Day 4
The second round matches were completed today. In the first of the afternoon matches, a tie-break was required when Andy Jenkins and Dennis Smith reached 12 legs all. Jenkins however, seeded 9 managed to upstage the 8th seed to go through to a quarter-final with top seed John Part by 17-15. The second match saw the 5th seed, Colin Lloyd carry on his form with a comfortable 13-7 win over 12th seed Denis Ovens to go through to the quarter-finals; And a meeting with 4th seed, Phil Taylor. In the final match, Jamie Harvey caused another surprise, having surprised Dave Askew 10-7 on Monday in the first round, He then shocked 2nd seed Roland Scholten in a tense tie-break that went 18-16 to the Scot.
In the first game of the evening session, even this was upstaged as the Tie-break went on 12 legs, as Ronnie Baxter, the 10th seed, continued his good form in edging out 7th seed Kevin Painter 19-17, - The Longest match of the tournament, and yet longer matches, i.e. first to 16's, 17's and 18's were still to be played. Bets for how long, the Harvey v Baxter quarter-final would be must have been taken. Then, Mark Dudbridge became the second unseeded player into the quarter-finals, with a tie-break win over 11th seed Alan Warriner, Dudbridge winning 15-13. In the final match, Peter Manley, sporting Ear muffs to combat the booing (bought by Crissy), went through, a 13-9 winner over 14th Seed Dennis Priestley.
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