Announcements

MICHAEL Smith is seeded fifth for the 2019 BoyleSports World Grand Prix at Citywest Convention Centre from October 6-12.

He will be joined by fellow St Helens darters Dave Chisnall and ProTour Order of Merit Qualifier Stephen Bunting.

World Championship finalist Smith is among the top eight players on the PDC Order of Merit seeded for the event.

The next eight players on the PDC Order of Merit and the top 16 players on the ProTour Order of Merit complete the 32-player field.

World Matchplay winner Rob Cross is seeded second, with former finalist Gary Anderson the fourth seed, Grand Slam of Darts champion Gerwyn Price seeded sixth and 2018 runner-up Peter Wright seeded seventh.

Aspinall is joined amongst the PDC Order of Merit qualifiers by 2019 European Tour event winners Ian White, Mensur Suljovic, Dave Chisnall and Joe Cullen, as well as 2010 World Grand Prix finalist Adrian Lewis.

2012 Dublin runner-up Mervyn King and World Youth Champion Van den Bergh held on to claim the final two ProTour Order of Merit qualifying spots.

Reigning Lakeside Champion Durrant joins two former winners of that event, Steve Beaton and Stephen Bunting, Germany’s Max Hopp and Dutch quartet Jermaine Wattimena, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Danny Noppert and Vincent van der Voort as qualifiers.

Scotland’s John Henderson will be returning to the venue where he enjoyed a memorable run to the 2017 semi-finals, including a win over Van Gerwen during that career-best televised finish.

With a record £450,000 in prize money to play for, the action will be broadcast live on Sky Sports for UK viewers, on PDCTV-HD for Rest of the World Subscribers and through the PDC’s global broadcast partners worldwide.

The draw for the 2019 BoyleSports World Grand Prix will take place on Friday September 27 at 0930 BST and will be shown on Facebook Live through the OfficialPDC Facebook Page.

2019 BoyleSports World Grand Prix

PDC Order of Merit Qualifiers (Seeding in brackets)

(1) Michael van Gerwen

(2) Rob Cross

(3) Daryl Gurney

(4) Gary Anderson

(5) Michael Smith

(6) Gerwyn Price

(7) Peter Wright

(8) James Wade

Mensur Suljovic, Ian White, Dave Chisnall, Simon Whitlock, Nathan Aspinall, Jonny Clayton, Adrian Lewis, Joe Cullen.

ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers

Krzysztof Ratajski, Glen Durrant, Jermaine Wattimena, Jamie Hughes, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Ricky Evans, Steve Beaton, Keegan Brown, Chris Dobey, Stephen Bunting,

Danny Noppert, Max Hopp, John Henderson,Vincent van der Voort, Mervyn King, Dimitri Van den Bergh.