Van Gerwen leads entries for third PDC Super Series with over 25 Tour Card holders absent from field

The third PDC Super Series is set to begin on Saturday at the H+ Hotel in Niedernhausen, Germany with the entries now released ahead of Players Championship 9-12.

There will be over 100 PDC Tour Card holders involved which means that many including most Premier League stars have chose not to travel.

26 players in all have decided not to travel including the likes of Gary Anderson, Glen Durrant, Gerwyn Price, Peter Wright and Jonny Clayton who all previously revealed during the Premier League that they wouldn't be heading to Germany.

This is due in part to the mandatory 10-day quarantine on return due to new rule regarding elite athletes and the exemptions in place.

Also joining those aforementioned players are Martin Atkins (Wigan), Brett Claydon, Joe Cullen, Jeffrey de Zwaan, Wesley Harms, Jason Heaver, Jake Jones, Daniel Larsson, Adrian Lewis, Mark McGeeney, Jesus Noguera, Darren Penhall and Cristo Reyes.

As well as Keegan Brown, Kirk Shepherd, Callan Rydz, James Wade, Scott Waites, Darren Webster, Steve West and James Wilson.

This in turn has presented opportunities to Q-School Order of Merit players including Robert Thornton, Benito van de Pas, Christian Kist, Mike Warburton and Rene Eidams among others to be involved.

The latter has been spending the past few days in the same venue involved in the German Super League.

Of those who will turn up, Michael van Gerwen is the leading light with the World Number Three who missed the last Super Series block aiming to register his first title of the season.

Raymond van Barneveld already has and will be involved. As will the likes of Dimitri van den Bergh, Nathan Aspinall, Jose de Sousa, Rob Cross and Dave Chisnall with the former trio in particular like MVG still involved in the Premier League.

Prize money as usual will stand at £75,000 per event and play begins for the first three events at 1pm BST (2pm CET) and on the final day at 11am BST (12:00pm CET).

As usual, follow it along on our Live Blog on all four days in Niedernhausen with up to date results throughout.

Players Championships 9-12 (PDC Super Series 3)

H+ Hotel, Niedernhausen - April 24-27

Player Entries

Lisa Ashton

Jason Askew

Nathan Aspinall

Danny Baggish

Keane Barry

Chas Barstow

Steve Beaton

Aaron Beeney

Sebastian Bialecki

Gary Blades

William Borland

Andy Boulton

Bradley Brooks

John Brown

Steve Brown

Stephen Bunting

Dave Chisnall

Gabriel Clemens

Rob Cross

Mike De Decker

José de Sousa

Geert De Vos

Ryan de Vreede

Chris Dobey

Kevin Doets

Brendan Dolan

Matthew Edgar

Ritchie Edhouse

Rene Eidams

David Evans

Ricky Evans

Ted Evetts

Adam Gawlas

Andrew Gilding

Daryl Gurney

Andy Hamilton

Florian Hempel

John Henderson

Damon Heta

Max Hopp

Peter Hudson

Jamie Hughes

Luke Humphries

Adam Hunt

Kim Huybrechts

Peter Jacques

Wayne Jones

Ryan Joyce

José Justicia

Krzysztof Kciuk

Nick Kenny

Mervyn King

Christian Kist

Jelle Klaasen

Martijn Kleermaker

Boris Koltsov

Boris Krcmar

Maik Kuivenhoven

Darius Labanauskas

Harald Leitinger

Steve Lennon

Zoran Lerchbacher

Kai Fan Leung

Pero Ljubic

Eddie Lovely

Jason Lowe

Martin Lukeman

Jack Main

Mickey Mansell

Robert Marijanovic

Gordon Mathers

Kevin McDine

Ryan Meikle

Ron Meulenkamp

John Michael

Scott Mitchell

Joe Murnan

Ryan Murray

Geert Nentjes

Danny Noppert

William O'Connor

Josh Payne

Luc Peters

Devon Petersen

Justin Pipe

Lorenzo Pronk

Davy Proosten

Michael Rasztovits

Krzysztof Ratajski

Madars Razma

Rowby-John Rodriguez

Rusty-Jake Rodriguez

Martin Schindler

Ryan Searle

Karel Sedlacek

Steffen Siepmann

Michal Smejda

Jeff Smith

Michael Smith

Ross Smith

Alan Soutar

Mensur Suljovic

Alan Tabern

Ciaran Teehan

Derk Telnekes

Martin Thomas

Robert Thornton

Michael Unterbuchner

Raymond van Barneveld

Benito van de Pas

Dimitri Van den Bergh

Patrick van den Boogaard

Vincent van der Meer

Vincent van der Voort

Dirk van Duijvenbode

Michael van Gerwen

Berry van Peer

Gino Vos

Mike Warburton

Jermaine Wattimena

Lukas Wenig

Ian White

Simon Whitlock

Lewis Williams

Scott Williams

Luke Woodhouse

Jon Worsley

Niels Zonneveld