THE first Players Championships of 2012 will be held on January 28 & 29 at the Media Hotel Benidorm, as newcomers Ted Hankey, Dean Winstanley, Tony West and James Hubbard make their PDC ProTour debuts.
Two £35,000 Players Championships will be played during the weekend in Benidorm, featuring 150 players on Saturday and 144 players on Sunday.
The field includes top PDC stars James Wade and Mervyn King - the winners in Benidorm last October - as well as five-time World Champion Raymond van Barneveld, World Championship finalist Andy Hamilton and Australian ace Simon Whitlock.
PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship finalist James Hubbard will make his first appearance on the PDC ProTour as he turns professional, while many new Tour Card holders also make their PDC debuts.
They include two-time Lakeside Champion Ted Hankey, former World Masters winner Tony West and 2011 Lakeside Championship finalist Dean Winstanley, as well as John Bowles, who reached the Last 16 of the UK Open as an amateur qualifier last June.
The field also includes non-PDPA members from across Europe, including a series of 16 qualifiers who won through a knockout held in Spain.
Play in each event will commence at 12pm, and all games will be the best of 11 legs. The draw will be made at 11am following the close of registration, with the leading 32 players from the One-Year ProTour Rolling Order of Merit seeded.
Play will be held across 16 dartboards, plus selected games throughout the event and the semi-finals and final will be played on stage.
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