The PDC has insisted that the World Darts Championship is “open to all players” after WDF winner Beau Greaves known as for a separate PDC girls’s occasion to be launched.
The 20-year-old, nicknamed ‘Beau ‘n’ Arrow’ gained her third consecutive WDF girls’s world title on Sunday evening after sweeping apart Sophie McKinlay 4-1 within the last.
Nonetheless, her participation within the WDF occasion means she shall be ineligible for the PDC World Championship regardless of it being open to each women and men.
Greaves, who performs within the PDC Ladies’s Collection and the World Matchplay, has known as on darts chiefs to introduce a separate ladies-only Worlds.
PDC Chief Government Matt Porter responded to Greaves’ feedback by saying the Worlds at Ally Pally is “open to all players”.
He mentioned in a press release to Sky Sports activities: “We’ve got invested over £700,000 into girls’s darts over the previous 5 years since introducing the PDC Ladies’s Collection and Betfred World Matchplay and stay dedicated to offering alternatives for all gamers to progress inside the PDC system.
“At current we don’t plan to introduce a separate Ladies’s World Championship; the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship is open to all gamers and is a reward for profitable gamers on the PDC Ladies’s Collection and the Ladies’s World Matchplay winner.
“Our ProTour, Challenge Tour and Development Tour remain open to all players, and from 2025, players from the PDC Women’s Series will also get the chance to qualify for the Winmau World Masters and also compete in the Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts in addition to free entry places on offer at the PDC Qualifying Schools.”
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Matt Porter says he will get Beau Greaves’ resolution to play at this yr’s WDF Lakeside as an alternative of the PDC’s World Championship however hopes to see her at Ally Pally within the close to future
After wrapping up her win, Doncaster thrower Greaves mentioned: “I love WDF darts. It’s the only tour that gives you a World Championship for women.
“The PDC is nice. However it would not have a World Championship [for women]. It has a World Matchplay. That is not ok.
“The PDC has to have a World Championship to justify having a Tour for the ladies. The Women’s Series is great, and the money is good.
“On the identical time, we would like extra for it. The ruling about not having the ability to play each is silly.
“I can understand the men doing it but the women, I don’t understand that part of it – they don’t have a World Championship for the women.
“The WDF has a girls’ world championship, and it’s a must to choose what’s finest for you.”
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Talking on Love The Darts, Polly James and Glen Durrant focus on Greaves’ feedback saying that it could be ‘foolish’ to suppose a feminine participant may win the World Championship
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