Gerwyn Price marked his first match as World Champion and World Number One with a prolific display to defeat Joe Cullen 10-3 and reach the Quarter-Finals at The Masters.
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Price was given his introduction for the first time since achieving that feat at the Alexandra Palace earlier this month and showed there was no rust as he returned with a 104.3 average, five 180's and a high checkout of 132 to set up a mouth watering clash with a resurgent Adrian Lewis next up.
Price started well in his first assignment as World Champion and like alluded to pinned a brilliant 132 checkout to move 2-1 up. He went into the interval 3-2 up with a 101.2 average and emerged with a break of throw in the form of a 92 checkout to make it 4-2.
His dominance continued from there with three consecutive 11-darters seeing 'The Iceman' pumped up and 7-2 in front.
Cullen stopped the rot with an 85 checkout to reduce the arrears to 7-3 as they headed into the interval but it was very much Price seemingly heading towards the finishing line.
This was shown as he finished 60 to go within a leg of the finishing line at 9-3 up with his average up at 106.6 with five 180's.
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He concluded it from there pinning double 10 to sweep Cullen aside and put his potential Premier League hopes in doubt.
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An ice-cool performance from Price there who averages 104.37 as he sweeps Joe Cullen aside with a truly dominant 10-3 victory...
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