Tyrone’s Mickey Mansell was beaten by Scotland’s Peter Wright who began his defence of the PDC World Championships title with a three sets to nil success at the famous Alexandra Palace venue.
Given a bye into the second round, Wright ended Mansell’s challenge after the latter had beaten Ben Robb earlier on Thursday.
UK Open semi-finalist Barry Keane of Co Meath lost 3-1 to South African debutant Grant Sampson.
Fellow debutant Nathan Rafferty from Coalisland claimed a 3-2 win against Jermaine Wattimena of the Netherlands.
