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Top seeds and defending champions England coasted through to the last eight of the World Cup of Darts with a comfortable 2-0 victory over minnows China.Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis, neither of whom were anywhere near their best, still had too much for their opponents who failed to bag a single leg between them.The 16-time world champion Taylor made a slow start to his match against Yuanjun Liu who missed three attempts to take the opening leg having made it down to 40. And The Power punished his young opponent, needing just two darts to take a 1-0 lead from 94 (3 x 18, 2 x 20). Phil Taylor helps England into the last eight in Frankfurt A lacklustre Taylor, whose three-dart average during the contest was a mediocre 81.24, remained ahead of his opponent to move into a three-leg lead, before sealing a comfortable 4-0 victory with his third throw at a double.Adrian Lewis also won 4-0 against an exuberant Wenge Xie to book England a quarter-final spot against Austria.All the home nations were on the oche on Saturday in Frankfurt, where reigning world champion Gary Anderson rode his luck overcoming Cor Dekker in seven tense legs.Andersons opponent had one attempt to wrap the match up 4-2 - and give Norway a surprise 1-0 lead in the best-of-three contest against Scotland - but his throw at a double-20 drifted above the wire. Scotland beat Norway two-nil to progress to the quarter-finals of the World Cup of Darts However, Dekker still looked in good shape to take the decider when he left himself 52, with Anderson struggling on 160.But the Flying Scotsman responded with a brace of maximums and a double-top to give his team the lead.And the No 2 seeds booked their spot in the quarter-finals as Robert Thornton came from behind to beat Robert Wagner 4-1.In the match between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the No 4 seeds from the north made it through 2-0 with Brendan Dolan and Daryl Gurney proving too strong for William OConnor and Mick McGowan. Gary Anderson snatched victory from the jaws of defeat as Scotland reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup of Darts But there was a shock for the No 5 seeds Wales, as Mark Webster and Gerwyn Price slumped to a 2-1 defeat against Canada.The tie included a 4-2 victory for former world champion John Part over Webster.In the final tie of the night, former champions the Netherlands beat Philippines 2-0.Michael van Gerwen opened with a 4-2 triumph over Gilbert Ulang, while Raymond van Barneveld completed the task for the No 3 seeds against Alex Tagarao who opened with a maximum and claimed the first leg.However, despite missing a double-16 to clinch the match in the fifth leg, he secured a 4-2 win while Tagarao was stranded on 160. Van Barneveld produced a three-dart average of more than 100, as the Dutch set up a mouth-watering clash against Australia.Second Round Results (on Saturday)Belgium 2-0 HungaryNorthern Ireland 2-0 Republic of IrelandWales 1-2 CanadaAustria 2-0 SingaporeScotland 2-0 NorwayAustralia 2-1 DenmarkEngland 2-0 ChinaNetherlands 2-0 PhilippinesQuarter-Final Ties (Sunday)England v AustriaScotland v BelgiumThe Netherlands v AustraliaNorthern Ireland v CanadaThe semi-finals and final will also be played on Sunday.Also See:Lewis on playing with TaylorWorld Cup of Darts previewSky Bets darts oddsOn Sky TVSchedule/ResultsFeaturesAdidas NMD Kopen .H. -- Matt Kenseth made it 2 for 2 in the Chase, holding off teammate Kyle Busch to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. 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Louis Blues teammates who would also be participating in the Olympics, Alex Pietrangelo felt right at home, no different in some ways to the travel experience of any old road trip – save for the length of the journey, that is.Eric Boullier says McLaren are not yet focused on establishing their position in F1s 2016 pecking order, with reliability top of their job list.McLarens early form in pre-season testing was always likely to receive close scrutiny as the paddock waits to learn if the team and engine suppliers Honda have recovered from their wretched first season back together.The tone for the partnerships 2015 was set when they completed fewer than 100 laps at the first test, but the new MP4-31 has already sailed past that mark inside three days. Fernando Alonso completed 119 laps on Tuesday alone, with the only hint of unreliability coming on Wednesday when Jenson Button was stopped by a hydraulic leak. However, McLarens pace has proved more difficult to read with the team yet to finish higher than sixth on the timesheet.Speaking midway through Day Three, Boullier said McLaren were simply focused on collecting data on their new car. Compared with the others, I have no idea, [where we stand] as it is too early and it was not the target of the first two days, said McLarens racing director.We had a lot to fix on the reliability and running [from 2015] and, like I said before, over the winter we had to build a car on engineering brains, software and computers so we have numbers and we need to find out if their correlate.So we have spent the first two days seeing if these numbers are correlating because its important to put them back in the system for the future development of the car.Boullier believes McLaren have arrived into pre-season on the back of a very successful winter. We couldnt do more. We have revised our car completely and we have reinforced our cooperation with Honda, the Frenchman said.There was a lot of travel back and forth between Woking and Japan this winter, so its been a very successful winter.The McLaren chief was appearing alongside Yusuke Hasegawa, the new hhead of Hondas F1 project after Yasuhisa Arai was moved aside in a reorganisation announced after the first day of testing.ddddddddddddHasegawa said the Japanese firm was working hard to turn its F1 fortunes around, but still needed time to bridge the gap to the front. New Honda boss Yusuke Hasegawa has confirmed that he is feeling the pressure of his new role Asked to assess how much ground they had made up to world champions Mercedes, he replied: We dont know the current position.Still, I think they have an advantage so we need to pick up more [performance].The Sky Sports F1 Digital team will be providing live commentary from dawn until dusk on all four days of both Barcelona tests while Sky Sports News HQ will also deliver live updates from trackside. Every race live in 2016 Sky Sports F1 brings you every race live in 2016. Fast and easy online upgrade - click hereAlso See:F1 set for qualy shake-upHamilton arrives on a hoverboard ' ' '