Euro aftermath

Well, that was some turn up for the books. Maybe if we were a bit more bold on tipping Jermaine, but oh well, with Ando losing in the quarters we'll call it a wash. Not a bad tournament and congrats to Ritchie for the huge bink. New FRH rankings:

1 Luke Humphries

2 Michael van Gerwen

3 Rob Cross

4 Dave Chisnall

5 Luke Littler

6 Michael Smith

7 Stephen Bunting

8 Damon Heta

9 Jonny Clayton

10 James Wade (UP 1)

11 Chris Dobey (DOWN 1)

12 Danny Noppert (UP 8)

13 Gerwyn Price (DOWN 1)

14 Ryan Searle (UP 1)

15 Dimitri van den Bergh (DOWN 2)

16 Peter Wright (DOWN 2)

17 Ross Smith (DOWN 1)

18 Mike de Decker

19 Josh Rock (DOWN 2)

20 Gary Anderson (NEW)

Schindler drops out but is within 10k, so plenty of opportunity to claw his way back in. Ritchie jumps up to #23, but has over 20k to gain before he'd be in the top 20. Jermaine is up to 25th, while Woodhouse creeps into the top 30.

I suppose the big news is the "return" of the World Masters. This is a very weird one. For one, the tournament concept sounds awesome. But didn't we have a World Masters literally a couple of weeks ago? Do they announce Wesley Plaisier as the defending champion? What does the WDF have to say about it, given it is surely their IP? It's a good announcement, but it asks more questions that it answers. God knows what is going on. We'll see in the coming days I guess.

Final couple of Pro Tours this week. It's a huge week for so many players on the boundaries of qualifying, I guess the biggest name is de Sousa, I think others will look at the run in in more detail, if I can do something tomorrow I will do, but don't count on it.