The left-handers produced another exciting contest at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, with Phillips taking leads of 3-0 and 8-5 before Webster hit his straps late on to move into the quarter-finals.
Phillips capitalised when Webster started slowly, perhaps showing nerves against his former mentor on the Welsh scene from Webster's early days in the sport.
Double top gave Phillips the opening leg before broke on double nine and took out 84 on the bull to lead 3-0.
Webster got off the mark in the third, hitting a 180 and finishing 81 for a 12-dart leg before posting tops to win a second leg and checking out 58 to level.
Phillips took out tops to win the seventh, and stole the eighth for a 5-3 lead when Webster hit two 180s but missed double 12 and his opponent finished 100 with two double tops.
Double 11 saw Webster break back, and he levelled on double five before being punished for misses as Phillips edged the next three legs to lead once more, moving 8-5 up.
Webster, though, stopped the rot in the 14th leg by hitting a 180 and double ten after Phillips missed the bull for a 161 finish, and when he landed double six in the next to reduce the gap to 8-7 the comeback was alive.
Webster hit his fifth maximum and double ten to level before landing the same bed to move 9-8 up and lead for the first time, before tops for a 15-darter saw him complete the triumph.
"I probably got out of jail there but I'm really glad to get through," said Webster. "It was a battle and I was relieved to get the game over.
"If you want to win a tournament you have to win ugly sometimes and I did that. I missed too many doubles but they were on the wires and there's not too much I need to change.
"I'm looking forward to the quarter-finals and it's good to be in the last eight again, because I'm doing that consistently now in the majors."
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