Peter Wright, James Wade and Raymond Van Barneveld among early winners at Players Championship 2

Raymond van Barneveld, Peter Wright and James Wade have reached the second round of Players Championship 2 early Tuesday afternoon with comfortable wins.

Van Barneveld triumphed 6-2 against Simon Whitlock in the first round. Wade posted a narrow, 6-5 win against Ryan Meikle, whilst Wright was a 6-3 against his compatriot, Alan Soutar.

Mike de Decker, notably took a 6-2 win over Martijn Dragt thanks to an average of 108.19. Meanwhile the likes of Nathan Aspinall and Andrew Gilding are also in the next round after victories over Dutch pair, Danny van Trijp and Maik Kuivenhoven.

Elsewhere, Dimitri van den Bergh was knocked out by Jermaine Wattimena and in an all-German clash between Florian Hempel and Martin Schindler, it was Hempel who took the win 6-3.