The 54-year-old Wright solely averaged 89.63 to his opponent’s 93.77, however did sufficient to progress.
Sporting a purple mohawk and festive outfit, crowd favorite ‘Snakebite’ confirmed glimpses of his finest to win the primary set and survived eight set darts to go 2-0 forward.
He misplaced the following however Dutchman Plaisier missed two extra set darts within the fourth and Wright seized his alternative.
“Wesley had his probabilities however he missed them and I took them,” he mentioned. “He is bought his tour card and he will be a harmful participant subsequent yr for all of the gamers enjoying towards him.”
Sherrock, 30, fought again from 2-1 right down to power a decider towards her English compatriot Meikle.
She then narrowly missed the bull to take out 170 within the fourth leg earlier than left-hander Meikle held his nerve to hit double 18 for a 96 end to seal a hard-fought success.
“I felt underneath strain from the beginning and to come back by way of feels unbelievable,” mentioned Meikle.
“It is an unbelievable prize to play Luke right here on this stage. It is the most important stage of all of them. I am so blissful.”
World quantity 81 Jeffrey de Graaf, who was born within the Netherlands however now represents Sweden, seemed in hassle towards Rashad Sweeting earlier than prevailing 3-1.
Sweeting, who was making historical past as the primary participant from the Bahamas to compete within the event, took the primary set, however De Graaf fought again to clinch a second-round assembly with two-time champion Gary Anderson
Germany’s Ricardo Pietreczko, ranked 34, beat China’s Xiaochen Zong 3-1 and can face Gian van Veen subsequent.
