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GARY ANDERSON produced the first whitewash for six years at the StanJames.com World Matchplay with a 10-0 thumping of fellow Scot Robert Thornton on Monday night.

Anderson, the UK Open runner-up a month ago, showed Thornton no mercy with an impressive start to the £400,000 event in Blackpool to power into the last 16.

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GARY ANDERSON won his third tournament of 2010 with a 6-4 victory over Simon Whitlock in Monday’s Las Vegas Players Championship.

Anderson followed up a quarter-final appearance in Sunday’s PDC US Open Players Championship by taking the £6,000 first prize in the third of five days in the New Tropicana World Series of Darts Festival.

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MERVYN KING lit up the Rileys Darts Zones UK Open with a nine-darter in the fifth round on Saturday night – but was dumped from the tournament in a deciding leg by Gary Anderson.

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King became only the second player, behind Phil Taylor, to achieve a nine-darter at the Reebok Stadium, hitting successive 180s and a 141 checkout in the 13th leg of his clash with the Scot.

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JAMES WADE picked up his first tournament victory since last October with victory over Gary Anderson in the final of the eighth UK Open Qualifier, held at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan.

The world number three gave himself the perfect boost ahead of Thursday’s crucial Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts clash with Terry Jenkins, which he needs to win to secure a play-off place later this month.

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SIMON WHITLOCK claimed his first PDC ProTour win with a 6-4 defeat of Gary Anderson to take victory in the Bobby Bourn Memorial Players Championship.

Whitlock, the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship runner-up, claimed the £6,000 title at the Barnsley Metrodome with a fine win over the Scottish star, in what he admitted was his best-ever day of darts.

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GARY ANDERSON won his second PDC ProTour title with victory over Wes Newton in the fourth UK Open Qualifier of 2010, taking out a 135 finish to win the final.

The Scot claimed a Players Championship win in Newport last May, and matched that with the £6,000 title at Crawley’s K2 Centre with a high-quality display.

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SCOTT WAITES, Terry Jenkins and Robert Thornton all won through deciding leg battles to reach the quarter-finals of the PartyPoker.com Grand Slam of Darts on Friday night.

The trio and Australian Simon Whitlock completed the last eight line-up at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall in a dramatic night of darts.

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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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JAMES WADE continued his stanjames.com World Matchplay love affair with a superb 13-7 win over Gary Anderson as he progressed to the quarter-finals at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens.

The 2007 champion has reached the final in his three previous World Matchplay campaigns, and remains on course for another appearance after a high-quality win over Anderson.

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JAMES WADE and Gary Anderson set up a mouth-watering second round clash at the stanjames.com World Matchplay with victories at the Winter Gardens on Tuesday night.

Wade, the 2007 champion and a finalist in the past three years, opened his bid for a second World Matchplay crown with a strong 10-3 victory over qualifier Jamie Caven.

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