The first round draw will see the 32 ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers drawn against the 32 International Qualifiers, with the winners set to take on the
top 32 seeded players from the
PDC Order of Merit in the second round stage of the World Championship.
ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers 1. Danny Noppert
2. Krzysztof Ratajski
3. Ricky Evans
4. Jeffrey de Zwaan
5. Steve Lennon
6. Chris Dobey
7. Martin Schindler
8. Josh Payne
9. Gabriel Clemens
10. Ryan Joyce
11. Richard North
12. Keegan Brown
13. Mickey Mansell
14. Robert Thornton
15. Jan Dekker
16. Nathan Aspinall
17. Ron Meulenkamp
18. Brendan Dolan
19. William O'Connor
20 Vincent van der Voort
21. Michael Barnard
22. Toni Alcinas
23. Paul Nicholson
24. Simon Stevenson
25. Luke Humphries
26. Jeffrey de Graaf
27. Dimitri Van den Bergh
28. Alan Tabern
29. Wayne Jones
30. Ross Smith
31. Ryan Searle
32. Matthew Edgar
International Qualifiers 33. Seigo Asada
34. Lisa Ashton
35. James Bailey
36. Kevin Burness
37. Jose De Sousa
38. Anastasia Dobromyslova
39..Ted Evetts
40. Cody Harris
41. Lourence Ilagan
42. Boris Koltsov
43. Nitin Kumar
44. Darius Labanauskas
45. Royden Lam
46. Daniel Larsson
47. Paul Lim
48. Yuanjun Liu
49. Jim Long
50. Noel Malicdem
51. Robert Marijanovic
52. Yordi Meeuwisse
53. Geert Nentjes
54. Devon Petersen
55. Diogo Portela
56. Chuck Puleo
57. Rowby-John Rodriguez
58. Craig Ross
59. Karel Sedlacek
60. Jeff Smith
61. Raymond Smith
62. Adam Hunt
63. Aden Kirk
64. Stephen Burton
Seeded Players (1) Michael van Gerwen
(32) Max Hopp
(16) Adrian Lewis
(17) Raymond van Barneveld
(8) Simon Whitlock
(25) Alan Norris
(9) James Wade
(24) Jelle Klaasen
(5) Daryl Gurney
(28) Jamie Lewis
(12) Dave Chisnall
(21) Kim Huybrechts
(4) Gary Anderson
(29) Jermaine Wattimena
(13) Darren Webster
(20) Steve Beaton
(2) Rob Cross
(31) Cristo Reyes
(15) Jonny Clayton
(18) Stephen Bunting
(7) Mensur Suljovic
(26) James Wilson
(10) Michael Smith
(23) John Henderson
(6) Gerwyn Price
(27) Kyle Anderson
(11) Ian White
(22) Steve West
(3) Peter Wright
(30) Benito van de Pas
(14) Joe Cullen
(19) Mervyn King
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