 20th seed Wes Newton booked a second round clash with Colin Osborne with a convincing whitewash victory against Tetsuya Wada, and 12th seed Andy Jenkins won 3–1 against American Bill Davis, dedicating his victory to his late father Chris.The opening match of the evening session saw 14th seed Mark Dudbridge take out top-rated American John Kuczynski 3–1, and 4th seed 'Tripod' Roland Scholten dropped only one leg in his defeat of Ron Miller.In the last match of the night and the first round, former BDO World Champion Richie Burnett, who had to qualify this year, managed to win only one leg against Alex Roy.