SHERROCK TIPS GREAVES FOR WORLD CHAMPION GLORY

FALLON SHERROCK believes Beau Greaves can become a future PDC World Champion.

‘The Queen of the Palace’ shot to global fame with her stunning debut at the 2020 World Championship, where she powered into the third round.

The Milton Keynes thrower reckons her great rival Greaves can exceed those limits and become the first WOMAN to lift the Sid Waddell Trophy. 

Women’s world No.1 Greaves is unbeaten in 113 matches on the PDC Women’s Series and has picked up 17 consecutive titles on the circuit.     

Greaves has impressed in her debut year as a Tour Card holder, reaching the last 16 in two ProTour events and hitting a nine-darter.     

Sherrock told the Double Tops Podcast: “I don’t see why a woman can’t win the World Championship. 

“As long as they can sustain their standard over the long format then I genuinely think it’s doable. 

“I think Beau [Greaves] has got to exceed what we’ve all done and show that women belong in the majors. That will show women can come up through the ranks and compete. 

“Beau has beaten Luke Littler, so she’s shown she can do it.” 

Sherrock admits her Ally Pally run completely changed her life but insists the sudden attention quickly became overwhelming. 

The former Grand Slam quarter-finalist also made a shock admission, revealing the last thing she wants to do away from the oche is watch, throw or even talk about darts. 

She added: That World Championship changed my life. It was absolutely manic but after I won I didn’t really realise how big a thing it was.  

“I remember walking off the stage and my manager, Jason, said ‘what have you done, it’s going mad!’ 

“I did press for basically the whole day, had four hours sleep and then was on Good Morning Britain the next morning.  

“I did more interviews for the rest of the day and Michael [van Gerwen] told the press to stop speaking to me because I had to play my next match. 

“It was manic – I couldn’t go anywhere, my phone kept running out of battery so I couldn’t contact anyone. 

“It was great at first because I wasn’t used to it but, after a while, it got too much because I couldn’t do anything. After the second win, it actually got worse. 

“I don’t really watch darts. I tend to watch the start of tournaments and then it depends on who’s playing if I keep watching. 

“Even though my dartboard is in my living room, the last thing I want to do is watch darts, throw darts, think about darts or talk about darts.  

“My little boy doesn’t even like darts – when he comes home we don’t talk about darts at all.”

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