Peter Wright takes over second spot in world rankings from Michael van Gerwen after European Championship win; James Wade returns to world's top-16
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Peter Wright has taken over second place in the world rankings from Michael van Gerwen after winning the European Championship title. 'Snakebite' could make good use of the winner's cheque of 120,000 pounds, as he has a lot of prize money to defend in the coming weeks.
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The world rankings are rankings based on performance over a two-year period. Wright won the Players Championship Finals at the end of 2021 and then also became world champion. With this result, the Scot at least does seem to secure himself a spot in the top-10 of the PDC Order of Merit after the World Darts Championship.
Van Gerwen had to defend a final place from two years ago at this European Darts Championship, but this time he did not advance beyond the last eight. Mighty Mike' went down in the quarter-finals against Gian van Veen. The 21-year-old dart prodigy became the sensation of the tournament with further victories over Damon Heta and Daryl Gurney. Van Veen started the tournament as number 68 in the world, but has now jumped to 56th place on the PDC Order of Merit.
Van Veen eventually lost in the semi-finals to James Wade, who ended up being the losing finalist. Like Wright, Wade desperately needed the prize money for the ranking. Wade had recently fallen out of the top-16 of the world rankings for the first time in seventeen years. With his final place finish, 'The Machine' regained his listing in the top-16 and Wade holds the fourteenth spot.
Ricardo Pietreczko also made another jump. The German surprisingly defeated defending champion Ross Smith in the first round. He rose from 50th place to 45th position.
PDC Order of Merit as of Oct. 30
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Position - Name - Prize money
1 Michael Smith £1,303,000
2 Peter Wright £1,160,750
3 Michael van Gerwen £1,080,250
4 Luke Humphries £786,500
5 Gerwyn Price £761,500
6 Nathan Aspinall £639,250
7 Jonny Clayton £525,500
8 Danny Noppert £524,500
9 Rob Cross £472,500
10 Dirk van Duijvenbode £452,250
11 Joe Cullen £442,750
12 Dave Chisnall £432,000
13 Damon Heta £428,250
14 James Wade £414,250
15 Dimitri Van den Bergh £401,500
16 Ryan Searle £375,000
17 Ross Smith £366,500
18 Chris Dobey £359,000
19 Andrew Gilding £326,000
20 Gary Anderson £322,750
21 Jose de Sousa £304,500
22 Gabriel Clemens £302,250
23 Krzysztof Ratajski £292,500
24 Martin Schindler £289,000
25 Stephen Bunting £282,500
26 Josh Rock £271,000
27 Daryl Gurney £266,750
28 Brendan Dolan £230,250
29 Raymond van Barneveld £217,750
30 Callan Rydz £209,000
31 Kim Huybrechts £191,500
32 Madars Razma £159,000
33 Alan Soutar £158,500
34 William O'Connor £148,000
35 Martin Lukeman £147,000
36 Ryan Joyce £141,250
37 Mike De Decker £141,250
38 Luke Woodhouse £141,000
39 Mervyn King £141,000
40 Vincent van der Voort £137,000
41 Keane Barry £131,000
42 Mensur Suljovic £127,000
43 Adrian Lewis £122,750
44 Simon Whitlock £119,750
45 Ricardo Pietreczko £113,000
46 Martijn Kleermaker £113,000
47 Steve Beaton £109,750
48 Rowby-John Rodriguez £107,000
49 Ryan Meikle £106,750
50 Ricky Evans £105,500
51 Scott Williams £102,000
52 Jim Williams £101,750
53 Jermaine Wattimena £98,000
54 Ritchie Edhouse £97,750
55 Ian White £96,750
56 Gian van Veen £88,500
57 Florian Hempel £88,250
58 Adam Gawlas £85,750
59 Boris Krcmar £83,250
60 Matt Campbell £81,750
61 Jamie Hughes £79,250
62 Steve Lennon £78,250
63 Cameron Menzies £75,750
