Saturday 31 January 2015 23:13, UK
Terry Jenkins stunned Phil Taylor in the opening round of the Unibet Masters in Milton Keynes, knocking the 16-time world champion out 10-7.
Jenkins stormed into a 5-0 lead at ArenaMK, with Taylor struggling badly on his doubles, and although he managed to close the gap to a single leg at one point, his bid for the title was ended almost before it began.
Taylor missed two darts at double-16 in the first leg, two at double-eight in the fourth and again struggled on 16s in the fifth as The Bull stepped in to go five legs clear.
The Power continued to score reasonably - he ended up out-scoring Jenkins 93.74 to 91.84 - but Jenkins was far more accurate when the darts mattered, including a 134 checkout to take a 6-1 lead.
Taylor rallied from 7-2 down with four successive legs, threatening one of his patented comeback victories, but he was broken when he had the darts in leg 14 and then missed more doubles to go 9-6 down.
Jenkins dropped the 16th leg but made no mistake on tops in the 17th to move into the quarter-finals, where he will play Raymond van Barneveld, an earlier 10-7 winner over Simon Whitlock.
Fourth seed Adrian Lewis had little trouble in securing his place in the last-eight thanks to a 10-4 win over Stoke rival Ian White, his hopes helped by hitting 10 of 15 attempts at a double.
"I missed too many doubles in the World Championship but my finishing today was very good and I improved that today," said Lewis. "I've put a lot of work in over the last couple of weeks and I feel good about my game."
Peter Wright was in similarly ruthless form as he demolished Brendan Dolan 10-1 - Dolan dropped the first nine legs before Wright finally let him in.
"I've been working since the World Championship on a new set-up, so that I can score better and get less deflections, and they've been going pretty well," said Wright, who will next face Lewis. "It wasn't a bad performance but it can be better and I'll work on that, and I'm still in the tournament."
Dave Chisnall opened the event with a 10-5 win over Robert Thornton, putting up the scoring performance of the day as he averaged an incredible 106.30 and hit 10 of 14 attempts at a double.
Chisnall's quarter-final match-up will be a mouth-watering one as he faces former world champion Michael van Gerwen, who saw off the challenge of Wes Newton 10-5.
And James Wade was almost as impressive in opening the evening session with a 10-3 defeat of Mervyn King, his 96.85 average only brought down by a series of missed doubles - unlike Chisnall he managed his 10 leg wins from 29 attempts.
Reigning champion Wade's next opponent will be PDC world champion Gary Anderson, who was a comfortable 10-2 winner over Andy Hamilton despite struggling to match the scoring that took him to Ally Pally success.
