De Sousa saw off Adam Hunt in a 6-1 win hitting a 109 average against the North East ace. Clayton went one better hitting 110 against Josh Payne winning 6-0.

In terms of the World Matchplay, Dimitri van den Bergh claimed his first win of the week seeing off Barrie Bates 6-0 as he aims to go clear in the race to be involved in Milton Keynes.

For Gary Anderson though his day is over as despite averaging 106 and leading 4-2 at one point, he lost to fellow Scot Ryan Murray in a decider.

Ryan Joyce is also out early as Darren Webster saw off the newest PDC ranking winner with a 105 average and a 146 for a 12 darter in the decider.

Also Aaron Beeney has claimed his first win as a Tour Card holder defeating Scott Waites in a win which has been awaited from the prison officer.

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Gerwyn Price 6 | 0 Luke Humphries
Martin Atkins (Wigan) 6 | 5 Nick Kenny
Ryan Searle 6 | 2 Jelle Klaasen
Ron Meulenkamp 6 | 5 Christian Bunse
Danny Noppert 6 | 1 Richard North
Vincent Van der Meer 6 | 5 Carl Wilkinson
Jose De Sousa 6 | 1 Adam Hunt
Aaron Beeney 6 | 5 Scott Waites
Joe Cullen 6 | 4 William Borland
Peter Jacques 6 | 4 Adrian Gray
Stephen Bunting 6 | 4 Jamie Hughes
Harald Leitinger 6 | 2 Max Hopp
Dave Chisnall 6 | 3 Arjan Konterman
Rowby-John Rodriguez 6 | 4 Callan Rydz
Ryan Murray 6 | 5 Gary Anderson
James Wilson 6 | 1 Conan Whitehead
Andy Hamilton 6 | 5 Mensur Suljovic
Scott Mitchell 6 | 2 Robert Thornton
Kirk Shepherd 6 | 4 Keegan Brown
Darius Labanauskas 2 | 6 Ryan Meikle
Daryl Gurney 6 | 1 Derk Telnekes
Wayne Jones 6 | 1 Graham Usher
Steve Lennon 6 | 1 Gabriel Clemens
Steve Brown 6 | 2 Jan Dekker
Ian White 6 | 1 Madars Razma
Krzysztof Kciuk 6 | 5 Andy Boulton
Vincent van der Voort 6 | 2 Geert Nentjes
Luke Woodhouse 6 | 1 Simon Whitlock
Harry Ward 6 | 5 Brendan Dolan
Matthew Edgar 6 | 0 Ciaran Teehan
Jonny Clayton 6 | 0 Josh Payne
Kai Fan Leung 6 | 1 Steve West
Peter Wright 6 | 3 Matt Clark
Mark McGeeney 6 | 3 Jitse Van der Wal
Ricky Evans 6 | 5 Niels Zonneveld
Darren Penhall 1 | 6 Dirk van Duijvenbode
Michael Smith 6 | 3 Mervyn King
Scott Baker 6 | 3 John Henderson
Jermaine Wattimena 6 | 0 Nathan Derry
Cameron Menzies 6 | 4 William O'Connor
Nathan Aspinall 6 | 2 Jamie Lewis
Nathan Rafferty 6 | 5 Boris Krcmar
Jeff Smith 6 | 4 Justin Pipe
Gary Blades 6 | 4 David Pallett
Gavin Carlin 6 | 5 Glen Durrant
Mike De Decker 6 | 4 Jason Lowe
Devon Petersen 6 | 3 Jeffrey De Zwaan
Karel Sedlacek 6 | 2 Ryan Hogarth
Krzysztof Ratajski 6 | 1 Joe Murnan
Andrew Gilding 6 | 3 Matthew Dennant
Dimitri Van den Bergh 6 | 0 Barrie Bates
Reece Robinson 6 | 1 Ted Evetts
Mickey Mansell 6 | 5 Rob Cross
Martijn Kleermaker 6 | 4 Mike van Duivenbode
Chris Dobey 6 | 3 Adrian Lewis
Bradley Brooks 6 | 3 Maik Kuivenhoven
Michael van Gerwen 6 | 2 Alan Tabern
Kim Huybrechts 6 | 4 Jonathan Worsley
Ross Smith 6 | 1 Steve Beaton
Robert Collins 6 | 2 James Hubbard
James Wade 6 | 3 Michael Barnard
Benito van de Pas 6 | 3 Lisa Ashton
Darren Webster 6 | 5 Ryan Joyce
Martin Schindler 6 | 4 Simon Stevenson

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