PDC 2020 World Championships
No sooner than we got through the 2019 World Champs, we are already thinking ahead to the next installment - hoping that we get in ahead of the crowds to support Glen Durrant.
Around about this time in 2018, shrewd cookies were loading up on Rob Cross, who was beginning to show some amazing form quickly after coming through Q-School. This time around it should be much harder to miss such a big name as Durrant.
Since coming through Q-School, he's played in four PDPA Players Championship events in Wigan. He lost in the first round in Event 1, before reaching the final in Event 2 (losing to Dave Chinsall), losing with a 100 average in Event 3, before finally winning the 4th event - beating Mensur Sujovic, Gerwyn Price and Dimitri van den Burgh in doing so.
He's added a 99.9 average in a losing Premier League debut, and this week has done astonishingly well so far in the European Darts Open UK Qualifier - winning 6-1 v Mark Wilson with a 116.4 average (YES - 116.4!!), 6-0 v Mark Dudbridge (103.7 average) and 6-5 v John Henderson (106 average).
He's playing with all the swagger of a top top player, and he's not even gone full time yet!
Since coming through Q-School he has won 18 of his 23 matches, and taken scalpes of players such as Peter Wright, Bob Thornton, Mensur Suljovic and Gerwyn Price.
Should he really be 50/1 for the PDC World Championships? 33/1 for the European Darts Open? 28/1 for the UK Open? I'm not sure. But I wouldn't fancy being the layer at those odds.
Glen Durrant:
1pt win UK Open Winner at 28/1 - SportingBet
1pt win European Darts Open at 33/1 - SportingBet
1pt e/w World Championships at 50/1 (1/2 1,2) Bet365/Betway