Martin Adams's bid to lift the BDO World Championship title
for a fourth time in eight years gathered pace after he sent three-time
runner-up Tony O'Shea crashing to a 3-0 whitewash defeat.
Adams, champion in 2007, 2010 and 2011, could hardly have
had a tougher first-round opponent at Frimley Green but he brushed aside the
challenge of third-seeded O'Shea in emphatic fashion as he needed just 23
minutes to win all nine legs.
O'Shea had reached the final in the last two editions as
well as five years ago - losing each time to Ted Hankey (2009), Christian Kist
(2012) and Scott Waites (2013) - but he will not even be gracing the second
round this time.
Also in the day's afternoon session at the Lakeside
Country Club, top seed Stephen Bunting safely progressed through with a 3-1 win
over Jim Widmayer while Scott Mitchell defeated Paul Hogan 3-2.
Culled from Skysports
