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Two Women Players Set To Compete At The 2025 World Darts Championship, With Beau Greaves A Notable Omission
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Two women will compete at the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship this winter at Ally Pally, with one notable omission who opted to play elsewhere. Here is everything you need to know about which ladies have qualified for the biggest tournament in world darts.
Which Women Are Playing In The 2025 World Darts Championship?
The 2025 PDC World Darts Championship will see two women will take to the stage at Alexandra Palace in London this winter.
Both England’s Fallon Sherrock and the Netherlands’ Noa-Lynn van Leuven have qualified for the tournament through the 2024 PDC Women’s Series.
Sherrock became the first female player to win a match, and subsequently two matches at Ally Pally. The World Darts Championship in 2019 saw Sherrock make history, earning her the nickname ‘Queen of the Palace’ in the process too.
In the first round, she beat Ted Evetts 3-2 before moving on to dump Mensur Suljovic out of the competition in the second round. She was eventually stopped by Chris Dobey in the third round, but was undoubtedly the main storyline of the World Darts Championship that year.
The Milton Keynes-born star has been making waves in darts for quite some time now and became the first woman to reach the last-16 of a major darts tournament at the 2021 Grand Slam.
Sherrock even beat Suljovic again in the last 16 to reach the quarter-finals, but was stopped in her tracks by Peter Wright in a narrow 16-13 defeat.
In the last three years, Sherrock has lost in the first round of the World Championship to Steve Beaton, Ricky Evans and Jermaine Wattimena respectively.
In 2025, she will play Ryan Meikle in the first round – before a potential clash with none other than 17-year-old darts sensation Luke Littler if she is to progress.
Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.
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Noa-Lynn Van Leuven Set To Be First Transgender Competitor At Ally Pally
Alongside Fallon Sherrock, the only other female competitor set to play at the 2025 World Darts Championship is Noa-Lynn van Leuven.
Last year it was Mikuru Suzuki who played at the Worlds representing the ladies with Sherrock, but this year it is the Dutch female darting star van Leuven.
This is the first time van Leuven has qualified for the World Darts Championship. Another first is the fact that she will become the first transgender player to compete at Ally Pally or in any PDC competition.
Van Leuven faces Kevin Doets in the first round of the 2025 World Darts Championship. Should she get past Doets, a Round 2 clash with former world champion and world number one Michael Smith awaits.
Why Isn’t Beau Greaves Playing At The World Darts Championship This Year?
One notable omission from the 2025 World Darts Championship is the best female player on the planet – Beau Greaves.
The 20-year-old superstar is widely regarded as the best women’s darts player by quite some distance. Despite qualifying to play at Alexandra Palace is she desired, Greaves has instead opted to play at the 2024 WDF World Darts Championship.
Greaves is the reigning World Darts Federation women’s world champion and decided to defend her title at Lakeside instead of going to London, which runs through to the 10th December. In fact, she has won the women’s Worlds back-to-back and is going for a hat-trick this year.
Due to clashes in the schedule, Greaves had to pick one or the other. So despite qualifying for the 2025 World Darts Championship, she has opted to go to the Lakeside event instead.
The winner of the WDF Women’s World Championship will claim a £25,000 prize – and to claim that total at Ally Pally, she’d need to reach the third round.
Be sure to claim the various darts betting offers and free bet deals available on the SportsCasting site ahead of the 2025 World Darts Championship.