The quarter final line-up was completed as the four remaining second round matches were played out in this year's 2013 World Matchplay tournament. A terrific 105 average from Michael Van Gerwen was enough to produce a fantastic performance to progress. There were wins for Andy Hamilton and Adrian Lewis before Dave Chisnall made it in to the quarter finals of the Matchplay for the first time in his career.
Hamilton continued his fantastic record by seeing off Ian White. After White missed a dart to hold his throw in the opening leg, Hamilton managed to move 2-0 in front. The Hammer then missed two darts to make it three and White ended up winning the fifth to somehow only be 3-2 behind at the break. Hamilton returned from the interval with a 107-checkout to move 4-2 in front. All five legs of the second session went with throw, meaning that Hamilton was now 6-4 in front. The first three legs of the third session would then go against the throw before Hamilton finally held in leg-14 to move 9-5 ahead. It was a consistent performance from The Hammer and, on another day against someone ranked higher than White, his mistakes would have been punished. White did manage to make it 10-7 before Hamilton took the next three legs to win the match 13-7.
Lewis continued to win ugly as he makes his way in to the last eight, taking full advantage of Brendan Dolan's horrific double trouble. After winning the opening leg, the Northern Irishman missed six darts to hold throw in the third leg. Lewis secured a 4-1 lead with a 101-checkout before winning every leg in the second session to make it 9-1. Jackpot managed to get in to double figures before Dolan finally found a double and, as is typical, a second came straight after to make it 10-3. The remaining two legs of the third set went with Lewis to move him a leg away from victory. Dolan put up some resistance with a 108-checkout and then an unbelievable 170-finish before Lewis finished the match off, 13-5.
Van Gerwen continued to make a statement, and become joint favourite for the tournament again, with a demolition job over Peter Wright. The first five legs all went with throw, giving the Dutchman a 3-2 lead. But Van Gerwen soon found another gear and a 104-checkout put him 7-3 in front before Wright took the final leg of the second session. The overdrive button was then hit by Van Gerwen as he stormed out and won all five legs of the third session to go within a leg of victory at the third break. The interval was rather pointless though as Van Gerwen came back and won the 16th leg to ease through to the quarter finals.
The match of the night was definitely between Chisnall and Jamie Caven. It was a game of firsts as neither player had made in to the second round of this tournament before. Chisnall missed three darts to go 3-0 in front but did manage to win the fifth leg to go 3-2 in front at the first break. Caven missed two darts to win the seventh leg as Chisnall ended up taking the first three legs of the second session to lead 6-2. But Caven began to fight back and scored a 109-checkout to make it 6-4 at the second break. Caven managed to make it three consecutive legs by wining the first leg of the third session. Caven would then turn the match around by winning a further five legs on the spin to move 10-7 ahead. The game would turn again as Caven missed two darts to make it 11-8 and then four darts to back ahead after Chisnall had levelled the match. The world number nine then hit a superb 116-checkout to make it 12-10 against the throw before winning the 23rd leg to win 13-10.
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