The first round is complete at the first Players Championship of the year with Raymond van Barneveld making a winning return.
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Van Barneveld averaged 101 in seeing off Toni Alcinas in a 6-2 win. There was some big averages in the first round alongside that 101 with Michael van Gerwen hitting a 108 and Dave Chisnall hitting a 106. Maik Kuivenhoven hit the same mark as well on his Pro Tour debut in a brilliant win for the Dutchman.
In terms of the new names from the BDO, Glen Durrant made a comeback against Alan Tabern but was edged out. As well, Mark McGeeney lost out to Gerwyn Price but Scott Baker smashed through John Goldie in a whitewash.
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In terms of the new names from the BDO, Glen Durrant made a comeback against Alan Tabern but was edged out. As well, Mark McGeeney lost out to Gerwyn Price but Scott Baker smashed through John Goldie in a whitewash.
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First round Players Championship 1
| 108.8 | van Gerwen, Michael | 6 | - | 2 | Woodhouse, Luke | 93.5 |
| 87.3 | Eastwood, Gary | 6 | - | 4 | Kist, Christian | 82.8 |
| 88.4 | Mansell, Mickey | 6 | - | 3 | Van der Meer, Vincent | 87.4 |
| 78.0 | Meikle, Ryan | 6 | - | 3 | De Sousa, Jose | 78.8 |
| 90.7 | Wilson, James | 6 | - | 3 | Wilson, Mark | 91.2 |
| 100.1 | Dudbridge, Mark | 6 | - | 3 | Owen, Robert | 97.6 |
| 94.1 | Searle, Ryan | 6 | - | 4 | West, Steve | 94.3 |
| 101.0 | van Barneveld, Raymond | 6 | - | 2 | Alcinas, Antonio | 89.3 |
| 94.4 | Gurney, Daryl | 6 | - | 2 | Temple, Terry | 80.6 |
| 100.6 | Bain, Jamie | 6 | - | 3 | van Duijvenbode, Dirk | 94.0 |
| 86.2 | de Zwaan, Jeffrey | 6 | - | 4 | Lewis, Jamie | 80.4 |
| 85.7 | Reyes, Cristo | 6 | - | 5 | Robbe, Mario | 87.0 |
| 87.5 | Clayton, Jonny | 6 | - | 5 | Brooks, Bradley | 91.1 |
| 97.0 | Edgar, Matthew | 6 | - | 4 | Richardson, James | 84.8 |
| 94.9 | Henderson, John | 6 | - | 4 | Razma, Madars | 87.7 |
| 97.1 | Monk, Arron | 6 | - | 5 | O'Connor, William | 99.8 |
| 90.2 | Wade, James | 6 | - | 5 | Huybrechts, Kim | 96.2 |
| 80.3 | Worsley, Jonathan | 6 | - | 3 | Newell, Tony | 87.6 |
| 98.8 | Anderson, Kyle | 6 | - | 1 | Rodriguez, Rowby-John | 97.2 |
| 92.6 | Humphries, Luke | 6 | - | 4 | Gray, Adrian | 88.3 |
| 106.7 | Chisnall, Dave | 6 | - | 1 | Derry, Nathan | 93.8 |
| 84.6 | Michael, John | 6 | - | 4 | Brown, Keegan | 82.3 |
| 90.8 | Gilding, Andrew | 6 | - | 1 | Beaton, Steve | 88.0 |
| 98.5 | Evetts, Ted | 6 | - | 3 | Jones, Wayne | 90.8 |
