Rock reaches milestone as Noppert already loses career high spot in updated PDC Order of Merit

A week after Danny Noppert could call himself the world number seven for the first time, he has already lost that position. Jonny Clayton snatched this spot back by reaching the semi-finals at Players Championship 9 last weekend.

Noppert can try to regain the seventh spot next weekend. The difference with his Welsh rival is only £3,000. Dirk van Duijvenbode remained stuck in eleventh place despite winning Players Championship 10. His gap to tenth-placed Dimitri van den Bergh is still wide at £43,250.

Van Duijvenbode consolidates top spot on Players Championship Order of Merit

Incidentally, the ninth Players Championship tournament was won by Krzysztof Ratajski, who thereby passed Gabriel Clemens on the PDC Order of Merit and is now nineteenth.

A milestone came for up-and-coming talent Josh Rock. Thanks to reaching two quarter-finals in Wigan, 'Rocky' is in the top-32 of the world rankings for the first time in his career.

PDC Order of Merit as per 17 april

Position	Name	Prize money
1	Michael Smith	£1,274,000
2	Peter Wright	£1,147,250
3	Michael van Gerwen	£1,111,500
4	Gerwyn Price	£773,250
5	Rob Cross	£538,250
6	Luke Humphries	£523,000
7	Jonny Clayton	£483,250
8	Danny Noppert	£480,250
9	Nathan Aspinall	£470,500
10	Dimitri Van den Bergh	£463,250
11	Dirk van Duijvenbode	£420,000
12	Joe Cullen	£371,250
13	Ryan Searle	£358,000
14	Jose De Sousa	£352,250
15	James Wade	£345,750
16	Dave Chisnall	£338,250
17	Ross Smith	£336,250
18	Damon Heta	£333,750
19	Krzysztof Ratajski	£296,750
20	Gabriel Clemens	£290,000
21	Chris Dobey	£282,000
22	Gary Anderson	£265,000
23	Stephen Bunting	£250,250
24	Andrew Gilding	£239,000
25	Callan Rydz	£235,750
26	Brendan Dolan	£228,500
27	Martin Schindler	£227,250
28	Daryl Gurney	£202,750
29	Kim Huybrechts	£181,250
30	Raymond van Barneveld	£176,000
30	Mervyn King	£176,000
32	Josh Rock	£164,000
33	Vincent van der Voort	£163,000
34	Alan Soutar	£155,000
35	Mensur Suljovic	£150,750
36	Adrian Lewis	£142,750
37	Madars Razma	£141,500
38	William O'Connor	£138,000
39	Martin Lukeman	£128,500
40	Simon Whitlock	£126,750
41	Martijn Kleermaker	£121,250
42	Keane Barry	£120,750
43	Ian White	£117,000
44	Ryan Joyce	£106,000
45	Ryan Meikle	£104,000
46	Jermaine Wattimena	£103,250
47	Ritchie Edhouse	£100,750
48	Luke Woodhouse	£100,500
49	Mike De Decker	£98,250
50	Adam Gawlas	£97,000
51	Florian Hempel	£94,750
52	Ricky Evans	£91,500
53	Rowby-John Rodriguez	£91,000
54	Steve Beaton	£90,750
55	Boris Krcmar	£88,500
56	Jim Williams	£86,750
57	Jamie Hughes	£82,250
58	Scott Williams	£80,250
59	Darius Labanauskas	£74,000
60	Lewis Williams	£70,250
61	Steve Lennon	£69,750
62	Matt Campbell	£62,250
63	Joe Murnan	£57,500
64	Cameron Menzies	£56,750
65	Nathan Rafferty	£54,250
66	Danny Jansen	£53,000
66	Jeff Smith	£53,000
68	Devon Petersen	£52,500
69	Mickey Mansell	£51,750
70	John O'Shea	£42,250
71	Richie Burnett	£40,250
72	Ricardo Pietreczko	£40,000
73	Mario Vandenbogaerde	£37,250
74	Ted Evetts	£35,750
75	Kevin Doets	£34,250
76	Jose Justicia	£31,750
76	Scott Waites	£31,750
78	Krzysztof Kciuk	£28,000
79	Jimmy Hendriks	£27,750
80	Connor Scutt	£27,500
81	Brian Raman	£26,000
81	Bradley Brooks	£26,000
83	Radek Szaganski	£22,250
84	Rusty-Jake Rodriguez	£20,750
85	James Wilson	£20,000
86	Shaun Wilkinson	£19,000
86	George Killington	£19,000
88	Jeffrey De Zwaan	£18,000
89	Ross Montgomery	£17,500
90	Richard Veenstra	£16,750
91	Tony Martinez	£16,500
91	Damian Mol	£16,500
93	Keegan Brown	£16,250
93	Luc Peters	£16,250
95	Chris Landman	£13,750
96	Jules van Dongen	£13,250
97	Jamie Clark	£12,750
98	Gian van Veen	£12,500
99	Dylan Slevin	£11,750
100	Kevin Burness	£11,250
101	Andy Boulton	£11,000
102	Lee Evans	£10,750
103	Darren Webster	£10,250
104	Jurjen van der Velde	£10,000
105	Jeffrey Sparidaans	£9,250
105	Niels Zonneveld	£9,250
107	Pascal Rupprecht	£8,250
107	Karel Sedlacek	£8,250
109	Adam Warner	£7,750
110	Graham Usher	£7,500
111	Geert Nentjes	£7,250
111	Nick Fullwell	£7,250
113	Berry van Peer	£6,750
114	Niko Springer	£6,500
114	Graham Hall	£6,500
114	Maik Kuivenhoven	£6,500
117	Arron Monk	£6,250
118	Robert Owen	£6,000
119	Stephen Burton	£5,750
120	Daniel Klose	£5,500
121	Josh Payne	£5,250
121	Cam Crabtree	£5,250
123	Liam Maendl-Lawrance	£5,000
123	Owen Roelofs	£5,000
125	Robbie Knops	£4,250
126	Thibault Tricole	£4,000
126	Lukas Wenig	£4,000
126	Martijn Dragt	£4,000
126	Vladimir Andersen	£4,000
130	Adam Smith-Neale	£3,750
131	Christian Kist	£3,500
132	Ronny Huybrechts	£3,250
132	Jelle Klaasen	£3,250
134	Nick Kenny	£3,000
135	Danny van Trijp	£2,750
136	Dragutin Horvat	£2,500
136	Jeroen Mioch	£2,500
136	Rene Eidams	£2,500
136	Filip Sebesta	£2,500
136	Luke Littler	£2,500
136	Thomas Banks	£2,500
142	James Hurrell	£2,250
143	Darryl Pilgrim	£2,000
143	Jacques Labre	£2,000
145	James Richardson	£1,750
146	Lewis Gurney	£1,500
146	Dan Read	£1,500
146	Conor Heneghan	£1,500
149	Oskar Lukasiak	£1,250
149	Tytus Kanik	£1,250
149	Paavo Myller	£1,250
149	John Henderson	£1,250
149	Nico Kurz	£1,250
149	Marko Kantele	£1,250
149	Owen Bates	£1,250
149	Stefan Bellmont	£1,250
149	Dennis Nilsson	£1,250
158	Joshua Richardson	£1,000
158	Gary Davey	£1,000
158	Michael Flynn	£1,000
158	Jitse Van der Wal	£1,000
158	Jim Moston	£1,000
158	Jim McEwan	£1,000
158	Christopher Holt	£1,000
165	Dom Taylor	£750
165	Callum Goffin	£750