Could Premier League snub actually benefit Peter Wright? "Career-wise it would be good for Wright to take a 17-week rest"
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Traditionally, shortly after the final of the PDC World Darts Championship, the field of participants for the Premier League Darts is announced. For Peter Wright, an invitation to the travelling darting roadshow has been a formality for over a decade. Heading into 2025 though, his spot is much less certain.
Wright has always been there in the Premier League Darts since 2014 and reached the final in 2017, which he somehow managed to lose to Michael van Gerwen, spurning multiple match darts. After a down year in 2024 though, "Snakebite" has dropped to 12th in the world rankings and a selection for the 2025 Premier League Darts seems unlikely. After suffered two very tough Premier League campaigns in 2023 and 2024 though, the question is, would it actually be a benefit to Wright to miss out this year?
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"It would be good for him to miss a year of the Premier League," Jaco Van Bodegom, Team Manager of the Toto Dart Kings Team, assessed of Wright's situation on the podcast 'Darts Draait Door'. "On the other hand, if he's off for a year, what does he have left to play for? Then it's a lot of Pro Tours. For the World Series of Darts they will still invite him, but career-wise it would be good for Wright to take a seventeen-week rest."
It is an unwritten rule that the top four players in the world rankings are invariably invited to the Premier League, in addition, rights holder Sky Sports gets to pick two players and the PDC also has two wildcards to hand out. "I spoke to Matt Porter, the boss of the PDC. Who said that the top four are not automatically guaranteed a spot in the Premier League Darts. It's not a rule, but it's always been done that way. In that case, the current number four, Rob Cross, would be the most uncertain of an invitation," Van Bodegom continued. "Numbers one, two and three (Luke Humphries, Luke Littler and Michael van Gerwen) are 'as good as certain'."
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