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- Updated: November 18, 2016
Peter Wright ended Phil Taylor’s hopes at the Grand Slam of Darts with a brilliant display of finishing to seal a 16-10 quarter-final win.
‘Snakebite’ surged into a 5-0 lead at the interval and while ‘The Power’ fought back to close to within one leg on a couple of occasions, it was Wright’s finishing that proved crucial as he booked a semi-final meeting with Michael van Gerwen.
Both men averaged in excess of 100 in a match of high quality, but it was Wright who advanced thanks to some spectacular finishing to go with a typically spectacular outfit, and the result meant he …
