Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves will headline the Ladies’s Global Matchplay in July upcoming the qualification race reached its conclusion.
Greaves will start her defence towards Irish teen Katie Sheldon, upcoming the eight-player line-up for July’s match used to be showed.
They’re going to fight it out for the £10,000 manage prize on a bumper afternoon within the Empress Ballroom, in a ground which contains 4 global champions.
The ground is made from 8 avid gamers from a one-year Sequence of Benefit in accordance with PDC Ladies’s Sequence profits throughout 24 tournaments since latter July, with reigning champion Greaves turning back Blackpool because the manage seed.
Greaves stormed to victory on debut 365 days in the past, and the 20-year-old has received an additional 9 Ladies’s Sequence titles since upcoming to reaffirm her situation because the premier participant within the girls’s recreation.
The reigning champion will play games Sheldon in her opener, because the Irish teen returns to the Iciness Areas upcoming lacking out on latter yr’s extravaganza.
Sheldon enters the ground upcoming Aileen de Graaf, who preoccupied 8th place within the last 12-month Sequence of Benefit, knowledgeable the PDC that she is unavailable to compete in Blackpool because of a previous constancy.
The draw additionally pits 2022 champion Sherrock up towards three-time Lakeside girls’s champion Anastasia Dobromyslova in a blockbuster quarter-final hit.
Sherrock memorably prevailed within the event’s inaugural staging, and upcoming successful 4 of the latter 5 Ladies’s Sequence occasions in 2023 has added an additional two titles to her tally in 2024.
Dobromyslova, in the meantime, returned to prominence through achieving back-to-back Ladies’s Sequence finals latter September, and can manufacture her Blackpool bow because the quantity seven seed.
3rd seed Lisa Ashton received back-to-back Ladies’s Sequence titles on Sunday to overtake Mikuru Suzuki at the Sequence of Benefit, and her praise is a latter 8 hit towards Wales’ Rhian O’Sullivan.
Ashton will preserve her ever-present document in Blackpool along Sherrock, occasion O’Sullivan additionally returns to Blackpool upcoming that includes in two Ladies’s Sequence finals all over the latter 365 days.
The alternative quarter-final hit will see 2023 runner-up Suzuki tackle two-time match winner Noa-Lynn van Leuven, with Greaves or Sheldon looking forward to the winner within the semi-finals.
Eastern famous person Suzuki would be the fourth seed on her Iciness Areas go back, having prolonged her haul of Ladies’s Sequence titles to 6 following a powerful begin to 2024.
In the meantime, 5th seed Van Leuven has loved a leap forward marketing campaign, following up a landmark Problem Excursion triumph with a brace of Ladies’s Sequence titles in March and April respectively.
The winner of the Ladies’s Global Matchplay will qualify for November’s Lavish Slam of Darts and the 2024/25 Paddy Energy Global Darts Championship, occasion additionally scooping the £10,000 manage prize.
2024 Betfred Ladies’s Global 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 O’Sullivan
Layout
Quarter-Finals – Easiest of 7 legs
Semi-Finals – Easiest of 9 legs
Ultimate – Easiest of eleven legs
Prize Cash
Winner: £10,000
Runner-Up: £5,000
Semi-Finalists: £2,500
Quarter-Finalists: £1,250
General: £25,000