World number 22 Chris Dobey said his 4-1 win over Gary Anderson at the World Darts Championship was fuelled by annoying comments from his opponent.
Scotland’s Anderson, a two-time world champion, took the opening set in the third-round match at Alexandra Palace – but Englishman Dobey won the next four.
“Gary said something to us in the last break and I didn’t like it, so there was no way he was winning that game after that,” Dobey told Sky Sports.
“It kind of annoyed us.”
He added: “But I came out, the man I am, I tried to forget about it. He’s a class lad but I didn’t agree with what he said.
“I’m not going to say [what he said], it was just something I didn’t like.”
Dobey will face an all-English fourth-round match against either Rob Cross or Mervyn King.
Unseeded Scot Alan Soutar – a firefighter in Dundee away from darts – also advanced after beating UK Open champion Danny Noppert, of the Netherlands, 4-2. Soutar will play Germany’s Gabriel Clemens in the last 16.
Portugal’s Jose de Sousa came from 3-0 down to beat England’s Ryan Searle 4-3.
Three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen plays Mensur Suljovic later on Wednesday, with Masters champion Joe Cullen taking on World Cup winner Damon Heta, and two-time World Championship runner-up Michael Smith facing Martin Schindler.
