Fallon Sherrock wlll have the honour of leading off this year’s World Darts Championship when taking on The Bronze Adonis, Steve Beaton on opening night,
Should ‘The Queen Of The Palace’ manage to negotiate her way past Beaton – making a record breaking 31st appearance in the sport’s showpiece – she would be on a collision course with defending champion Gerwyn Price later into the tournament.
Elsewhere, Meath’s Kean Barry will tackle Royden Lam in his first outing in the Alexandra Palace in a couple of years with the winner to take on the formiddable Jonny Clayton.
Seeded players to enter the tournament at the second-round stage of the competition. The first round draw in full is:
Gerwyn Price (1) v Ritchie Edhouse or Lihao Wen
Kim Huybrechts (32) v Fallon Sherrock or Steve Beaton
Stephen Bunting (16) v Ross Smith or Jeff Smith
Dirk van Duijvenbode (17) v Jermaine Wattimena or Boris Kolstov
Jonny Clayton (8) v Keane Barry or Royden Lam
Gabriel Clemens (25) v Lewy Williams or Toyokazu Shibata
Michael Smith (9) v Ron Meulenkamp or Lisa Ashton
Glen Durrant (24) v William O’Connor or Danny Lauby Jnr
James Wade (4) v Maik Kuivenhoven or Ky Smith
Vincent van der Voort (29) v Adam Hunt or Boris Krcmar
Joe Cullen (13) v Ted Evetts or Jim Williams
Simon Whitlock (20) v Martijn Kleermaker or John Michael
Dimitri van den Bergh (5) v Florian Hempel or Martin Schindler
Devon Petersen (28) v Jamie Hughes or Raymond Smith
Krzysztof Ratajski (12) v Steve Lennon or Madars Razma
Mervyn King (21) v Ryan Joyce or Roman Benecky
Peter Wright (2) v Ryan Meikle or Fabian Schmutzler
Damon Heta (31) v Luke Woodhouse or James Wilson
Ryan Searle (15) v Williams Borland or Bradley Brooks
Danny Noppert (18) v Jason Heaver or Juan Rodriguez
Jose de Sousa (7) v Jason Lowe or Daniel Larsson
Mensur Suljovic (26) v Alan Soutar or Diogo Portela
Nathan Aspinall (10) v Joe Murnan or Paul Lim
Brendan Dolan (23) v Callan Rydz or Yuki Yamada
Michael van Gerwen (3) v Chas Barstow or John Norman Jnr
Chris Dobey (30) v Rusty-Jake Rodriguez or Ben Robb
David Chisnall (14) v Darius Labanauskas or Charles Losper
Luke Humphries (19) v Rowby-John Rodriguez or Nick Kenny
Gary Anderson (6) v Adrian Lewis or Matt Campbell
Ian White (27) v Scott Mitchell or Chris Landman
Daryl Gurney (11) Raymond van Barneveld or Lourence Ilagan
Daryl Gurney (22) v Ricky Evans or Nitin Kumar.
The action gets underway on December 15th.