Although the PDC World Darts Championship is far from over, the PDC Order of Merit has been updated with unseeded stars set to make big leaps in the rankings.
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Florian Hempel has already risen 25 spots with his place in the third round and he is now inside the top 64. This was to the detriment of Rowby-John Rodriguez who now has to go to Q-School.
Alan Soutar is now 54th, up 23 spots from before, while Steve Lennon and Martijn Kleermaker have chances to go even higher after going up eight and nine places respectively.
Raymond Smith was not even listed in the Order of Merit before the World Darts Championship, but after reaching the last 32 he is in 92nd in one go. The Australian needs two more victories to dive into the top-64, with which he is in would capture a Tour Card. If that fails, Smith will be removed from the ranking again prior to Q-School.
Top players not having movement
There are still very few changes at the top of the ranking. Jose de Sousa has gone up into the top five, at the expense of Dimitri van den Bergh who has gone the opposite way.
The third round is interesting for the number one position. If Gerwyn Price beats Kim Huybrechts in the third round, he will remain the leader in the ranking after the World Darts Championship. Only Peter Wright can take over this position with a world title, but then Price will have to lose his next game. Michael van Gerwen has to make up for 59,750 pounds on Wright to become number two in the world again.
PDC Order of Merit after second round at World Darts Championship
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1 Gerwyn Price 1181.75
2 Peter Wright 716.5
3 Michael van Gerwen 656.75
4 James Wade 489.75
5 Jose de Sousa 429.75
6 Gary Anderson 412.5
7 Dimitri Van den Bergh 408.75
8 Jonny Clayton 405.25
9 Michael Smith 365.75
10 Rob Cross 347
11 Joe Cullen 313.75
12 Krzysztof Ratajski 310.25
13 Dave Chisnall 288
14 Nathan Aspinall 275
15 Dirk van Duijvenbode 261.75
16 Ryan Searle 251.25
17 Danny Noppert 233.75
18 Stephen Bunting 224.25
19 Gabriel Clemens 218.25
20 Mervyn King 216.25
21 Daryl Gurney 213.25
22 Brendan Dolan 206
23 Ian White 200
24 Simon Whitlock 199.75
25 Luke Humphries 199.5
26 Devon Petersen 195.5
27 Mensur Suljovic 192
28 Vincent van der Voort 178
29 Damon Heta 177.25
30 Glen Durrant 169.5
31 Callan Rydz 150.25
32 Chris Dobey 146.5
33 Ross Smith 144.25
34 Ryan Joyce 128
35 Kim Huybrechts 123
36 Jermaine Wattimena 116.25
37 William O'Connor 111.25
38 Jamie Hughes 111.25
39 Adrian Lewis 106.75
40 Ricky Evans 103
41 Martijn Kleermaker 95.5
42 Adam Hunt 87.5
43 Darius Labanauskas 86
44 Steve Lennon 85
45 Jeffrey De Zwaan 82.75
46 Jason Lowe 80.5
47 Luke Woodhouse 71.25
48 Maik Kuivenhoven 70.75
49 Madars Razma 70.75
50 Steve Beaton 70
51 Ron Meulenkamp 64
52 Jeff Smith 59
53 Steve West 58.5
54 Alan Soutar 57
55 William Borland 57
56 Andy Boulton 56.5
57 Keegan Brown 55
