The draw has been released ahead of the opening day of the Final Stage at PDC European Q-School.
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After six days of action over two initial stages, it is down to the next four days with Tour Cards on the line in Niedernhausen and Milton Keynes.
The initial qualifiers featuring the likes of Raymond Van Barneveld, Nico Kurz and Richard Veenstra are joined by players exempt to the Final Stage who come into action from today including Benito van de Pas, Niels Zonneveld and Martin Schindler.
Some top ties from the draw include Geert Nentjes facing Rowby-John Rodriguez, Michael Rasztovits against Jeffrey de Graaf, Boris Koltsov against Willem Mandigers and Nico Kurz facing compatriot Lukas Wenig.
The action begins at 11am GMT with a Tour Card each day for outright winners so eight in all over both Q-Schools and the top eight from the Order of Merit for Niedernhausen.
Follow today’s action through our live blog below.
European Q-School Final Stage Day One Draw
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Damian Mol v Christian Jentschke
Niels Zonneveld v Remo Mandiau
Andrew Beeton v Michael Unterbuchner
Ivan Springborg Poulsen v Benito van de Pas
Steven Noster v Gary Mawson
Matt Campbell v Jandirk de Groot
Geert de Vos v Jerry Hendriks
Toon Greebe v Patrik Kovacs
Michael Rasztovits v Jeffrey de Graaf
John Michael v Thomas Junghans
Ryan de Vreede v Daniel Meyer
Brian Raman v Arsen Ballaj
Richard Veenstra v Rients Visser
Jeremy van der Winkel v Dragutin Horvat
Veijo Viinikka v Jiri Brejcha
Gino Vos v Laurent Toussaint
Kenny Neyens v Rene Eidams
Florian Hempel v Martijn Dragt
Davyd Venken v Jose Justicia
Roland Hol v Adam Gawlas
Patrick Tringler v Lorenzo Pronk
Sebastian Bialecki v Sebastian Steyer
Eimardo van Engelen v Jitse van der Wal
Arjan Konterman v Ricardo Pietreczko
Jan Dekker v Sven Hilling
El Abbas El Amri v Jeroen Mioch
Claus Bendix Nielsen v Chris Landman
Christian Bunse v Vincent van der Meer
Steve Wollener v Jens Ziegler
Maikel Verberk v Stefan Nilles
Michael Plooy v Thibault Tricole
Mario Vandenbogaerde v Nico Schlund
Dominique Goldberg v Patrick Bulen
Robbie Knops v Kevin Blomme
Wesley Plaisier v Niko Springer
Kevin Constantini v Kay Smeets
Toni Alcinas v Veniamin Symeonidis
Michael Hausler v Marcel Gerdon
Eric Boyer v Maikel Venema
Egor Tvorogov v Marko Kantele
Daniele Petri v Mikel van Maastrigt
Sebastian Pohl v Andreas Toft Jorgensen
Sergio Krassen v Michael Stoeten
Robert Marijanovic v Erik Meulenmeesters
Pero Ljubic v Karsten Koch
Stefan Bellmont v Moreno Blom
Gian van Veen v Johan Engstrom
Geert Nentjes v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Michal Smejda v Martin Schindler
Philip van Gasse v Gillian Koehoorn
Marco Obst v Danny van Trijp
Owen Roelofs v Luc Peters
Patrick van den Boogaard v Gijsbert van Malsen
Nico Kurz v Lukas Wenig
Stefan Taferner v Jaimy van de Weerd
Davy Proosten v Raymond van Barneveld
Jimmy Hendriks v Kevin Doets
Michael Seemann v Franz Roetzsch
Sven Fiedler v Leonard Gates
Jeffrey van Egdom v Zoran Lerchbacher
Levy Frauenfelder v Ronny Huybrechts
Kai Gotthardt v Christian Kist
Mindaugas Barauskas v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez
Boris Koltsov v Willem Mandigers
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