Van Duijvenbode punished 12 missed darts at doubles from Anderson as he reeled off four consecutive legs to seal a 6-3 win over Anderson to keep up his good spell of form over his idol.
Anderson led to begin the tie sealing three legs on the spin to go 3-2 up but Van Duijvenbode cleaned up 72 to restore parity at 3-3 before four missed darts at doubles from Anderson allowed Van Duijvenbode to lead 4-3.
Van Duijvenbode nailed double 10 to make it three consecutive legs and move 5-3 ahead before a 72 checkout sealed it for 'The Titan'.
While Wade ended the run of Leonard Gates with a 6-4 triumph as 'The Machine' aims to regain the title he sealed back in 2018.
Punishing six missed darts at double to begin the tie from Gates, Wade did a usual Machine pinning a 126 checkout on the bull to go 1-0 up.
Before breezing into a 4-1 lead from there as he surged towards the next round which was added to as he consolidated his break with a 5-1 win.
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Gates though hit back with one last salvo as he hit a 102 checkout to trail 5-2 before breaking and making it three on the spin at 5-4 down but Wade sealed it meaning it was too much of a mountain to climb in the end.
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DIRK DOES IT! 🇳🇱
Dirk van Duijvenbode is the first man through to the quarter-finals, reeling off the last four legs without reply to dump out Gary Anderson!
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