The first round is complete at Players Championship 26 with Gerwyn Price, Luke Humphries and Gary Anderson among the winners to end the Last 128.
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Price saw off Graham Usher 6-4, while Anderson after his title win yesterday didn't decide to stay in bed as he said in his post match interview and saw off Jeffrey Sparidaans to start the day.
Luke Humphries who didn't play yesterday was involved today and saw off Tony Martinez to start off his campaign. But for Michael Smith and Dave Chisnall, it was another early exit.
Smith lost to Vincent van der Voort 6-3, while Chisnall was seen off by Daniel Klose 6-2 with the latter being number one seed today. William O'Connor is the first through to the Last 32 also with the first victory of the Last 64 going to the Magpie.
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