2022 Grand Slam of Darts

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The **2022 Cazoo Grand Slam of Darts**, was the sixteenth staging of the Grand Slam of Darts, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place at the Aldersley Leisure Village, Wolverhampton, from 12–20 November 2022.

Gerwyn Price was the defending champion, after defeating Peter Wright 16–8 in the 2021 final, but he was eliminated by Raymond van Barneveld, losing 16–13 in their quarter-final.

Michael Smith won his first major title, defeating Nathan Aspinall 16–5 in the final. It was the first time the tournament had been won by an Englishman since 2014, when it was won by Phil Taylor.

Josh Rock, who made his debut, hit a nine-dart finish during his second-round defeat to Michael van Gerwen.

## Prize money

The prize fund for the Grand Slam increased by £100,000 to £650,000.

## Qualification

The qualification criteria were slightly altered again for the 2022 tournament, with no representation from the World Darts Federation.

The qualifiers were:

### PDC Qualifying Tournaments

If the list of qualifiers from the main tournaments produced fewer than the required number of players (16), the field would be filled from the reserve lists. The first list consisted of the winners from 2022 European Tour events, in which the winners were ordered firstly by number of wins, then by Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

If there were still not enough qualifiers after European Tour events are added, the winners of 2022 Players Championship events would be added, firstly in order by number of wins, then in Order of Merit order.

### PDC Qualifying Event

A further eight places in the Grand Slam of Darts were filled by qualifiers from a PDC Tour Card Holder qualifier held on 6 November in Barnsley.

These were the qualifiers:

* Ritchie Edhouse
* Raymond van Barneveld
* Adam Gawlas
* Alan Soutar
* Martin Schindler
* Luke Woodhouse
* Mensur Suljović
* Jermaine Wattimena

### Additional Qualifiers

The winners of these tournaments and tours also qualified for the tournament.

1. ↑ Rock qualified as 2nd of the Development Tour Order of Merit, after Nathan Rafferty was already qualified.

## Draw

The draw was done by PDC executive Matt Porter on 7 November.

### Pools

  Gerwyn Price  **(1)**
 Peter Wright  **(2)**
 Michael van Gerwen  **(3)**
 Michael Smith  **(4)**
 Rob Cross  **(5)**
 Luke Humphries  **(6)**
 Jonny Clayton  **(7)**
 Danny Noppert  **(8)**
 Dave Chisnall
 Joe Cullen
 Dirk van Duijvenbode
 Ryan Searle
 Damon Heta
 Ross Smith
 Simon Whitlock
 Martin Schindler
 Jermaine Wattimena
 Alan Soutar
 Luke Woodhouse
 Raymond van Barneveld
 Josh Rock
 Ritchie Edhouse
 Scott Williams
 Nathan Rafferty
 Ted Evetts
 Lisa Ashton
 Leonard Gates
 Christian Perez
 Fallon Sherrock

### Group stage

*All group matches are best of 9 legs.*

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

## References

1. ↑ PDC's November 2022 schedule confirmed (24 November 2020). Retrieved on November 24, 2020.
2. ↑ Peerless Price completes Cazoo Grand Slam of Darts treble (21 November 2021).
3. ↑ Super Smith seals first TV ranking title with Cazoo Grand Slam glory (20 November 2022).
4. ↑ Van Gerwen denies nine-dart Rock in Cazoo Grand Slam classic (17 November 2022).
5. ↑ PDC chairman Hearn announces record prize money for 2022. *PDC.tv* (7 December 2021). Retrieved on December 7, 2021.
6. ↑ Increased prize funds confirmed for PDC televised events (en).
7. ↑ 2022 Cazoo Grand Slam of Darts qualification criteria confirmed. *PDC.tv* (29 June 2022). Retrieved on June 30, 2022.
8. ↑ 2022 Cazoo Grand Slam of Darts draw & schedule confirmed (en).