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Markham’s Gerwyn Price is through to the final 16 in this year’s PDC World Championship.
The world number one stormed through in quick-fire fashion, dispatching five-time World Champion Van Barneveld in straight sets.
Price was without a win in his previous six televised tussles against the Dutchman, but he made a blistering start, converting clinical 84, 68, 87, 117 and 66 combinations to race into a two-set lead.
Van Barneveld responded with 125 and 147 finishes in his bid to launch a fightback, but he paid the price for spurning one set dart in the third, as Price sealed the deal with a superb 128 finish on double ten.
“I needed to start well, put Raymond under pressure and I did that,” reflected Price, who suffered two defeats against Van Barneveld at last month’s Grand Slam of Darts.
“In the Grand Slam I let Raymond off so many times and I didn’t want to do that tonight. I wanted to be clinical.
“I’m defending a lot of ranking points and I want to lift the trophy, so it’s been really difficult, but I’m looking forward to the last 16 and there’s not as much pressure on me now.”
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