Draw revealed for Players Championship 26 including Anderson, Price, Humphries, Wright, Rock and Michael Smith

On October 19 at the Metrodome in Barnsley, the second of four Players Championship events will get underway with PC26 and the draw has now been revealed with many of the sport's top stars set to battle it out for Pro Tour success.

Winner of yesterday's Players Championship 25, Gary Anderson is out looking for a hat-trick of title wins having also claimed victory in the last event of the previous block. 'The Flying Scotsman' faces Jeffrey Sparidaans in his first round tie. The man Anderson beat in yesterday's final, Josh Rock will also be back in action, up against Martijn Kleermaker.

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Despite being world-ranked number 3, Peter Wright still has work to do if he's to make it to the Players Championship Finals and yesterday's first round 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Kim Huybrechts did nothing to help matters. He faces Ryan Meikle, looking for an improved performance.

Elsewhere the likes of World Champion Michael Smith, Dave Chisnall, Raymond van Barneveld, Andrew Gilding, Dimitri van den Bergh, Luke Humphries, Jonny Clayton, Gerwyn Price, James Wade, Chris Dobey, Rob Cross and Nathan Aspinall are involved and you can see who they face down below.

A total of 100,000 pounds in prize money is distributed at each Players Championship tournament. The winner of the event will receive a check for 12,000 pounds.

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Draw Players Championship 26

Last 128

Callan Rydz v Ryan Joyce

Callum Goffin v Alan Soutar

Dave Chisnall v Daniel Klose

Nick Kenny v Madars Razma

Martin Schindler v Rowby-John Rodriguez

William O'Connor v Shaun Wilkinson

Ryan Searle v Niels Zonneveld

Danny van Trijp v Mervyn King

Brendan Dolan v Maik Kuivenhoven

Keane Barry v Scott Waites

Danny Noppert v Arron Monk

Andy Boulton v Martin Lukeman

Jose de Sousa v Jose Justicia

Rusty-Jake Rodriguez v James Wilson

Michael Smith v Vincent van der Voort

Jim Williams v Geert Nentjes

Raymond van Barneveld v Cameron Menzies

Berry van Peer v Jules van Dongen

Damon Heta v Richard Veenstra

Adam Gawlas v Ritchie Edhouse

Andrew Gilding v Owen Bates

Mickey Mansell v Ricky Evans

Stephen Bunting v Jeffrey de Zwaan

Danny Jansen v Radek Szaganski

Dimitri van den Bergh v Ted Evetts

Nathan Rafferty v Simon Whitlock

Josh Rock v Martijn Kleermaker

Jamie Clark v Vladimir Andersen

Daryl Gurney v Jimmy Hendriks

Jamie Hughes v Keegan Brown

Peter Wright v Ryan Meikle

Jermaine Wattimena v Robbie Knops

Gian van Veen v Brian Raman

Mensur Suljovic v Boris Krcmar

Luke Humphries v Tony Martinez

Graham Hall v Ronny Huybrechts

Ross Smith v Joe Murnan

Dylan Slevin v Stephen Burton

Ricardo Pietreczko v Matt Campbell

Florian Hempel v Richie Burnett

Gabriel Clemens v Scott Williams

Ian White v Adam Smith-Neale

Jonny Clayton v Steve Beaton

Devon Petersen v Lee Evans

Mike de Decker v Darius Labanauskas

Josh Payne v Bradley Brooks

Gary Anderson v Jeffrey Sparidaans

John O'Shea v Jacques Labre

Luke Woodhouse v Connor Scutt

Mario Vandenbogaerde v Jurjen van der Velde

Gerwyn Price v Graham Usher

Ross Montgomery v Darren Webster

James Wade v Owen Roelofs

Christian Kist v Nick Fullwell

Joe Cullen v Jeff Smith

Cam Crabtree v Chris Landman

Chris Dobey v Adam Warner

George Killington v Wesley Plaisier

Rob Cross v Karel Sedlacek

Kim Huybrechts v Steve Lennon

Nathan Aspinall v Kevin Doets

Pascal Rupprecht v Robert Owen

Krzysztof Ratajski v Damian Mol

Robert Grundy v Kevin Burness