2017 European Darts Grand Prix

2017 European Darts Grand Prix
Tournament information
Dates	5–7 May 2017
Venue	Glaspalast
Location	Sindelfingen
Country	Germany
Organisation(s)	PDC
Format	Legs
Prize fund	£135,000
Winner's share	£25,000
High checkout	170 Jelle Klaasen (quarter-finals)
Champion(s)
Peter Wright
«Event 3 Event 5»

The 2017 European Darts Grand Prix was the fourth of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Glaspalast, Sindelfingen, Germany, between 5–7 May 2017. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.

Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, after defeating Peter Wright 6–2 in the final of the 2016 tournament, but Wright sought revenge by defeating Van Gerwen 6–0 in the final.[1][2]

Prize money

This is how the prize money is divided:

Stage (num. of players)		Prize money
Winner	(1)	£25,000
Runner-up	(1)	£10,000
Semi-finalists	(2)	£6,000
Quarter-finalists	(4)	£4,000
Third round losers	(8)	£3,000
Second round losers	(16)	£2,000
First round losers	(16)	£1,000
Total	£135,000

Qualification and format

The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today on 27 April automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.

The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events - 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Wigan on 28 April), eight from the West/South European Qualifier, four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held on 4 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 17 March) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 29 April).

The following players took part in the tournament:

Top 16 Michael van Gerwen (runner-up) Peter Wright (champion) Mensur Suljović (third round) Simon Whitlock (second round) Dave Chisnall (semi-finals) James Wade (second round) Kim Huybrechts (third round) Benito van de Pas (quarter-finals) Gerwyn Price (third round) Alan Norris (second round) Jelle Klaasen (semi-finals) Ian White (second round) Michael Smith (second round) Joe Cullen (quarter-finals) Daryl Gurney (third round) Cristo Reyes (second round)

UK Qualifier Stephen Bunting (first round) Mervyn King (first round) Steve West (third round) Joe Murnan (second round) Steve Beaton (first round) James Wilson (first round) Adrian Lewis (third round) Chris Dobey (first round) Paul Rowley (first round) Rob Cross (quarter-finals) Luke Woodhouse (first round) Mark Webster (third round) Steve Lennon (first round) John Henderson (second round) James Richardson (second round) Matt Clark (second round) Jonny Clayton (second round) Keegan Brown (second round)

West/South European Qualifier Ron Meulenkamp (first round) Dimitri Van den Bergh (second round) Jeffrey de Graaf (first round) Jermaine Wattimena (first round) Jan Dekker (quarter-finals) Christian Kist (first round) Zoran Lerchbacher (first round) Dirk van Duijvenbode (second round) Home Nation Qualifier Gabriel Clemens (first round) Bernd Roith (first round) René Berndt (first round) Max Hopp (second round) Nordic & Baltic Qualifier[3] Ulf Ceder (third round) East European Qualifier[4] Krzysztof Ratajski (second round)

Draw

	First round (best of 11 legs) 5 May [5]					Second round (best of 11 legs) 6 May [6]					Third round (best of 11 legs) 7 May [7]					Quarter-finals (best of 11 legs) 7 May [7]					Semi-finals (best of 11 legs) 7 May [7]					Final (best of 11 legs) 7 May [7]
						1	Michael van Gerwen 97.05	6
	Keegan Brown 86.79		6				Keegan Brown 90.88	2
											1	van Gerwen 97.12	6
	Jeffrey de Graaf 85.86		4
												Ceder 91.90	2
						16	Cristo Reyes 83.70	3
	Steve Beaton 86.60		2				Ulf Ceder 82.35	6
																1	van Gerwen 104.05	6
	Ulf Ceder 94.28		6
																8	van de Pas 89.16	1
						8	Benito van de Pas 89.87	6
	Joe Murnan 85.61		6				Joe Murnan 92.16	5
											8	van de Pas 94.63	6
	Gabriel Clemens 79.75		3
											9	Price 90.84	2
						9	Gerwyn Price 96.67	6
	Mervyn King 96.76		4				Dimitri Van den Bergh 90.39	3
																					1	van Gerwen 105.85	6
	Dimitri Van den Bergh 96.86		6
																					5	Chisnall 97.15	5
						5	Dave Chisnall 112.25	6
	Matt Clark 88.44		6				Matt Clark 95.65	3
											5	Chisnall 99.02	6
	René Berndt 82.16		4
												Lewis 94.41	3
						12	Ian White 92.63	4
	Adrian Lewis 96.30		6				Adrian Lewis 96.74	6
																5	Chisnall 95.80	6
	Stephen Bunting 84.15		2
																	Cross 91.70	3
						4	Simon Whitlock 94.71	3
	Rob Cross 96.31		6				Rob Cross 95.93	6
											Cross 103.32		6
	Luke Woodhouse 93.02		3
											West 100.62		1
						13	Michael Smith 101.88	5
	Steve West 90.82		6				Steve West 93.70	6
																										1	van Gerwen 99.56	0
	Chris Dobey 89.07		2
																										2	Wright 104.86	6
						2	Peter Wright 100.65	6
	James Richardson 94.51		6				James Richardson 97.96	2
											2	Wright 100.38	6
	Paul Rowley 84.12		2
											15	Gurney 99.46	4
						15	Daryl Gurney 99.57	6
	John Henderson 89.24		6				John Henderson 89.41	4
																2	Wright 94.72	6
	Ron Meulenkamp 90.70		5
																	Dekker 88.12	2
						7	Kim Huybrechts 92.12	6
	Max Hopp 95.49		6				Max Hopp 85.63	3
											7	Huybrechts 93.44	4
	Zoran Lerchbacher 85.76		4
												Dekker 95.75	6
						10	Alan Norris 92.13	5
	James Wilson 89.60		3				Jan Dekker 91.36	6
																					2	Wright 99.42	6
	Jan Dekker 108.12		6
																					11	Klaasen 90.26	3
						6	James Wade 89.33	5
	Mark Webster 81.56		6				Mark Webster 89.13	6
												Webster 92.94	1
	Bernd Roith 83.57		4
											11	Klaasen 97.74	6
						11	Jelle Klaasen 81.57	6
	Jermaine Wattimena 87.44		5				Dirk van Duijvenbode 73.68	2
																11	Klaasen 94.91	6
	Dirk van Duijvenbode 94.88		6
																14	Cullen 91.53	5
						3	Mensur Suljović 98.47	6
	Steve Lennon 90.78		4				Krzysztof Ratajski 91.03	4
											3	Suljović 101.44	5
	Krzysztof Ratajski 99.52		6
											14	Cullen 101.21	6
						14	Joe Cullen 95.28	6
	Christian Kist 89.92		2				Jonny Clayton 92.44	1
	Jonny Clayton 96.81		6

References

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