Group C has a group of death about it. Smith is obviously the seed and favourite. Rata and de Sousa need to prove themselves in a major. Ashton has had some big wins this week (Rob Cross and John Henderson among her defeated opponents).

Wouldn't say MvG has the easiest task. Both Cullen and Clemens have the ability to take advantage of any poor form.

Group F is another "anyone can win it" group.

BoyleSports Grand Slam of Darts
Monday November 16
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
8x Group matches
Rob Cross v Justin Pipe (D)
Dave Chisnall v Luke Humphries (D)
James Wade v Damon Heta (F)
Simon Whitlock v Ryan Searle (B)
Glen Durrant v Jermaine Wattimena (F)
Nathan Aspinall v Wayne Warren (H)
Dimitri Van den Bergh v Ricky Evans (H)
Gary Anderson v Adam Gawlas (B)

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
8x Group matches
Jonny Clayton v Ryan Joyce (G)
Joe Cullen v Gabriel Clemens (A)
Krzysztof Ratajski v Jose De Sousa (C)
Michael Smith v Lisa Ashton (C)
Michael van Gerwen v Adam Hunt (A)
Gerwyn Price v Mikuru Suzuki (G)
Peter Wright v Dirk van Duijvenbode (E)
Ian White v Devon Petersen (E)

Rob Cross starts the tournament with a comfortable 5-1 win over everyones favourite, Justin Pipe.

Chizzy fights back to beat Humphries 5-4.

He and Cross will meet tomorrow with Humphries and Pipe also facing off.

Wayne Warren smashed 5-0 by Asp.

Warren averaged 70

Then DvdB smashes a 114.85 average, a record for the GSoD.

Damn, Suzuki should have beaten Gerwyn Price.

But it is Peter Wright who is the victim of the big day 1 shock, losing 5-4 to Van Duijvanbode

Although MvG has to play yet.

Oh yeah, MvG already played and won 5-0. Forgot that.

Todays action. Yesterdays winners take on each other while the losers match up, so a big day for everyone.

Tuesday November 17
Afternoon Session (1300 GMT)
8x Group matches
Ricky Evans v Wayne Warren (H)
Luke Humphries v Justin Pipe (D)
Ryan Searle v Adam Gawlas (B)
Glen Durrant v Damon Heta (F)
Gary Anderson v Simon Whitlock (B)
James Wade v Jermaine Wattimena (F)
Rob Cross v Dave Chisnall (D)
Nathan Aspinall v Dimitri Van den Bergh (H)

Evening Session (1900 GMT)
8x Group matches
Krzysztof Ratajski v Lisa Ashton (C)
Joe Cullen v Adam Hunt (A)
Ryan Joyce v Mikuru Suzuki (G)
Peter Wright v Ian White (E)
Devon Petersen v Dirk van Duijvenbode (E)
Michael van Gerwen v Gabriel Clemens (A)
Gerwyn Price v Jonny Clayton (G)
Michael Smith v Jose De Sousa (C)

Rapid Ricky beat Wabid Warren. Warren pretty much certainly out.

An under-par Glen Durrant loses again and is all but out.
Hopefully he can be back to his full health by the time the Worlds come about next month.

Whitlock is first player to go through. Beat Ando, another not at full fitness, 5-1.

Ratajski double trouble. 4-1 down to Ashton.

Great recovery to win 5-4 by Rata, but those 4 legs costly.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 6 hours, 7 minutes ago
An under-par Glen Durrant loses again and is all but out.
Hopefully he can be back to his full health by the time the Worlds come about next month.
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Maybe I'm a bad man DJ but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I got sick to death of his little old me from Middlesbrough just happy to be here routine during the Premier league coverage.

Petersen could actually win a major soon. Such a massive improvement in a short space of time. Wayne Mardle is a magician.

They've really toughened Petersen up.

No more Mr nice guy, he looks bang up for it.

LETS PLAY DARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Strange time for this session, but I guess it is so it doesn't clash with the football.

Lots to play for tonight.

Good 5-1 win for de Sousa.

Smith needs 1 leg to go through.
Ratajski needs a win of 3 legs or more. A 2 leg win and him and de Sousa are level. Anything else and he is out.

And Smith gets what he needs in the first leg.

Rata trails 4-2, so is out.

Group G is another where everyone can still qualify.
Suzuki will need a big win and a big Price win as she has to overturn a 8 leg difference on Joyce.
Clayton also needs a win, and the bigger the better.

If Clayton wins 5-1 or 5-0 then it will be winner goes through, loser goes out in the Price-Joyce game.