Last night saw the first half of the second round of the World Matchplay take place. Despite a few shocks in the first round, the Premier League players last night all progressed into the tough quarter-final line-up.
The night kicked off with Mark Webster against Steve Beaton. Beaton did hold Webster to 7-7 with both players hitting century check-outs. Webster managed four in total to Beaton's two and the Welshman cruised to a 13-7 win to progress into the quarter-finals.
Webster will now meet World Champion Adrian Lewis who saw off Dutchman Vincent Van Der Voort. Lewis played consistently well but, unfortunately for the crowd, Van Der Voort only turned up for a third of the match. Lewis took a 5-0 lead before the Dutchman battled back to 6-4 and looked menacing. But there was no dramatics as Lewis cantered into the quarter finals 13-5.
The penultimate game of the night was the one everyone was talking about. After his outburst about 'putting Mr.Taylor to bed', Paul Nicholson had to now walk the walk against Van Barneveld. It wasn't a classic as both players were extremely nervous, there was never more than two legs between them until the end where Barney took an 11-7 lead. The Dutchman went onto win 13-9 to dump a slightly embarrassed Nicholson out of the tournament.
Barney will be involved in an extremely mouth watering quarter-final against James Wade. Wade, on paper, had the easiest tie against Mark Walsh. But it didn't end up that way as Walsh played a very good, consistent game whereas Wade peaked and troughed. Although Wade looked to be very much in control and took a 6-2 lead. But Walsh was allowed to battle back and it was soon 11-10 Wade. wade was able to stumble over the line 13-11 to progress.
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