Highlights - O'Shea upsets Anderson

Favourite Gary Anderson suffered a 5-3 quarter-final defeat at the hands of ninth seed Tony O'Shea at the BDO World Darts Championship on Thursday.

Stockport's O'Shea, 47, raced into a 3-0 lead as top seed Anderson missed numerous doubles.

Scotland's Anderson, 38, fought back to 4-3, but O'Shea held his nerve to complete an outstanding victory.

In the day's other quarter-final, Darryl Fitton came back from 4-2 down to beat fellow Englishman Scott Waites.

O'Shea, who reached the semi-finals in 2004, said: "I have been playing a long time and three or four years ago I would have crumbled against Gary.

"I knew he was going to come back, he always does. But I am now made of much sterner stuff and have done my share of losing. I'm chuffed with my win over a legend like Gary, I'm made up."

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Fifth seed Fitton, who also reached the semi-finals in 2006, and Waites were level after four sets but Waites clinched the deciding leg of the fifth with double seven before moving into a 4-2 lead after hitting double top.

Both players struggled to hit the doubles in the seventh before Fitton hit a double six with his seventh attempt to bring it back to 4-3.

The opening three legs of the eighth set all went against the throw, Fitton hitting double 20 to move 2-1 ahead and calmly firing in double eight with his second attempt to level the match at 4-4.

Fitton then nailed back-to-back 180s on his way to winning the deciding set to line up an encounter with Cheshire county team-mate O'Shea.

On Friday 15th seed John Walton, the 2001 champion, meets seventh seed Ted Hankey, while sixth seed Gary Robson plays 2007 champion Martin Adams.

Extensive coverage of the Lakeside World Darts Championships will feature on BBC TV and the BBC Sport website.

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