2007 Grand Slam of Darts

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox individual darts tournament The 2007 PartyBets.com Grand Slam of Darts was the inaugural staging of the darts tournament, the Grand Slam of Darts, held by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament invited the best performing players from the PDC and its rival the British Darts Organisation. There had been two previous head-to-head matches between the champions of the two organisations and a few tournaments have also featured BDO v PDC clashes. This tournament was the first of its kind to be held in the United Kingdom.

The 2007 tournament was staged at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England from 17–25 November 2007. Phil Taylor won the title, beating Andy Hamilton 18–11 in the final. In one of the early group matches which may not have stood out at the time, John Part narrowly beat Mark Webster 5–4 and less than two months later the two players became the World Champions of their respective organisations.

Format

The 32 players were split into eight groups of four players with the top two from each group qualifying for the last 16 knockout stages. Each player was therefore guaranteed three matches in the competition. Two points were awarded for a win. All group games were best of 9 legs, the second-round games were extended to best of 19 legs, the semi-finals best of 25 legs, and the final best of 35 legs.

Prize money

PartyPoker.net increased the prize fund for the event from the original announcement of £250,000 to £300,000 making it the second richest tournament in 2007 – ahead of both the Premier League and the BDO World Championship.[1]

Position (num. of players) Prize money
(Total: £300,000)
Winner (1) £80,000
Runner-up (1) £35,000
Semi-finalists (2) £15,000
Quarter-finalists (4) £10,000
Last 16 (second round) (8) £6,000
Last 32 (group stage) (16) £4,000

Controversy

Controversy hit the tournament in May when it was confirmed by the BDO that the Winmau World Masters had been moved from its original dates of 26–28 October to a new date of 16–18 November,[2] clashing directly with the Grand Slam. This meant that players from the BDO were forced into a direct choice between competing at the Masters for valuable ranking points or taking their place at the Grand Slam for better prize money. BDO World Champion Martin Adams almost immediately confirmed that he would participate in the Masters, though he was the only BDO player to do so.[3] Adams went out in the quarter-finals of the World Masters meaning his pay cheque of £1,250 was significantly less than the £4,000 he would have received simply for turning up at the Grand Slam. Adams also declined the chance to compete in 2008, even though the two tournaments did not clash as the Masters was moved to December.

Qualifiers

The PDC Chairman Barry Hearn announced on 21 February 2007 that all major tournament finalists for the past two years from both the BDO and PDC will be invited to the event. Also World Championship semi-finalists from the same period would receive an invite.

The tournaments used for the qualifying criteria were the two World Championships, the World Matchplay, World Grand Prix and World Masters (2006 only), UK Open, Las Vegas Desert Classic, Premier League, World Series of Darts, International Darts League and the World Darts Trophy with the field set at 32 players.

BDO players Gary Anderson, Mark Webster, Shaun Greatbatch, Niels de Ruiter, Phill Nixon and Scott Waites all accepted invites to the event leaving Martin Adams (the BDO World Champion) as the only player to have rejected the opportunity to play.[4] He participated in the 2007 Winmau World Masters instead, losing at the quarter-final stage.

PDC

Tournament Year Position Player Qualifiers
PDC World Darts Championship 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Template:Flagicon Peter Manley
Template:Flagicon Wayne Jones
Template:Flagicon Wayne Mardle
Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Template:Flagicon Andy Hamilton
Template:Flagicon Andy Jenkins
Template:Flagicon James Wade
Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins
Template:Flagicon John Part
Template:Flagicon Barrie Bates
Template:Flagicon Vincent van der Voort
Template:Flagicon Adrian Lewis
Template:Flagicon Roland Scholten
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Peter Manley
Semi-finalists Template:Flagicon Wayne Jones
Template:Flagicon Wayne Mardle
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Semi-finalists Template:Flagicon Andy Hamilton
Template:Flagicon Andy Jenkins
World Matchplay 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon James Wade
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon James Wade
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins
World Grand Prix 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon James Wade
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins
Las Vegas Desert Classic 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon John Part
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins
UK Open 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Barrie Bates
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Vincent van der Voort
World Series of Darts 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Adrian Lewis
US Open 2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Premier League Darts 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Roland Scholten
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

BDO

Tournament Year Position Player Qualifiers
BDO World Darts Championship 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Jelle Klaasen Template:Flagicon Jelle Klaasen
Template:Flagicon Shaun Greatbatch
Template:Flagicon Phill Nixon
Template:Flagicon Mervyn King
Template:Flagicon Niels de Ruiter
Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld
Semi-finalists Template:Flagicon Martin Adams
Template:Flagicon Shaun Greatbatch
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Martin Adams
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Phill Nixon
Semi-finalists Template:Flagicon Mervyn King
Template:Flagicon Niels de Ruiter
World Masters 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Martin Adams
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

Defunct Tournaments

Tournament Year Position Player Qualifiers
International Darts League 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld Template:Flagicon Colin Lloyd
Template:Flagicon Gary Anderson
Template:Flagicon Mark Webster
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Colin Lloyd
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Gary Anderson
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Mark Webster
World Darts Trophy 2006 Winner Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Martin Adams
2007 Winner Template:Flagicon Gary Anderson
Runner-up Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor
Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.