64 Mickey Mansell £73,500
65 Darius Labanauskas £64,750
66 Kevin Doets £61,250
67 Nathan Rafferty £59,750
68 Danny Jansen £59,250
69 Lewy Williams £55,750
70 Mario Vandenbogaerde £54,750
71 Jeff Smith £52,750
72 Connor Scutt £51,000
73 Radek Szaganski £48,250
74 Richie Burnett £47,750
75 John O'Shea £47,750
76 Joe Murnan £47,500
77 Scott Waites £45,250
78 Ted Evetts £43,500
79 Devon Petersen £39,000
80 George Killington £37,750
81 Brian Raman £36,000
82 Bradley Brooks £35,750
83 Jimmy Hendriks £35,750
84 Jules van Dongen £35,500
85 Jose Justicia £35,500
86 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £33,500
87 Richard Veenstra £32,750
88 Krzysztof Kciuk £31,750
89 Dylan Slevin £30,750
90 James Wilson £28,750
91 Christian Kist £28,250
92 Niels Zonneveld £26,500
93 Jeffrey de Zwaan £26,500
94 Lee Evans £26,250
95 Ross Montgomery £24,500
96 Keegan Brown £24,500
97 Tony Martinez £22,750
98 Shaun Wilkinson £22,500
99 Stephen Burton £22,250
100 Karel Sedlacek £22,000
101 Andy Boulton £21,500
102 Daniel Klose £21,500
103 Damian Mol £20,500
104 Maik Kuivenhoven £20,250
105 Chris Landman £20,000
106 Arron Monk £19,250
107 Jurjen van der Velde £19,000
108 Jeffrey Sparidaans £18,000
109 Pascal Rupprecht £18,000
110 Luc Peters £17,750
111 Robert Owen £16,000
112 Jamie Clark £16,000
113 Kevin Burness £16,000
114 Berry van Peer £15,750
115 Graham Hall £15,500
116 Darren Webster £15,000
117 Graham Usher £15,000
118 Cam Crabtree £14,000
119 Adam Smith-Neale £13,750
120 Josh Payne £13,500
121 Geert Nentjes £13,500
122 Nick Kenny £13,000
123 Darryl Pilgrim £12,750
124 Ronny Huybrechts £12,250
125 Owen Bates £12,000
126 Wesley Plaisier £11,250
127 Owen Roelofs £11,000
128 Nick Fullwell £10,250
129 Dom Taylor £10,000
130 Adam Warner £10,000
131 Danny van Trijp £9,500
132 Vladimir Andersen £9,500
133 Jelle Klaasen £9,000
134 Robbie Knops £8,000
135 Callum Goffin £7,750
136 Nico Kurz £7,750
137 Stefan Bellmont £7,500
138 Liam Maendl-Lawrance £7,500
139 John Henderson £7,250
140 Robert Grundy £7,000
141 Niko Springer £6,500
142 Marko Kantele £6,250
143 Thibault Tricole £6,000
144 Martijn Dragt £5,250
145 Vitezslav Sedlak £5,000
146 Jacques Labre £4,750
147 Lukas Wenig £4,750
148 James Hurrell £4,250
149 Danny Lauby £4,250
150 Scott Mitchell £4,000
151 Andy Baetens £4,000
152 Patrik Kovacs £3,750
153 Roman Benecky £3,750
154 Dalibor Smolik £3,750
155 Roy van de Griendt £3,250
156 Jarred Cole £3,000
157 Christian Perez £3,000
158 Jeffrey de Graaf £2,500
159 Anton Ostlund £2,500
160 Nandor Major £2,500
161 Sebastian Bialecki £2,500
162 Dennis Nilsson £2,500
163 Hannes Schnier £2,500
164 Dragutin Horvat £2,500
165 Jeroen Mioch £2,500
166 Rene Eidams £2,500
167 Filip Sebesta £2,500
168 Luke Littler £2,500
169 Thomas Banks £2,500
170 Conan Whitehead £2,250
171 Alexander Merkx £2,000
172 James Richardson £1,750
173 Ron Meulenkamp £1,500
174 Conor Heneghan £1,500
175 Dan Read £1,500
176 Lewis Gurney £1,500
177 Marcus Kirchmann £1,250
178 Gabor Jagicza £1,250
179 Mihaly Vida £1,250
180 Danny Tessmann £1,250
181 Fabian Herz £1,250
182 Marcel Walpen £1,250
183 David Pisek £1,250
184 Jani Laurila £1,250
185 Francois Schweyen £1,250
186 Sven Hilling £1,250
187 Marcel Hausotter £1,250
188 Dmitriy Zhukov £1,250
189 Marcus Haider £1,250
190 Oskar Lukasiak £1,250
191 Tytus Kanik £1,250
192 Paavo Myller £1,250
193 Christopher Holt £1,000
194 Gary Davey £1,000
195 Jim McEwan £1,000
196 Jim Moston £1,000
197 Jitse van der Wal £1,000
198 Joshua Richardson £1,000
199 Michael Flynn £1,000
200 Peter Jacques £750
201 Wayne Jones £750
202 Eddie Lovely £750
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