he lastly gained in 2023 in a 7-4 basic towards Van Gerwen, hitting an unimaginable nine-darter on the means.
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Smith was overwhelmed by emotion on the stage after winning the Grand Slam Of Darts – his first main event at the ninth try
Luke Humphries (2023)
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Humphries mentioned he felt blessed after choosing up his second main championship after defeating Rob Cross in the Grand Slam of Darts closing
In the same story to Smith, Humphries picked up what was touted as a vital Grand Slam win on the approach to being topped world champion.
In his second main in the house of 42 days, Humphries defeated Rob Cross 16-8 to maintain his run going.
This then led him onto the Worlds in which he got here out on prime 7-4 towards Luke Litter, cementing himself as the sport’s finest.
Now, it’s time to see if whoever is topped this 12 months’s Grand Slam winner follows the path of Smith and Humphries.
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Watch Humphries hits the winning darts to defeat Luke Littler 7-4 in the closing of the World Darts Championship
How are you going to watch?
The Grand Slam of Darts is stay each day on Sky Sports activities from Novmber 9-17 as Luke Humphries seems to be to defend his title, with Beau Greaves and Noa-Lynn van Leuven additionally participating.
Consideration then turns to the flip of the 12 months and the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, starting on December 15, as the darts calendar continues to supply pleasure all through the 12 months – and you may take pleasure in the best possible right here stay on Sky Sports activities.
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