ET7 aftermath

Ryan Searle was one win away from checking off one of the five who I'd picked as a new Euro Tour winner, but it was Ross Smith who achieved that feat (but he already has a major obv). Nice run by Menzies, and a little bit of a good run for Cross, which puts both back into the Matchplay as it stands, frankly ahead of more interesting people but it is what it is for now, looks like we have six Pro Tours and three Euro Tours before the cutoff, we've got one of the latter in four days and then two of the former right after that, so I'll have a look at the run in once we're a little bit closer. For now, with a pretty minor loss for the tournament in the books, we'll do a new FRH rankings update:

1 Luke Littler

2 Gian van Veen

3 Luke Humphries

4 Gerwyn Price

5 Jonny Clayton

6 James Wade

7 Josh Rock (UP 3)

8 Ryan Searle (DOWN 1)

9 Danny Noppert

10 Gary Anderson (DOWN 2)

11 Wessel Nijman (UP 4)

12 Chris Dobey (UP 1)

13 Stephen Bunting (DOWN 1)

14 Michael van Gerwen

15 Nathan Aspinall (DOWN 4)

16 Ross Smith (UP 1)

17 Jermaine Wattimena (DOWN 1)

18 Luke Woodhouse (UP 1)

19 Krzysztof Ratajski (DOWN 1)

20 Martin Schindler

Nobody in or out, we've had two Euro Tours and eight Pro Tours since the last update, of which Rock binked one and Smith binked the other, there's a huge gap up to Aspinall from Smith (despite the former seemingly being on a hiatus since forever) while there's really not much of anything between fourth place and tenth (where Anderson is on almost as long of a break, neither of them are close to Littler in that respect though). Nijman continually printing money sees him keep going up, while Woodhouse getting a debut bink sees him continue to climb the top 20. Lower down, Doets is up into the top 25 as he continues his impressive form, Zonneveld has just crept into the top 32, while returning to the top 50 are Suljovic and Huybrechts.

Likely won't have anything before the Kiel preview.