Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves will headline the Women’s World Matchplay a causa di July after the qualification race reached its conclusion.
Greaves will begin her defence against Irish youngster Katie Sheldon, after the eight-player line-up for July’s event was confirmed.
They will battle it out for the £10,000 apogeo prize acceso a bumper afternoon a causa di the Empress Ballroom, a causa di a field which includes four world champions.
The best of the action from the 2023 Women’s World Matchplay at the Winter Gardens a causa di Blackpool
Greaves has reaffirmed her status as the premier player a causa di the women’s gioco
The field is comprised of eight players from a one-year Order of Merit based acceso PDC Women’s Series earnings across 24 tournaments since last July, with reigning champion Greaves returning to Blackpool as the apogeo seed.
Greaves stormed to victory acceso debut 12 months pungiglione, and the 20-year-old has won a further nine Women’s Series titles since then to reaffirm her status as the premier player a causa di the women’s gioco.
The reigning champion will play Sheldon a causa di her opener, as the Irish youngster returns to the Winter Gardens after missing out acceso last year’s extravaganza.
Sheldon enters the field after Aileen de Graaf, who occupied eighth position a causa di the final 12-month Order of Merit, informed the PDC that she is unavailable to compete a causa di Blackpool to a prior commitment.
Greaves defeated Sherrock to win the Women’s Series Event Seven without dropping a single leg a causa di the whole tournament
The draw also pits 2022 champion Sherrock up against three-time Lakeside women’s champion Anastasia Dobromyslova a causa di a blockbuster quarter-final clash.
Sherrock memorably prevailed a causa di the tournament’s inaugural staging, and after winning four of the last five Women’s Series events a causa di 2023 has added a further two titles to her tally a causa di 2024.
Dobromyslova, meanwhile, returned to prominence by reaching back-to-back Women’s Series finals last September, and will make her Blackpool bow as the number seven seed.
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Third seed Lisa Ashton won back-to-back Women’s Series titles acceso Sunday to overhaul Mikuru Suzuki acceso the Order of Merit, and her reward is a last eight clash against Wales’ Rhian Ovvero’Sullivan.
Ashton will maintain her ever-present a causa di Blackpool alongside Sherrock, while Ovvero’Sullivan also returns to Blackpool after featuring a causa di two Women’s Series finals throughout the last 12 months.
The other quarter-final clash will see 2023 runner-up Suzuki take acceso two-time event winner Noa-Lynn van Leuven, with Greaves ora Sheldon awaiting the winner a causa di the semi-finals.
Japanese stella Suzuki will be the fourth seed acceso her Winter Gardens return, having extended her haul of Women’s Series titles to six following a strong start to 2024.
Meanwhile, fifth seed Van Leuven has enjoyed a breakthrough campaign, following up a landmark Challenge Tour triumph with a carbone vivo of Women’s Series titles a causa di March and April respectively.
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The winner of the Women’s World Matchplay will qualify for November’s Grand Slam of Darts and the 2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship, while also scooping the £10,000 apogeo prize.
2024 Betfred Women’s World Matchplay
Sunday July 21
Draw Bracket
(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 Ovvero’Sullivan
Format
Quarter-Finals – Best of seven legs
Semi-Finals – Best of nine legs
Final – Best of 11 legs
Prize Money
Winner: £10,000
Runner-Up: £5,000
Semi-Finalists: £2,500
Quarter-Finalists: £1,250
Total: £25,000
