Updated PDC Order of Merit after Players Championship 1-2: Wade swaps with Aspinall in only top ten change as Hughes rises towards top 50
PDCThe PDC Order of Merit has been updated after the opening ProTour tournaments of the season won by Ryan Searle and Danny Noppert respectively.
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Only change to happen inside the top ten was James Wade swapping places with Nathan Aspinall to go into ninth place with Noppert only putting more pressure on Jonny Clayton to close in on seventh spot.
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There were also small rises for Callan Rydz (#22), Stephen Bunting (#23), Madars Razma (#34) and Simon Whitlock (#36) at the expense of Gary Anderson for the former two and Adrian Lewis, Josh Rock and William O'Connor for the latter players.
While Jamie Hughes is up five spots after reaching the final of one tournament and the Last 16 losing to eventual champion, Noppert in the other and he is up to 51st.
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PDC Order of Merit after Players Championship 1-2
Position Name Value
1 Michael Smith £1,248,500
2 Peter Wright £1,145,750
3 Michael van Gerwen £1,052,000
4 Gerwyn Price £726,750
5 Luke Humphries £532,000
6 Rob Cross £514,500
7 Jonny Clayton £488,000
8 Danny Noppert £463,750
9 James Wade £444,250
10 Nathan Aspinall £442,750
11 Dimitri Van den Bergh £415,000
12 Joe Cullen £368,500
13 Dirk van Duijvenbode £355,250
14 Jose De Sousa £340,000
15 Ryan Searle £339,500
16 Damon Heta £312,500
17 Ross Smith £306,250
18 Dave Chisnall £297,000
19 Gabriel Clemens £288,250
20 Krzysztof Ratajski £283,000
21 Chris Dobey £275,250
22 Callan Rydz £239,500
23 Stephen Bunting £236,750
24 Gary Anderson £236,500
25 Brendan Dolan £223,750
26 Daryl Gurney £198,250
27 Martin Schindler £189,250
28 Mervyn King £175,000
29 Raymond van Barneveld £168,500
30 Vincent van der Voort £166,500
31 Kim Huybrechts £165,750
32 Alan Soutar £162,250
33 Mensur Suljovic £157,500
34 Madars Razma £140,500
35 Adrian Lewis £139,750
36 Simon Whitlock £132,750
37 Josh Rock £131,000
38 William O'Connor £124,750
39 Martin Lukeman £122,500
40 Martijn Kleermaker £119,750
41 Andrew Gilding £114,750
42 Keane Barry £111,250
43 Ian White £108,750
44 Ryan Joyce £105,000
45 Ryan Meikle £97,750
46 Ritchie Edhouse £97,500
47 Jermaine Wattimena £96,250
48 Ricky Evans £95,000
49 Luke Woodhouse £94,000
50 Florian Hempel £86,750
51 Jamie Hughes £85,000
52 Rowby-John Rodriguez £84,000
53 Darius Labanauskas £82,250
54 Steve Beaton £82,000
55 Mike De Decker £81,250
56 Boris Krcmar £80,500
57 Scott Williams £73,000
58 Jim Williams £70,250
59 Devon Petersen £69,250
60 Steve Lennon £67,750
61 Lewy Williams £67,000
62 Adam Gawlas £64,250
63 Joe Murnan £57,000
64 Jeff Smith £56,750
65 Cameron Menzies £49,250
66 Nathan Rafferty £49,000
66 Danny Jansen £49,000
68 Matt Campbell £47,750
69 Mickey Mansell £45,750
70 John O'Shea £37,250
71 Scott Waites £26,750
72 Jimmy Hendriks £26,000
73 Kevin Doets £25,250
74 Jose Justicia £24,250
75 Ricardo Pietreczko £23,750
76 Richie Burnett £23,250
77 Mario Vandenbogaerde £23,000
78 Ted Evetts £22,750
79 Connor Scutt £21,000
80 Krzysztof Kciuk £19,250
81 Brian Raman £19,000
82 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez £17,250
83 James Wilson £16,500
83 Radek Szaganski £16,500
85 George Killington £15,250
86 Shaun Wilkinson £14,750
87 Bradley Brooks £14,000
88 Luc Peters £13,750
89 Damian Mol £12,250
90 Tony Martinez £12,000
91 Jamie Clark £11,750
92 Ross Montgomery £11,000
93 Kevin Burness £10,250
94 Jules van Dongen £9,500
95 Darren Webster £7,250
95 Nick Fullwell £7,250
97 Richard Veenstra £4,250
98 Dylan Slevin £4,000
98 Vladimir Andersen £4,000
100 Nick Kenny £2,000
100 Keegan Brown £2,000
100 Jurjen van der Velde £2,000
103 Geert Nentjes £1,500
103 Pascal Rupprecht £1,500
103 Niels Zonneveld £1,500
106 Josh Payne £1,250
106 Karel Sedlacek £1,250
106 Cameron Crabtree £1,250
109 Graham Usher £750
109 Stephen Burton £750
109 Arron Monk £750
109 Graham Hall £750
109 Danny Van Trijp £750
109 Robbie Knops £750
109 Jeffrey De Zwaan £750
109 Maik Kuivenhoven £750
109 Adam Smith-Neale £750
109 Chris Landman £750

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