Sixteen-time world champion Phil Taylor will return to darts eight years after retiring to play in the Modus Super Series’ International Pairs tournament in November.<\/p>\n
Taylor will play alongside another former world champion, Adrian Lewis, who himself has not played professionally on the PDC circuit since April 2023.<\/p>\n
Taylor, 66, is the most-decorated player in the sport’s history. ‘The Power’ won 214 professional tournaments and a record 87 major tournaments between 1987 and 2018.<\/p>\n
The doubles tournament takes place between 23 and 28 November in Portsmouth.<\/p>\n
Nicknamed ‘Jackpot’, 41-year-old Lewis won the World Darts Championship in 2011 and 2012 and has faced Taylor in five Professional Darts Corporation major title finals, all of which were won by Taylor.<\/p>\n
The duo are the most successful pairing in the history of the PDC’s World Cup of Darts, winning it four times as Team England in their six outings together.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been asked plenty of times about coming back, but it would have to be for the right reason,” said Taylor.<\/p>\n
“Adrian is one of the very few people I’d come out of retirement to play alongside, and the Modus Super Series is the place I wanted to do it.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a lot of history together, we know each other’s games inside out and I’m looking forward to getting back up there with him.”<\/p>\n
While Taylor has not played professionally since 2018, he did feature at the World Seniors Darts Championship in 2022, 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n
Lewis featured at Modus’ International Pairs Tournament for England last year alongside Steve Beaton, having announced he was taking a break from darts in April 2023.<\/p>\n
“Phil and I have shared some brilliant moments playing together over the years, so to get the chance to do it again is really special,” said Lewis.<\/p>\n
“We know what it takes to win as a pair and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen-time world champion Phil Taylor will return to darts eight years after retiring to play in the Modus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}