THE PDC's seventh European Tour event of 2014 will begin on Friday with the first round of the European Darts Grand Prix at the Glaspalast in Sindelfingen, with the eye-catching clash between Kevin Painter and James lighting up the opening day.
The 48-player tournament will be held from September 5-7, with live online coverage through a series of bookmakers' websites listed below as well as for LIVEPDC.TV International Pass Subscribers.
The first round sees the 32 qualifiers, who won through July's UK Qualifier and Thursday's European Qualifier and Host Nation Qualifiers, drawn against each other, with the 16 seeded players entering in Saturday's second round.
Play then concludes on Sunday, with the third round in the afternoon session followed by the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final in the evening session.
June's Gibraltar Darts Trophy champion James Wade, the world number six, will take on former Players Championship finals winner Kevin Painter in the biggest game of the first round on Friday.
Former World Championship finalist Andy Hamilton takes on one of the European Qualifiers, with Andrew Gilding, Joe Cullen and Ricky Evans also waiting to find out their opponents.
Lakeside Champion Stephen Bunting will play one of the Host Nation Qualifiers, with youngster Chris Aubrey also set to face German opposition.
The first round also includes Canada's emerging youngster Shaun Narain making his European Tour debut against Johnny Haines, Wayne Jones' clash with Darren Webster, Matt Clark meeting John Henderson, Kevin McDine against Jason Lovett and Steve Hine's meeting with former World Youth Champion James Hubbard.
The schedule of play for the tournament is below, with the draw below to be updated following the completion of Thursday's Qualifiers.
The European Qualifier has now been completed, with the eight qualifiers as follows:
EQ1 Benito van de Pas
EQ2 Rowby-John Rodriguez
EQ3 Ryan De Vreede
EQ4 Robert Marijanovic
EQ5 Mensur Suljovic
EQ6 Jelle Klaasen
EQ7 Ron Meulenkamp
EQ8 Mike De Decker
The Host Nation Qualifiers are:
HNQ1 Michael Rosenauer
HNQ2 Max Hopp
HNQ3 Jyhan Artut
HNQ4 Sascha Goldammer
The European Darts Grand Prix will be streamed live online worldwide through the websites listed below.
Live Coverage
Coral - www.coral.co.uk
Ladbrokes - www.ladbrokes.com
Unibet - www.unibet.com
William Hill - www.williamhill.com
To view live coverage, fans must be registered with the respective website listed above
LIVEPDC.TV - www.LIVEPDC.TV for all subscribers outside of the UK & Ireland.
Live Scores will be available through the PDC Live Scores Website, http://live.dartsdata.com .
European Darts Grand Prix
European Tour Event Seven
Glaspalast, Sindelfingen, September 5-7 2014
First Round Draw
Shaun Narain v Johnny Haines
Mike De Decker v Max Hopp
Joe Cullen v Mensur Suljovic
Stephen Bunting v Jyhan Artut
Benito van de Pas v Andrew Gilding
Ron Meulenkamp v Andy Hamilton
Matt Clark v John Henderson
Darren Webster v Wayne Jones
Kevin McDine v Jason Lovett
Jelle Klaasen v Ricky Evans
Kevin Painter v James Wade
Steve Hine v James Hubbard
Ryan De Vreede v Robert Marijanovic
Michael Rosenauer v Chris Aubrey
Sascha Goldammer v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Kevin Dowling v Kyle Anderson
Schedule of Play is below
Second Round - Tournament Draw Bracket
Robert Thornton (3) v Dowling/Anderson
Jamie Caven (14) v Meulenkamp/Hamilton
Ian White (6) v Goldammer/Rodriguez
Mervyn King (11) v van de Pas/Gilding
Kim Huybrechts (7) v Rosenauer/Aubrey
Simon Whitlock (10) v Clark/Henderson
Brendan Dolan (2) v Webster/Jones
Terry Jenkins (15) v Cullen/Suljovic
Dave Chisnall (4) v De Decker/Hopp
Justin Pipe (13) v Painter/Wade
Peter Wright (5) v Bunting/Artut
Vincent van der Voort (12) v Klaasen/Evans
Steve Beaton (8) v Narain/Haines
Adrian Lewis (9) v Hine/Hubbard
Gary Anderson (1) v De Vreede/Marijanovic
Michael Smith (16) v McDine/Lovett
Schedule of Play
Friday September 5
3pm-11pm Local Time (2pm-10pm BST)
First Round
Kevin McDine v Jason Lovett
Shaun Narain v Johnny Haines
Matt Clark v John Henderson
Jelle Klaasen v Ricky Evans
Mike De Decker v Max Hopp
Steve Hine v James Hubbard
Ryan De Vreede v Robert Marijanovic
Darren Webster v Wayne Jones
Michael Rosenauer v Chris Aubrey
Kevin Dowling v Kyle Anderson
Sascha Goldammer v Rowby-John Rodriguez
Joe Cullen v Mensur Suljovic
Benito van de Pas v Andrew Gilding
Kevin Painter v James Wade
Ron Meulenkamp v Andy Hamilton
Stephen Bunting v Jyhan Artut
Saturday September 6
Afternoon Session
1pm-5pm Local Time (12pm-4pm BST)
Second Round
Terry Jenkins (15) v Cullen/Suljovic
Vincent van der Voort (12) v Klaasen/Evans
Steve Beaton (8) v Narain/Haines
Michael Smith (16) v McDine/Lovett
Mervyn King (11) v van de Pas/Gilding
Brendan Dolan (2) v Webster/Jones
Ian White (6) v Goldammer/Rodriguez
Jamie Caven (14) v Meulenkamp/Hamilton
Evening Session
7pm-11pm Local Time (6pm-10pm BST)
Second Round
Kim Huybrechts (7) v Rosenauer/Aubrey
Justin Pipe (13) v Painter/Wade
Robert Thornton (3) v Dowling/K Anderson
Dave Chisnall (4) v De Dekker/Hopp
Simon Whitlock (10) v Clark/Henderson
Peter Wright (5) v Bunting/Artut
Gary Anderson (1) v De Vreede/Marijanovic
Adrian Lewis (9) v Hine/Hubbard
Sunday September 7
Afternoon Session
1pm-5pm Local Time (12pm-4pm BST)
Third Round
Evening Session
7pm-11pm Local Time (6pm-10pm BST)
Quarter-Finals
Semi-Finals
Final
All games are the best of 11 legs