Dom Taylor will make his return to the MODUS Super Series this week, taking another significant step in his bid to rebuild his darts career following a six-month suspension.
The former PDC Tour Card Holder has been added to the Week Three Group B line-up, with MODUS confirming on Monday that Taylor and Lewis Gurney will replace the withdrawn Jim McEwan and Darren Webster.
Group B action gets underway on Thursday, with Taylor returning to a stage on which he has previously enjoyed considerable success. The two-time weekly runner-up will have an opportunity to get his comeback on the road, and his return will carry more weight than just an ordinary week on the calendar.
It is his first appearance in the competition for almost three years, and whilst he has been playing local competitions, it comes just three months after his career was plunged into uncertainty.
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Taylor was handed a six-month suspension by the Darts Regulation Authority in January after admitting an anti-doping rules breach, representing his second anti-doping violation.
The Bristol-born thrower was stripped of the £25,000 prize money he had earned from reaching the second round of the 2026 World Championship and dropped outside the world’s top 64, subsequently losing his PDC Tour Card.
His World Championship campaign had begun in promising fashion, with Taylor defeating Oskar Lukasiak 3-0 before his positive test emerged and he was withdrawn ahead of his scheduled second-round meeting with fifth seed Jonny Clayton.
Taylor marked his return to competitive action by winning the Coventry Open earlier this month, going unbeaten throughout the tournament before producing a 103.40 average in a 5-1 final victory over Zac Prince. For a player attempting to rediscover his place in the game, it offered a timely reminder that the ability which carried Taylor onto the Pro Tour has not disappeared.
There is no PDC ranking on the line and no immediate route back onto the Pro Tour through MODUS Super Series. Instead, Thursday, and potentially beyond, offers Taylor another opportunity to prove that the player who climbed onto the professional circuit can still be found beneath the difficult months that followed.
Darts has offered a path to redemption for many players and a multitude of ‘sins’, in the past, can Dom make the most of the latest opportunity the game has given him?
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