2021 World Grand Prix

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The **2021 BoyleSports World Grand Prix** was a darts tournament and the 24th staging of the World Grand Prix. It was held from 3–9 October 2021 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester, England. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was held away from the Citywest Hotel in Dublin for the second consecutive year.

Gerwyn Price was the defending champion, after defeating Dirk van Duijvenbode 5–2 in the 2020 final, but he lost 5–1 to Jonny Clayton in the first all-Welsh major ranking final in PDC history.

This was also Clayton's first PDC ranking major title win, as his previous three wins (the 2020 PDC World Cup of Darts (alongside Price), the 2021 Masters and the 2021 Premier League Darts) were all in non-ranking events.

## Format

All matches were played as double in, double out; requiring the players to score 501 points to win a leg, beginning with as well as finishing on either a double or the bullseye. Matches were played to set format, with each set being the best of five legs (first to three).

This is the only "double in" tournament on the PDC circuit, and along with the World Championship the only tournament which uses the set format.

The matches got longer as the tournament progressed:

 Second
 Semi-finals
 Final

## Prize money

The prize fund remained at £450,000, with the winner's earnings being £110,000.

The following was the breakdown of the fund:

 **First round losers** | (16) | £6,000

## Qualification

The field of 32 players consisted of the top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit and the top 16 non-qualified players from the ProTour Order of Merit as of 26 September. Only the top eight players on the Order of Merit are seeded for the tournament.

The following players qualified for the tournament:

1. Gerwyn Price  *(Runner-up)*
2. Peter Wright  *(First round)*
3. Michael van Gerwen  *(First round)*
4. James Wade  *(Second round)*
5. Dimitri Van den Bergh  *(First round)*
6. Gary Anderson  *(First round)*
7. José de Sousa  *(Second round)*
8. Dave Chisnall  *(Quarter-finals)*
9. Michael Smith  *(First round)*
10. Nathan Aspinall  *(First round)*
11. Rob Cross  *(Second round)*
12. Krzysztof Ratajski  *(Quarter-finals)*
13. Joe Cullen  *(First round)*
14. **Jonny Clayton**  **(Champion)**
15. Glen Durrant  *(First round)*
16. Stephen Bunting  *(Semi-finals)*
1. Brendan Dolan  *(First round)*
2. Damon Heta  *(First round)*
3. Dirk van Duijvenbode  *(First round)*
4. Luke Humphries  *(Second round)*
5. Ryan Searle  *(Quarter-finals)*
6. Danny Noppert  *(Semi-finals)*
7. Ross Smith  *(Second round)*
8. Gabriel Clemens  *(First round)*
9. Mensur Suljović  *(First round)*
10. Vincent van der Voort  *(Second round)*
11. Callan Rydz  *(First round)*
12. Martijn Kleermaker  *(First round)*
13. Ian White  *(Quarter-finals)*
14. Daryl Gurney  *(First round)*
15. Mervyn King  *(Second round)*
16. Darius Labanauskas  *(Second round)*

## References

1. ↑ BoyleSports World Grand Prix heading to Leicester in October. Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved on July 5, 2021.
2. ↑ Price defeats Van Duijvenbode to win World Grand Prix. *Professional Darts Corporation* (12 October 2020). Retrieved on October 12, 2020.
3. ↑ Clinical Clayton claims BoyleSports World Grand Prix glory. *Professional Darts Corporation* (9 October 2021). Retrieved on October 9, 2021.
4. ↑ PDC Order of Merit Rules. PDC. Retrieved on June 6, 2020.
5. ↑ Rankings update ahead of BoyleSports World Grand Prix. Professional Darts Corporation. Retrieved on September 12, 2020.