Price to face Clayton in all-Welsh World Grand Prix quarter-final
Archive article. Published on Mon 28 Sept, 21:11. Conditions may have changed since this reporting.
Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton are through to the World Grand Prix quarter-finals after winning their second-round matches in Leicester on Wednesday 30 September. Price beat Ross Smith 3–0 in sets, while Clayton defeated Wessel Nijman 3–1.
Welsh World Grand Prix route
- Price · first round
- Beat Bialecki 2–0 (sets)
- Price · last 16
- Beat Ross Smith 3–0 (sets)
- Clayton · first round
- Beat Ratajski 2–1 (sets)
- Clayton · last 16
- Beat Nijman 3–1 (sets)
- Quarter-final · 2 October
- Price v Clayton · best of five sets
Price keeps his unbeaten set record
Price has not dropped a set across his opening two matches. His straight-sets win over Smith follows a 2–0 victory against Sebastian Bialecki in the first round. Clayton also improved on his opening margin, having needed a deciding set to beat Krzysztof Ratajski 2–1 on Monday. Against Nijman, the PDC’s session report records set scores of 3–0, 2–3, 3–1 and 3–1 in legs.
An all-Welsh quarter-final
Price will face Clayton on Friday 2 October, according to the PDC’s confirmed quarter-final fixture. The match remains best of five sets, with the winner moving into the semi-finals. The pairing guarantees a Welsh semi-finalist but means only one of the two can progress. The report will follow that meeting and the remaining Welsh run.
Correction, 30 September 2026: an earlier version said Price and Clayton could not meet before the semi-finals. The PDC’s confirmed fixture pairs them in the quarter-finals on 2 October. The draw-path sentence has been corrected.
Background and supporting figures
Where this sits
Price won 2–0 then 3–0: no sets conceded across his first two matches. Derived comparison of PDC results.
Clayton won 2–1 in the first round and 3–1 in the last 16; margin widened from one set to two.