Draw released for Players Championship 3 including Anderson-Rock and Heta-Ross Smith as top ties

The draw has been confirmed ahead of Players Championship 3 which will take place today in Barnsley with the next double header of ProTour action set for Saturday and Sunday.

Luke Humphries is top seed with many of the top names missing this weekend including Michael van Gerwen, Peter Wright and Michael Smith who were all involved in the Premier League but with the European Tour also starting next weekend have decided to be strategic with their scheduling.

Gerwyn Price will make his first appearance of the season though. While some of the top ties in the opening round include Gary Anderson facing Josh Rock and Damon Heta taking on Ross Smith.

Luke Humphries - | - Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Ronny Huybrechts - | - Brian Raman

Jamie Hughes - | - Jimmy Hendriks

George Killington - | - Robert Owen

Andrew Gilding - | - Chris Landman

Thibault Tricole - | - Luke Woodhouse

Stephen Bunting - | - Ryan Joyce

Adam Gawlas - | - Mickey Mansell

Gerwyn Price - | - Callum Goffin

James Hurrell - | - Ian White

Rowby-John Rodriguez - | - Graham Usher

Scott Williams - | - Nick Fullwell

Ryan Searle - | - Florian Hempel

Boris Krcmar - | - Jermaine Wattimena

Adrian Lewis - | - Richard Veenstra

Andy Boulton - | - Owen Roelofs

Nathan Aspinall - | - Cameron Menzies

Damian Mol - | - Krzysztof Kciuk

Kim Huybrechts - | - Devon Petersen

Graham Hall - | - Dylan Slevin

Martin Schindler - | - Ryan Meikle

Lee Evans - | - Ricardo Pietreczko

Chris Dobey - | - Keane Barry

Jacques Labre - | - Tony Martinez

Dave Chisnall - | - Mensur Suljovic

Steve Lennon - | - Raymond van Barneveld

Daryl Gurney - | - Arron Monk

Adam Warner - | - Danny Jansen

Josh Rock - | - Gary Anderson

Cameron Crabtree - | - John O'Shea

Krzysztof Ratajski - | - Richie Burnett

Robbie Knops - | - Alan Soutar

Damon Heta - | - Ross Smith

Steve Beaton - | - Ross Montgomery

Jim Williams - | - Adam Smith-Neale

Darren Webster - | - Pascal Rupprecht

Jose De Sousa - | - James Wilson

Kevin Doets - | - Geert Nentjes

Gabriel Clemens - | - Jules van Dongen

Nick Kenny - | - Jose Justicia

Danny Noppert - | - Josh Payne

Ted Evetts - | - Danny van Trijp

Brendan Dolan - | - Jeffrey De Zwaan

Jeff Smith - | - Joe Murnan

Joe Cullen - | - Shaun Wilkinson

William O'Connor - | - Scott Waites

Madars Razma - | - Kevin Burness

Darius Labanauskas - | - Radek Szaganski

Rob Cross - | - Karel Sedlacek

Lewy Williams - | - Christian Kist

Simon Whitlock - | - Nathan Rafferty

Maik Kuivenhoven - | - Niels Zonneveld

Dimitri Van den Bergh - | - Bradley Brooks

Vincent van der Voort - | - Matt Campbell

James Wade - | - Mike De Decker

Martijn Kleermaker - | - Stephen Burton

Dirk van Duijvenbode - | - Connor Scutt

Jeffrey Sparidaans - | - Jamie Clark

Callan Rydz - | - Mervyn King

Gian van Veen - | - Ricky Evans

Jonny Clayton - | - Keegan Brown

Mario Vandenbogaerde - | - Luc Peters

Martin Lukeman - | - Ritchie Edhouse

Jurjen van der Velde - | - Daniel Klose