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2015 Singha Beer Grand Slam of Darts
Tournament information
Dates 7–15 November 2015
Venue Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Location Wolverhampton
Country
 England
Organisation(s) PDC
Format Legs
Prize fund £400,000
Winners share £100,000
Nine-dart finish
England Dave Chisnall
High checkout
170 England Robbie Green
170 England Dave Chisnall
170 Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Champion(s)

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen



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The 2015 Singha Beer Grand Slam of Darts, was the ninth staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took take place from 7–15 November 2015 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England.[1]


Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having won his sixth Grand Slam title by defeating Dave Chisnall 16–13 in the 2014 final.[2]


The 2015 edition saw several changes in the qualification criteria due to the Grand Slam of Darts being a PDC Order of Merit ranking tournament for the first time. As a result of this, at most 20 places were filled by invitations and the remaining 12 places were open for qualification.[3]


The tournament was won by Michael van Gerwen, who had a tournament average over 100, and with this title won every current PDC major tournament at least once.[4]


Other notable things that happened in the tournament included Dave Chisnall hitting a nine-dart finish against Peter Wright in their group match, and BDO veteran Martin Adams making his first appearance at the event, after declining his invite every year since the tournament's inception in 2007.




Contents






  • 1 Prize Money


  • 2 Qualifying


    • 2.1 Qualifying Tournaments


      • 2.1.1 PDC Main Tournaments


        • 2.1.1.1 PDC Main Tournaments Qualifiers




      • 2.1.2 PDC European Tour


        • 2.1.2.1 PDC European Tour Qualifiers




      • 2.1.3 PDC Players Championships


        • 2.1.3.1 PDC Players Championship Qualifiers






    • 2.2 PDC Qualifier


      • 2.2.1 PDC Qualifiers




    • 2.3 BDO Qualifying tournaments


    • 2.4 BDO Qualifiers


      • 2.4.1 UK Qualifiers


      • 2.4.2 European Qualifiers






  • 3 Qualified Players


    • 3.1 Professional Darts Corporation


    • 3.2 British Darts Organisation




  • 4 Pools


  • 5 Draw


    • 5.1 Group stage


      • 5.1.1 Group A


      • 5.1.2 Group B


      • 5.1.3 Group C


      • 5.1.4 Group D


      • 5.1.5 Group E


      • 5.1.6 Group F


      • 5.1.7 Group G


      • 5.1.8 Group H




    • 5.2 Knockout stage




  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Prize Money






















































Position (num. of players)
Prize money[5]

Winner

(1)
£100,000

Runner-up

(1)
£50,000

Semi-finalists

(2)
£25,000

Quarter-finalists

(4)
£15,000

Last 16

(8)
£7,500

Third in group

(8)
£5,000

Fourth in group

(8)
£2,500


Group winner bonus

(8)
£2,500


Nine-dart finish

(1)
£30,000


Qualifying


[6]



Qualifying Tournaments



PDC Main Tournaments


Players in italics had already qualified for the event. At most 16 players could qualify through this method, where the position in the list depicts the priority of the qualification.

























































































































































Tournament
Year
Position
Player

PDC World Darts Championship

2015
Winner

Scotland Gary Anderson

Grand Slam of Darts

2014
Winner

England Phil Taylor

Premier League Darts

2015
Winner

Scotland Gary Anderson

World Matchplay

2015
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

World Grand Prix

2015
Winner

Scotland Robert Thornton

Players Championship Finals

2014
Winner

Scotland Gary Anderson

UK Open

2015
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

European Championship

2015
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

The Masters

2015
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

PDC World Youth Championship

2014
Winner

England Keegan Brown

World Series of Darts

2015
Ranking List Leader

England Phil Taylor

PDC World Cup of Darts

2015
Winners

England Phil Taylor
England Adrian Lewis

PDC World Darts Championship

2015
Runner-up

England Phil Taylor

Grand Slam of Darts

2014
Runner-up

England Dave Chisnall

Premier League Darts

2015
Runner-up

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

World Matchplay

2015
Runner-up

England James Wade

World Grand Prix

2015
Runner-up

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

Players Championship Finals

2014
Runner-up

England Adrian Lewis

UK Open

2015
Runner-up

Scotland Peter Wright

European Championship

2015
Runner-up

Scotland Gary Anderson

The Masters

2015
Runner-up

Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld

PDC World Youth Championship

2014
Runner-up

Austria Rowby-John Rodriguez

World Series of Darts

2015
Ranking List Runner-up

England Adrian Lewis

PDC World Cup of Darts

2015
Runners-up

Scotland Gary Anderson
Scotland Peter Wright

Note: Players in italics had already qualified for the tournament.



PDC Main Tournaments Qualifiers

Scotland Gary Anderson
England Phil Taylor
Netherlands Michael van Gerwen
Scotland Robert Thornton
England Keegan Brown
England Adrian Lewis
England Dave Chisnall
England James Wade
Scotland Peter Wright
Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld
Austria Rowby-John Rodriguez



PDC European Tour


In case the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than 16 players, the field of 16 players was filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2015 European Tour events, in which the winners were selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.























































Tournament
Event Number
Position
Player

2015 European Tour

2015 German Darts Championship
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

2015 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

2015 German Darts Masters
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

2015 Dutch Darts Masters
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

2015 International Darts Open
Winner

England Michael Smith

2015 European Darts Open
Winner

Scotland Robert Thornton

2015 European Darts Trophy
Winner

England Michael Smith

2015 European Darts Matchplay
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

2015 European Darts Grand Prix
Winner

Belgium Kim Huybrechts


PDC European Tour Qualifiers

England Michael Smith
Belgium Kim Huybrechts



PDC Players Championships


In case the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments and the European Tour produced fewer than 16 players, the field of 16 players was filled from the reserve lists. The second list consists of the winners from 2015 Players Championship events, in which the winners were selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.














































































































