Draw released for Day One of PDC Super Series 8 (Players Championship 28)

The opening day of action in PDC Super Series 8 (Players Championship 28) is coming up shortly in Barnsley with the draw released.

Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright, Jonny Clayton and Gary Anderson are among those in action.

Wright is facing Simon Whitlock and Anderson taking on Kim Huybrechts in two of the ties of the opening round.

Gerwyn Price is not involved this week though and will take some time off ahead of the Grand Slam starting at the end of next week.

There is also the small matter of the race to the Players Championship Finals concluding with the final three days of ProTour action.

Michael Smith v Boris Krcmar

Florian Hempel v Mike de Decker

Jermaine Wattimena v Steve Beaton

Luc Peters v William Borland

Ross Smith v Andy Boulton

Jon Worsley v Ricky Evans

Gabriel Clemens v Andrew Gilding

Josh Payne v Steve West

Ryan Searle v Gary Blades

James Wilson v Chas Barstow

Mervyn King v Jamie Hughes

Jesus Noguera v Lewis Williams

Dirk van Duijvenbode v Jim McEwan

Boris Koltsov v Nick Kenny

Adrian Lewis v Ciaran Teehan

Ryan de Vreede v Adam Hunt

Joe Cullen v Kevin McDine

Rowby-John Rodriguez v Jason Heaver

Martin Schindler v Steve Lennon

Madars Razma v Lukas Wenig

Michael van Gerwen v Matthew Edgar

Keegan Brown v Ian White

Vincent van der Voort v Kai Fan Leung

David Evans v Eddie Lovely

Brendan Dolan v Alan Tabern

Martin Thomas v Wayne Jones

Dave Chisnall v Max Hopp

Ritchie Edhouse v John Brown

Callan Rydz v Darius Labanauskas

Ted Evetts v Lisa Ashton

Danny Noppert v Matt Jackson

Ryan Meikle v Joe Murnan

José de Sousa v Jelle Klaasen

Mickey Mansell v Martijn Kleermaker

KIm Huybrechts v Gary Anderson

Jake Jones v Peter Jacques

James Wade v Danny Baggish

Brett Claydon v Martin Atkins

Nathan Aspinall v Geert de Vos

Mark McGeeney v Kevin Doets

Damon Heta v Scott Mitchell

Darren Webster v Jeffrey de Zwaan

Chris Dobey v Maik Kuivenhoven

Gavin Carlin v Devon Petersen

Dimitri van den Bergh v Bradley Brooks

Adam Gawlas v Jack Main

Daryl Gurney v Scott Waites

Jason Lowe v Gordon Mathers

Peter Wright v Simon Whitlock

Peter Hudson v Sean Fisher

Raymond van Barneveld v Berry van Peer

Alan Soutar v Andy Hamilton

Luke Humphries v Luke Woodhouse

William O'Connor v Martin Lukeman

Krzysztof Ratajski v Ryan Murray

Mensur Suljovic v Krzysztof Kciuk

Jonny Clayton v Richard Veenstra

Lorenzo Pronk v Karel Sedlacek

Ryan Joyce v John Henderson

Steve Brown v Ron Meulenkamp

Rob Cross v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Niels Zonneveld v Keane Barry

Stephen Bunting v Aaron Beeney

Davy Proosten v Glen Durrant