{"id":5148,"date":"2022-07-24T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T09:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2022\/07\/colmn-cm113-the-womens-world-matchplay\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:58:31","slug":"colmn-cm113-the-womens-world-matchplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartoidsworld.net\/2022\/07\/colmn-cm113-the-womens-world-matchplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Colmn #CM113 The Women’s World Matchplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, July 24, 2022
\nColumn CM113
\nThe Women’s World Matchplay<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the men\u2019s event get\u2019s closer to the end the women\u2019s event is about to begin.<\/p>\n

Only two men are still in the tournament \u2013 Gerwen Price and Michael van Gerwen.\u00a0 Tonight, we will know who is the 2022 World Matchplay champion.\u00a0 But first, we’ll know the women’s champion as the women\u2019s event will be played this afternoon while the men\u2019s final will take place this evening.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s event so far has been a highclass, thrilling and entertaining event \u2013 hopefully the women\u2019s event will be similar. As the women\u2019s event is a completely new tournament, played for the first time this year, all eight participants are debutants though being a debutant in this case doesn\u2019t mean inexperienced\u2026<\/p>\n

Eight women qualified by the PDC Women\u2019s Series and it looks like an interesting mix of age and experience.<\/p>\n

Lisa Ashton, the four time women\u2019s World Champion and three times World Masters winner is, at 51 years of age, the oldest participant and probably the most experienced – and the one with the most tournament wins under her belt. She\u2018s dominated this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Series so far with seven wins, she\u2019s had a PDC Tour Card for two year\u2019s and she is capable of playing high averages. Interestingly, she is not that successful when playing against the men \u2013 I\u2019ve no idea why, but it just seems she is not able to produce as well as she can against other women.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t seem her problem is the big stage or the TV camera as she\u2019s had no problem winning on the Lakeside stage in televised finals several times. \u00a0As this event is an all-women\u2019s event Ashton, \u00a0the Lancashire Rose is be sure one of the favorites to win the event.<\/p>\n

Next in age and with a lot of experience and several wins as well is Lorraine Winstanley. She so far has only once reached the final of the women\u2019s World Championship but she in 2017 she won the World Masters. In some way Winstanley is often in the mix in the later rounds of the tournaments but she is not as much a winner as Lisa Ashton.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t rule out that she could win the Women\u2019s World Matchplay but she is not my first choice for the title.<\/p>\n

Next we have Welsh Rhian Griffiths who has rarely won a tournament though she twice qualified for the women\u2019s World Championship and reached one final of the Women\u2019s Series. She has played in tournaments since 2013 so to be sure has some experience but it would be a surprise sould she win the Women\u2019s World Matchplay.<\/p>\n

Then we have Laura Turner whom we know as well as part of the Sky Sports darts commentating team. She\u2019s won a few events \u2013 the last was the Slovak Masters in February. She took part twice in the Women\u2019s World Championship and reached two finals of the Women\u2019s Series this year \u2013 nevertheless, I don\u2019t see her as the winner in Blackpool.<\/p>\n

More probable is Aileen de Graaf who at 31 years of age has won quite a lot including the World Masters in 2015 and twice reached the semi-finals of the Women\u2019s World Championship. \u00a0She didn\u2019t take part as often as the others in the Women\u2019s Series but reached two finals in 2022 and managed to qualify for this tournamet in Blackpool. She certainly is a possible winner \u2013 it might be we\u2019ll see a Dutch winner in both the men\u2019s and the women\u2019s World Matchplay this year.<\/p>\n

A little bit younger then Aileen de Graaf is Fallon Sherrock.\u00a0 The Queen of the Palace is well known. She was a successful youth player though so far she neither won the World Masters as senior nor the Women\u2019s World Championship – nor did she manage to get a PDC Tour Card. But she celebrated two wins against the men in the PDC World Championship and reached the final of the Nordic Darts Masters 2021 and \u2013 not to forget \u2013 she stood among the Last 16 of the Grand Slam 2021. Like Ashton, she is capable of throwing high averages. In 2022, she has not been as strong as in 2021 but, along with Lisa Ashton, is the favourite to win the event.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, two very young players managed to qualify for the Women\u2019s World Matchplay \u2013 Chloe O\u2019Brien from Scotland, 19 years of age, and Katie Sheldon, Republic of Ireland, 18 years old. Both were very succesful youth players and both are very talented. Sheldon started to play when she was 9 and won her first tournament when she was 12 while O\u2019Brien started to play when she was 14. Sheldon plays in a men\u2019s league and plays on the Development Tour. Both were a little bit unlucky with their draw \u2013 O\u2019Brien was drawn against Lisa Ashton, Sheldon against Fallon Sherrock – \u00a0so their chances to progress are not really good. But both are prospects for the future of women\u2019s darts and they might be outsiders in this tournament though not without a chance.<\/p>\n

So, hopefully the tournament will be a good one. The PDC already announced there will be another women\u2019s World Matchplay next year.<\/p>\n

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