De Zwaan silences crowd with Suljovic win, Bunting survives Sedlacek scare

The first round is complete at the Austrian Darts Open with the partisan crowd silenced in Graz with Mensur Suljovic heading out early to a resurgent Jeffrey de Zwaan.

De Zwaan has shown glimmers of class as of late but put it into action seeing off Suljovic and he survived two missed match darts as a result.

While similarly for Stephen Bunting, he survived a scare from Karel Sedlacek in the process of moving through. The Czech ace missed four match darts as he eventually fell over the line 6-5.

It was another deciding leg but this time for a European Tour debutant as Brett Claydon saw off Rainer Sturm.

While the crowd had some cause for celebration as Rowby-John Rodriguez ended the night by seeing off Darius Labanauskas 6-3.