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STEVE FARMER won his maiden career title with a 6-4 defeat of Kevin Painter in Sunday’s Dutch Players Championship final – and dramatically booked a place in the Bodog.com World Grand Prix with the triumph.

The 45-year-old from Church Stretton, Shropshire produced a remarkable finale to the decider against Painter to snatch a qualifying place in next month’s event at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, denying Mark Webster a spot in the tournament.

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Eight of the world’s best players are darting into Rileys clubs around the country to open 17 new Darts Zones.

BDO World Champion Martin Adams has been booked for the tour along with Adrian Lewis, Terry Jenkins, Tony O’Shea, Colin Lloyd, Kevin Painter and former ladies’ World Champion Anastasia Dobromyslova.

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PHIL TAYLOR cruised into the semi-finals of the StanJames.com World Matchplay with a 16-4 defeat of Kevin Painter on Friday night, while Raymond van Barneveld ended his quarter-final hoodoo at the Winter Gardens.

Taylor, the reigning and ten-time World Matchplay champion, rarely broke sweat in a clinical demolition of Painter, who was restricted to only four legs and few more chances at a double.

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Phil Taylor versus Kevin Painter is usually an entertaining match for one reason or another, and today’s action was more of the same.

Taylor pulled ahead 2-0 and with thoughts of another whitewashing on people’s minds, when Painter closed out on bullseye to grab a leg and make it 2-1.

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PHIL TAYLOR avoided a scare from Barrie Bates before starting the defence of his StanJames.com World Matchplay title with a 10-5 defeat of the Welshman at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.

The ten-time World Matchplay winner trailed Bates 5-4 after missing a host of doubles in the early legs.

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PHIL TAYLOR created a new world record average in a televised game, whitewashing Kevin Painter to set up a fifth round clash with Simon Whitlock in the Rileys Darts Zones UK Open.

Taylor’s record-breaking fortnight continued with a sensational 118.66 average in denying Painter a dart at a double in the nine legs.

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COLIN LLOYD made a thrilling comeback to defeat Kevin Painter 8-4 with an impressive performance in the totesport.com Players Championship on Saturday afternoon.

Lloyd hit back from 4-2 down to win six successive legs in booking a quarter-final place at the Circus Tavern, prevailing in a high-quality battle of the Essex-born stars.

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MARK WALSH defeated Kevin Painter 6-4 to win Group Four of Championship League Darts on Tuesday.

The Hertfordshire ace booked his place in the tournament’s Winners Group for a second successive year following a consistent day at Crondon Park GC in Essex.

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PHIL TAYLOR bulldozed his way into the quarter-finals of the stanjames.com World Matchplay with a 13-3 demolition of Kevin Painter at the Winter Gardens.

Taylor, sporting shaved lightning strikes in his hair, turned up the power in Blackpool with a sensational performance, averaging 109.47 and hitting 68 percent of his doubles.

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Both Colin Osborne and Phil Taylor won their matches with a decisive victory, with Osborne defeating Kevin Painter 10-7, and with Taylor winning over Ronnie Baxter 10-6.

Painter was disappointed after having reached his first UK Open Semi as he never recovered from an early 5-1 lead by Osborne.

Taylor also survived a comeback scare from Ronnie Baxter as he saw his early 6-0 lead disappear as Baxter took 6 out of the next 7 to bring the gap to one.

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