Hampshire have two players in the second round of the Lakeside World Championship at Frimley Green - but experienced campaigner Colin Monk is not one of them.

Monk, taking part in his tenth consecutive contest at the Lakeside, lost out to number two seed Ted Hankey in a thriller, in which the Basingstoke builder battled back from set sets down to force the match into a deciding set.

Earlier in the day, Aldershot's James Wade made it into round two for the first time as he beat fellow Englishman Shaun Greatbatch. Wade joins Basingstoke's Paul Hogan, who was the first player to go into round two by beating Scotland's Bob Taylor on Saturday.

Hankey, nicknamed Dracula, went off like a bat out of hell to take the first leg against Monk's throw.

But Monk hit back to draw level and then held his throw in the third before the Millennium champion levelled on his way to taking the first set.

Monk pulled on his ex-perience to take the opening leg of the second but that was his only success as Hankey went two up.

Former England international Monk looked as if he would soon be heading back down the M3 but, with the players level at one leg each, he hit a spectacular shot out with bull, 25, bull and followed it up with another win to claim set three.

Hankey had first throw advantage in the fourth and put it to good use in the opener, only to see Monk rattle off the next three to level the clash at two sets each.

The deciding game went the same way as the fourth but this time in Hankey's favour and Monk, who has made the semi-finals on two occasions, made a rare exit in round one.

Rising star Wade went out in round one last year despite being a wire away from victory against Dennis Harbour.

Over-confidence and pre-mature celebrations cost Wade that match but the Aldershot player - regularly compared to legend Eric Bristow - didn't make the same mistake again.

He concentrated on his darts this time around to beat an out-of-sorts Great-batch but still found time to show off his natural ability to play to the crowd. "I didn't have to step it up a gear today," said Wade afterwards. I've been playing superb rec-ently but that wasn't good - I played like an idiot but at least I did behave."

Legs went with first throw advantage, which netted Wade the first set.

The second followed the same pattern until 2-2 when Wade, well behind his opponent, hit 171 to leave double six, which he got at the next visit.

Greatbatch - renowned for being one of the players on the oche when darts had its first streaker three years ago - was having a bad day on stage and Wade wrapped up the tie with a straight legs third set.

Wade now faces England's Darryl Fitton while Hogan has the tough task of overcoming champion Raymond van Barneveld tomorrow.