2024 Grand Slam of Darts

2024 Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates9–17 November 2024
VenueAldersley Leisure Village
LocationWolverhampton, England
Organisation(s)Professional Darts Corporation (PDC)
FormatLegs
Prize fund£650,000
Winner's share£150,000
High checkout
Champion(s)
 Luke Littler
«2023 2025»

The 2024 Grand Slam of Darts (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2024 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts) was the eighteenth staging of the Grand Slam of Darts, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event was held at Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton from 9–17 November 2024.[1]

Luke Humphries was the defending champion, having defeated Rob Cross 16–8 in the 2023 final.[2] He was eliminated in the group stage, after losing his first two matches. Michael van Gerwen was eliminated in the group stages, for the first time since 2010, losing 5–4 to Ryan Joyce in a last leg decider. Michael Smith was also eliminated in the group stage, which meant that a new name would be on the trophy.

This was the first time the top three seeded players were eliminated in the group stage.[3]

Luke Littler won the tournament, defeating Martin Lukeman 16–3 in the final, and only losing 33 legs in the whole tournament, for his first ranking major title.[4]

Prize money

The quarter finals of the 2022 Grand Slam of Darts at Aldersley Leisure Village, Wolverhampton

The prize fund for the Grand Slam remains the same as last year at £650,000.

Position (num. of players) Prize money
(Total: £650,000)
Winner (1) £150,000
Runner-up (1) £70,000
Semi-finalists (2) £50,000
Quarter-finalists (4) £25,000
Last 16 (8) £12,250
Third in group (8) £8,000
Fourth in group (8) £5,000
Group winner bonus (8) £3,500
Nine Dart Finish n/a £10,000

Qualification

The qualifying criteria for the Grand Slam are as follows:[5]

  • Finalists from PDC televised events over the previous twelve months (up to a maximum of 16 players),
  • Additional qualifiers (up to a maximum of 8 players),
  • European Tour events winners (to fill up to 24 players),
  • Players Championship event winners (to fill up to 24 players)

As of 3 Nov 2024, the qualifiers are:[6]

PDC Televised Event Finalists

Tournament Year Position Player Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship 2024 Winner  Luke Humphries  Luke Humphries
 Luke Littler
 Mike De Decker
 Stephen Bunting
 Dimitri Van den Bergh
 Ritchie Edhouse
 Michael Smith
 Rob Cross
 Michael van Gerwen
 Jermaine Wattimena
 Rowby-John Rodriguez
 Mensur Suljović

Grand Slam of Darts 2023 Winner  Luke Humphries
Premier League Darts 2024 Winner  Luke Littler
World Matchplay 2024 Winner  Luke Humphries
World Grand Prix 2024 Winner  Mike De Decker
Masters 2024 Winner  Stephen Bunting
UK Open 2024 Winner  Dimitri Van den Bergh
European Championship 2024 Winner  Ritchie Edhouse
Players Championship Finals 2023 Winner  Luke Humphries
World Series of Darts Finals 2024 Winner  Luke Littler
PDC World Cup of Darts 2024 Winners  Luke Humphries
 Michael Smith
PDC World Darts Championship 2024 Runner-up  Luke Littler
Grand Slam of Darts 2023 Runner-up  Rob Cross
Premier League Darts 2024 Runner-up  Luke Humphries
World Matchplay 2024 Runner-up  Michael van Gerwen
World Grand Prix 2024 Runner-up  Luke Humphries
Masters 2024 Runner-up  Michael van Gerwen
UK Open 2024 Runner-up  Luke Humphries
European Championship 2024 Runner-up  Jermaine Wattimena
Players Championship Finals 2023 Runner-up  Michael van Gerwen
World Series of Darts Finals 2024 Runner-up  Michael Smith
PDC World Cup of Darts 2024 Runners-up  Rowby-John Rodriguez
 Mensur Suljović

Additional Qualifiers

Tournament Year Position Player
PDC World Youth Championship 2023 Winner  Luke Littler
Runner-up  Gian van Veen
PDC Challenge Tour 2024 Order of Merit Winner  Connor Scutt
PDC Development Tour 2024 Order of Merit Winner  Wessel Nijman
Women's World Matchplay 2024 Winner  Beau Greaves
PDC Women's Series 2024 Order of Merit Runner-up  Noa-Lynn van Leuven
PDC Asian Championship 2024 Winner  Lourence Ilagan
CDC Continental Cup 2024 Winner  Leonard Gates

European Tour

If the list of qualifiers has not yet filled twenty-four places, any remaining places will be filled with winners from 2024 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

Event Player Qualifiers
Belgian Darts Open  Luke Littler  Dave Chisnall
 Martin Schindler
 Peter Wright
 Josh Rock
 Gary Anderson
German Darts Grand Prix  Luke Humphries
International Darts Open  Martin Schindler
European Darts Grand Prix  Gary Anderson
Austrian Darts Open  Luke Littler (2)
Baltic Sea Darts Open  Rob Cross
Dutch Darts Championship  Josh Rock
European Darts Open  Dave Chisnall
German Darts Championship  Peter Wright
Flanders Darts Trophy  Dave Chisnall (2)
Hungarian Darts Trophy  Michael van Gerwen
Swiss Darts Trophy  Martin Schindler (2)
Czech Darts Open  Luke Humphries (2)

Players Championship

As the field filled to twenty-four players following the addition of European Tour winners, no Players Championship winners were added.

