THORNTON ENJOY McCOY^S PREMIER LEAGUE DOUBLES IN BIRMINGHAM

Scottish ace Robert Thornton, followed his 7-4 win over Andy Hamilton with a 7-5 defeat of Adie Lewis to move a point adrift fourth-placed Wade as he reignited his Play-Off challenge.

The Scot ended a two-game losing run as he landed three 180s in seeing off Hamilton, before hitting checkouts of 120, 152 and 145 as he came from 4-3 down against Lewis to claim a narrow 7-5 win.

"Both wins were a bit scrappy, but you^re going to have weeks like that and I^m quite happy that they went my way," said the UK Open champion.

"I^d lost in the past couple of weeks and though I wasn^t playing that badly, I missed a lot of doubles, but Adrian and Andy gave me second chances at doubles and I took them.

"Over the next two weeks I^ve got Phil Taylor in Liverpool and then Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen in Newcastle, so it^s going to be very interesting. I^ll give it my best and hopefully I can get a few more points and make the top four."