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The Wales pairing of Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton made an impressive start to their PDC World Cup of Darts campaign on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n The seeded duo had enjoyed a first-round bye and made short work of second-round opponents Benjamin Reus and Vladimir Andersen of Denmark 8-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Price was in scintillating form at Frankfurt’s Eissporthalle in Germany, hitting two 180s in the first leg.<\/span><\/p>\n Wales now face Sweden in Sunday’s quarter-final.<\/span><\/p>\n Price and Clayton are competing in tandem for a sixth consecutive year, aiming to repeat their 2020 victory and become only the fourth nation to claim multiple World Cup successes.<\/span><\/p>\n Swedish pair Oskar Lukasiak and Dennis Nilsson had seen off Canada’s Jeff Smith and Matt Campbell 8-5 in the last 16. <\/span><\/p>\n Scotland’s Gary Anderson and Peter Wright clinched their quarter-final spot with an 8-5 victory over the Philippines and will face Jacques Labre and Thibault Tricole of France, victors over South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n Netherlands’ Danny Noppert and Dirk van Duijvenbode took on Dimitri Van den Bergh and Kim Huybrechts of Belgium in a Low Countries derby, with Belgium edging a classic 8-7.<\/span><\/p>\n They will take on defending champions Australia, comprising of Simon Whitlock and Damon Heta, who held off Croatia 8-6.<\/span><\/p>\n England’s Michael Smith and Rob Cross breezed past Latvia 8-4, their reward a last-eight showdown against the winners of the late match between Poland and Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n