Grand Slam of Darts: Glen Durrant among eight BDO players to compete in the PDC major

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Durrant, who triumphed at the Lakeside in 2016 and 2017 as well as winning this year's BDO World Trophy, has twice reached the knockout stages of the Grand Slam of Darts in his two previous appearances in Wolverhampton and will once again be his organisation's best chance of glory.

Also trying to emulate the BDO's only previous winner of this prestigious title - Scott Waites - will be Scott Michell, Mark McGeeney, Wesley Harms, Adam Smith-Neale, Jim Williams, Gary Robson and Michael Unterbuchner.

There will be 24 PDC players competing in the event although there qualification period is still running. You can scroll down for full details of who have already sealed their spots and who are still in the thick of the race.

The £450,000 tournament will be held from November 10-18 at the Aldersley Leisure Village in Wolverhampton, with the first round seeing the 32 players split into eight groups, with the top two in each following the round robin phase progressing to the knockout last 16 onwards.

Grand Slam of Darts: How the players qualified

BDO REPRESENTATIVES

• 2018 Lakeside Champion - GLEN DURRANT
• 2018 Lakeside Championship runner-up - MARK MCGEENEY
• 2018 World Masters Champion - ADAM SMITH-NEALE
• 2018 BDO World Trophy Champion – (Glen Durrant)
• Top five players from BDO Rankings: JIM WILLIAMS WESLEY HARMS MICHAEL UNTERBUCHNER SCOTT MITCHELL GARY ROBSON

PDC REPRESENTATIVES

Current Provisional Qualifiers: (invited in the following order up to a maximum of 16 players) 

• 2017/18 PDC World Champion; ROB CROSS - 1
• 2017 Grand Slam Champion; MICHAEL VAN GERWEN - 2 
• 2018 Premier League Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
• 2018 World Matchplay Champion; GARY ANDERSON - 3
• 2018 World Grand Prix Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
• 2017 World Youth Champion; DIMITRI VAN DEN BERGH - 4
• 2018 Masters Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
• 2018 UK Open Champion; (Gary Anderson)
• 2018 European Champion: Yet to be held
• 2017 Players Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
• 2018 Champions League Champion; (Gary Anderson)
• 2018 World Series of Darts Finals Champion: Yet to be held
• 2018 World Cup winners; (Michael van Gerwen) & RAYMOND VAN BARNEVELD - 5
• 2017/18 PDC World Championship runner-up; (Phil Taylor)
• 2017 Grand Slam runner-up; PETER WRIGHT - 6
• 2018 Premier League runner-up; MICHAEL SMITH - 7
• 2018 World Matchplay runner-up; MENSUR SULJOVIC - 8
• 2018 World Grand Prix runner-up; (Peter Wright)
• 2017 World Youth Championship runner-up; JOSH PAYNE - 9
• 2018 Masters runner-up; (Raymond van Barneveld)
• 2018 UK Open runner-up; COREY CADBY - 10
• 2018 European Championship runner-up; Yet to be held
• 2017 Players Championship runner-up; JONNY CLAYTON - 11
• 2018 Champions League runner-up; (Peter Wright)
• 2018 World Series of Darts Finals runner-up; Yet to be held
• 2018 World Cup runners-up (2 players with highest individual taking preference if only one spot available) (Peter Wright & Gary Anderson) 

This list can produce a maximum of 28 players. If it produces more than 16 players, they shall be taken in order as listed above and no further players shall qualify automatically.

If it produces fewer than 16 places then additional places shall be filled from the reserve list in the following order:

2018 European Tour winners (in Order of Merit order at Nov 5): (Michael van Gerwen), (Mensur Suljovic), (Jonny Clayton) IAN WHITE - 12, GERWYN PRICE - 13, MAX HOPP - 14

2018 Players Championship winners (in Order of Merit order at Nov 5): (Michael van Gerwen), (Peter Wright), (Rob Cross) (Gary Anderson), (Michael Smith), (Ian White), (Gerwyn Price), MERVYN KING - 15, (Max Hopp), JEFFREY DE ZWAAN - 16, (Josh Payne), DANNY NOPPERT, MICKEY MANSELL,NATHAN ASPINALL
2018 UK Open Qualifier winners (in Order of Merit order at Nov 5) (Michael van Gerwen), (Gary Anderson) (Michael Smith), (Corey Cadby), KRZYSZTOF RATAJSKI

Players shall be separated within the reserve list first by the number of Events in each category they have won and then by their position in the PDC main Order of Merit on the cut-off date.

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