Tournament Name: | 2022 BoyleSports World Grand Prix |
Dates: | 3–9 October 2022 |
Venue: | Morningside Arena |
Location: | Leicester |
Organisation: | PDC |
Format: | Sets "Double in, Double out" |
Prize Fund: | £600,000 |
Winners Share: | £120,000 |
High Checkout: | (semi-finals) |
Prev: | 2021 |
Next: | 2023 |
The 2022 BoyleSports World Grand Prix was a darts tournament and the 25th staging of the World Grand Prix. It was held from 3–9 October 2022 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 third consecutive year.[1]
was the defending champion after defeating 5–1 in the 2021 final,[2] but he lost 3–2 in the second round to .[3]
won his sixth World Grand Prix title, defeating 5–3 in the final.[4]
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:
Round | Best of (sets) | First to (sets) | |
---|---|---|---|
First | 3 | 2 | |
Second | 5 | 3 | |
Quarter-finals | |||
Semi-finals | 7 | 4 | |
Final | 9 | 5 |
The prize fund was due to increase from £450,000 to £550,000,[5] but on 1 July 2022, it was announced that it was going to increase to £600,000,[6] with the winner earning themselves £120,000.
The following is the breakdown of the fund:[7]
Position (no. of players) | Prize money (Total: £600,000) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Winner | align=center | (1) | align=center | £120,000 |
Runner-up | align=center | (1) | align=center | £60,000 |
Semi-finalists | align=center | (2) | align=center | £40,000 |
Quarter-finalists | align=center | (4) | align=center | £25,000 |
Second round losers | align=center | (8) | align=center | £15,000 |
First round losers | align=center | (16) | align=center | £7,500 |
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 2022. The top eight players on the Order of Merit were seeded for the tournament.
31 of the 32 players also qualified for the 2022 World Matchplay held two months earlier, with the only change being in place of .[8]
The following players qualified:
Match # | Round | Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | |
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01 | 1 | |||||||
02 | 1 | |||||||
03 | 1 | |||||||
04 | 1 | |||||||
05 | 1 | |||||||
06 | 1 | |||||||
07 | 1 | |||||||
08 | 1 |
Match # | Round | Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
09 | 1 | |||||||
10 | 1 | |||||||
11 | 1 | |||||||
12 | 1 | |||||||
13 | 1 | |||||||
14 | 1 | |||||||
15 | 1 | |||||||
16 | 1 |
Match # | Round | Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
17 | 2 | |||||||||
18 | 2 | |||||||||
19 | 2 | |||||||||
20 | 2 |
Match # | Round | Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
21 | 2 | |||||||||
22 | 2 | |||||||||
23 | 2 | |||||||||
24 | 2 |
Match # | Round | Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
25 | QF | |||||||||
26 | QF | |||||||||
27 | QF | |||||||||
28 | QF |
Match # | Round | Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | Set 6 | Set 7 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
29 | SF | |||||||||||
30 | SF |
Best of 9 sets Referee: Kirk Bevins Morningside Arena, Leicester, England, 9 October 2022 | |||
3–5 | (3) | ||
0–3, 2–3, 2–3, 1–3, 3–1, 3–1, 3–1, 2–3 | |||
91.88 | Average (3 darts) | 91.07 | |
49 | 100+ scores | 37 | |
22 | 140+ scores | 31 | |
9 | 180 scores | 6 | |
89 | Highest checkout | 116 | |
0 | Checkouts 100+ | 2 | |
16/46 (34.8%) | Checkout summary | 18/39 (46.2%) | |
Double in summary |
The draw was made on 26 September by Barry Hearn.[9]
This table shows the number of players by country in the 2022 World Grand Prix. A total of 11 nationalities are represented.
ENG | NED | SCO | WAL | BEL | LVA | NIR | POL | GER | AUS | POR | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Final | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||||
Round 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||||
Round 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 32 | |
Total | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 32 |