Last year’s UK Open champion Peter Wright fought back from a 1-0 first leg defeat against Diogo Portela to beat his opponent 4-1 to give Scotland a 1-0 lead in the tie.

Two-time World Championship winner Gary Anderson then secured Scotland’s place in the last eight with a 4-0 thrashing of Bruno Angel.

Scotland will now face unseeded Japan, who beat Canada by a 2-0 scoreline.

Elsewhere in the afternoon session, Wales and Australia booked their places in the last eight with 2-1 victories over Switzerland and Spain respectively.

The evening session saw defending champions The Netherlands inflict a 2-0 defeat on South Africa to book a quarter-final meeting with unseeded Germany, who upset the odds to beat sixth seeds Northern Ireland 2-1.

The other quarter-final decided by the evening session matches will see second seeds England face Belgium.

Second favourites England booked their place in the next round by beating Singapore 2-1 whilst Belgium beat Finland 2-0.

The event continues tomorrow