Premier League Darts champion Gary Anderson survived a huge scare to move into the second round of the World Championship at Alexandra Palace last night.

Phil Taylor won his first Players Championship of 2011 with a 6-3 defeat of Michael van Gerwen in today's PDC ProTour event at Dublin's New Citywest Convention Centre.

WHAT do you ask the man who has won everything? Phil Taylor, a middle-aged darts player from the middle of England might not look it — and he doesn’t — but after 13 world titles, he walks with sporting giants.

Phil Taylor will meet Raymond van Barneveld in a heavyweight Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship final tomorrow after the top seeds won their semi-finals tonight.

John Part will begin the defence of his Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship against American Bill Davis, while Phil Taylor drew qualifier Steve Grubb for the first round of the tournament.

Phil 'The Power' Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld remain on course to meet in the final of the Sky Poker World Grand Prix after successfully winning through to the semi-finals of the double-start tournament.

Phil Taylor whitewashed Colin Osborne with a sensational performance to storm into the last eight of the Sky Poker World Grand Prix in Dublin.

Phil Taylor admitted his relief after erasing memories of last year’s first-round defeat in the Sky Poker World Grand Prix with a 2-0 win over Ronnie Baxter in Dublin last night.

Dennis Priestley claimed his second PDC Pro Tour victory of the year with a 3-1 win over Lionel Sams in the Kitchener Open Players Championship.

Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld will meet in the quarter-finals of the Blue Square UK Open for a third successive year on Sunday.

Phil Taylor made a superb return to the PDC Pro Tour with victory in the Southern Players Championship at the Brentwood Centre on Saturday.

Canadian John Part won the 2008 Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship with a 7-2 victory over qualifier Kirk Shepherd in the final at Alexandra Palace.

John Part is determined it will be he – and not rookie sensation Kirk Shepherd - who will make history in tonight’s Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship final at Alexandra Palace.

Canadian John Part has booked his place in the final of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship after a resounding 6-2 victory over Kevin Painter.

Rookie Kirk Shepherd will take on Canada’s John Part in the final of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship at Alexandra Palace on New Year’s Day.

Canadian John Part has booked his place in the final of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship after a resounding 6-2 victory over Kevin Painter.

Defending champion Raymond van Barneveld raced into the third round of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Championship with a 4-1 victory over Jason Clark.

Phil Taylor made another remarkable comeback to edge out Mark Walsh 4-3 and book his place in the last 16 of the Ladbrokes.com PDC World Darts Championship.

Number three seed James Wade made a fine start to his bid for the 2008 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship on Friday night.

Phil Taylor returned to competitive action in sensational form to win Saturday's Players Championship in Lisse.

James Wade picked up his second major title inside three months with a 6-3 victory over Terry Jenkins in the SkyBet World Grand Prix final.

There are two top class clashes tonight in the Skybet World Darts Grand Prix at City West in Dublin.

Giant-killer Adrian Gray continued his march at the SkyBet World Grand Prix with a victory over Andy Smith on Wednesday night to reach his first major quarter-final.

World number one and defending champion Phil Taylor was sensationally sent crashing out of the SkyBet World Grand Prix in Dublin tonight.

Raymond Van Barneveld defeated Kevin McDine 8-2 to win the Blue Square UK Open Irish Regional Final at the Citywest Hotel.

Irish qualifiers Billy Matthews, John Elder, Jason Barry and James Keogh have all drawn top-drawer opposition in next month's World Grand Prix darts at Citywest.

Phil Taylor will meet Mark Dudbridge in the pick of the first round matches at the Las Vegas Desert Classic VI, while John Part begins his title defence against Steve Maish at Mandalay Bay.

Raymond van Barnveld retained the Blue Square UK Open title with a 16-8 win over fellow Dutchman Vincent van der Voort at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton on Sunday night.

Phil Taylor will begin his challenge at the Blue Square UK Open on Saturday with a clash against world number four Peter Manley.

Teenage wonderkid Michael van Gerwen powered into round two of the Blue Square UK Open as the tournament began on Thursday - but American Ray Carver was the biggest casualty of the opening night.

Michael van Gerwen will begin his Blue Square UK Open challenge against Punch Taverns Qualifier Chris McTernan on Thursday June 7.

Phil Taylor insists he will knuckle down to even more practice in a bid to stem the growing threat to his dominance from Raymond van Barneveld.

Phil Taylor has set his sights on the Stan James World Matchplay title in Blackpool this summer after retaining the Holsten Premier League crown in Plymouth.

Wayne Mardle, the "nearly man" of darts, admits no world title success would feel like the genuine article unless it included a victory over Phil Taylor.

WAYNE MARDLE won a thrilling match of breathtaking quality 4-2 against John Part last night to reach the quarter-finals of the Ladbrokes.com World Championship at Purfleet’s Circus Tavern.

Wayne Mardle won a thrilling match of breathtaking quality 4-2 against John Part tonight to reach the quarter-finals of the Ladbrokes.com World Championship at Purfleet’s Circus Tavern.

Two-time champion John Part overcame the brave challenge of Chris Mason in Purfleet tonight to book a third-round date with Wayne Mardle at the Ladbrokes.com World Championship.

Chris Mason refused to let victory slip from his grasp as he carved out a 3-1 first-round win over ’Muffin Man’ Steve Hine in the Ladbrokes.com World Championship at Purfleet’s Circus Tavern tonight.

"Diamond" Dave Askew failed to sparkle as he lost his first-round match 3-0 to Canada’s Gerry Convery in the Ladbrokes.com World Championship at Purfleet’s Circus Tavern today.

Gary Welding’s stunning victory over number one seed Colin Lloyd has blown the top half of the Ladbrokes.com World Championship draw wide open.

Darts legend Phil Taylor powered into the quarter-finals of the Skybet World Grand Prix in Dublin tonight with an emphatic victory over Andy Jenkins.

Phil Taylor, who was at ringside to watch his friend Ricky Hatton defeat Kostya Tszyu last weekend, produced his own masterclass in Bolton this afternoon to book a place in the semi-finals of the Budweiser UK Open.

Phil Taylor has always maintained his lucky number is 13 – and this time next year he hopes that will be the amount of world titles in his collection.

PHIL TAYLOR shrugged off a determined challenge from young pretender Mark Dudbridge to capture his 12th world title at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet last night.