First round matches of World Darts Championship announced

The Ladbrokes World Darts Championship is only days away with the first darts being thrown on Friday December 18th.

Tickets to each day of the championship that runs until the final on January 3rd are still available via this website.

Alexandra Palace will be opening it's doors to the biggest tournament in darts for the third year in a row. The original headquarters of the BBC is still the home of popular entertainment especially since it took over from the Circus tavern as a the venue for the PDC's flagship event.

With £1m in prize money and £200,000 going to the winner, this tournament is the richest in the sports history and 72 players will be competing for a piece of the pie.

The first round draw has been made with reigning world champion Phil 'The Power' Taylor playing former BDO star Colin Monk. James Wade will face Steve Brown while Raymond Van Barneveld takes on Warren Parry.

The first round draw in full:

Alan Tabern v Ken Macneil or Norman Mahdoo

Adrian Lewis v Aorhagan O'Neill or Les Francis

Kirk Shepherd v Scott Burnett

Mark Dudbridge v Andree Welge

Colin Lloyd v Magnus Caris or Francisco Ruiz

Vincent van der Voort v Dylan Duo

Steve Beaton v Carlos Rodriguez

Kevin Painter v Mensur Suljovic

Mervyn King v Matt Clark

Phil Taylor v Colin Monk

Peter Manley v Andy Jenkins

Terry Jenkins v Paul Nicholson

John Part v Toon Greebe

Mark Walsh v Mark Webster

James Wade v Steve Brown

Wayne Mardle v Jyhan Artut

Robert Thornton v Per Lausen or Christian Perez

Andy Hamilton v Phillip Hazel or Osmann Kijamet

Tony Eccles v Brendan Dolan

Roland Scholten v Steve Hine

Jamie Caven v Gary Anderson

Michael van Gerwen v Peter Wright

Raymond van Barneveld v Warren Parry

Denis Ovens v Tomas Seyler or Shi Yongsheng

Colin Osborne v Simon Whitlock

Ronnie Baxter v Haruki Muramatsu or Krzysztof Kciuk

Wes Newton v Jarkko Komula or Roman Konchikov

Jelle Klaasen v Barrie Bates

Wayne Jones v Alex Roy

Dennis Preistley v Kevin McDine

Co Stompe v Steve Maish

Andy Smith v Darin Young

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