Field confirmed for 2023 Baltic Sea Darts Open as European Tour returns with Humphries and Van Gerwen top seeds

The first European Tour of 2023 is set to take place this weekend between 24-26 February in the form of the Baltic Sea Darts Open taking place in Kiel.

Luke Humphries and Michael van Gerwen who were the standouts on the European Tour last year are top seeds alongside Damon Heta, Rob Cross, Peter Wright with Michael Smith and Gerwyn Price also among those involved.

Through the Tour Card Holder qualifier, Raymond van Barneveld, James Wade, Steve Beaton and Adrian Lewis all secured their spots alongside the Associate Member Qualifiers in Martijn Dragt and Jeroen Mioch.

With most of the European Tours in Germany, Gabriel Clemens and Florian Hempel as the top two Germans not qualified seal their spots alongside Niko Springer and Lukas Wenig with Dennis Nilsson and Filip Šebesta coming from Nordic and Baltic and East European respectively.

Read also

Big prize money increase for UK Open and PDC European Tour confirmed

Field for Baltic Sea Darts Open 2023

Top-16 seeded players (enter from second round)

Luke Humphries

Michael van Gerwen

Damon Heta

Rob Cross

Peter Wright

Dave Chisnall

Nathan Aspinall

Michael Smith

Dirk van Duijvenbode

Joe Cullen

Gerwyn Price

Danny Noppert

Ryan Searle

Martin Schindler

Jonny Clayton

Dimitri Van den Bergh

Tour Card Qualifiers

Ricky Evans

Graham Usher

Arron Monk

Ryan Joyce

Mario Vandenbogaerde

Raymond van Barneveld

Stephen Bunting

Keegan Brown

James Wade

Ritchie Edhouse

Richard Veenstra

Shaun Wilkinson

Niels Zonneveld

Steve Beaton

Lewy Williams

Bradley Brooks

Adrian Lewis

Ryan Meikle

Josh Payne

Jermaine Wattimena

Brendan Dolan

William O'Connor

Daryl Gurney

Ted Evetts

Associate Member Qualifier

Martijn Dragt

Jeroen Mioch

Top seeded Germans

Gabriel Clemens

Florian Hempel

Host Nation Qualifiers

Niko Springer

Lukas Wenig

Nordic & Baltic Qualifier

Dennis Nilsson

East European Qualifier

Filip Sebesta