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Pieman through to second round

Andy 'Pieman' Smith and Wes Newton showed no mercy to the two Far East representatives at the Ladbrokes.com World Championship in Purfleet today.

Neither of the English duo lost a leg as they totally outclassed their first-round opponents, although there was a definite contrast in how the seeds performed.

Smith, a Warwickshire lumberjack, was well below par against China's Shi Yongsheng, for whom the highlight came when he scored 140 with his first three darts.

Newton, from Fleetwood, produced a much more professional display against Japan's Tetsuya Wada, a karate black belt who turned to darts when he had to give up the martial art due to injury.

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