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GARY ANDERSON held off Dennis Priestley’s fightback to win an epic Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship clash at Alexandra Palace on Wednesday afternoon, as Andy Smith and Colin Osborne also moved into the last 16.

Anderson looked set to cruise into the third round of the £1 million event when he took the opening three sets with a 110 average in a scintillating display.

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(Editors note: Sorry for the delay in posting this due to a family medical situation over the holidays.)

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TWO-TIME World Champion Dennis Priestley swept aside Germany’s Bernd Roith in straight sets to win through to the second round of the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship on Thursday night.

The veteran 60-year-old, appearing in his 21st World Championship, dropped just two legs in seeing off the German debutant to set up a tasty second round clash with Gary Anderson after Christmas.

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SIMON WHITLOCK won his fifth Players Championship title of 2010 with a 6-1 defeat of Dennis Priestley in Saturday’s event at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.

The Australian, who picked up four wins in just over a month earlier this year, prepared in ideal fashion for next week’s Bodog.com World Grand Prix with the triumph over Priestley.

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JAMES WADE won Group Four of the 2010 Championship League Darts, dramatically edging out Dennis Priestley 6-5 in the final, as reigning champion Colin Osborne crashed out of the event.

The world number three, who had suffered disappointment in the previous three groups of this year’s internet-streamed event, finished fourth in the league table following the eight player round-robin phase.

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DENNIS PRIESTLEY defeated Mark Hylton 6-3 to win the Australian Open Players Championship in Sydney.

Priestley, who turned 60 last month, took the £5,000 title at the Revesby Workers Club in Sydney on Sunday – a triumph which will secure him a place in October’s World Grand Prix and edge him back towards the world’s top 16.

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DENNIS PRIESTLEY claimed a second tournament win in a week with a 6-3 victory over Andy Hamilton in the final of the PDC US Open.

Priestley followed up last Sunday’s Canadian Players Championship triumph by taking the $12,000 title in Atlanta.

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DENNIS PRIESTLEY has retained the Canadian Players Championship title with a 6-4 defeat of Wes Newton.

Priestley claimed the £5,000 title in Canada for a second successive year with an impressive return to action.

The veteran has not competed since the stanjames.com World Matchplay, when he lost in round one to Denis Ovens, but swept aside the field at the Hilton London Ontario.

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Former darts two time world Champion and darting veteran Dennis Priestley says that he might be retiring at the end of next years season.

Priestley, one of the founding members of the PDC after leaving rival darting organisation the BDO, will turn 59 in July.

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Dennis “the Menace” Priestley says that Wayne Mardle’s inclusion into this year’s Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts was a mistake.

“They always pick Wayne Mardle for some strange reason. I think it’s because they always want somebody who’s going to finish last all of the time” Priestley remarked in a Skysports.com report.

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Original Photos PDC/Lustig, Article by Phill Catterick

As a result of Wayne Mardle’s withdrawal from the Whyte and Mackay Premier League, the organisers of the competition have decided to put in place five challenge matches in order for a full quota of games to take place on the remaining Thursday evenings.

Robert Thornton was the man chosen last week to take on the then league leader James Wade in Aberdeen and visually seemed to enjoy his time in the spotlight, but his darts didn’t quite match up to the expectation and he went down 7-2.

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