Fallon Sherrock has secured her return to the PDC World Darts Championship through the PDC Girls’s Sequence however has did not qualify for the Grand Slam of Darts.
The PDC Girls’s Sequence concluded with Occasions 23 & 24 on Sunday, with the 2 tournaments additionally figuring out the qualification spots for the World Darts Championship and Grand Slam of Darts later this yr.
Noa-Lynn van Leuven was already assured of a World Championship spot after beating Beau Greaves in Occasion 21 on Saturday, guaranteeing she could be the primary trans participant to characteristic at Alexandra Palace, with Sherrock securing the second spot through the PDC Girls’s Sequence Order of Benefit.
Sherrock booked her fifth World Championship look by defeating Mikuru Suzuki 5-2 within the last of Occasion 23, though additionally wanted to win Occasion 24 later that day to maneuver above Van Leuven within the season-long standings and qualify for the Grand Slam.
These hopes ended when she misplaced 4-1 to Neuza Araujo within the last-32 of Occasion 24, gained by Angela Kirkwood, leaving Van Leuven taking the qualification spot and becoming a member of girls’s world No 1 Beau Greaves within the Grand Slam line-up for Wolverhampton.
How Sherrock secured Ally Pally return
Sherrock – who made her identify with history-making wins towards Ted Evetts and Mensur Suljovic on the sport’s flagship occasion in 2019 – got here into Sunday’s double header with a £2,100 buffer over Suzuki within the battle for a World Championship spot.
The pair went head-to-head within the Occasion 23 showpiece, and it was Sherrock who emerged victorious, producing a late flurry to shut out a 5-2 victory and finish Suzuki’s hopes of qualification.
Sherrock kicked off her marketing campaign with a trio of 4-1 wins towards Natalie Gilbert, Maret Liiri and Felicia Blay, which she backed up with 5-2 successes towards Katie Sheldon and Steph Clarke within the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.
Kirkwood then rounded off the 2024 season with a maiden Girls’s Sequence success, after firing in a 13-dart break to defeat Anastasia Dobromyslova in a last-leg shoot-out.
Araujo ended Sherrock’s hopes of back-to-back titles with an excellent 4-1 victory within the final 32, whereas she later denied Van Leuven within the quarter-finals to register her greatest efficiency in a PDC Girls’s Sequence occasion.
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Talking on Love The Darts, Laura Turner and Michael Bridge talk about Fallon Sherrock’s latest feedback saying that girls have to put extra effort in and have extra alternatives to play towards males to enhance the usual
Van Leuven will make her Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts debut subsequent month after ending second within the season-long standings to Greaves, who didn’t characteristic in Sunday’s double-header after scooping her eighth Girls’s Sequence title of the yr in Occasion 22 on Saturday.
Greaves completed the season on £24,200, nearly £8,000 above Van Leuven in second, and qualifies for each occasions after successful the Girls’s World Matchplay earlier this summer time. She has dedicated to taking part in within the Grand Slam however has but to announce whether or not she is going to take her place within the World Championship.
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Talking on Love The Darts, Polly James and Glen Durrant talk about Beau Greaves’ feedback saying that it might be ‘foolish’ to assume a feminine participant might win the World Championship
Sherrock ended the marketing campaign an extra £2,200 adrift in third place, whereas Suzuki and Ashton occupied fourth and fifth spots respectively.
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