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With Ryan Searle and Andrew Gilding knocked out this afternoon, the number of seeds out before the end of the third round stands at 19...

• Michael Smith (2)
• Rob Cross (5)
• Dave Chisnall (6)
• Damon Heta (9)
• Danny Noppert (13)
• Gary Anderson (14)
• James Wade (16)
• Ross Smith (19)
• Ryan Searle (20)
• Andrew Gilding (21)
• Martin Schindler (22)
• Joe Cullen (23)
• Mike De Decker (24)
• Dirk van Duijvenbode (25)
• Daryl Gurney (26)
• Gabriel Clemens (27)
• Gian van Veen (28)
• Ritchie Edhouse (29)
• Raymond van Barneveld (32)

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Twentieth seed Ryan Searle is out of the PDC World Darts Championship after losing a third-round thriller against Ryan Joyce at Alexandra Palace.

Searle fought back from two sets down and ended the game with an average of 100.97 but Joyce, a quarter-finalist in 2019, pipped him in the deciding set to win 4-3.

Meanwhile, 12th seed Nathan Aspinall is through to the last 16 for the first time in five years after a 4-0 win over 21st seed Andrew Gilding.

Ricardo Pietreczko awaits Aspinall in the next round after he stormed to a 4-1 win over Englishman Scott Williams, who reached the semi-finals last year.

Read more here.

Right, before we go any further. Let's have a quick look back at what happened in an eventful afternoon session...

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Three days on from Christmas and you might just be a bit fed up with turkey for every meal, those same old songs are starting to grate and the family... well, I'll say no more.

Anyway, the one thing we'll never tire of at this time of year is the darts!

The World Championship continues tonight and what a night we have ahead of us.

Luke 'The Nuke' Littler is back in action. He's the headline act as he takes on Ian White to round off the evening.

Before that we've got an exciting tussle between Chris Dobey and Josh Rock to kick things off.

Then it's three-time champion Michael van Gerwen up against Brendan Dolan.

Strap in, this should be fun...