The Sports Lowdown For All Your News and OpinionsAfter a dramatic Sunday in Players Championship 14, where Jelle Klaasen reigned victorious, the event marked the cut-off for qualification for the BetVictor World Matchplay, which begins on 18th July in Blackpool.
Following an excellent weekend, picking up £2,750 over the weekend, Kyle Anderson qualifies for the Matchplay, and Andy Hamilton had to rely on others as he snatched the last ProTour qualifying spot, and was given a scare by Rowby-John Rodriguez, who reached the semi-finals, and could have knocked Hamilton out of those qualifying spots if he had won the Sunday event.
Gary Anderson withdrew from the weekend’s events, and Phil Taylor defended his PDC OOM second spot after reaching the last sixteen on both Saturday and Sunday, and will be the second seed for the tournament that starts in little under two weeks.
Mark Webster started the weekend off in the ProTour qualifying spots, but was knocked out of those places by Kyle Anderson, who as mentioned earlier, had a brilliant weekend in Wigan. Here are the final thirty-two participants who will compete in Blackpool at the Winter Gardens in a couple of weeks.
PDC Order of Merit Qualifiers
Seeded for First Round Draw
1) Michael van Gerwen
2) Phil Taylor
3) Gary Anderson
4) Adrian Lewis
5) Peter Wright
6) James Wade
7) Dave Chisnall
8) Simon Whitlock
9) Ian White
10) Robert Thornton
11) Brendan Dolan
12) Mervyn King
13) Michael Smith
14) Terry Jenkins
15) Raymond van Barneveld
16) Justin Pipe
ProTour Order of Merit Qualifiers
Kim Huybrechts
Jelle Klaasen
Vincent van der Voort
Benito van de Pas
Stephen Bunting
Mensur Suljovic
Gerwyn Price
Steve Beaton
Jamie Caven
John Henderson
Keegan Brown
Andrew Gilding
Jamie Lewis
Joe Murnan
Kyle Anderson
Andy Hamilton
The draw will be made on Monday morning at 10:30.
