A Group A with no easy night
Luke Littler did not get a soft landing. The draw for the Grand Slam of Darts came out this afternoon, and the world No 1 and two-time defending champion was handed Beau Greaves and Niels Zonneveld in Group A.
Littler and Greaves meet first, in the evening session on Saturday, November 14. They have played twice and split the meetings. Greaves won a 6-5 thriller in the 2025 World Youth Championship semi-final, a day after Littler had won the World Grand Prix. Littler answered with a 6-5 deciding-leg win at Players Championship 24 in August.
Zonneveld has his own history with the top seed. He beat Littler 6-5 in the quarter-finals of a European Tour event in March, and Greaves took the other side of that triangle against him, winning 6-3 at Players Championship 31.
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Humphries, Wade and the rest of the field
Luke Humphries, the 2023 winner, is in Group I with Joe Cullen and Paolo Nebrida. Group K carries the other eye-catching names, with James Wade up against Ricky Evans and Cam Crabtree. Lisa Ashton is in Group B alongside Jermaine Wattimena and Alan Soutar, while Josh Rock lands in Group C with Kevin Doets and Tommy Morris, who recently won Players Championship 34.
Gerwyn Price, Jonny Clayton, Michael van Gerwen, Chris Dobey, Rob Cross, Gian van Veen, Ross Smith and Nathan Aspinall are all in the field too.
How the week in Wolverhampton runs
Play starts on Saturday, November 14, with 16 group matches across an afternoon and an evening session. Winners and losers then meet again on Sunday, and the final group games land on Monday and Tuesday. Round two follows on November 18 and 19, the quarter-finals on November 20 and 21, and the semi-finals and final on Sunday, November 22.
Every head-to-head in Group A this year has finished 6-5 or close to it, so the opening night in Wolverhampton could set the tone for the whole group.
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