James Wade

James Wade, known as The Machine, is an English left-handed darts player and a four-time PDC World Championship semi-finalist. Born in Aldershot on 6 April 1983, he was seventh on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £675,750 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with 39 senior titles, a total it compiles across all of its senior competitions.

He won his first PDC major title at the 2007 World Matchplay, beating Terry Jenkins 18-7 in the final at the age of 24, which made him the youngest winner of a PDC major at the time. He won the World Grand Prix in 2007 and 2010, beating Jenkins and Adrian Lewis 6-3 in sets in the respective finals, and the 2009 Premier League with a 13-8 win over Mervyn King. He has won the UK Open three times, most recently in 2021 with an 11-5 win over Luke Humphries, and won the 2018 European Championship by beating Simon Whitlock 11-8.

In 2026 he won Players Championship 1, beating Nathan Aspinall 8-6, and reached the UK Open final, losing 11-7 to Luke Littler. He became the first player to win 1,000 matches in Players Championship events. He won the Australian Darts Masters in August, beating Brody Klinge 8-5, and the Flanders Darts Trophy in September, beating Ross Smith 8-4. At the World Grand Prix he beat Stephen Bunting 3-1 and Gian van Veen 3-0 in sets before losing 5-3 to Humphries in the semi-finals. He then lost 6-5 to Dirk van Duijvenbode at the Swiss Darts Trophy and 6-5 to Damon Heta in the first round of the European Championship. The PDC records ten nine-dart finishes for him in its senior events and eleven across all of its events. He throws 20-gram Unicorn darts and walks on to "I'm Still Standing" by Elton John.