| 99.1 | Cross, Rob | 6 | - | 4 | Van Baelen, Davy | 87.7 |
| 90.2 | Baker, Scott | 6 | - | 0 | Goldie, John | 77.5 |
| 94.9 | Joyce, Ryan | 6 | - | 4 | Bunse, Christian | 95.6 |
| 93.4 | Labanauskus, Darius | 6 | - | 3 | van den Bergh, Dimitri | 87.0 |
| 91.1 | Burton, Stephen | 6 | - | 3 | Noppert, Danny | 83.0 |
| 106.0 | Kuivenhoven, Maik | 6 | - | 2 | Whitehead, Conan | 100.1 |
| 97.8 | Evans, Ricky | 6 | - | 5 | Rafferty, Nathan | 90.6 |
| 91.8 | Robinson, Reece | 6 | - | 1 | Carroll, Shaun | 85.0 |
| 102.4 | White, Ian | 6 | - | 3 | Lerchbacher, Zoran | 89.8 |
| 96.5 | Clark, Matt | 6 | - | 5 | Meeuwisse, Yordi | 92.0 |
| 84.4 | Klaasen, Jelle | 6 | - | 3 | Prins, Dave | 86.9 |
| 82.5 | Kanik, Tytus | 6 | - | 5 | Murnan, Joe | 82.7 |
| 88.9 | King, Mervyn | 6 | - | 4 | Dolan, Brendan | 92.0 |
| 81.8 | Edhouse, Ritchie | 6 | - | 3 | Burness, Kevin | 78.8 |
| 96.2 | Wattimena , Jermaine | 6 | - | 3 | Smith, Ross | 90.3 |
| 89.6 | Bates, Barrie | 6 | - | 4 | Justicia, Jose Antonio | 91.3 |
| 92.8 | Price, Gerwyn | 6 | - | 2 | McGeeney, Mark | 92.9 |
| 89.8 | Portela, Diogo | 6 | - | 3 | Huybrechts, Ronny | 85.1 |
| 94.9 | Payne, Josh | 6 | - | 4 | Hunt, Adam | 94.2 |
| 87.9 | Kantele, Marko | 6 | - | 1 | Hudson, Peter | 85.4 |
| 90.7 | Ward, Harry | 6 | - | 5 | Whitlock, Simon | 88.0 |
| 94.8 | Marijanovic, Robert | 6 | - | 3 | Nentjes, Geert | 96.8 |
| 96.8 | Dekker, Jan | 6 | - | 5 | Dobey, Chris | 94.2 |
| 102.1 | van der Voort, Vincent | 6 | - | 2 | van de Pas, Benito | 97.3 |
| 101.5 | Smith, Michael | 6 | - | 2 | Thornton, Robert | 93.8 |
| 88.5 | Koltsov, Boris | 6 | - | 2 | Pallett, David | 82.7 |
| 92.4 | Kamphuis, Vincent | 6 | - | 4 | Schindler, Martin | 90.6 |
| 86.7 | Dootson, Eddie | 6 | - | 3 | Hamilton, Andy | 82.7 |
| 92.1 | Cullen, Joe | 6 | - | 4 | North, Richard | 92.3 |
| 95.6 | Tabern, Alan | 6 | - | 5 | Durrant, Glen | 98.7 |
| 92.7 | Lennon, Steve | 6 | - | 4 | Petersen, Devon | 85.3 |
| 91.5 | Aspinall, Nathan | 6 | - | 1 | Murschell, Dawson | 77.3 |
| 95.7 | Wright, Peter | 6 | - | 4 | Meulenkamp, Ron | 91.6 |
| 96.0 | Webster, Mark | 6 | - | 1 | Shepherd, Kirk | 93.4 |
| 91.2 | Clemens, Gabriel | 6 | - | 3 | van Duivenbode, Mike | 89.6 |
| 92.0 | Carlin, Gavin | 6 | - | 2 | Pipe, Justin | 90.9 |
| 98.3 | Bunting, Stephen | 6 | - | 3 | Boulton, Andy | 94.7 |
| 89.8 | Wilkinson, Carl | 6 | - | 2 | Norris, Alan | 91.0 |
| 94.5 | Ratajski, Krzysztof | 6 | - | 3 | Stevenson, Simon | 85.7 |
| 93.8 | Todd, Mick | 6 | - | 2 | Barnard, Michael | 85.1 |
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