James Wade Names Second Best Darts Player Ever Who Always Gets 'Overlooked'

James Wade has named who he believes is the world's second best darts player of all time who he feels is 'overlooked'.

Wade is currently taking part in the 2026 PDC World Masters darts tournament which being held at Arena MK in Milton Keynes.

The total prize money pot is £500,000, with £100,000 going to the eventual winner, £50,000 to the runner-up and £30,000 to the semi-finalists.

The 42-year-old reached the quarter-final after beating Gary Anderson 4-3 in the second round, with sets in the tournament being played over the best of three legs.

Wade - who has reached the PDC World Championship semi-finals on four occasions - reflected on his victory over Anderson and was pleased to come out as the victor after a hard battle.

He said: "It was just a scrap, wasn't it? Hard work, a hard battle, I'm just fortunate I came out the other side and be the one that's got the W."

And Wade was very complimentary about his opponent Anderson, who he believes is the second best darts player of all time.

He said: "As I'm going to say again, when he's at his absolute prime, he's the second best darts player ever to walk the planet, so it's always nice to win.

James Wade. (Image: Getty)

"But I couldn't really care if it's Gary or Tom t*t, I just want to try and prevail to the next round."

As the slightly spikey press conference continued, Wade believes that newer and casual fans of darts are perhaps unaware of how good a player Anderson is and his career accomplishments which he believes are 'overlooked', while he feels other lesser players are perhaps publicised more by the media, though he did not go as far as naming names.

He said: "I think the biggest impact in darts is the media and people getting hold of players that aren't great but publicising them a lot.

"In the world of darts, we've got casual fans, new fans that aren't quite aware of what people like Gary Anderson did, you know. And he's still doing as well, but yeah. Very, very, very overlooked, Gary."

Anderson has won two PDC World Championship titles to his name which he claimed in 2015 and 2016.