he went into the 2007 world championship as the number 12 seed. he finally managed a decent run to justify his consistent high ranking, putting out highly fancied adrian lewis in the last 16 on his way to the semi-final. raymond van barneveld was too strong for him and won 6-0. in the 2008 world championship, jenkins got through a tough first-round game against czech qualifier miloslav navratil but was then beaten 4-0 by the alan tabern in the second round.