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For Michael van Gerwen, the darts of the world championship start a month with a match against Englishman Alan Tabern or Australian Raymond Smith, as shown by the draw made on Monday. Jan Dekker confronts a woman in the first round.
The two-time world champion Van Gerwen, who lost last year in the semifinal battle of the last champion Rob Cross, just like the 31 other ranked players are only found in the second round . of the tournament in London.
Raymond van Barneveld, sixteenth in the second round, wins the match between Englishman Matthew Edgar and Lithuanian Darius Labanauskas. Five-time world champion Van Barneveld starts his penultimate world championship and stops after next year.
If Van Gerwen and Van Barneveld both win their first match, they will meet in the round of 16.
Jelle Klaasen, Jermaine Wattimena and Benito van de Pas, the other Dutch with a classified status, will also face a weaker opponent in their first match.
Dekker vs. four-time world champion Ashton
Born Emmenaar Dekker, who, along with Danny Noppert, Zwaan's Jeffrey, Ron Meulenkamp, Vincent van der Voort and Jeffrey de Graaf must take part in the first round, against Lisa Ashton. The British are four-time world champions on behalf of BDO BDO
The PDC announced last June that for the first time two women were competing at the World Championships. The other candidate, Anastasia Dobromyslova, of Russia, meets Englishman Ryan Joyce and wins against Simon Whitlock.
In 2001 and 2009, a woman participated in the World Championships. Nine years ago, it was Dobromyslova, who had then beaten the Dutchman Remco van Eijden during the preliminary round.
At the World Championship at Alexandra Palace, which will begin on Thursday, Dec. 13, a record 96 peaks is entered and the prize pool is 2, 8 million euros. This is the first time that the configuration is adapted with as much rigor.
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