Top-16 seeded players for German Darts Open with Price, Clayton, Van Gerwen and Michael Smith absent

The top-16 seeded players for the 2023 German Darts Open have been announced. The event is the next Euro Tour tournament on the calendar and will be played from September 8 to 10 in Jena, Germany.

However, German fans will have to do without top players Gerwyn Price, Jonny Clayton, Michael van Gerwen and Michael Smith. These players are all not taking advantage of their seeded status and are opting for a weekend off.

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Leading the seedings list at the German Darts Open is Dave Chisnall. Furthermore, top players such as Luke Humphries, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Peter Wright, Danny Noppert and Nathan Aspinall are also in the tournament. Gabriel Clemens and Ricardo Pietreczko received a wildcard because they are the highest-ranked Germans on the ranking who did not qualify yet. Martin Schindler already qualified for the German Darts Open via the Pro Tour rankings.

The field of participants for this Euro Tour tournament consists of 48 players. The remaining 30 participants come from various qualifying tournaments. On Monday, August 28, Tour Card holders will have the chance to qualify at a qualifying tournament where as many as 24 spots are up for grabs.

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German Darts Open (ET11)

Top-16 placed players

1. Dave Chisnall

2. Damon Heta

3. Luke Humphries

4. Dirk Van Duijvenbode

5. Josh Rock

6. Rob Cross

7. Joe Cullen

8. Peter Wright

9. Danny Noppert

10. Martin Schindler

11. Nathan Aspinall

12. Ryan Searle

13. Jose de Sousa

14. Ross Smith

15. Andrew Gilding

16. Krzysztof Ratajski

Top-2 highest seeded players from host country.

1. Gabriel Clemens

2. Ricardo Pietreczko

Participants ET11 Tour Card Holder Qualifier.

Vladimir Andersen

Keane Barry

Steve Beaton

Bradley Brooks

Keegan Brown

Stephen Bunting

Kevin Burness

Richie Burnett

Stephen Burton

Matt Campbell

Jamie Clark

Mike De Decker

Jeffrey De Zwaan

Chris Dobey

Kevin Doets

Brendan Dolan

Ritchie Edhouse

Lee Evans

Ricky Evans

Ted Evetts

Nick Fullwell

Adam Gawlas

Callum Goffin

Daryl Gurney

Graham Hall

Florian Hempel

Jimmy Hendriks

Jamie Hughes

Kim Huybrechts

Ronny Huybrechts

Danny Jansen

Ryan Joyce

Jose Justicia

Krzysztof Kciuk

Nick Kenny

George Killington

Mervyn King

Martijn Kleermaker

Daniel Klose

Robbie Knops

Boris Krcmar

Maik Kuivenhoven

Darius Labanauskas

Jacques Labre

Steve Lennon

Martin Lukeman

Mickey Mansell

Tony Martinez

Ryan Meikle

Cameron Menzies

Damian Mol

Arron Monk

Ross Montgomery

Joe Murnan

Geert Nentjes

William O'Connor

John O'Shea

Robert Owen

Josh Payne

Luc Peters

Nathan Rafferty

Brian Raman

Madars Razma

Rowby-John Rodriguez

Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Owen Roelofs

Pascal Rupprecht

Connor Scutt

Karel Sedlacek

Dylan Slevin

Jeff Smith

Adam Smith-Neale

Alan Soutar

Jeffrey Sparidaans

Mensur Suljovic

Radek Szaganski

Graham Usher

Raymond van Barneveld

Dimitri Van den Bergh

Jurjen van der Velde

Vincent van der Voort

Jules van Dongen

Danny van Trijp

Gian van Veen

Mario Vandenbogaerde

Richard Veenstra

James Wade

Scott Waites

Adam Warner

Jermaine Wattimena

Darren Webster

Ian White

Simon Whitlock

Shaun Wilkinson

Jim Williams

Lewis Williams

Scott Williams

James Wilson

Luke Woodhouse

Niels Zonneveld