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PHIL TAYLOR and Adrian Lewis set up a mouth-watering quarter-final clash on New Year’s Day with scintillating second round wins on Tuesday night at the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship.

Taylor averaged 104 as he saw off Robert Thornton with a clinical 4-1 win to continue his search for a 15th World title, while Lewis fired 10 maximums in his 4-0 win over Kevin McDine with a 103 average.

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TERRY JENKINS and Simon Whitlock both won their second round matches 4-0 on Tuesday afternoon to set up a last 16 clash in the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship.

World number six Jenkins dropped just two legs in disposing of the American Darin Young, while Whitlock followed his opening round average of 101 with a 99 average against world number 22 Wayne Jones.

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RAYMOND VAN BARNEVELD hit a magical nine-dart finish during his 4-0 victory over Brendan Dolan in the second round of the 2010 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship on Monday night.

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KIRK SHEPHERD gained revenge for his 2008 final defeat to John Part by knocking the world number four out with a 4-1 victory in the second round of this year’s Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship on Monday afternoon.

Part won his third World title against Shepherd with a 7-2 win at Alexandra Palace but this time round on the same stage, the Canadian was not at the races and Shepherd was able to claim a place in the third round.

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PHIL TAYLOR eased into the third round of the 2010 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship with a 4-0 victory over Steve Hine on Sunday evening.

Taylor is chasing his 15th World title and dropped just two legs in seeing off the baker from Coventry, and will now face in the first match of the last 16 on Tuesday night.

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CO STOMPE stunned world number five Mervyn King with a 4-2 win in the second round of the Ladbrokes.com World Championship on Sunday afternoon.

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JAMES WADE opened his challenge at the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship with victory against Steve Brown as the tournament’s first round concluded on Wednesday night.

The world number three recorded his highest ever average in the World Championship of 96.65 in seeing off Bristol’s Brown 3-1 at Alexandra Palace.

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SIMON WHITLOCK made a stunning return to the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship with a 3-1 defeat of Colin Osborne at Alexandra Palace on Tuesday night.

The Australian reached the last 16 of the 2003 World Championship before spending the next six years on the BDO/WDF circuit, reaching the Lakeside Championship final two years ago.

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TERRY JENKINS ended his Alexandra Palace hoodoo with a 3-2 victory over Paul Nicholson in the first round of the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship on Monday night.

Jenkins had never won a game on the Alexandra Palace stage, losing to Kirk Shepherd and Dennis Smith in the two previous World Championships as well as suffering a 2007 Premier League Darts whitewash against Colin Monk at the venue.

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