Tournament
Event Number
Position
Player

2015 Players Championships

Players Championship 1
Winner

Scotland Gary Anderson

Players Championship 2
Winner

England James Wade

Players Championship 3
Winner

England Adrian Lewis

Players Championship 4
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

Players Championship 5
Winner

England Adrian Lewis

Players Championship 6
Winner

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen

Players Championship 7
Winner

Scotland Peter Wright

Players Championship 8
Winner

England Keegan Brown

Players Championship 9
Winner

England Phil Taylor

Players Championship 10
Winner

England Joe Murnan

Players Championship 11
Winner

England Dave Chisnall

Players Championship 12
Winner

Scotland Peter Wright

Players Championship 13
Winner

England James Wade

Players Championship 14
Winner

Netherlands Jelle Klaasen

Players Championship 15
Winner

England Terry Jenkins

Players Championship 16
Winner

Netherlands Jelle Klaasen

Players Championship 17
Winner

England Ian White

Players Championship 18
Winner

England Alan Norris

Players Championship 19
Winner

Scotland Peter Wright

Players Championship 20
Winner

Scotland Gary Anderson

Note: Players in italic had already qualified for the tournament.
Not all bold players in this list qualified for the 2015 Grand Slam of Darts. Best ranked on the ProTour Order of Merit were Ian White, followed by Jelle Klaassen, Terry Jenkins, Alan Norris and Joe Murnan.



PDC Players Championship Qualifiers

Three places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled in by Players Championship winners. The three highest ranked Players Championship winners were:
England Ian White
Netherlands Jelle Klaasen
England Terry Jenkins



PDC Qualifier


A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC qualifier in Coventry on 23 October 2015.



PDC Qualifiers


Wales Mark Webster
Wales Jonny Clayton
England Mervyn King
England Steve West
England Wayne Jones
England Andy Boulton
England Robbie Green
England Steve Beaton



BDO Qualifying tournaments


[7]































Tournament
Year
Position
Player

BDO World Darts Championship

2015
Winner

England Scott Mitchell
Runner-up

England Martin Adams

World Masters

2014
Winner

Wales Martin Phillips

BDO World Trophy

2015
Winner

Belgium Geert De Vos


BDO Qualifiers


A further four places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from two BDO qualifiers. The first of which was in Hull on 6 October 2015 and was open for all players outside of mainland Europe. The other one was in Europe on 18 October 2015 and was open for all players in mainland Europe.











Qualified Players











Pools


[8]















Pool A
(Seeded Players)
Pool B
(PDC Automatic Qualifiers)
Pool C
(PDC Qualifiers)
Pool D
(BDO Qualifiers)

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1)
Scotland Gary Anderson (2)
England Phil Taylor (3)
Scotland Peter Wright (4)
England Adrian Lewis (5)
Scotland Robert Thornton (6)
England James Wade (7)
England Ian White (8)



Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld
England Keegan Brown
England Dave Chisnall
Belgium Kim Huybrechts
England Terry Jenkins
Netherlands Jelle Klaasen
England Michael Smith
Austria Rowby-John Rodriguez



England Steve Beaton
England Andy Boulton
Wales Jonny Clayton
England Robbie Green
England Wayne Jones
England Mervyn King
Wales Mark Webster
England Steve West



England Martin Adams
United States Larry Butler
England Andy Fordham
Netherlands Michel van der Horst
England Scott Mitchell
Netherlands Mark Oosterhuis
Wales Martin Phillips
Belgium Geert De Vos




Draw



Group stage


[8][9]


All matches first-to-5/best of 9 legs

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; Q = Qualified for K.O. phase



































Knockout stage













































































































































































































































































































































Second round (best of 19 legs)
11–12 November
[10][11]

Quarter-finals (best of 31 legs)
13–14 November
[12][13]

Semi-finals (best of 31 legs)
15 November
[14]

Final (best of 31 legs)
15 November
[15]
                       
A1

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 109.18

10
B2

England Steve Beaton (Q) 99.56
2
A1

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 111.05

16

A2

Belgium Kim Huybrechts 93.99
4
B1

England Martin Adams (BDO) 98.47
9
A2

Belgium Kim Huybrechts 100.87

10
A1

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 102.19

16

C1

England Michael Smith 93.08
6
C1

England Michael Smith 104.59

10
D2

England Dave Chisnall 99.82
7
C1

England Michael Smith 98.03

16

C2

England Adrian Lewis (5) 98.63
11
D1

Scotland Peter Wright (4) 101.36
7
C2

England Adrian Lewis (5) 104.71

10
A1

Netherlands Michael van Gerwen (1) 100.94

16

H1

England Phil Taylor (3) 102.53
13
E1

Scotland Gary Anderson (2) 104.22
6
F2

Wales Mark Webster (Q) 94.89

10
F2

Wales Mark Webster (Q) 96.86
12

E2

Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 95.37

16
F1

England James Wade (7) 100.05
7
E2

Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 96.96

10
E2

Netherlands Raymond van Barneveld 97.07
12

H1

England Phil Taylor (3) 100.84

16
G1

Scotland Robert Thornton (6) 93.09

10
H2

England Robbie Green (Q) 96.61
8
G1

Scotland Robert Thornton (6) 93.48
7

H1

England Phil Taylor (3) 104.18

16
H1

England Phil Taylor (3) 91.67

10
G2

England Terry Jenkins 95.16
6


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