In-form Gary Anderson suffers surprise first round loss despite 105 average at Players Championship 4; wins for Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price and Michael van Gerwen among others

Gary Anderson won't be making it hat-trick of Pro Tour finals to start 2024. 'The Flying Scotsman' has suffered a surprise first round exit at Players Championship 4 to Scott Williams.

Anderson posted a number of high averages yesterday, reaching the final of Players Championship 3 and breaking the all-time record for most 180s in a day in the process. Despite averaging over 105 against the recent PDC World Darts Championship semi-finalist here though, Anderson departs with a 6-4 loss.

Elsewhere, James Wade handed Luke Littler a first round exit. Other notable names to depart in the early stages include the likes of Stephen Bunting (3-6 to Jitse van der Wal), Ross Smith (5-6 to Mervyn King), Danny Noppert (2-6 to Niels Zonneveld) and Rob Cross (5-6 to Richard Veenstra).

Big names such as Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Michael van Gerwen, Nathan Aspinall, Ryan Searle, Raymond van Barneveld, Dave Chisnall, Jonny Clayton and Dirk van Duijvenbode all successfully progessed to round 2 in Leicester.

Nathan Rafferty 6 | 2 Gabriel Clemens

Haupai Puha 6 | 3 Patrick Geeraets

Dave Chisnall 6 | 3 Arron Monk

Pascal Rupprecht 6 | 3 Ricky Evans

Jitse Van der Wal 6 | 3 Stephen Bunting

Stephen Burton 6 | 3 Geert Nentjes

Peter Wright 6 | 5 Leighton Bennett

Nick Kenny 6 | 2 Callum Goffin

James Wade 6 | 5 Luke Littler

Adam Gawlas 6 | 5 Thibault Tricole

Scott Williams 6 | 4 Gary Anderson

Robert Owen 6 | 4 William Borland

Ryan Joyce 6 | 2 Kim Huybrechts

Jermaine Wattimena 6 | 0 Vincent van der Voort

Jonny Clayton 6 | 3 Richie Burnett

Jamie Hughes 6 | 0 Danny Jansen

Steve Lennon 6 | 4 Mike De Decker

Madars Razma 6 | 5 Karel Sedlacek

Dirk van Duijvenbode 6 | 1 Jeffrey Sparidaans

Daniel Klose 6 | 5 Jelle Klaasen

Gian van Veen 6 | 1 Jeffrey De Graaf

Matthew Dennant 6 | 5 Graham Usher

Mervyn King 6 | 5 Ross Smith

Mickey Mansell 6 | 0 Robbie Knops

Chris Dobey 6 | 5 Darryl Pilgrim

Callan Rydz 6 | 2 James Hurrell

Michael van Gerwen 6 | 2 Dom Taylor

Graham Hall 6 | 2 Keane Barry

Maik Kuivenhoven 6 | 3 Daryl Gurney

Lee Evans 6 | 5 Brett Claydon

Niels Zonneveld 6 | 2 Danny Noppert

Rowby-John Rodriguez 6 | 1 Radek Szaganski

Dimitri Van den Bergh 6 | 4 Steve Beaton

Wessel Nijman 6 | 2 Ryan Meikle

Gerwyn Price 6 | 3 Cameron Menzies

Rhys Griffin 6 | 5 George Killington

Martin Schindler 6 | 2 Keegan Brown

Christian Perez 6 | 5 Danny Lauby

Ricardo Pietreczko 6 | 2 Dylan Slevin

Danny van Trijp 6 | 3 Jurjen van der Velde

Raymond van Barneveld 6 | 2 Mensur Suljovic

Adam Smith-Neale 6 | 5 William O'Connor

Richard Veenstra 6 | 5 Rob Cross

Ritchie Edhouse 6 | 5 Robert Grundy

Nathan Aspinall 6 | 2 Darren Beveridge

Florian Hempel 6 | 5 Owen Roelofs

Michael Smith 6 | 4 Simon Whitlock

Andy Baetens 6 | 5 Adam Hunt

Luke Woodhouse 6 | 1 Jacques Labre

Lukas Wenig 6 | 2 Boris Krcmar

Damon Heta 6 | 3 Aden Kirk

Oskar Lukasiak 6 | 5 Ian White

Jim Williams 6 | 5 Andrew Gilding

Jeffrey De Zwaan 6 | 1 Matt Campbell

Krzysztof Ratajski 6 | 5 Adam Warner

Martin Lukeman 6 | 4 Martijn Dragt

Brendan Dolan 6 | 0 Joshua Richardson

Alan Soutar 6 | 5 Owen Bates

Berry van Peer 6 | 4 Josh Rock

Ronny Huybrechts 6 | 4 Kevin Doets

Mario Vandenbogaerde 6 | 4 Jose De Sousa

Paul Krohne 6 | 4 Jules van Dongen

Ryan Searle 6 | 3 Josh Payne

Chris Landman 6 | 1 Stefan Bellmont