World Darts Championship: Fallon Sherrock and Mikuru Suzuki secure spots at Alexandra Palace | Darts News
Fallon Sherrock and Mikuru Suzuki will play at the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace later this year; next up on the Sky Sports Darts calendar is the 17th staging of the Grand Slam of Darts from November 11-19 at the Aldersley Leisure Village
Last Updated: 14/10/23 8:38pm
Fallon Sherrock and Mikuru Suzuki will play at this year’s World Darts Championship
Fallon Sherrock and Mikuru Suzuki have secured their qualification for the 2023/24 World Darts Championship from the PDC Women’s Series.
The duo hold an unassailable advantage in the Women’s Series rankings to secure the two qualification spots available in the sport’s biggest event.
Watch Sherrock become the first female to hit a televised nine-darter!
Suzuki had gone into the final weekend of Women’s Series action in second place behind Beau Greaves.
But ‘The Queen of the Palace’ has now leapfrogged Suzuki in the race to qualify for November’s Grand Slam of Darts, after claiming the Events 21 and 22 spoils on Saturday.
Sherrock kicked off the final weekend of PDC Women’s Series action by winning back-to-back titles at the Robin Park Tennis Centre, meaning the Milton Keynes star and Suzuki now cannot be caught by the chasing pack.
Sherrock capped off a perfect darting day at the Robin Park Tennis Centre in Wigan on Saturday
The 29-year-old – also a winner at Event 20 last month – whitewashed Vicky Pruim and Aoife McCormack in the respective finals to cap off a perfect darting day.
Sherrock did claim the scalps of Suzuki and Greaves on her way to Event 22 glory, which saw her secure a third consecutive Women’s Series crown for the first time in her career.
Sherrock has put herself in pole position to qualify November’s Grand Slam of Darts, with Women’s World Matchplay champion Greaves already assured of her place in Wolverhampton – live on Sky Sports.
The eventual second-placed star from the final Women’s Series Order of Merit will join Greaves in the 32-player field, and Suzuki came into the weekend with a £2,200 lead over Sherrock.
Nevertheless, the former Grand Slam quarter-finalist now holds the initiative with two events remaining, moving £1,500 above Suzuki following her remarkable sequence of 21 straight victories.
Abi Davies believes what Sherrock has done for the sport is unrivalled
Suzuki previously competed at Alexandra Palace in the 2019/20 tournament, losing out 3-2 to James Richardson – with Milton Keynes thrower Sherrock subsequently making history in the same event with her wins over Ted Evetts and Mensur Suljovic.
Sherrock has also competed in the past two World Championships, and will make her Alexandra Palace return in December – completing a memorable year which has seen her hit a nine-darter on the Challenge Tour and be awarded an MBE.
2023 PDC Women’s Series
Saturday October 14
The Robin Park Tennis Centre, Wigan
Event 21
Quarter-Finals
Kirsi Viinikainen 5-0 Aoife McCormack
Fallon Sherrock 5-3 Lorraine Hyde
Vicky Pruim 5-2 Beau Greaves
Laura Turner 5-4 Steph Clarke
Semi-Finals
Fallon Sherrock 5-0 Kirsi Viinikainen
Vicky Pruim 5-1 Laura Turner
Final
Fallon Sherrock 5-0 Vicky Pruim
Event 22
Quarter-Finals
Aoife McCormack 5-4 Sara Mortimer
Anastasia Dobromyslova 5-3 Corrine Hammond
Fallon Sherrock 5-2 Kirsty Hutchinson
Beau Greaves 5-3 Deta Hedman
Semi-Finals
Aoife McCormack 5-4 Anastasia Dobromyslova
Fallon Sherrock 5-4 Beau Greaves
Final
Fallon Sherrock 5-0 Aoife McCormack
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