As the week draws to the end, the World Grand Prix entered the quarter final stage tonight. The night kicked off with Ireland's own Brendan Dolan continuing a dream tournament with a win over Jordan Henderson. The Scot actually took the first set without conceding. But as the partisan crowd got louder, Dolan got better and returned the compliment to equalise in the second set. Henderson failed to deal with the crowd and Dolan managed to win the following three sets all via a deciding leg to make it into the semi-finals with a 4-1 win.
James Wade faced a tenacious test in the shape of Andy Smith. It started off smooth enough for Wade with a 3-1 first set victory but Smith instantly responded with a 3-1 set win of his own. Wade then retook the lead with a whitewash in the third set but again Smith fought back to equalise with another 3-1 victory. Wade then managed to see the job through but only via two deciding legs to finally dismiss the feisty Pie Man.
Phil Taylor continued his dominating tournament with a 4-0 victory over Mark Webster. Taylor whitewashed Webby in the first set before crucially taking the second set in the final fifth leg. With Webster beater, Taylor then went for the jugular and produced a second whitewash in the third set before winning the fourth and final set 3-1 to ease into the semi-finals.
Richie Burnett last won a major title sixteen years ago, he then suffered dartitis and was out of action for a long while. The Welshman has only recently returned and he won his first PTC tournament last week since his comeback. He has followed that up by putting himself into the semi-finals with a win over Mark Hylton. The first two sets were won in the deciding leg with both players taking a set each. Burnett then won the third set 3-1 before whitewashing Hylton in the fourth and winning 3-1 again in the final set to make it into the last four.
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