Only two more tournaments await in the race to the World Grand Prix which this year will take place in Leicester.
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Only the Hungarian Darts Trophy (3-5 September) and the Gibraltar Darts Trophy (24-26 September) still count for the qualifying race.
There will be multiple debutants in the East Midlands with Damon Heta, Luke Humphries, Ross Smith, Callan Rydz, Martijn Kleermaker and Darius Labanauskas currently the players set for their first appearances in the double start format.
Top seed as expected will be defending champion, Gerwyn Price ahead of Peter Wright and Michael van Gerwen.
The field is basically set with the only players really able to catch those inside the respective fields in the Order of Merit having already qualified or are not playing either European Tour.
Qualifying Race 2021 World Grand Prix
Prize money in units of one thousand (source: dartsrankings.com)
PDC Order of Merit
1 Gerwyn Price 1261
2 Peter Wright 1104
3 Michael van Gerwen 958.5
4 James Wade 446.75
5 Dimitri Van den Bergh 445.25
6 Gary Anderson 427
7 Dave Chisnall 360.25
8 Jose de Sousa 354.5
9 Michael Smith 349
10 Nathan Aspinall 322.5
11 Rob Cross 304.75
12 Krzysztof Ratajski 294.5
13 Jonny Clayton 266.75
14 Joe Cullen 260.5
15 Glen Durrant 247
16 Stephen Bunting 245.25
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17 Daryl Gurney 240.25
18 Ian White 235.25
19 Simon Whitlock 226.25
20 Mervyn King 223.5
21 Dirk van Duijvenbode 217
22 Danny Noppert 198.5
PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit
1 Brendan Dolan 49.75
2 Damon Heta 42.25
3 Dirk van Duijvenbode 41
4 Ryan Searle 38.75
5 Ross Smith 35
6 Luke Humphries 34.75
7 Danny Noppert 33.75
8 Gabriel Clemens 33
9 Vincent van der Voort 31.25
10 Callan Rydz 29.25
11 Martijn Kleermaker 26.75
12 Ian White 26
13 Darius Labanauskas 25.5
14 Daryl Gurney 24.5
15 Mervyn King 24.5
16 Mensur Suljovic 23.25
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17 Ryan Joyce 23
18 Chris Dobey 23
19 Raymond van Barneveld 22.5
20 Jamie Hughes 22.25
21 Adrian Lewis 21.25
22 Jermaine Wattimena 21.25
23 Maik Kuivenhoven 21
24 Martin Schindler 20
25 Scott Mitchell 20
26 Steve Lennon 19
27 Luke Woodhouse 18.75
28 Ron Meulenkamp 18.5
29 William O'Connor 18
30 Kim Huybrechts 17.5
31 Alan Soutar 16.75
32 Andy Boulton 16.5
33 Steve Beaton 16
34 Krzysztof Kciuk 15.75
35 Adam Hunt 15.5
36 Jason Lowe 15.5
37 Jeff Smith 15.5
38 Devon Petersen 15
39 Ritchie Edhouse 14.75
40 Rowby John Rodriguez 14.5
41 Max Hop 14.5
42 Ricky Evans 14.5
43 Madar Razma 14.25
44 Simon Whitlock 13.75
45 William Borland 13.5
46 Boris Krcmar 13
47 Rusty Jake Rodriguez 12.5
48 Chas Barstow 12.5
49 Ryan Meikle 12.5
50 Ted Evetts 11.75
51 Lewis Williams 11.25
52 Scott Waites 11
53 Keane Barry 10.75
54 Joe Murnan 10.5
55 Jesus Noguera 10.5
56 Mickey Mansell 10.5
57 Ryan Murray 10.25
58 Andy Hamilton 10
59 John Henderson 10
60 Jelle Klaasen 10
61 Gordon Mathers 10
62 Jason Heaver 10
63 Keegan Brown 9.25
64 Niels Zonneveld 9.25
65 Alan Tabern 9.25
66 Bradley Brooks 9
67 Eddie Lovely 9
68 James Wilson 9
69 Mike De Decker 9
70 Aaron Beeney 9
71 Jeffrey De Zwaan 8.25
72 Martin Lukeman 8
73 Karel Sedlacek 8
74 Kevin Doets 8
75 Steve West 8
76 Josh Payne 8
77 Kai Fan Leung 8
78 Robert Thornton 8
79 Ciaran Teehan 7.5
80 Geert De Vos 7.5
81 Luc Peters 7.5
82 Justin Pipe 7.5
83 Geert Nentjes 7
84 Boris Koltsov 7
85 Matthew Edgar 7
86 Steve Brown 7
87 Florian Hempel 6.5
88 Darren Webster 6.5
89 Derk Telnnekes 6.5
90 Zoran Lerchbacher 6
91 Peter Jacques 6
92 John Michael 5.75
93 Jon Worsley 5.5
94 Martin Atkins 5.5
95 Nick Kenny 5.5
96 Andrew Gilding 5
97 Berry of Pear 5
98 Wayne Jones 4.5
99 Martin Thomas 4.5
100 Jack Main 4.5
101 Kirk Shepherd 4.5
102 Danny Baggish 4
103 Michael Rasztovits 4
104 John Brown 4
105 Jake Jones 3.5
106 Jose Justicia 3.5
107 Lisa Ashton 3.5
108 Jim McEwan 3
109 Adam Gawlas 3
110 David Evans 3
111 Gary Blades 3
112 Christian Casket 3
113 Gino Fox 3
114 Sean Fisher 2.5
115 Kevin McDine 2.5
116 Luke Wenig 2.5
117 Peter Hudson 2.5
118 Steffen Siepmann 2.5
119 Harald Leitinger 2
120 Ryan DeVreede 2
121 Benito van de Pas 2
122 Vincent van der Meer 2
123 Daniel Larsson 1.5
124 Andreas Harrysson 1
124 Kenny Neyens 1
126 Johan Engstrom 1
126 Richard Veenstra 1
128 Shane McGuirk 1
129 Lorenzo Pronk 1
130 Pero Ljubic 1
130 Robert Marijanovic 1
132 Mike Warburton 1
133 Gavin Carlin 1
134 Brett Claydon 1
135 Michael Unterbuchner 1
136 Mark McGeeney 1
137 Davy Toast 0.5
138 Patrick van den Boogaard 0.5
139 Michal Smejda 0.5
139 Scott Williams 0.5
141 Sebastian Bialecki 0.5
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