James Wade: 'I'm good enough to beat Phil Taylor'

James Wade has revealed that he is confident of seeing off Phil Taylor in the World Matchplay semi-finals, despite the 16-time world champion not losing at the event since 2007.

Taylor is currently on a 38-match winning streak at the Winter Gardens, but Wade believes that he has the game to see off the Stoke-on-Trent thrower over a best-of-33 contest.

The 32-year-old is quoted by PDC.tv as saying: "I know he will play extraordinary darts so if I beat him, I've got to play brilliantly and I think at the moment, I've got the game to beat him when he's playing well.

"It hasn't come out and we can all talk, but I know I'm good enough to beat him at the moment when he's playing well, and I'm in a better place than I've ever been."

Wade has won just eight of their 58 previous meetings, but two of those triumphs came in the space of a month at the World Grand Prix and Masters at the end of 2014.