Other qualifiers

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Criteria Player
Highest Ranked PDC Non-Qualifier Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley
Highest Ranked BDO Non-Qualifier Template:Flagicon Scott Waites
Wildcard Qualifier Template:Flagicon Chris Mason
Template:Flagicon Kevin McDine
DPA Australia Open Winner Template:Flagicon Pat Orreal
South African Open Winner Template:Flagicon Charles Losper
North American Order Of Merit Leader Template:Flagicon Gary Mawson
Late Entry Highest PDC Non-Qualifiers Template:Flagicon Ronnie Baxter
Template:Flagicon Kevin Painter

Draws

Group stages

All matches race-to-5/best of 9.

NB in Brackets: Number = Seeds; BDO = BDO Darts player; RQ = Ranking qualifier; 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

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Knockout stages

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Statistics

Player Played Legs Won Legs Lost 100+ 140+ 180s High checkout 3-dart average [6]
Template:Flagicon Raymond van Barneveld 4 22 18 47 32 14 120 102.82
Template:Flagicon Adrian Lewis 4 21 19 60 25 6 150 96.44
Template:Flagicon Dennis Priestley 3 11 14 42 11 7 88 95.76
Template:Flagicon Chris Mason 3 7 15 33 6 4 157 86.62
Template:Flagicon Andy Hamilton 7 59 54 127 76 33 145 95.61
Template:Flagicon Vincent van der Voort 3 10 11 22 20 3 96 92.16
Template:Flagicon Terry Jenkins 5 30 26 70 52 10 140 93.28
Template:Flagicon Charles Losper 3 6 15 25 14 1 68 85.83
Template:Flagicon James Wade 4 22 16 49 31 10 170 98.65
Template:Flagicon Phill Nixon 3 13 10 31 13 4 116 83.49
Template:Flagicon Pat Orreal 4 20 20 40 28 7 115 85.98
Template:Flagicon Niels de Ruiter 3 2 15 20 6 1 98 79.15
Template:Flagicon Jelle Klaasen 5 27 28 84 33 9 125 90.61
Template:Flagicon Kevin McDine 6 45 31 114 45 23 161 97.68
Template:Flagicon Shaun Greatbatch 3 7 11 25 14 3 164 90.74
Template:Flagicon Peter Manley 3 8 14 34 15 2 76 87.40
Template:Flagicon Phil Taylor 7 66 39 128 89 29 153 99.25
Template:Flagicon Wayne Mardle 3 8 12 26 7 3 65 86.57
Template:Flagicon Colin Lloyd 4 18 19 39 33 7 150 94.60
Template:Flagicon Ronnie Baxter 3 7 15 25 13 4 134 86.48
Template:Flagicon Gary Mawson 4 16 20 46 25 5 136 87.87
Template:Flagicon Andy Jenkins 3 8 11 25 15 2 141 90.84
Template:Flagicon John Part 5 29 26 66 28 9 126 92.06
Template:Flagicon Mark Webster 3 10 11 25 17 2 117 95.81
Template:Flagicon Kevin Painter 5 31 23 66 33 19 120 92.82
Template:Flagicon Gary Anderson 6 42 33 99 67 22 158 97.50
Template:Flagicon Barrie Bates 3 5 11 26 10 0 123 85.47
Template:Flagicon Wayne Jones 3 7 14 27 21 2 81 89.57
Template:Flagicon Roland Scholten 4 22 14 56 28 10 144 102.16
Template:Flagicon Mervyn King 4 20 20 57 30 8 78 96.14
Template:Flagicon Michael van Gerwen 3 8 14 25 19 6 76 92.04
Template:Flagicon Scott Waites 3 7 15 25 11 3 96 87.77

Television coverage

The tournament was televised by ITV. The first afternoon session on 17 November, the Sunday afternoon session on 18 November, the semi-finals, and the final were all broadcast live on ITV1. The rest of the tournament was shown live on ITV4. It was ITV's first televised darts tournament since they ceased coverage of the Winmau World Masters in 1988 – although they did show the first Clash of Champions match between Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld in 1999.[7]

The ITV Sport team consisted of lead presenter Matt Smith, analysts Steve Beaton and Alan Warriner-Little, and commentators John Rawling from ITV Boxing, Stuart Pyke from Sky Sports and Nigel Pearson of talkSPORT.

References

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  1. ↑ Sponsor confirmed Template:Webarchive Planet Darts
  2. ↑ BDO confirm new date for the World Masters Template:Webarchive BDO
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ Anderson & Webster accept invites Template:Webarchive Planet Darts
  5. ↑ Final two places to come from Order of Merit Template:Webarchive Planet Darts
  6. ↑ Tournament averages Darts Database
  7. ↑ ITV agree to cover Grand Slam This is London

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External links

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