Second Round (Best of 11 Legs)
Day two got underway with Phil Taylor opening a 3-0 lead against Terry Jenkins - Jenkins a relative newcomer to the PDC stage pulled his arrears back to 3-2 in legs before missing a dart to level the score at 3-3 as Taylor moved 4-2 up. A sea change leg took place in the 7th as Taylor missed double 12 to go 5-2 on a 144 as Jenkins made it 4-3.
A 76 checkout put Taylor 5-3 ahead and he went through with an 11 dart leg in the ninth. - Taylor averaged 104.88 and Jenkins 99.59 in arguably the match of the tournament so far.
Mark Dudbridge would join Taylor in the quarter-finals but in a very different match compared to his 6-0 whitewash in the first round. - Kevin Painter would lead 2-0 after nicking the first leg. Dudbridge would hit a 94 to checkout to reduce his arrears before Painter hit double 18 to go 3-1 up. - Dudbridge would win leg five on double 12 before Painter would go 4-2 on double top - Dudbridged had missed the bull when on a 164 that would have made the score 3-3. Painter missed a bull of his own in the 7th leg on a 118 checkout that would have made the score 5-2 and really the game out of Dudbridge's reach. Dudbridge hit the double top to reduce his deficit to 4-3.
That was a crucial leg as Dudbridge moved 5-4 in front before an error in hitting 9 rather than 12 in setting a finish up let Painter in to level the scores a 5-5 on double 16. - Scores in the decider of 180 and 140 to lead up to the checkout of 64. Dudbridge in the quarter-finals of a major for the first time since the World Final of 2005.
The American dream ended in defeat for John Kuczynski. The American, the only home player to reach round two went out 6-3 to Wayne Mardle. Mardle who had been in the semi-finals of the World Championships and in the Premier League averaging 93.44 against Johnny K. - Kuczynski struggled initially as Mardle moved 2-0 in front before the American hit his first leg. - Mardle took the next two as he increased his lead, and the pressure on Kuczynski by moving 4-1 up.
Kuczynski cut the gap and moved himself back into contention with a fine 119 checkout on the bull before Mardle hit double 5 to go 5-2 in front. One last cheer for the last home man was a double top in the eighth, had Mardle missed on 5's then it is likely that Kuczynski would have levelled with a 31 checkout. - An unintentional double 2, double 17 checkout of 38 (thought to be single two for double eighteen put Hawaii 501 into the quarter-finals.
Mardle will now meet Ronnie Baxter after The Rocket showed some brilliant finishing in a 6-4 win over Alan Warriner-Little. Baxter beginning to show some of his best form after a shock first round exit to Ray Carver - who lost to Peter Manley in the first round in averaging 92.02 to Warriner's 88.67
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