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• Second round: Best of 19 legs

Stephen Bunting () v Dimitri van den Bergh ()

Group Position: 1st G - 2nd H
Group Points: 6 - 4
Head-to-head: 2-1
2018 meetings: 0-0

I think it's fair that Dimitri van den Bergh is favourite here despite being a group runner-up. The World Youth champion, who defends that title later this month against Martin Schindler, lost once against Rob Cross but only in a deciding leg while his tournament average is slightly higher. That said, Bunting is on a roll and playing some of the best darts we've seen from him in quite a while. Expect a close, quality contest that goes far. I'll go for over 15.5 legs in the match, a high checkout of 116.5+ and over 6.5 180s at 5/4.

Prediction: 7-10

Gerwyn Price () v Josh Payne ()

Group F Position: 1st F - 2nd E
Group Points: 4 - 2
Head-to-head: 0-5
2018 meetings: 0-1

As well as Josh Payne has done to be here, including taking Peter Wright the distance in his final group game to book his place in the knockout stages, I can't see past Gerwyn Price here in this longer format given how well he's playing. The Iceman is one of just five players to record a double figure 180s count after the groups while his average is fifth best overall at 98.92. He managed a 104 average in the only match he did lose - 'that' cracker against double 170 checkout hero Simon Whitlock! Don't read too much into the head-to-head record - only one of those five encounters was this year and the others were 2016 or earlier. I'll take Price to win, score over 3.5 maximums and have a checkout of over 98.5 at 7/4.

Prediction: 10-5

Rob Cross () v Mensur Suljovic ()

Group F Position: 1st H - 2nd G
Group Points: 6 - 2
Head-to-head: 5-4
2018 meetings: 1-4

Rob Cross may well have found some winning form but he's still not ripping up trees with his performances and you could argue Mensur Suljovic's levels of scoring and finishing were better - albeit marginally - during his disappointing group stage campaign despite losing twice. Overall this season the Austrian will be much happier than Cross and he's also won four of their head-to-head meetings in 2018, so I'm going for the Austrian again. You can keep it simple at 6/5 for the win but I like to throw in Suljovic throwing over 2.5 180s and making a high checkout of 91.5+ to boost those odds to 9/4.

Prediction: 7-10

Peter Wright () v Simon Whitlock ()

Group G Position: 1st E - 2nd F
Group Points: 6 - 4
Head-to-head: 16-8 (1 draw)
2018 meetings: 6-1 (1 draw)

Why not go for the upset? The 2017 runner-up won all his group games but was taken to a pair of deciding legs against Jim Williams and Josh Payne, so it was hardly convincing. Simon Whitlock was battered by Glen Durrant in the first match but bounced back to qualify thanks largely to that barnstorming performance against Gerwyn Price in which he came from 4-1 down, averaged 109 and hit two 170 checkouts.