Darts legend Phil Taylor forced to withdraw from World Seniors Tour on medical advice

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PHIL TAYLOR has been forced to retreat from the World Seniors Darts Tour Matchplay connected aesculapian grounds.

Taylor, 64, had been owed to vie successful this weekend's contention successful York.

Phil Taylor has withdrawn from the World Seniors Darts Tour successful York connected aesculapian grounds

However, the Power has opted to retreat from competing aft taking aesculapian advice.

The 16-time World Champion and 16-time World Matchplay Champion has been experiencing discomfort successful caller weeks pursuing a hep operation.

On the withdrawal, Taylor said: "Naturally, I americium gutted to beryllium missing retired connected playing successful specified a large lawsuit similar the WSDT Seniors World Matchplay.

"I person been leaving nary chromatic unturned successful mentation for York.

"But aft having hep replacement surgery, I person been feeling symptom successful the past fewer weeks, and the consultants person advised against playing this weekend.

"I withdrew from playing successful a play accumulation successful Whitby to springiness myself each accidental for the Matchplay, but I person to beryllium sensible, and instrumentality the proposal I person been fixed connected board.

"Rest assured, I volition beryllium doing everything to beryllium acceptable and afloat acceptable for the WSDT Seniors World Masters successful Sunderland successful November."

Despite his withdrawal successful a playing capacity, Taylor volition beryllium powering done to look connected TNT Sports' broadcast squad astatine the Barbican.

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Taylor added: "I'm truly pleased to beryllium inactive beryllium coming to York, and I'm looking guardant to moving with the squad astatine TNT Sports and WSDT implicit the play and gathering the fans.

"The WSDT enactment tirelessly to enactment these events on, and I'm much than blessed to assistance successful immoderate mode I can.

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"It promises to beryllium a fantastic tournament, and determination volition beryllium a just fewer that volition beryllium gladsome I'm not going to beryllium playing, arsenic signifier was going precise well."

The victor of the tourney volition pouch £10,000.

Other stars playing astatine the lawsuit volition see defending champion Leonard Gates, Glen Durrant, Trina Gulliver, Billy Lovell, Chris Mason and Neil Duff.

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