Van Gerwen had a potential tough test in World Championship semi-finalist and someone who has played well on the floor this year, Jamie Lewis but he won 6-2 in the 1st round of the Players Championship.
The other two players mentioned, Daryl Gurney and Gary Anderson, enjoyed whitewash victories over Terry Temple and Gary Eastwood respectively.
The World Champion Rob Cross has not had any woes so far in this Players Championship weekend. He got a whitewash victory over Martin Schindler.
Barring that there have been no real shock exits but the likes of a winner last time out Mickey Mansell is out. Dimitri van den Bergh who lost out to Ross Smith.
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Last 128
Michael van Gerwen 6 | 2 Jamie Lewis
Darren Johnson 6 | 5 Mickey Mansell
Jermaine Wattimena 6 | 5 Ritchie Edhouse
Kirk Shepherd 6 | 1 Scott Darbyshire
Simon Whitlock 6 | 2 Jim Brown
Diogo Portela 6 | 2 Vincent Kamphuis
William O'Connor 6 | 3 Kim Huybrechts
Ron Meulenkamp 6 | 2 Bradley Brooks
Ian White 6 | 5 Kevin Burness
Alan Tabern 6 | 2 Benito van de Pas
Jelle Klaasen 6 | 5 Dirk van Duijvenbode
Aden Kirk 6 | 4 Peter Hudson
Jonny Clayton 6 | 1 Chris Quantock
Jose Justicia 6 | 5 Nathan Aspinall
Richard North 6 | 0 Devon Petersen
Christian Kist 6 | 3 Mario Robbe
Daryl Gurney 6 | 0 Terry Temple
Cristo Reyes 6 | 5 Ricky Evans
Mark Webster 6 | 4 Justin Pipe
Ronnie Baxter 6 | 2 Luke Woodhouse
Michael Barnard 6 | 5 Darren Webster
Ryan Meikle 6 | 3 John Davey
Stephen Bunting 6 | 5 Peter Jacques
Dawson Murschell 6 | 3 Steve Hine
Rob Cross 6 | 0 Martin Schindler
Ross Smith 6 | 3 Dimitri Van den Bergh
Vincent van der Voort 6 | 1 Sven Groen
Ryan Joyce 6 | 5 Luke Humphries
Gerwyn Price 6 | 2 Robert Owen
Madars Razma 6 | 1 Martin Atkins (Wigan)
James Wade 6 | 1 Jason Cullen
Zoran Lerchbacher 6 | 3 Simon Preston
Peter Wright 6 | 2 Ronny Huybrechts
Josh Payne 6 | 4 Eddie Dootson
Robert Thornton 6 | 4 Chris Dobey
Simon Stevenson 6 | 2 Steve Lennon
Gabriel Clemens 6 | 4 John Henderson
James Richardson 6 | 5 Adam Hunt
Adrian Lewis 6 | 3 Jimmy Hendriks
Robert Marijanovic 6 | 5 Mark Dudbridge
Joe Cullen 6 | 2 Ross Twell
Stephen Burton 6 | 5 Paul Nicholson
Alan Norris 6 | 5 Danny Noppert
Jarred Cole 6 | 4 Andrew Gilding
Dave Chisnall 6 | 4 George Killington
Joe Murnan 6 | 5 John Goldie
James Wilson 6 | 4 Arron Monk
Jason Lowe 6 | 2 Mark Wilson
Mensur Suljovic 6 | 3 Tytus Kanik
Prakash Jiwa 6 | 5 John Part
Keegan Brown 6 | 2 Ryan Searle
Matthew Edgar 6 | 1 Robbie Green
Gary Anderson 6 | 0 Gary Eastwood
Jeffrey de Zwaan 6 | 3 Toni Alcinas
Kyle Anderson 6 | 5 Ted Evetts
Rowby-John Rodriguez 6 | 3 Kevin Painter
Michael Smith 6 | 2 Richie Burnett
Jan Dekker 6 | 3 Paul Rowley
Steve West 6 | 3 Tony Newell
Jeffrey de Graaf 6 | 3 Ryan Harrington
Wayne Jones 6 | 5 Mervyn King
Scott Taylor 6 | 4 Davy Van Baelen
Steve Beaton 6 | 3 Jamie Bain
Jamie Caven 6 | 4 Brendan Dolan