Beau Greaves moved a step nearer to a 3rd consecutive WDF Girls’s World Championship title after thrashing Deta Hedman to safe her spot in Sunday’s ultimate.
The ladies’s world No 1 despatched Kirsi Viinikainen and Jikta Cisarova in straight units to achieve the final 4 at Lakeside, the place she dropped simply three legs on her approach to a 3-0 victory over the fourth seed.
Greaves threw two 180s and a superb 148 end on the best way to taking the primary set 3-1, with three extra maximums serving to her declare the following set by the identical margin and seize management of the competition.
Hedman recovered from being damaged within the opening leg of the third set to right away break again herself, just for Greaves to interrupt once more after which seal a convincing victory with a 120 checkout.
“I feel absolutely brilliant,” Greaves stated after her victory. “There’s nothing negative about it. Obviously I’ve won and I played a little better than I have done the past two games, so positive moving onto the final.”
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PDC chief government officer Matt Porter says he will get Beau Greaves’ determination to play at this 12 months’s WDF Lakeside as a substitute of the PDC’s World Championships however hopes to see on the Ally Pally within the close to future.
The 20-year-old will face Sophie McKinlay subsequent, after the Scottish teenager noticed off Lerena Rietbergen 3-1 within the different semi-final.
McKinlay can be via to the Women’ World Championship ultimate in opposition to England’s Paige Pauling, held earlier on Sunday, after impressively defeating 2023 women’ winner Aurora Fochesato in straight units.
Within the males’s competitors, 70-year-old Paul Lim continued to roll again the years and thrashed American Jason Brandon 5-0 to achieve the ultimate.
Lim, who famously achieved the primary World Championship nine-dart end in 1990, received 14 consecutive legs earlier than closing out a straight-sets victory and arrange a ultimate in opposition to Eire’s Shane McGuirk.
When will the PDC World Darts Championship happen?
The event will get underway at Alexandra Palace on Sunday December 15, with three first-round matches and one second-round match on the opening night.
There can be reside darts over every of the next eight days, together with seven afternoon periods, with the standard three-day break from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day earlier than returning with the third spherical and a double session on December 27.
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The third and fourth rounds can be accomplished by December 30 earlier than an evening off on New 12 months’s Eve, with the quarter-finals held throughout two periods on New 12 months’s Day forward of the semi-finals on January 2 and the ultimate on Friday January 3.
The total day-by-day schedule for this 12 months’s event might be discovered right here.
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