PETER WRIGHT is hoping to use the partypoker.com World Grand Prix as the catalyst for a successful end to 2014.
Wright has moved up to a career-high fourth in the PDC Order of Merit this year, with his run to the World Championship final on New Year's Day followed by a Players Championship win in May and a European Tour win in July.
However, Wright - who will open his World Grand Prix challenge against Jamie Caven on Tuesday - has not won past the quarter-finals in eight tournaments since, and is hoping to regain his best form going into the autumn's major TV events.
"It's been an up-and-down season," Wright, who starred in the 2014 Betway Premier League Darts, told the Diss Express.
"I've won a Players Championship event and the European Darts Open which are hard to win. But then I'm going out in the first round and I'm thinking what's going on?
"I've got a target on my back now. However, I'm world number four and it's about time I started playing like it.
"There's five or six television tournaments coming up before the end of the year. I want to get back in form for them and I'm also hoping to do well in the two events this weekend."
Tickets for the partypoker.com World Grand Prix are still available, and can be purchased in advance from the Citywest Hotel Box Office on 00353 (0)1 401 0505 or darts14@citywesthotel.com, or in person at the venue.
Tickets can also be purchased online until 12pm on Monday from the Ticketmaster.ie website.