The top 16 seeds have played their opening ties at Players Championship 9 with top seed Luke Humphries among those through in Wigan.
Humphries edged past Jeffrey de Zwaan 6-4 with a 97 average, while second seed Dave Chisnall averaged 102 in seeing off Richie Burnett 6-5.
There were also wins for Jonny Clayton, Danny Noppert, Dimitri van den Bergh, Dirk van Duijvenbode, Ryan Searle, Josh Rock and Ross Smith.
Only main names out at this stage are Rob Cross who handed a walk-over to Mario Vandenbogaerde and 'The Stat Killer' Darryl Pilgrim who topped the averages at both ProTour and UK Open in 2022 and this year's tournament despite losing. He saw off Andrew Gilding 6-3 with a 100 average.