Third round - Best of seven sets

Fourth round - Best of seven sets

Quarter-finals - Best of nine sets

Semi-finals - Best of 11 sets

Final - Best of 13 sets

Tie-breaks

From the second round onwards, there will be a tie-break in all matches where a deciding set must be won by two clear legs. If the score in the final set reaches 5-5 then a sudden-death leg will be played. There would be no throw for the bull in any sudden-death legs.

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Laura Turner
Ex-Women's World Championship quarter-finalist on Sky Sports

We are absolutely guaranteed entertainment with Ricky Evans. He's got a really good opportunity to progress but he'll have his hands full with Robert Owen.

That mouth-watering clash is not for a while, we've got two more big matches first. Here's what we have in store...

Evening session

Third round

Ricky Evans v Robert Owen

Fourth round

Jonny Clayton (7) v Gerwyn Price (10)

Luke Humphries (1) v Peter Wright (17)

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There is a little bit of added spice to the last match of the evening following a bit of verbal jousting between Peter Wright and Luke Humphries.

Wright made comments that he could still be better than both Humphries and Luke Littler and the world champion has responded strongly in recent days.

"He's had a lot to say over the last couple of weeks, where he says he doesn't fear me and Luke Littler," Humphries said of tonight's opponent.

"He says he's going to smash us. All the pressure's on him now because if he doesn't the egg's on his face not mine.

"I think Peter loves to play the mind games but it don't work with me. I'm one world title away from almost matching his career and I'm about 25 years younger. So I think one [more] world title would match everything he's achieved in the game."

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England's Callan Rydz put in a magnificent performance to stun 11th seed Dimitri van den Bergh in the afternoon session.

Rydz, a quarter-finalist in 2022, stormed to a 4-0 win over the 2020 World Matchplay champion as he recorded an impressive 105.31 average.

That number was at 115.94 after a blistering first two sets in which Rydz hit six 180s and made six of his nine darts at double against a bewildered Van den Bergh.

Dutchman Kevin Doets survived four match darts as he produced a stirring comeback to beat 31st seed Krzysztof Ratajski.

Doets, who knocked out second seed Michael Smith in the last round, did not have a dart at double in the first set and found himself 2-0 down without winning a leg before rallying to win in the deciding set.

Meanwhile, Sweden's Jeffrey de Graaf set up a last-16 tie with three-time champion Michael van Gerwen after a convincing 4-1 win over Paolo Nebrida.

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We're actually halfway through the day's action after an entertaining afternoon session with another couple of surprise results...

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Here we are again...

Another exciting night of arrows awaits and the competition is really starting to heat up.

The third round concludes with the first match of the evening - Ricky Evans v Robert Owen - and then we're into the last 16.

We've got two great matches, involving three world champions, with 2021 winner Gerwyn Price up against Jonny Clayton in an all-Welsh affair before two-time champion Peter Wright faces defending champion Luke Humphries.

You don't want to miss this.