MICHAEL VAN GERWEN held off Robbie Green's fightback to begin his bid to win a seventh European Tour event of the year with a 6-4 at the German Darts Championship on Saturday.

STEVE WEST opened his HappyBet German Darts Championship campaign in style with a classy 6-0 win over his brother Tony on day one in Hildesheim.

STEFAN STOYKE, Mike Holz, Marko Puls and Robert Allenstein were the four Host Nation Qualifiers for the HappyBet German Darts Championship.

BROTHERS Steve and Tony West will face off in the HappyBet German Darts Championship on Friday when the year's final European Tour event begins in Hildesheim.

THE entries for the year's final two Players Championship events have been confirmed ahead of the live streamed double-header on October 21-22.

THE year's final European Tour event will be held this weekend, with online coverage of the HappyBet German Darts Championship available for LIVEPDC.TV Subscribers worldwide.

THE world's top 12 players will all be in action at the Ladbrokes World Series of Darts Finals in Glasgow next month, with Robert Thornton, Michael Smith, Jelle Klaasen and Mensur Suljovic invited to compete in the ITV4-televised event.

THE final three PDC Unicorn Development Tour events of 2016 will be held on Saturday and Sunday ahead of the PDC Unicorn World Youth Championship Last 64 in Wigan.

LIHAO WEN and Qiang Wei have won the latest two events on the 2016 PDC-affiliated Chinese tour.

MAGNUS CARIS secured qualification alongside Kim Viljanen for the William Hill World Darts Championship after sharing the victories on the final weekend of the SDC season with Roland Lenngren.