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PHIL TAYLOR’S record breaking year continued with an 11-3 victory over Steve Beaton in the European Championship final at the Claus Event Centre in Hoofddorp, Holland.

Taylor has now claimed all the PDC’s major ranking titles and the £50,000 winner’s cheque means he has won over £600,000 in prize money in 2009 alone – and he almost capped his latest win in perfect style, missing a dart at double 12 to win the final leg with a nine-darter before taking it out for his second 11-dart leg of the final to defend the title he won last year in Frankfurt.

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PHIL TAYLOR produced the highest ever average in a major tournament to knock Gary Anderson out of the 2009 European Championship in Hoofddorp, Holland to reach Sunday evening’s semi-finals.

Defending champion Taylor fired ten 180s as he compiled a 118.14 average in a devastating display against the Scotsman – who average 106.12 – and faces Jelle Klaasen in the first semi-final.

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DEFENDING CHAMPION Phil Taylor sent a warning out to the rest of the quarter-finalists in the 2009 European Championships with a 9-0 whitewash of Robert Thornton at the Claus Event Centre in Hoofddorp, Holland.

Taylor averaged 110.88 with three 11-dart legs in a performance that showed no mercy to the Scotsman – and he now faces Thornton’s fellow countryman and Jocky Wilson Cup teammate Gary Anderson in Sunday’s quarter-finals.

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JELLE KLAASEN edged a thrilling second round clash with Jamie Caven to reach the quarter-finals of the 2009 European Championships at the Claus Event Centre in Hoofddorp, Holland.

Klaasen and Caven plundered 13 maximums between them but Klaasen thought he had missed the chance to progress when he squandered darts to win both 9-7 and 9-8 only for Caven to narrowly miss the bull for a dramatic 135 checkout to win. The Dutchman composed himself to take out double four though to end a high-scoring contest against the in-form Derby man.

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RAYMOND VAN BARNEVELD and James Wade were made to work as they progressed into the second round of the 2009 European Championship at the Claus Event Centre in Hoofddorp, Holland.

Van Barneveld survived a final-leg thriller with Dennis Priestley while Alan Tabern came from 5-1 down to within one leg of the Premier League champion before Wade sealed the win.

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PHIL TAYLOR began the defence of his European Championship title with a 6-2 win over Toon Greebe at the Claus Event Centre in Holland.

The defending champion faces Robert Thornton in the second round in a dress-rehearsal for December’s Jocky Wilson Cup after knocking out the young Dutchman, who had chances to make the contest tighter in front of his home crowd.

“It’s always good to get through the first round as the short format can be a bit tricky,” said Taylor. “Now I can concentrate on the match with Robert on Saturday which I’ll be more relaxed as it is best of 17 legs.”

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Phil Taylor will begin the defence of his European Championship title against Holland’s Toon Greebe on Thursday.

The £200,000 event will be held at the Claus Event Centre in Hoofddorp, Holland from Thursday October 29-Sunday November 1.

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Phil Taylor claimed the PartyPoker.net European Championship title with an 11-5 win over Adrian Lewis last night.
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Raymond van Barneveld ended the resistance of Dennis Priestley in the PartyPoker.net with a scintillating 9-4 victory.
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Phil Taylor produced the second highest average in the history of televised darts in defeating Mervyn King 9-3 to reach the quarter-finals of the PartyPoker.net European Championship.

Taylor averaged a superb 113.92, bettered only by his own display against Wes Newton in this year’s Blue Square UK Open, to storm into the last eight in Frankfurt.
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