While the Main Stage action begins at 1145 GMT, Friday's play begins at 1100 GMT on Stages Two-Eight. All legs must begin and end with a double, meaning that a player must hit a double before he can begin scoring in each leg. There was also a popular win for Martin Schindler, who gave the German fans the result they wanted as he took out five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld 6-4. International Open results Player entries have been confirmed for this weekend's Players Championship double-header in Barnsley, along with the 16 seeded players for ET5-6. Vladyslav Omelchenko came through the Ukrainian qualifying event to seal a first appearance at the World Championship. He averaged 76.42 in the final to win 3-0 and averaged 69.97 for the tournament so he’ll have to up that considerably if he’s to trouble Luke Woodhouse on Sunday afternoon.

Top seed Chisnall began Finals Day with a thumping win over Rowby-John Rodriguez, before defying a ton-plus average from Michael van Gerwen to prevail in a compelling quarter-final tie. Koltsov withdrew on Monday after the draw had been made. As such, his second round opponent, Brian Raman, receives a Bye. Unterbuchner's withdrawal last week sees Scott Waites receive a Bye in the first round. The first round winners will be joined by Tour Card Holders ranked 65-96 in round two, with the 32 second round winners joined by Tour Card Holders ranked 33-64 in round three.He's reached the Last 16 on the European Tour twice this year and on all known evidence he should have way too much for his Ukrainian opponent here to set up a second round tie against the number one seed Gerwyn Price. He played very well in that tournament, defeating European champion Ross Smith 5-4 in his opener before losing to Michael Van Gerwen in his second game. He then lost his crunch third game of the group to Nathan Rafferty 5-4 despite averaging 101.26. These short format games can be brutal at times. At the conclusion of the third round, an open draw will be made live on the Main Stage for the fourth round, with further draws to be made following each subsequent round. The world's top 32 enter the event in Friday evening's fourth round, including reigning champion James Wade, world number one Gerwyn Price and former UK Open champions Peter Wright, Michael van Gerwen, Gary Anderson and Nathan Aspinall.

He averaged around 100 in his opening two wins before he was denied by Dirk van Duijvenbode 10-9 in an absolute classic that could so easily have gone the other way despite the Dutchman's 112 average. He won two PDC Development Tour events in 2015, followed by another one in 2016. He also won a PDC Tour Card in 2016. Michael Smith continued his impressive Pro Tour form with a 5-4 victory over the returning Raymond van Barneveld. Since the start of July, Bully Boy's average of under 95 puts him around 20th in the world and some way short of the likes of Michael van Gerwen (99.03), Luke Humphries (98.58) and the the top player on this list, Gary Anderson (99.90).If he's around that level again then Danny Jansen will struggle to even win a set, especially when you bare in mind the debutant averaged just 83.42 in a hard-fought win over Paulo Nebrida - but that was some way short of his best. winner Adrian Lewis will also begin his campaign on the Main Stage, with his third round opponent to be one of four players who have to battle through the early rounds.