PDC Women’s Series 2021: Fallon Sherrock defeats Lisa Ashton in Women’s Series | Darts News

Sherrock wins three of six events on Saturday and Sunday to secure a spot in the Grand Slam of darts in November after beating Ashton in the final; Sherrock and Ashton lead the race for world championship spots

Fallon Sherrock will make her Grand Slam darts debut after winning the Order of Merit in the Women’s Series (Photo by: Gregor Fischer / picture-alliance / dpa / AP Images)

Fallon Sherrock booked her Grand Slam darts debut and took pole position for a return to the World Darts Championship after an outstanding performance at the PDC Women’s Series in Milton Keynes.

A week after a spectacular run to the Nordic Darts Masters final where she was beaten by Michael van Gerwen, Sherrock was back among a crowd of players who gathered at the Marshall Arena and after a titanic fight with the quadruple female world champion Lisa Ashton, it is Sherrock who comes out triumphant.

Ashton led the £ 50 Weekend Order of Merit ahead of Sunday’s final event and the duo made their way through the pitch to compete in the final – the third time of the day’s three events that ‘they had won to compete for the winner’s prize, with Ashton taking the top two

In fact, Ashton had been the only player to beat Sherrock over the weekend, a last 16 game on Saturday alongside the two finals, but Sherrock had his moment and produced a dazzling display with an average just under 100 in a 5-0 victory over Lancashire Rose.

It meant the Palace Queen had outsmarted her opponent in the Order of Merit to win a place at the Grand Slam of Darts in Leicester in November – a tournament she had yet to take part in.

The duo’s dominance over the weekend means they are comfortably sidelined from the rest of the field in the race for the two proposed world championship spots at the end of the Women’s Series which concludes at Barnsley in late October.

Between them, Ashton and Sherrock claimed all six events played over the weekend at the Marshall Arena, and their titanic battle was a fitting final at the start of the PDC’s most important women’s series to date, with 12 events over four days of competition in September. and October, with £ 60,000 in cash prizes offered

Ashton had appeared ready to strike back on Sunday after Sherrock took the headliner on Saturday, winning two of three titles on offer after Ashton won the first.

So it was no surprise to see the duo get under way on Sunday, with Ashton beating Sherrock in the day’s first final, with the two women averaging over 90 before the top duo faced off against each other. in the second final on Sunday.

It was Ashton – who averaged 104 to beat Deta Hedman in the quarter-finals and 102 to sink Anastasia Dobromyslova in the semi-finals – who produced the fireworks to throw four legs in a row for a 5-2 victory and mostly to move £ 50 ahead of Sherrock in the Weekend Order of Merit.

With the Grand Slam darts top spot on the line, the pair battled after a grueling weekend to play the weekend’s sixth final, where Sherrock’s super show was enough to seal their place in the Grand Slam.

The 27-year-old from Milton Keynes – who made history by beating Ted Evetts and Mensur Suljovic at the 2019 World Championship – will now focus on the next weekend in October of the women’s series to secure her return at Alexandra Palace after missing last year.

Six more events take place over two days at the Barnsley Metrodome where a second Grand Slam place will be up for grabs – and Ashton will be the overwhelming favorite after her performances this week.

Also at stake in South Yorkshire, two World Championship spots will also be on the line – and Ashton and Sherrock got into the box after a high class weekend of the pair that left them well out of the way. rest of the peloton.

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