DENNIS Taylor crashed out of the Regal Welsh Open at Newport against former world champion John Parrott.

The Blackburn-based Irishman never recovered from Parrott's initial onslaught which saw him take the opening two frames by 76-0 and 104-0 and breeze through to the quarter-finals by rolling off the final three to take the match 5-1.

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