Draw released for Players Championship 27: Price-Van Barneveld and Anderson-Aspinall among top ties
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The draw has been released ahead of Players Championship 27 which is due to take place this afternoon in Barnsley. So far this week, Dave Chisnall and Damon Heta have added to their tally of titles so far this season.
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Some top ties have been confirmed for the first round which include Gerwyn Price facing Raymond van Barneveld and Gary Anderson taking on Nathan Aspinall.
Anderson topped the averages yesterday and has been in resurgent form over the past few days and will look for another superb run today but starting against 'The Asp' in a difficult test.
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Players Championship 27
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Luke Humphries - | - Bradley Brooks
Geert Nentjes - | - Karel Sedlacek
Callan Rydz - | - Eddie Lovely
Steve Lennon - | - Connor Scutt
Martin Schindler - | - Jamie Clark
Brett Claydon - | - Richie Burnett
Krzysztof Ratajski - | - Adam Gawlas
Nathan Rafferty - | - Devon Petersen
Dave Chisnall - | - Andy Boulton
Kevin Doets - | - Alan Soutar
Madars Razma - | - John Michael
Ross Smith - | - Simon Whitlock
Dirk van Duijvenbode - | - Darius Labanauskas
Mensur Suljovic - | - Jason Heaver
Gabriel Clemens - | - Steve Beaton
Mike De Decker - | - Jurjen van der Velde
Rob Cross - | - Jason Lowe
Danny Baggish - | - Jose Justicia
Brendan Dolan - | - Scott Mitchell
Ross Montgomery - | - Ricardo Pietreczko
Jonny Clayton - | - Mervyn King
Adam Hunt - | - Darren Webster
Daryl Gurney - | - George Killington
Ricky Evans - | - John O'Shea
Michael Smith - | - Joe Murnan
William Borland - | - Jake Jones
Rowby Rodriguez - | - Scott Waites
Jimmy Hendriks - | - Jim McEwan
Gerwyn Price - | - Raymond van Barneveld
Jermaine Wattimena - | - Ritchie Edhouse
Stephen Bunting - | - Damian Mol
Glen Durrant - | - Mario Vandenbogaerde
Damon Heta - | - Shaun Wilkinson
Rusty Rodriguez - | - Peter Hudson
Scott Williams - | - Danny van Trijp
Vincent van der Voort - | - Kevin Burness
Jose de Sousa - | - Tony Martinez
Keegan Brown - | - Kenny Neyens
Andrew Gilding - | - Jamie Hughes
James Wilson - | - Ian White
Peter Wright - | - Luc Peters
Geert De Vos - | - Danny Jansen
Adrian Lewis - | - Martijn Kleermaker
Maik Kuivenhoven - | - Gian van Veen
Danny Noppert - | - Radek Szaganski
Nick Fullwell - | - Jeffrey De Zwaan
Josh Rock - | - Steve West
Christian Kist - | - Mickey Mansell
Nathan Aspinall - | - Gary Anderson
Jeff Smith - | - Berry van Peer
James Wade - | - Cameron Menzies
Ron Meulenkamp - | - Keane Barry
Dimitri Van den Bergh - | - William O'Connor
Luke Woodhouse - | - Ted Evetts
Chris Dobey - | - Stephen Burton
David Evans - | - John Henderson
Joe Cullen - | - Jack Main
Wesley Plaisier - | - Max Hopp
Kim Huybrechts - | - Brian Raman
Jim Williams - | - Ryan Meikle
Ryan Searle - | - Ryan Joyce
Jules van Dongen - | - Matt Campbell
Martin Lukeman - | - Niels Zonneveld
Boris Krcmar - | - Florian Hempel

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