Van Gerwen begins campaign by smashing Van den Bergh, Van Barneveld continues run with win over Wattimena

Van Gerwen smashed Dimitri van den Bergh in a 6-1 win. The Belgian player similar to yesterday in terms of average with it being around the 78 mark so was easily beaten by the World Number One. He was there to be beaten though with MVG only averaging 88 and hitting 6/28 on the doubles en route. Suljovic was given a tough test against Mickey Mansell only just coming through in a deciding leg win. Mansell has played well this weekend and will hope to take that into the rest of the year to exhibit some of the form he showed last year. Finally Van Barneveld continued to roll back the years with a deciding leg victory over in form Dutchman, Jermaine Wattimena. He took out 86 in the decider to take the win and will take on Michael van Gerwen in a mouth watering clash on the final day. Evening session schedule Dave Chisnall (90.97) 6-3 (89.83) Ted Evetts Jonny Clayton (92.79) 3-6 (100.02) Nathan Aspinall Rob Cross (102.44) 6-4 (93.80) Chris Dobey Peter Wright (101.79) 6-2 (90.21) Steve Lennon Max Hopp (96.02) 3-6 (97.03) John Henderson Mensur Suljovic (93.18) 6-5 (93.38) Mickey Mansell Michael van Gerwen (88.7) 6-1 (78.94) Dimitri van den Bergh Jermaine Wattimena (93.75) 5-6 (94.04) Raymond van Barneveld