The 2021 BoyleSports World Grand Prix was a darts tournament and the 24th staging of the World Grand Prix. It was held from 3 to 9 October 2021 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was held away from the Citywest Hotel in Dublin for the second consecutive year.
Gerwyn Price was the defending champion, after defeating Dirk van Duijvenbode 5âÂÂ2 in the 2020 final, but lost to Jonny Clayton 5âÂÂ1 in the first all-Welsh major ranking final in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) history. It was also Clayton's first PDC ranking major title win, as his previous three wins (the 2020 PDC World Cup of Darts (alongside Price), the 2021 Masters and the 2021 Premier League Darts) were all in non-ranking events.
All matches were played as double in, double out; requiring the players to score 501 points to win a leg, beginning with as well as finishing on either a double or the bullseye. Matches were played to set format, with each set being the best of five legs (first to three).
This is the only "double in" tournament on the PDC circuit, and along with the World Championship the only tournament which uses the set format.
The matches got longer as the tournament progressed:
The prize fund will remain at ã450,000, with the winner's earnings being ã110,000.
The following is the breakdown of the fund:
The field of 32 players consists of the top 16 on the PDC Order of Merit and the top 16 non-qualified players from the ProTour Order of Merit as of 26 September 2021. Only the top eight players on the Order of Merit are seeded for the tournament.
The following players have qualified for the tournament: