Darts star Fallon knocks out another man... and this one’s the world No11
FEMALE darts star Fallon Sherrock has set her sights on winning the World Championship after last night dramatically beating the world number 11 and reaching the last 32 of the tournament.
The 25-year-old, who last week became the first woman to win a first-round match at the PDC World Darts Championship, defeated Austrian challenger Mensur Suljovic at London’s Alexandra Palace.
In the best-of-five match, Ms Sherrock took an early lead before Suljovic, also 11th seed in the competition, levelled – only for the new star of the darts world to resume her lead and land a bull’s-eye to reach the last 32.
Asked on Sky Sports if she now thought she could win the tournament and pick up the winner’s cheque for £500,000, she replied: ‘Why not? I have won two games. I am just going to take each game as it comes, but there is nothing to say that I can’t. I have just proved that we [women] can beat anyone. I have beaten two of the best players in the world. If that doesn’t show that women can play darts, I don’t know what does.’
Ms Sherrock, who will face Chris Dobey, the world No 22, in the next round, added: ‘I’m still waiting for it all to sink in.
‘I don’t know how I’m going to sleep tonight. It’s amazing.
When that dart (for the bull’seye to win) went in, it was a sigh of relief.’
Last Tuesday, Ms Sherrock fought back from 2-1 down to take a dramatic 3-2 victory over Ted Evetts, the world’s No 77ranked player. Speaking after making history, she said: ‘I’ve made a great achievement for women’s darts.’
The mother-of-one, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, was runner-up in the 2015 Women’s World Championship.
Two years ago, she suffered online abuse after receiving treatment for a kidney problem that caused her face to swell up.