PHIL TAYLOR made a thrilling start to the Gibraltar Darts Trophy event with a 6-2 defeat of Gino Vos on Friday, but home hopes in the tournament were ended.

FIVE Dutch aces won places in the Gibraltar Darts Trophy on Thursday night, as they were joined in winning through the European Qualifier by Belgium's Ronny Huybrechts, Austria's Mensur Suljovic and Finland's Jani Haavisto.

THE Gibraltar Darts Trophy will be streamed live online through LIVEPDC.TV and through the William Hill website this weekend.

PETER WRIGHT admits that a lesson in darts from Michael van Gerwen at last year's World Championship has forged his bid to break into darts' elite.

RESULTS and tournament information from the Gibraltar Darts Trophy.

THE schedule of play for the partypoker.net European Championship has been confirmed, ahead of the four-day event at the RWE Sporthalle in Muelheim, Germany from July 4-7.

KYLE ANDERSON'S dominance of the DPA Australian Grand Prix circuit continued as he shared the spoils with James Bailey in the latest double-header weekend.

THE draw for the partypoker.net European Championship has been made - Simon Whitlock opens his defence against Kim Huybrechts.

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN continued his sensational year with a 6-1 victory over Andy Hamilton in the final of the sixth Players Championship, in Crawley.

PETER WRIGHT won his second ranking title by beating Wes Newton 6-1 in the Players Championship final at the K2 Centre in Crawley, on Saturday.