PDC Tour Card Holder Qualifying Event

A further eight places were filled by qualifiers from a PDC Tour Card Holder qualifier held on 1 November in Leicester.

These are the qualifiers:

Pools

Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D
(Seeded Players) (Qualifiers)

 Luke Humphries (1)  Michael Smith (2)  Michael van Gerwen (3)  Rob Cross (4)  Dave Chisnall (5)  Stephen Bunting (6)  Dimitri Van den Bergh (7)  Danny Noppert (8)

 Peter Wright
 Josh Rock
 James Wade
 Luke Littler  Gary Anderson  Ross Smith  Martin Schindler  Mike De Decker

 Ritchie Edhouse  Gian van Veen  Ryan Joyce  Jermaine Wattimena  Cameron Menzies  Martin Lukeman  Keane Barry  Mickey Mansell

 Mensur Suljović  Wessel Nijman  Rowby-John Rodriguez  Connor Scutt  Leonard Gates  Beau Greaves  Lourence Ilagan  Noa-Lynn van Leuven

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

Knockout stage

Second round (best of 19 legs)
13–14 November[7][8]
Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs)
15–16 November[7][9]
Semi-finals (best of 31 legs)
17 November
Final (best of 31 legs)
17 November[4]
            
A1  James Wade 95.92 9
B2  Cameron Menzies 93.50 10
B2  Cameron Menzies 88.21 15
A2  Mickey Mansell 91.19 16
B1  Danny Noppert 95.71 (8) 7
A2  Mickey Mansell 99.05 10
A2  Mickey Mansell 92.28 12
C1  Martin Lukeman 99.66 16
C1  Martin Lukeman 95.75 10
D2  Ross Smith 94.85 5
C1  Martin Lukeman 98.34 16
C2  Rob Cross 94.63 (4) 11
D1  Ritchie Edhouse 94.13 4
C2  Rob Cross 98.68 (4) 10
C1  Martin Lukeman 93.42 3
F1  Luke Littler 107.08 16
E1  Jermaine Wattimena 91.19 10
F2  Dimitri Van den Bergh 91.90 (7) 9
E1  Jermaine Wattimena 92.69 2
F1  Luke Littler 105.11 16
F1  Luke Littler 103.48 10
E2  Mike De Decker 104.49 9
F1  Luke Littler 103.81 16
G1  Gary Anderson 100.17 15
G1  Gary Anderson 99.95 10
H2  Stephen Bunting 98.96 (6) 6
G1  Gary Anderson 99.13 16
H1  Gian van Veen 97.38 14
H1  Gian van Veen 106.45 10
G2  Ryan Joyce 93.84 2

Top averages

The table lists all players who achieved an average of at least 100 in a match.[10][7] If any player has multiple records, this is indicated by the number in brackets.

# Player Round Average Result
1  Gian van Veen Group Stage 114.71 Won
2  Gary Anderson 113.20 Won
3  Luke Littler 112.16 Won
4  Wessel Nijman 111.10 Lost
5  Gian van Veen (2) 110.39 Won
6  Martin Schindler 109.15 Lost
7  Luke Littler (2) Final 107.08 Won
8  Luke Littler (3) Group Stage 106.98 Won
9  Stephen Bunting 106.66 Won
10  Wessel Nijman (2) 106.51 Lost
11  Gian van Veen (3) Second Round 106.45 Won
12  Danny Noppert Group Stage 106.28 Won
13  Josh Rock 105.83 Lost
14  Wessel Nijman (3) 105.39 Lost
15  Gary Anderson (2) 105.19 Won
16  Luke Littler (4) Quarter final 105.11 Won
17  Ritchie Edhouse Group Stage 105.00 Won
18  Dimitri Van den Bergh 104.58 Won
19  Mike De Decker Second Round 104.49 Lost
20  Connor Scutt Group Stage 104.38 Won
21  Jermaine Wattimena 104.32 Won
22  Stephen Bunting (2) 104.17 Lost
23  Ritchie Edhouse (2) 103.99 Won
 Gian van Veen (4) 103.99 Won
24  Stephen Bunting (3) 103.82 Won
25  Luke Littler (5) Semi Final 103.81 Won
26  Luke Littler (6) Second Round 103.48 Won
27  James Wade Group Stage 103.12 Lost
28  Luke Littler (7) 102.05 Won
29  Luke Humphries 101.52 Won
30  Mickey Mansell 100.87 Won
31  Mike De Decker (2) 100.20 Won
32  Gary Anderson (3) Semi Final 100.17 Lost

References

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