Should Fallon Sherrock, as would be expected, overcome Ryan Miekel in the first round of the William Hill sponsored World Darts Championship, the Queen of the Palace will then be faced with the more ominous proposition of potentially being nuked by last year’s runner up Luke Littler.
Other potential pairings pulled out in Monday evening’s draw included:
Stephen Bunting v. Alan Souter; James Wade v. Jermaine Wattimena; Mike De Decker v. Luke Woodhouse and Ryan Searle v. Mensur Suljovic.
Regrettably from the perspective of Irish darts, the draw could scarcely have broken any worse, with two of ours – The Magpie of Limerick, Willie O’Connor, and World Championship debutante, Tipperary’s Dylan Slevin – were drawn against each other. As bad as that is, though, one cannot but feel sorry for Meath’s Keane Barry who faces tangling with the cantankerous Gerwyn Price if he’s lucky enough to get by the other barrel of laughs that is Kim Huybrechts of Belgium.
A lot of tungsten will have to be thrown to even get to that stage though, and the draw in full for the action which gets underway at the Alexandra Palace on December 15th is as follows:
Full second-round draw
Seeds in brackets; Best-of-five sets
Opening quarter
Luke Humphries (1) vs Thibault Tricole or Joe Comito
Raymond van Barneveld (32) vs Nick Kenny or Stowe Buntz
James Wade (16) vs Jermaine Wattimena or Stefan Bellmont
Peter Wright (17) vs Wesley Plaisier or Ryusei Azemoto
Stephen Bunting (8) vs Alan Soutar or Kai Gotthardt
Dirk van Duijvenbode (25) vs Madars Razma or Christian Kist
Damon Heta (9) vs Connor Scutt or Ben Robb
Mike De Decker (24) vs Luke Woodhouse or Lourence Ilagan
Second quarter
Luke Littler (4) vs Ryan Meikle or Fallon Sherrock
Ritchie Edhouse (29) vs Ian White or Sandro Eric Sosing
Danny Noppert (13) vs Ryan Joyce or Darius Labanauskas
Ryan Searle (20) vs Mensur Suljovic or Matt Campbell
Rob Cross (5) vs Scott Williams or Niko Springer
Gian van Veen (28) vs Ricardo Pietreczko or Xiaochen Zong
Nathan Aspinall (12) vs Cameron Menzies or Leonard Gates
Andrew Gilding (21) vs Martin Lukeman or Nitin Kumar
Third quarter
Michael Smith (2) vs Kevin Doets or Noa-Lynn van Leuven
Krzysztof Ratajski (31) vs Richard Veenstra or Alexis Toylo
Chris Dobey (15) vs Stephen Burton or Alexander Merkx
Josh Rock (18) vs Karel Sedlacek or Rhys Griffin
Jonny Clayton (7) vs Mickey Mansell or Tomoya Goto
Daryl Gurney (26) vs Florian Hempel or Jeffrey de Zwaan
Gerwyn Price (10) vs Kim Huybrechts or Keane Barry
Joe Cullen (23) vs Wessel Nijman or Cameron Carolissen
Bottom quarter
Michael van Gerwen (3) vs James Hurrell or Jim Long
Brendan Dolan (30) vs Chris Landman or Lok Yin Lee
Gary Anderson (14) vs Jeffrey de Graaf or Rashad Sweeting
Ross Smith (19) vs Jim Williams or Paolo Nebrida
Dave Chisnall (6) vs Ricky Evans or Gordon Mathers
Gabriel Clemens (27) vs Niels Zonneveld or Robert Owen
Dimitri Van den Bergh (11) vs William O’Connor or Dylan Slevin
Martin Schindler (22) vs Callan Rydz or Romeo Grbavac
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