Price was the first player through breezing past Luke Humphries in a 6-0 win as he hopes to eradicate his good and bad spell on Thursday during the PDC
Summer Series.
Smith hasn't had the best of it in recent days but he averaged 106.4 in seeing off Mervyn King 6-3. In terms of notable scalps, Glen Durrant is out after going 4-2 up he succumbed to a 6-5 defeat against Gavin Carlin.
Mensur Suljovic was one of the standout players yesterday but he too will not play any further part after losing 6-5 to Andy Hamilton. Rob Cross is out having lost out in a decider to Mickey Mansell. Also through include the likes of Nathan Aspinall, Ian White and yesterday's finalist Dave Chisnall as first round continues.
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Results Players Championship 11
First Round
Gerwyn Price 6 | 0 Luke Humphries
Nick Kenny - | - Martin Atkins (Wigan)
Ryan Searle - | - Jelle Klaasen
Ron Meulenkamp - | - Christian Bunse
Danny Noppert 6 | 1 Richard North
Vincent Van der Meer - | - Carl Wilkinson
Jose De Sousa - | - Adam Hunt
Aaron Beeney - | - Scott Waites
Joe Cullen 6 | 4 William Borland
Peter Jacques - | - Adrian Gray
Jamie Hughes - | - Stephen Bunting
Harald Leitinger - | - Max Hopp
Dave Chisnall 6 | 3 Arjan Konterman
Rowby-John Rodriguez - | - Callan Rydz
Gary Anderson - | - Ryan Murray
James Wilson - | - Conan Whitehead
Andy Hamilton 6 | 5 Mensur Suljovic
Scott Mitchell - | - Robert Thornton
Keegan Brown - | - Kirk Shepherd
Darius Labanauskas - | - Ryan Meikle
Daryl Gurney 6 | 1 Derk Telnekes
Wayne Jones - | - Graham Usher
Gabriel Clemens - | - Steve Lennon
Jan Dekker - | - Steve Brown
Ian White 6 | 1 Madars Razma
Andy Boulton - | - Krzysztof Kciuk
Vincent van der Voort - | - Geert Nentjes
Simon Whitlock - | - Luke Woodhouse
Harry Ward 6 | 5 Brendan Dolan
Ciaran Teehan - | - Matthew Edgar
Jonny Clayton - | - Josh Payne
Steve West - | - Kai Fan Leung
Peter Wright 6 | 3 Matt Clark
Mark McGeeney - | - Jitse Van der Wal
Ricky Evans - | - Niels Zonneveld
Darren Penhall - | - Dirk van Duijvenbode
Michael Smith 6 | 3 Mervyn King
Scott Baker - | - John Henderson
Jermaine Wattimena - | - Nathan Derry
William O'Connor - | - Cameron Menzies
Nathan Aspinall 6 | 2 Jamie Lewis
Boris Krcmar - | - Nathan Rafferty
Justin Pipe - | - Jeff Smith
Gary Blades - | - David Pallett
Gavin Carlin 6 | 5 Glen Durrant
Jason Lowe - | - Mike De Decker
Jeffrey De Zwaan - | - Devon Petersen
Ryan Hogarth - | - Karel Sedlacek
Krzysztof Ratajski 6 | 1 Joe Murnan
Matthew Dennant - | - Andrew Gilding
Dimitri Van den Bergh - | - Barrie Bates
Ted Evetts - | - Reece Robinson
Mickey Mansell 6 | 5 Rob Cross
Mike van Duivenbode - | - Martijn Kleermaker
Adrian Lewis - | - Chris Dobey
Bradley Brooks - | - Maik Kuivenhoven
Michael van Gerwen 6 | 2 Alan Tabern
Kim Huybrechts - | - Jonathan Worsley
Steve Beaton - | - Ross Smith
James Hubbard - | - Robert Collins
James Wade 6 | 3 Michael Barnard
Benito van de Pas - | - Lisa Ashton
Ryan Joyce - | - Darren Webster
Martin Schindler - | - Simon Stevenson
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