Two women will compete at the PDC World Darts Championship 2024 this winter at Alexandra Palace, with a notable omission who opted to play elsewhere.
Which Women Players Are In The World Darts Championship?
In the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, two women will take to the stage at Alexandra Palace in North London.
Both England’s Fallon Sherrock and Japan’s Mikuru Suzuki have qualified for the tournament through the PDC Women’s Series.
Sherrock became the first female player to win a match, and subsequently two matches at the World Championships in 2019 – making history, which earned her the nickname ‘Queen of the Palace.’
In the first round, she beat Ted Evetts 3-2 before moving on to dump Mensur Suljovic out of the competition but she was eventually stopped by Chris Dobey in the third round.
The Milton Keynes-born star has been making waves in darts for quite some time now and became the first woman to reach the last 16 of a major darts tournament at the 2021 Grand Slam.
Sherrock even beat Suljovic again in the last 16 to reach the quarter-finals, but was stopped in her tracks by Peter Wright in a narrow 16-13 defeat.
In the last two years, Sherrock has lost in the first round of the World Championship to Steve Beaton and Ricky Evans.
In 2024, she will play Jermaine Wattimena in the first round – before facing 26th ranked Martin Schindler in the second round if she is to progress.
SHERROCK HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!!
She beats Mensur Suljovic 3-1 to repeat history and book her place in the Third Round.
INCREDIBLE SCENES!!! pic.twitter.com/jXhQNuBSk8
— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) December 21, 2019
41-year-old Mikuru Suzuki is the other female who will play on the world stage this year, having been drawn against Ricardo Pietreczko in the first round.
If she progresses, she will face 30th ranked Callan Rydz in the second round. She has played in the World Championship once before in 2020, but lost in the first round to James Richardson.
Why Isn’t Beau Greaves Playing At The World Championship?
19-year-old superstar Beau Greaves is widely regarded as the best female player on the planet currently and despite qualifying to play at Alexandra Palace, she opted against it this year.
Greaves is the reigning World Darts Federation women’s world champion and decided to defend her title at Lakeside instead of going to London, which runs through to the 10th December.
She qualified by winning the Women’s World Matchplay in Blackpool earlier this year, but due to the clash in schedules she had to pick one or the other.
The winner of the WDF Women’s World Championship will claim a £25,000 prize – and to reach that total at ‘Ally Pally,’ she’d need to reach the third round.
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