Nix in Salzburg

Paul Nicholson will take on Mark Webster in his opening match of the Austrian Open Players Championship.

THE draw for Saturday's Austrian Open Players Championship.
The first of two events over the weekend will see 167 players in action at the Renaissance Hotel in Salzburg,

competing for £30,000 prize money.

The tournament began shortly after 12pm local time (11am BST) with all games being the best of 11 legs. Selected games will be played on stage, along with the semi-finals and final.

Austrian Open Players Championship
Preliminary Round
Board One
Bernd Roith 6-4 Arron Monk
Mario Masurka v Wolfgang Mayrhofer

Board Two
Ken Dobson 6-0 Christoph Stadler
Pero Ljubic v Brendan Dolan
Matt Clark v Par Riihonen

Board Three
Jyhan Artut 6-2 Sebastian Pecjak
Tony Blundell v Sander Sonneveld

Board Four
Braulio Roncero 6-2 Christian Kallinger
Josef Untermarzoner v Lukas Schneider

Board Five
Dyson Parody 6-1 Dave Ladley
Maik Langendorf 6-1 Gerhard Sorger

Board Six
Gary Welding 6-3 Tomas Seyler
Carlos Rodriguez 6-1 Waleri Iliev
Steve Hine v Steve Grubb

Board Seven
Aaron Hardy 6-4 Mario Hermann
Jarkko Komula v Marek Polach

Board Eight
Harald Hoffmann 6-2 Rudiger Lohse
Markus Katt v Florian Rauch
Nick Fullwell v Josef Reiter

Board Nine
Kirk Shepherd 6-2 Mark Frost
Oto Zmelik 6-0 Reinhard Holzer

Board Ten
Simon Craven 6-2 Steve Perkins
Frank Grauel v Christoph Stehmann
Martin Kapucian v Andree Welge

Board 11
Pavel Dirtl 6-0 Carsten Arlt
Toon Greebe 6-1 Franz Wuehrer

Board 12
Christian Pankl 6-4 Andreas Riegler
Roland Freistatter v Mensur Suljovic
Alfred Schaf v Ray Farrell

Board 13
Chris Thompson 6-0 Patrick Bulen
Gunther Hofer v Marco Kriegner

Board 14
Joe Cullen 6-1 Chris Loudon
Dietmar Burger 6-0 Ruth Haas
Michael Rosenauer v John Quantock

Board 15
David Ansell 6-0 Davor Bradara
Dylan Duo v Romano Ruggeri

Board 16
John Part 6-2 Johnny Okken
Roland Scholten v Darren Johnson
Alexander Berger v Wayne Atwood

First Round
Board One
Mark Walsh (1) v Pierre Finck
Matthias Limdinger v Bernd Roith
Wayne Mardle (32) v Pivarc Lubos
Hannes Schnier v

Board Two
Michael van Gerwen (16) v Mick McGowan
Eusebius Irrasch v Ken Dobson
Jamie Caven (17) v Kevin McDine
v

Board Three
Terry Jenkins (8) v Alex Kohler
Justin Pipe v Jyhan Artut
Alex Roy (25) v Michael Fuxreiter
Jan van der Rassel v

Board Four
Alan Tabern (9) v Andy Heller
Jon Archer v Braulio Roncero
Wes Newton (24) v Louis Blundell
Peter Seidl v

Board Five
Ronnie Baxter (5) v Peter Wright
Michael de Cuijper v Dyson Parody
Peter Manley (28) v Robert Marijamovic
Andy Fordham v Maik Langendorf

Board Six
Denis Ovens (12) v Erwin Renkema
Felix Losan v Gary Welding
Steve Beaton (21) v Manfred Hausler
Carlos Rodriguez v

Board Seven
James Wade (4) v Stefan Lemberger
Colin Monk v
Tony Eccles (29) v Remco van Eijden
Alex Niedermaier v

Board Eight
Andy Hamilton (13) v Peter van der Broek
Marko Kantele v
Wayne Jones (20) v Gregor Gorjup
v

Board Nine
Colin Osborne (2) v Karl Binder
Kevin Hill v Kirk Shepherd
Steve Maish (31) v Jacko Barry
Steve Randall v Oto Zmelik

Board Ten
Mark Dudbridge (15) v Steve Brown
Herbert Aringer v Simon Craven
Vincent van der Voort (18) v Jacques Nieuwlaat
v

Board 11
Dennis Priestley (7) v Martyn Turner
Harold Wieleman v Pavel Dirtl
Paul Nicholson (26) v Mark Webster
Gary Mawson v Toon Greebe

Board 12
Mervyn King (10) v Bryan de Hoog
David Ahmet v
Kevin Painter v Michael Barnard
v

Board 13
Robert Thornton (6) v Thorsten Warter
Nandor Bezzeg v Chris Thompson
Jelle Klaasen (27) v James Barton
Volker Burkhardt v

Board 14
Gary Anderson (11) v Marko Puls
Tony Ayres v Joe Cullen
Andy Jenkins (22) v Keith Rooney
Dietmar Burger v

Board 15
Colin Lloyd (3) v Andy Relf
Gary Blades v David Ansell
Co Stompe (30) v Alexander Krch
Erich Mosinger v

Board 16
Andy Smith (14) v Boris Krcmar
Barrie Bates v John Part
Adrian Lewis (19) v Adrian Gray