World Matchplay Preview: Will Lewis and Durrant make this weekend’s semi-finals?

We look ahead to tonight’s quarter-finals in Milton Keynes

Only five matches remain of this year’s World Matchplay tournament, with two more quarter-final match-ups to determine who makes semi-final number two.

Tonight’s action sees Glen Durrant take on Vincent van der Voort with Adrian Lewis up against Dimitri Van den Bergh to see who joins Gary Anderson and Michael Smith in the semi-finals.

There’s all to play for after pre-tournament favourite Michael van Gerwen’s exit in the second round, with the action at the oche scheduled to get underway from 19:15.

Adrian Lewis v Dimitri Van den Bergh (19:15)

There couldn’t be a much wider gap in terms of experience at this stage of a competition between the two.

Adrian Lewis may not have won the World Matchplay before, coming closest in 2013 where Phil Taylor downed him in the final, but his wealth of experience in the latter stages of knockout tournaments could give him the edge over his Belgian counterpart.

Van den Bergh’s darts career is still relatively young, but he’s lost all four of the previous quarter-finals he’s competed in, most recently in the UK Open where he missed out 5-10 to Gerwyn Price.

Jackpot Lewis is a four-time PDC premier event winner in contrast but he’s let himself down with his averages in previous tournaments. He’s found his rhythm in Milton Keynes and is averaging a far more consistent 98, while he’s also got the edge with checkout percentage between the two as well.

We make the Englishman the narrow odds-on 4/5 favourite, with Dancing Dimitri a touch further out at evens to reach his first semi-final.