The top seeds have began their day at Players Championship 30 with early results confirmed including wins for Gary Anderson, Peter Wright, Joe Cullen, Rob Cross and Josh Rock.
Anderson edged past Dimitri van den Bergh 6-4, while Wright eased past George Killington 6-2. The same scoreline that also saw Cullen and Rock through against Nick Fullwell and Adam Hunt.
Cross averaged 103.6 as he saw off Dan Read 6-0, with Steve Lennon also impressing averaging 108 in downing Dirk van Duijvenbode who himself averaged 107 in a 6-2 defeat.
While for Nathan Aspinall (6-3 defeat to Boris Krcmar) and Jonny Clayton (6-0 loss to Jon Worsley, they will go home early from Barnsley today.