Grand Slam of Darts 2024: Does successful in Wolverhampton correlate with successful the World Darts Championship?

You may have gained the Grand Slam of Darts, you’re heading to Alexandra Palace for the Worlds – does all people assume you must win all of it? It’s honest to say that lots of people do.

In fact, on the essential rule of sporting type, when you win the penultimate main earlier than heading to the World Darts Championship, you will be firing and feeling assured.

You may have simply proven you’ll be able to maintain your nerve beneath strain, you know the way to dig deep and hearth within the successful darts.

Now, you simply need to do all of it once more. Easy, proper? It relies upon what, if any, impact one victory has on the possibility of the opposite.

Is it simply {that a} massive win such because the Grand Slam creates a change within the variable that could be a participant’s confidence stage and there’s a correlation between the 2 massive wins? Or would a participant merely not have gained the Worlds with out successful the Grand Slam in an instance of trigger and impact?

The reply to this in all probability varies participant to participant. Luke Humphries and Michael Smith would say that successful majors within the lead-up to their maiden Worlds wins had been very important. Others would simply say displaying type in a single results in type within the different only a few weeks later.

Then there may be the state of affairs wherein there appears to be no hyperlink between the 2 in any respect.

What is evident although, is that when you decide up a Grand Slam victory, individuals consider that your possibilities of leaving Ally Pally in January on prime of the darting world heighten.

Phil Taylor (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014)

Taylor is probably the most embellished participant in darting historical past and the Grand Slam is a stage he beloved, successful six occasions in seven years.

On two of these events, when he gained the Grand Slam, he went on to win the massive prize too in 2009 and 2010.

The 5 occasions he did not go on to win the Worlds, victory got here for John Half in 2008, Adrian Lewis in 2011 and 2012, Michael van Gerwen in 2014, and Gary Anderson in 2015, Taylor ending as runner-up towards the Scotsman.

Scott Waites (2010)

Waites gained two BDO World titles from 2013 and 2016 however by no means gained a World Championship as a PDC participant. His 16-12 Grand Slam victory in 2010 towards James Wade had no impact on his Worlds-winning probabilities.

Raymond van Barneveld (2012)

Van Barneveld has one PDC World Darts title to his identify which got here in 2007 in a 7-6 victory over Taylor however this was 5 years previous to his maiden Grand Slam win.

That got here in 2012 in a 16-14 thriller towards the ‘Inexperienced Machine’.

Michael van Gerwen (2015, 2016, 2017)

Van Gerwen has gained the World Darts Championship thrice in his illustrious profession and on a type of events, he had gained the Grand Slam earlier than choosing up victory within the greatest present of all of them.

This was when he claimed a 16-8 win over Wade within the 2016 Grand Slam after which went onto defeat Anderson 7-3 on the Worlds in January 2017.

His different World Championship wins got here in 2014, a 12 months previous to his first Grand Slam victory, and 2019, when he didn’t characteristic within the ultimate of the Grand Slam in November 2018.

Gerwyn Worth (2018, 2019, 2021)

Worth is a participant that loves the Grand Slam, choosing up victory on three completely different occasions of asking, making him the joint-second most embellished participant within the event’s historical past with Van Gerwen.

Nevertheless, his Grand Slam wins didn’t line up together with his Worlds win, which got here in 2021. He didn’t decide up victory within the Grand Slam 2020, which was gained by Jose de Sousa.

Jose de Sousa (2020)

De Sousa has not progressed previous the final 16 on the Worlds and so when he gained the Grand Slam in 2020, he didn’t capitalise and switch his momentum into glory at Ally Pally.

Certainly, he went out within the third spherical after getting into the event because the 14th seed.

Michael Smith (2022)

Over the previous couple of years, the pattern actually begins to come back into power that the Grand Slam winner goes on a run on the Worlds.

Smith picked up an enormous main win on the Grand Slam of Darts in 2022, defeating Nathan Aspinall in a dominant 16-5 win.

That was a milestone second in his profession and after losses within the ultimate of the World Darts Championship in 2019 and 2022, he lastly gained in 2023 in a 7-4 traditional towards Van Gerwen, hitting an unbelievable nine-darter on the best way.

Luke Humphries (2023)

In an analogous story to Smith, Humphries picked up what was touted as a vital Grand Slam win on the best way to being topped world champion.

In his second main within the area of 42 days, Humphries defeated Rob Cross 16-8 to maintain his run going.

This then led him onto the Worlds wherein he got here out on prime 7-4 towards Luke Litter, cementing himself as the game’s greatest.

Now, it’s time to see if whoever is topped this 12 months’s Grand Slam winner follows the trail of Smith and Humphries.

How are you going to watch?

The Grand Slam of Darts is dwell daily on Sky Sports activities from Novmber 9-17 as Luke Humphries seems to defend his title, with Beau Greaves and Noa-Lynn van Leuven additionally participating.

Consideration then turns to the flip of the 12 months and the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship, starting on December 15, because the darts calendar continues to supply pleasure all year long – and you may get pleasure from the perfect right here dwell on Sky Sports activities.

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