James Wade became the first young player to be knocked out of the World Darts Championship after being defeated by Jermaine Wattimena in the second round at Alexandra Palace.

Wade - a four-time World Championship semi-finalist - had been tipped as a possible contender to challenge for the Sid Waddell Trophy but was beaten in his opening match for the third consecutive year.

The Englishman won the opening match 13-all, only for Wattimena to take control of a one-sided contest by winning the next eight games to move two sets and a break down against the 16th seed.

Wade briefly halted Wattimena's run by removing the tops for 15, only for the Dutchman to wrap up victory inside 20 minutes on foot and leaving him to face compatriot Wesley Plaisier or two-time world champion Peter Wright after Christmas .

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What else happened on Monday afternoon?

Welsey Plaisier booked a second-round showdown with two-time world champion Gerwyn Price after twice coming back from a set down to defeat Ryusei Azemoto in a low-scoring contest.

Both players struggled with their averages and finishing, with the first maximum not coming until the fourth set, before Plaisier improved in the later stages of a long run to hit six straight games and complete the win.

Luke Woodhouse won each of his first seven matches on his way to a straight sets victory over Laurence Ilagan, averaging 94.38 and scoring four maximums to set up a clash against World Grand Prix champion Mike de Decker.

Kai Gotthardt overcame a broken arrow barrel and was a set down to beat Alan Soutar 3-1 on his World Championship debut, with the German now facing Stephen Bunting in the next round.

Gotthardt had to leave the stage to fix the problem during the opening set, won by Soutar, before taking advantage of a defiant finish from the Scot to win the next eight games on his way to an impressive victory.

What's next?

We've got another day of action for you on Tuesday 17th December and you can watch it all live on Sky Sports Darts.

From 12.30pm, we have James Hurrell vs Jim Long, Kevin Doets vs Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Ryan Joyce vs Darius Labanauskas and World Grand Prix Champion Mike De Decker vs Luke Woodhouse.

Then from 7pm, we have Jeffrey de Graaf vs Rashad Sweeting, Ricardo Pietreczko vs Xiaochen Zong, Ryan Meikle playing Fallon Sherrock - with a chance to face Luke Littler on the line - and Peter Wright vs Wesley Plaisier.

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