Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves will headline the Ladies’s World Matchplay in July after the qualification race reached its conclusion.
Greaves will start her defence in opposition to Irish teen Katie Sheldon, after the eight-player line-up for July’s occasion was confirmed.
They may battle it out for the £10,000 high prize on a bumper afternoon within the Empress Ballroom, in a subject which incorporates 4 world champions.
Greaves has reaffirmed her standing because the premier participant within the girls’s sport
The sphere is comprised of eight gamers from a one-year Order of Advantage based mostly on PDC Ladies’s Sequence earnings throughout 24 tournaments since final July, with reigning champion Greaves returning to Blackpool as the highest seed.
Greaves stormed to victory on debut 12 months in the past, and the 20-year-old has received an extra 9 Ladies’s Sequence titles since then to reaffirm her standing because the premier participant within the girls’s sport.
The reigning champion will play Sheldon in her opener, because the Irish teen returns to the Winter Gardens after lacking out on final 12 months’s extravaganza.
Sheldon enters the sector after Aileen de Graaf, who occupied eighth place within the remaining 12-month Order of Advantage, knowledgeable the PDC that she is unavailable to compete in Blackpool resulting from a previous dedication.
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Greaves defeated Sherrock to win the Ladies’s Sequence Occasion Seven with out dropping a single leg in the entire match
The draw additionally pits 2022 champion Sherrock up in opposition to three-time Lakeside girls’s champion Anastasia Dobromyslova in a blockbuster quarter-final conflict.
Sherrock memorably prevailed within the match’s inaugural staging, and after successful 4 of the final 5 Ladies’s Sequence occasions in 2023 has added an extra two titles to her tally in 2024.
Dobromyslova, in the meantime, returned to prominence by reaching back-to-back Ladies’s Sequence finals final September, and can make her Blackpool bow because the quantity seven seed.
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Watch Sherrock grow to be the primary feminine to hit a televised nine-darter!
Third seed Lisa Ashton received back-to-back Ladies’s Sequence titles on Sunday to overtake Mikuru Suzuki on the Order of Advantage, and her reward is a final eight conflict in opposition to Wales’ Rhian O’Sullivan.
Ashton will preserve her ever-present report in Blackpool alongside Sherrock, whereas O’Sullivan additionally returns to Blackpool after that includes in two Ladies’s Sequence finals all through the final 12 months.
The opposite quarter-final conflict will see 2023 runner-up Suzuki tackle two-time occasion winner Noa-Lynn van Leuven, with Greaves or Sheldon awaiting the winner within the semi-finals.
Japanese star Suzuki would be the fourth seed on her Winter Gardens return, having prolonged her haul of Ladies’s Sequence titles to 6 following a robust begin to 2024.
In the meantime, fifth seed Van Leuven has loved a breakthrough marketing campaign, following up a landmark Problem Tour triumph with a brace of Ladies’s Sequence titles in March and April respectively.
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Talking on the Love The Darts podcast, Glen Durrant says the PDPA are ensuring that Noa-Lynn van Leuven is dealing with the ‘horrible’ criticism she is receiving for competing as a trans participant
The winner of the Ladies’s World Matchplay will qualify for November’s Grand Slam of Darts and the 2024/25 Paddy Energy World Darts Championship, whereas additionally scooping the £10,000 high prize.
2024 Betfred Ladies’s World Matchplay
Sunday July 21
Draw Bracket
(1) Beau Greaves vs (8) Katie Sheldon
(4) Mikuru Suzuki vs (5) Noa-Lynn van Leuven
(2) Fallon Sherrock vs (7) Anastasia Dobromyslova
(3) Lisa Ashton vs (6) Rhian O’Sullivan
Format
Quarter-Finals – Better of seven legs
Semi-Finals – Better of 9 legs
Ultimate – Better of 11 legs
Prize Cash
Winner: £10,000
Runner-Up: £5,000
Semi-Finalists: £2,500
Quarter-Finalists: £1,250
Whole: £25,000
