A field of 154 players will participate in the UK Open this weekend (March 5-7). The event will be played behind closed doors in Milton Keynes due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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As well as the 128 PDC Tour Card holders also some players from the Q-School, Challenge Tour and Development Tour rankings have received an invite to compete in the UK Open this year, as the Riley's amateur qualifiers were not held.
The participants enter the tournament from different stages. The various qualifiers and the players from the 97th to 128th place on the PDC Order of Merit must start from the first round. Among these players are Berry van Peer, Scott Mitchell, Danny Baggish, Jim Williams and Richie Burnett.
The second group of entrants consists of players from place 65 to 96 on the PDC Order of Merit. That means players like Jeff Smith, Scott Waites, Andy Hamilton, Lisa Ashton, Raymond van Barneveld and Keane Barry have a bye in the first round.
Players between the positions 33-64 starting from the third round, which includes Luke Humphries, Steve Beaton and Damon Heta. The top 32 on the PDC Order of Merit have a bye for the first three rounds, which means the likes of Gerwyn Price, Michael van Gerwen and Peter Wright are starting their tournament in the fourth round.
The first three rounds will be played on Friday March 5, starting at 12:00 GMT. The fourth round is scheduled for Friday evening, followed by the fifth and sixth round on Saturday. The tournament continues with the quarter-finals on Sunday afternoon, while the semi-finals and final will be played on Sunday evening.
All rounds use an open draw, which means that players do not have a protected position in the draw. This means top players can meet each other early in the tournament.
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The draw for the 2021 UK Open will be made on Monday evening. After withdrawals from Wesley Harms, Robert Marijanovic, Daniel Larsson, Michael Unterbuncher, Darren Penhall and Boris Kcrmar, six additional players will receive a bye in the first round.
Field 2021 UK Open
1-32 - Enter at Fourth Round stage
1 Gerwyn Price
2 Michael van Gerwen
3 Peter Wright
4 Rob Cross
5 James Wade
7 Dave Chisnall
8 Michael Smith
9 Dimitri Van den Bergh
10 Nathan Aspinall
11 Daryl Gurney
12 Ian White
13 Glen Durrant
14 Krzysztof Ratajski
15 Jose de Sousa
16 Joe Cullen
17 Stephen Bunting
18 Jonny Clayton
19 Simon Whitlock
20 Mensur Suljovic
21 Mervyn King
22 Danny Noppert
23 Jeffrey de Zwaan
24 Adrian Lewis
25 Chris Dobey
26 Vincent van der Voort
27 Jermaine Wattimena
28 Jamie Hughes
29 Gabriel Clemens
30 Dirk van Duijvenbode
31 Ricky Evans
32 Devon Petersen
33-64 - Enter at Third Round stage
33 Steve Beaton
34 Brendan Dolan
35 William O'Connor
36 Keegan Brown
37 Ryan Searle
38 Kim Huybrechts
39 Max Hopp
40 Darius Labanauskas
41 Luke Humphries
42 John Henderson
43 Ross Smith
44 Ryan Joyce
45 Darren Webster
46 Steve West
47 Justin Pipe
48 Damon Heta
49 Luke Woodhouse
50 Ron Meulenkamp
51 Steve Lennon
52 Andy Boulton
53 Madars Razma
54 Jelle Klaasen
55 Mickey Mansell
56 Adam Hunt
57 Callan Rydz
58 Matthew Edgar
59 Ted Evetts
60 Josh Payne
61 Jason Lowe
62 James Wilson
63 Mark McGeeney
64 Cristo Reyes
65-96 - Enter at Second Round stage
65 Maik Kuivenhoven
66 Jeff Smith
67 Scott Waites
68 Ryan Murray
69 Martijn Kleermaker
70 Wayne Jones
71 Karel Sedlacek
72 Derk Telnekes
73 Nick Kenny
74 Andy Hamilton
75 Mike De Decker
76 Ryan Meikle
77 Lisa Ashton
78 Bradley Brooks
79 William Borland
80 Ciaran Teehan
81 Alan Tabern
82 Kai Fan Leung
83 Jesus Noguera
84 Raymond van Barneveld
85 Krzysztof Kciuk
86 Steve Brown
87 Peter Jacques
88 Martin Atkins
89 Steffen Siepmann
90 Gary Blades
91 Alan Soutar
92 Harald Leitinger
93 Eddie Lovely
94 Keane Barry
95 Jon Worsley
96 Aaron Beeney
97-128 - Enter at First Round stage
97 John Brown
98 Gordon Mathers
99 John Michael
100 Jake Jones
101 Kirk Shepherd
102 Martin Schindler
103 Lewis Williams
104 Jack Main
105 Berry van Peer
106 Scott Mitchell
107 Ritchie Edhouse
108 Geert Nentjes
109 Geert De Vos
110 Martin Lukeman
111 Danny Baggish
112 Joe Murnan
113 Peter Hudson
114 Zoran Lerchbacher
115 Adam Gawlas
116 Boris Koltsov
117 Brett Claydon
118 Andrew Gilding
119 David Evans
120 Florian Hempel
121 Jason Heaver
122 Niels Zonneveld
Associate Member Qualifiers - Enter at First Round stage
Damian Mol
Kevin Doets
Dom Taylor
Joe Davis
Keelan Kay
Brian Raman
Rhys Griffin
Sebastian Bialecki
Matthew Dennant
Jim Williams
Robert Collins
Maikel Verberk
Jitse Van der Wal
Nathan Rafferty
Richie Burnett
Scott Taylor
Chas Barstow
Gavin Carlin
Martin Thomas
Kevin McDine
Jim McEwan
Shane McGuirk
Matt Jackson
Sean Fisher
Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Luc Peters
Rowby-John Rodriguez
Lorenzo Pronk
Gino Vos
Michael Rasztovits
Ryan De Vreede
Lukas Wenig
I stumbled into the world of darts quite by accident back in 2013. For a Journalism School assignment, I had to produce a live sports report and as it happened, the European Tour event in Veldhoven was the only available option. That weekend, I caught the darts bug. The post-match interviews especially appealed to me, as darts players tend to be much more open and approachable than what you usually see with footballers on television.
After a few detours, I joined Dartsnieuws.com in 2017 as editor-in-chief. I don’t have much competitive experience myself, although I once entered a PDC Development Tour weekend just to experience what it’s like from a player’s perspective. I even managed to win a leg against a Tour Card holder and, quite by accident, earned £50 in prize money.
In 2022, I was also involved in the founding of the TOTO Dart Kings, a commercial darts team, where I worked as media manager for three years. Unfortunately, due to new legislation in the Netherlands, that project came to an end in 2025.
Through my work in darts, I’ve been fortunate to travel to some incredible events, from Premier League nights at Ahoy Rotterdam, to several World Championships, and even the US Darts Masters at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Beyond darts, I’m a passionate sports fan in general. You can always wake me up for a game of tennis or padel, and I love following football, tennis, padel, cycling, Formula 1, and ice skating.
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