Gary Anderson produced a near-flawless display as he thrashed Ryan Joyce to reach the last-16 of the World Matchplay in Blackpool.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s Anderson, the 2018 champion, delivered spectacular finishes of 144 and 141 as he cruised to a 10-2 victory at Winter Gardens.<\/p>\n
Former world champion Anderson averaged 109.96 and won the last five legs with Englishman Joyce having no answer.<\/p>\n
“The trebles were going in, the doubles were going in, the checkouts were going in – when it happens like that you can’t do anything wrong,” said Anderson.<\/p>\n
“Ryan’s just come up against it. You get those days when you can throw with your eyes shut and hit everything, and that was one of those days.”<\/p>\n
Anderson, who is the 12th seed, sets up a second round match against Welsh fifth seed Jonny Clayton after he beat Australia’s Damon Heta 10-7.<\/p>\n
Clayton rounded off his victory with a superb 144 finish before describing last-16 opponent Anderson as his “hero”.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, three-time champion Michael van Gerwen beat Andrew Gilding 10-6 to set up an encounter against fellow Dutchman Dirk van Duijvenbode, who ousted Chris Dobey 13-11 in a thriller.<\/p>\n
In the evening session, Dutch third seed Gian van Veen made it safely into the second round with a 10-6 against Poland’s Krzysztof Ratajski.<\/p>\n
He will play fellow Dutchman Wessel Nijman after the 14th seed eliminated England’s Dave Chisnall 10-5.<\/p>\n
Sixth seed James Wade defeated Dutchman Jermaine Wattimena 10-7 to set up a contest against fellow Englishman Ryan Searle, after the 11th seed beat Ireland’s William O’Connor 10-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Anderson produced a near-flawless display as he thrashed Ryan Joyce to reach the last-16 of the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-558245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}