Whitehead comes from behind to beat Gary Anderson; Durrant defeats De Zwaan after quality affair

The opening round is complete at Players Championship 8 in Wigan with Conan Whitehead seeing off Gary Anderson in the standout performance.

Whitehead was 4-0 down and was seemingly sinking to the Flying Scotsman but as Anderson started to fade, The Barbarian came back. He ended up edging him out 6-5 with a 93 average.
There was also a brilliant performance from Glen Durrant in seeing off Jeffrey de Zwaan. He averaged 105 to cement his good form so far on the ProTour this year.
There were also victories for Ian White, Daryl Gurney, Adrian Lewis and Gerwyn Price.
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First round

101.1	White, Ian	6	-	4	Pallett, David	89.5
82.4	Wilson, Mark	6	-	1	Bates, Barrie	75.5
87.9	Joyce, Ryan	6	-	3	Temple, Terry	84.6
91.7	O'Connor, William	6	-	3	Clark, Matt	87.2
92.0	Norris, Alan	6	-	5	Noppert, Danny	98.0
93.9	Whitehead, Conan	6	-	5	Anderson, Gary	90.0
93.8	Murschell, Dawson	6	-	4	Evans, Ricky	94.1
95.1	Rafferty, Nathan	6	-	2	Newell, Tony	74.7
89.9	Gurney, Daryl	6	-	3	Jones, Wayne	89.5
97.0	Marijanovic, Robert	6	-	2	Smith, Ross	89.0
96.4	Meikle, Ryan	6	-	4	Anderson, Kyle	95.8
95.9	Kantele, Marko	6	-	2	Carlin, Gavin	85.1
90.3	Clayton, Jonny	6	-	1	Barnard, Michael	72.1
95.5	Meulenkamp, Ron	6	-	4	Aspinall, Nathan	86.5
93.1	Henderson, John	6	-	4	Meeuwisse, Yordi	92.0
76.7	Harrington, Ryan	6	-	1	Eastwood, Gary	61.1
97.0	Lewis, Adrian	6	-	0	Dudbridge, Mark	73.5
98.0	Webster, Mark	6	-	3	Petersen, Devon	100.3
105.0	Durrant, Glen	6	-	4	De Zwaan, Jeffrey	95.3
77.7	Edgar, Matthew	6	-	5	Derry, Nathan	81.9
98.6	Whitlock, Simon	6	-	3	Gray, Adrian	86.4
84.7	Brooks, Bradley	6	-	4	Hughes, Jamie	89.5
87.0	Woodhouse, Luke	6	-	4	Beaton, Steve	88.3
98.2	Rodriguez, Rowby-John	6	-	2	Thornton, Robert	84.4
90.9	Wade, James	6	-	2	Killington, George	89.0
84.5	Huybrechts, Ronny	6	-	1	Baker, Scott	76.3
99.0	Bunse, Christian	6	-	3	Clemens , Gabriel	94.5
91.8	van der Voort, Vincent	6	-	2	Carroll, Shaun	80.7
96.9	Wattimena, Jermaine	6	-	1	Lewis, Jamie	94.9
88.4	McGeeney, Mark	6	-	5	Searle, Ryan	97.2
95.7	Wilson, James	6	-	1	North, Richard	80.9
89.9	Tabern, Alan	6	-	2	Bain, Jamie	86.1
99.5	Price, Gerwyn	6	-	5	Pipe, Justin	96.9
87.5	Boulton, Andy	6	-	2	Alcinas, Toni	83.3
88.0	Hudson, Peter	6	-	5	Mansell, Mickey	86.5
93.3	Stevenson, Simon	6	-	2	Wilkinson, Carl	86.4
88.0	King, Mervyn	6	-	4	Kamphuis, Vincent	87.3
84.3	Huybrechts, Kim	6	-	2	Van Baelen, Davy	84.3
90.7	West, Steve	6	-	4	Hunt, Adam	88.4
97.3	Monk, Arron	6	-	4	Klaasen, Jelle	97.5
98.6	Brown, Keegan	6	-	4	Chisnall, Dave	98.9
87.9	Kist, Christian	6	-	4	Koltsov, Boris	86.9
96.3	van de Pas, Benito	6	-	5	Payne, Josh	99.5
90.3	Dolan, Brendan	6	-	2	Kanik, Tytus	85.7
95.3	Hopp, Max	6	-	5	Labanauskas, Darius	96.3
97.9	Reyes, Cristo	6	-	3	Burton, Stephen	94.4
98.6	Lennon, Steve	6	-	3	Evetts, Ted	91.0
92.3	Razma, Madars	6	-	5	Humphries, Luke	104.6
98.0	Smith, Michael	6	-	4	Robbe, Mario	98.3
95.1	Dekker, Jan	6	-	2	Zonneveld, Niels	88.9
90.5	Dobey, Chris	6	-	1	Owen, Robert	84.0
95.0	Richardson, James	6	-	4	Kuivenhoven, Maik	92.5
90.6	Ward, Harry	6	-	5	Cullen, Joe	91.0
81.6	Dootson, Eddie	6	-	5	van Duivenbode, Mike	75.1
106.4	Ratajski, Krzysztof	6	-	2	Van der Meer, Vincent	89.3
93.1	Van den Bergh, Dimitri	6	-	4	Worsley, Jonathan	90.8
99.5	Wright, Peter	6	-	5	van Duijvenbode, Dirk	97.8
82.2	De Sousa, Jose	6	-	4	Michael, John	86.1
98.7	Schindler, Martin	6	-	2	Shepherd, Kirk	90.0
81.3	Robinson, Reece	6	-	5	Burness, Kevin	81.0
94.7	Lerchbacher, Zoran	6	-	3	Webster, Darren	89.8
92.9	van Barneveld, Raymond	6	-	3	Justicia, Jose	85.1
88.4	Nentjes, Geert	6	-	4	Bunting, Stephen	88.8
92.8	Murnan, Joe	6	-	5	Edhouse, Ritchie	87.3