 Taylor was in irrepressible form and cantered into the last four
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Top seed Phil "The Power" Taylor produced a scintillating display to thrash Co Stompe 5-0 and reach the PDC World Championship semi-finals.
Taylor, beaten by the Dutchman in November, found his usual accuracy from the outset and raced into a 3-0 lead.
Stompe performed impressively but was outclassed by the world number one, who took the final two sets with some ease.
Standing between Taylor and the final is Mervyn King, a 5-2 victor against Welshman Barrie Bates.
King, who was knocked out in the round of 32 last year, signalled his intent by storming to a two-set lead.
Locked a two legs apiece, both players missed numerous opportunities to check out in the third set before Bates came through.
The momentum was suddenly with Bates and, despite losing the first two legs of the fourth set, he rallied to level the match at 2-2 and made the early running in the fifth.
But King remained calm and came from behind to take that set and showed his class in wrapping up the final two.
 King overcame from a mid-match wobble to take victory against Bates
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The victory moves King up to sixth in the world rankings and should secure him a place in the Premier League.
But he will be fortunate to escape if he suffers another mid-match wobble against Taylor.
Taylor lost 5-4 to Wayne Mardle in the 2008 quarter-finals and the 48-year-old looks in imperious form this time around.
Against any other player, Stompe would have been in with a decent chance given the standard of his performance.
But he was dominated from the first dart and the closest he came to winning a set came when he took two legs in the second before Taylor shut the door.
The semi-final line-up will be complete on Friday after Paul Nicholson takes on third-seed James Wade and Raymond van Barneveld, seeded two, plays Jelle Klaasen.
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