2015 Grand Slam of Darts

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

Phil Taylor was the defending champion, having won his sixth Grand Slam title by defeating Dave Chisnall 16–13 in the 2014 final, but he was defeated 16–13 in the final by Michael van Gerwen, who by winning this tournament had won every active PDC major.

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.

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.

## Qualifying

On 10 June, the qualification criteria was announced, with 24 places going to Professional Darts Corporation players and 8 places going to British Darts Organisation players.

### Qualifying tournaments

#### PDC

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.

#### 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 the 2015 European Tour events, in which the winners were selected in ProTour Order of Merit position order at the cut-off date.

#### PDC Players Championships

The second reserve 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.

### 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.

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

### 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, and was open for all players outside of mainland Europe. The other one was in Europe on 18 October and was open for all players in mainland Europe.

#### UK Qualifiers

* Larry Butler
* Andy Fordham

#### European Qualifiers

* Mark Oosterhuis
* Michel van der Horst

### Pools

The pools were confirmed on 1 November.

 Gary Anderson  **(2)**
 Phil Taylor  **(3)**
 Peter Wright  **(4)**
 Adrian Lewis  **(5)**
 Robert Thornton  **(6)**
 James Wade  **(7)**
 Ian White  **(8)**
 Keegan Brown
 Dave Chisnall
 Kim Huybrechts
 Terry Jenkins
 Jelle Klaasen
 Michael Smith
 Rowby-John Rodriguez
 Andy Boulton
 Jonny Clayton
 Robbie Green
 Wayne Jones
 Mervyn King
 Mark Webster
 Steve West
 Larry Butler
 Geert De Vos
 Andy Fordham
 Scott Mitchell
 Mark Oosterhuis
 Martin Phillips
 Michel van der Horst

### Group stage

*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

## References

1. ↑ Magical Taylor's Grand Slam Glory (16 November 2014).
2. ↑ Mighty Mike Claims Grand Slam Glory (16 November 2015).
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 2015 Grand Slam Qualification Criteria (10 June 2015).
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 SINGHA Beer Grand Slam Draw (1 November 2015).