Odds to win the quarter: Price 5/4, Aspinall 3/1, Noppert 8/1, Ratajski 12/1, Wade 12/1, Schindler 14/1, Van Barneveld 14/1, Bunting 14/1 Although Cool Hand wasn't particularly explosive from a statistical point of view during the Grand Slam, he certainly upped his levels at the Players Championship Finals, where he comfortably averaged over 100 in three of his matches before he was soundly put to the sword by Michael van Gerwen.

Despite losing out to Humphries in a high-quality last four tussle, Price impressed in his run to the semi-finals, overcoming Joe Cullen and Damon Heta at the MVM Dome.All the world's greatest ever players have endured their fair share of double-start nightmares down the years - especially when it's a best-of-three sets - but generally speaking the players who tend to thrive in this tournament are those with plenty of experience of this format, iron mental strength and a very solid all-round game. In these last couple of weeks I’ve really wanted it again, and I think that’s been a massive turning point.

At the conclusion of the third round, an open draw will be made live on the Main Stage for the fourth round, with further draws to be made following each subsequent round. Ryan Searle is my outsider to win the top quarter of the draw so I'm not going to hedge my bets yet based on what Adam Gawlas managed to produce during his debut victory over Richie Burnett last time out.

His seasonal average of 97.26 is comfortably in the top 10 and his 180 per leg ratio of 0.38 is by far the most prolific on tour, while he's also brought up the 'match treble' in almost 36% of this matches - that's higher than anyone else this year.