No. Each women and men can play on the PDC World Championship.
Gamers qualify by way of the ‘Order of Benefit’ – the official rankings,, exterior that are calculated based mostly on the quantity of prize cash received over a two-year interval in rating tournaments.
There’s a separate males’s and ladies’s Order of Benefit. The highest two gamers from the Girls’s Collection Order of Benefit qualify for the PDC World Championship.
For the 2024/25 event, Beau Greaves topped the ladies’s Order of Benefit. Nonetheless, Greaves selected to play within the WDF Girls’s World Championship as an alternative, seeking to defend her title.
Gamers that participate within the WDF Championship are then ineligible to play within the PDC World Championship.
Three-time WDF champion Beau Greaves has known as it “silly” that girls usually are not in a position to play in each, and has known as for a separate PDC World Championship for ladies.
PDC chief govt Matt Porter mentioned: “At current we don’t plan to introduce a separate ladies’s World Championship; the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship is open to all gamers and is a reward for profitable gamers on the PDC Girls’s Collection and the Girls’s World Matchplay winner.
“Our ProTour, Problem Tour and Improvement Tour stay open to all gamers, and from 2025, gamers from the PDC Girls’s Collection will even get the possibility to qualify for the Winmau World Masters and likewise compete within the Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts along with free entry locations on provide on the PDC Qualifying Faculties.”
Greaves’ withdrawal meant Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Fallon Sherrock, ranked second and third respectively, certified.
Fallon Sherrock made historical past in 2019 when she turned the first lady to win a match on the PDC World Championship.
The Netherlands’ Van Leuven was the first transgender participant to compete on the event.