58 Raymond van Barneveld 53.5
59 Mike De Decker 53
60 Ryan Meikle 52.75
61 Boris Krcmar 50
62 Florian Hempel 49
63 John Henderson 48.75
64 Max Hopp 48
65 Rowby-John Rodriguez 46.5
66 Scott Waites 46.5
67 Martin Schindler 45.5
68 Ritchie Edhouse 45.25
69 Mickey Mansell 44.5
70 Bradley Brooks 43.5
71 Karel Sedlacek 40.5
72 Keane Barry 40.25
73 Ryan Murray 40.25
74 Nick Kenny 39.5
75 Scott Mitchell 37.5
76 Matthew Edgar 37.25
77 Rusty-Jake Rodriguez 36
78 Jelle Klaasen 36
79 Lisa Ashton 35.5
80 Wayne Jones 35.5
81 Lewis Williams 35.25
82 Joe Murnan 35
83 Ted Evetts 34.75
84 Andy Hamilton 34
85 Jason Heaver 32.5
86 Chas Barstow 32
87 Derk Telnekes 30
88 Justin Pipe 29
89 Fallon Sherrock 27.5
90 James Wilson 25.5
91 Alan Tabern 25.25
92 Raymond Smith 25
93 Jim Williams 23.5
94 Boris Koltsov 23
95 Darren Webster 23
96 Peter Jacques 21.5
97 Ciaran Teehan 21.5
98 Kai Fan Leung 20.5
99 Daniel Larsson 20
100 Josh Payne 20
101 Krzysztof Kciuk 19.25
102 Steve Brown 18.25
103 Gordon Mathers 18
104 Adam Gawlas 17.5
105 Jesus Noguera 16.75
106 Kevin Doets 16
107 Chris Landman 15
108 Martin Atkins 15
109 John Michael 14.25
110 Peter Hudson 13.5
111 Matt Campbell 11.5
112 Eddie Lovely 11.5
113 Niels Zonneveld 10.75
114 Aaron Beeney 10.5
115 Nathan Rafferty 10
116 Geert De Vos 10
117 Martin Lukeman 9.5
118 Robert Thornton 9
119 Gary Blades 9
120 Adam Smith-Neale 9
121 Danny Baggish 8
122 Andrew Gilding 8
123 Geert Nentjes 8
124 Luc Peters 8
125 John Brown 8
126 Ben Robb 7.5
126 Danny Lauby 7.5
126 Diogo Portela 7.5
126 Fabian Schmutzler 7.5
126 John Norman Jnr 7.5
126 Ky Smith 7.5
126 Lourence Ilagan 7.5
126 Nitin Kumar 7.5
126 Paul Lim 7.5
126 Roman Benecky 7.5
126 Royden Lam 7.5
126 Toyokazu Shibata 7.5
126 Yuki Yamada 7.5
139 Mark McGeeney 7.5
140 Martin Thomas 7.5
141 Jack Main 7
142 Jon Worsley 6.5
143 Jim McEwan 6
144 David Evans 6
145 Berry van Peer 6
146 Zoran Lerchbacher 6
147 Steffen Siepmann 5.5
148 Jose Justicia 5
149 Brett Claydon 5
150 Harald Leitinger 5
151 Kirk Shepherd 4.5
152 Joe Davis 4
153 Michael Rasztovits 4
154 Gino Vos 4
155 Darren Penhall 4
156 Wesley Harms 4
157 Gavin Carlin 3.5
158 Jake Jones 3.5
159 Sean Fisher 3
160 Christian Kist 3
161 Ryan De Vreede 2.5
162 Kevin McDine 2.5
163 Lukas Wenig 2.5
164 Sebastian Bialecki 2.5
165 Cristo Reyes 2.5
166 Andreas Harrysson 2
166 Kenny Neyens 2
168 Richard Veenstra 2
169 Benito van de Pas 2
170 Vincent van der Meer 2
171 Carl Wilkinson 1.5
172 Michael Unterbuchner 1.5
173 Scott Williams 1
174 Davy Proosten 1
175 Craig Galliano 1
175 Dyson Parody 1
175 Justin Broton 1
175 Justin Hewitt 1
175 Patrik Kovacs 1
180 Gabor Jagicza 1
180 Janos Vegso 1
180 Johan Engstrom 1
180 Jozsef Rucska 1
180 Peter Strbik 1
180 Thomas Lovely 1
186 Shane McGuirk 1
187 Lorenzo Pronk 1
188 Pero Ljubic 1
188 Robert Marijanovic 1
190 Mike Warburton 1
191 Rhys Griffin 1
191 Scott Taylor 1
193 Patrick van den Boogaard 0.5
194 Michal Smejda 0.5
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