UK Open done

Lost a little bit more in round five, nothing after that, mainly due to not being able to project round six (as advertised) and then not really feeling the point for the quarters given how the draw had come out. We do have new FRH rankings:

1 Luke Littler

2 Gian van Veen

3 Luke Humphries

4 James Wade (UP 3)

5 Jonny Clayton (DOWN 1)

6 Gerwyn Price

7 Gary Anderson (DOWN 2)

8 Josh Rock (UP 1)

9 Ryan Searle (DOWN 1)

10 Danny Noppert

11 Stephen Bunting

12 Michael van Gerwen

13 Nathan Aspinall

14 Chris Dobey

15 Jermaine Wattimena

16 Ross Smith (UP 4)

17 Martin Schindler (DOWN 1)

18 Wessel Nijman

19 Luke Woodhouse (DOWN 2)

20 Damon Heta (DOWN 1)

Lukeman's run actually only gave him a couple of places, Barry got a few more and is back in the top 60 again. Other than that, not really that much in terms of movement - obviously Wade making the final gives him a nice bump back into the top five, although 4-6 are barely separated by anything and there's a huge gap above to the next couple (then Littler has nearly triple the points van Veen has). Smith moving up as he has is more down to his Pro Tour win since the last rankings up date, rather than anything he did this weekend.

Euro Tour is back later this week. That's a really tasty looking list of home nation qualifiers, and the Pro Tour list looks very exciting as well. Additionally, with no Littler it means we can't just automatically pick a winner and be done with it, seedings look like they'll give us a decent selection of last sixteen matches if everyone gets through. Until we get a bunch of withdrawals and it ruins everything. Back later this week for it.