The 2024 Betfred Girls’s World Matchplay will happen on Sunday, as Beau Greaves goals to retain the title on a bumper afternoon of motion at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens.
The third staging of the £25,000 occasion will probably be held within the Empress Ballroom, reside on Sky Sports activities.
The eight-player area consists of gamers from the rolling 12-month PDC Girls’s Sequence Order of Advantage, with 4 former Lakeside girls’s champions competing within the knockout occasion.
High seed Greaves defeated Mikuru Suzuki to triumph on her Girls’s World Matchplay debut 12 months in the past, and the Doncaster darter will start her defence of the title towards Eire’s Katie Sheldon.
Greaves is probably the most profitable participant within the historical past of the PDC Girls’s Sequence, profitable an astonishing 23 titles all through the final two years, which features a hat-trick of successes in 2024.
The 20-year-old additionally turned the primary girl to win a Growth Tour title final month, producing a string of excellent performances to underline her standing as one of many sport’s most enjoyable skills.
“I really enjoyed last year, and I’m looking forward to being back on that stage,” mentioned Greaves, who’s eyeing one other slice of historical past on the Winter Gardens.
“Winning the title on my debut was a really special moment, especially with all my family there as well, and I think it takes the pressure off me this year.
“I think I should have probably won more Women’s Series titles this year, but winning a title on the Development Tour was a big moment.
“I used to be so happy with myself as a result of they don’t seem to be straightforward titles to win, so to get one so early on in my profession was a large achievement, and one to recollect.
“It should be an interesting day. It’s a great line-up, and hopefully we all show what we can do.”
Fallon Sherrock gained the match’s inaugural staging in 2022, and the Milton Keynes trailblazer will kick off her marketing campaign towards three-time Lakeside girls’s champion Anastasia Dobromyslova.
Sherrock returns to the Winter Gardens because the No 2 seed, having lifted 4 consecutive titles within the latter phases of 2023, earlier than profitable two of the yr’s first 4 occasions to take care of her eye-catching kind.
“I feel like you’ve always got to go into every competition with confidence,” mentioned Sherrock, who’s anticipating a troublesome take a look at towards debutant Dobromyslova, who’s making her first look on a TV stage for over 5 years.
Greaves and Fallon Sherrock are in motion on the Girls’s World Matchplay
“I think my form is really good. I’ve had a couple of issues over the last few months but they’re behind me now.
“I imagine the remainder of the yr goes to go rather well, so why not begin by profitable the title this weekend?
“I know Anastasia hasn’t played much on the big stage recently, but she has so much experience, so you can never underestimate her.
“Ana has nonetheless bought the sport. I am anticipating her to be at her finest and I am hoping I can reply, but it surely ought to be a extremely thrilling recreation.”
Third seed Lisa Ashton – one of two ever-presents at the Women’s World Matchplay alongside Sherrock – will also headline this year’s extravaganza, as she meets Rhian O’Sullivan for a place in the last four.
Ashton arrives at the Empress Ballroom as the form player in the women’s game, after claiming back-to-back Women’s Series titles in Events 11 and 12 last month.
“I all the time get nice assist in Blackpool, and it means lots to have the gang in your facet,” mentioned the Bolton-born veteran.
England’s Lisa Ashton faces Rhian O’Sullivan within the quarter-finals
“The Winter Gardens is such a historic and iconic stage to play on; the atmosphere is fantastic and hopefully I will play like I know I can.
“I’ve put an excessive amount of strain on myself right here in the previous few years, so this yr I am simply going to take pleasure in it and take one recreation at a time.
“These youngsters are absolutely relentless, but I will keep trying my best and hopefully I can add this tournament to my CV as soon as possible!”
The semi-finals and ultimate will happen later within the afternoon, and the winner will qualify for the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts and the 2024/25 Paddy Energy World Darts Championship.
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Prepare for the Girls’s World Matchplay on Sunday from 1pm, reside on Sky Sports activities Area
2024 Betfred Girls’s World Matchplay
Sunday July 21
(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
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