The new ranking season began last weekend with Winmau World Masters in Milton Keynes. Luke humphries He was able to take the title and thus managed to immediately throw an important blow.
World Masters Winmau was a new ranking tournament, so Humphries didn’t have to defend yet Prize. This will change this year, because a significant part of its amount will be at risk to PDC. Between October 2023 to January 2024, Humphries won the World Sland Slam of Darts, the finals of the player championships and the Darts World Championship in turn. All the results that Humphries must now defend.
This season, Humphries must defend £ 1154 750, 64 percent of his sum. For comparison; Littleler only needs to defend 202,500 pounds. Van Gerwen earned 338,500 pounds in the ranking in 2023, which is 41.51 percent of his awards in current world rankings.
In addition to Humphries and Van Gerwen, Rob Cross (339 750 £), Gerwyn Price (£ 312,000) i Nathan Aspinall (329 500 £) are other players who must defend more than three tons. In the case of these three players, this applies to over 60 percent of their amount they currently have in the ranking. Certainly Aspinall must be afraid of free falling in global rankings. He won the World Matchplay 2023, and therefore must defend £ 200,000 in July. Early exit in Blackpool saw “asp” just fell from 32.
Andrew Gilding, surprised by the 2023 UK Open winner, is another player with a relatively large amount of cash prize. This performance brought 110,000 pounds at that time, leaving it today 400,500 pounds in the rankings. If the gilding is eliminated early in Minehead, the guild also seems to be afraid of your position among the 32 best cards in the world.
