PDC Ladies’s Collection: Fallon Sherrock and Lisa Ashton are in peril of cleansing up at each occasion, says Laura Turner | Darts Information

Who can cease Fallon Sherrock and Lisa Ashton from dominating the Ladies’s Collection? Sky Sports activities’ Laura Turner hopes the massive two will not have issues all their very own manner whereas hoping the 20 occasions placed on by the PDC will appeal to extra younger ladies to take up the sport

Laura Turner believes there’s ok potential within the sport to cease Fallon Sherrock and Lisa Ashton from dominating the PDC Ladies’s Collection.

Sherrock claimed her first Women’s Series win of 2022 on Sunday as Ashton completed a weekend treble in Barnsley.

Ashton had dominated Saturday’s opening day within the 12 months’s 20-event Ladies’s Collection by claiming back-to-back titles.

The wins noticed the pair moved away from Rhian Griffiths and Lorraine Winstanley on the head of the Order of Advantage following the primary of 5 double-header weekends.

Sky Sports activities’ Turner reached the quarter-finals of Occasion Three in her greatest efficiency and though the Surrey thrower was overwhelmed 4-1 by Joanne Locke, the overriding feeling was considered one of satisfaction.

“Total, it was nice,” she mentioned. “We noticed some new faces, however it was dominated – as anticipated – by Lisa and Fallon when it comes to precise event wins.

“You have acquired gamers there going for the expertise whereas there have been lots of new faces and there was much more from abroad. We had a contingency from Holland and one other from Germany. We additionally had a participant from Iran (Mozhgan Rahmani) come over.

“With it not being seeded or ranked you may have had a very robust opening few rounds.

“We additionally noticed Lisa Ashton exit early to Donna-Maria Rainsley, who was the primary lady ever to enter Q-Faculty.”

The likes of Locke, Rhian Griffiths, Lorraine Winstanley, Robyn Byrne and Aileen de Graaf had been in a position to steal a few of the headlines over the weekend, and with Deta Hedman and Mikuru Suzuki to return again into the fold, Turner hopes Sherrock and Ashton will not have issues all their very own manner subsequent time round.

“I believe the potential is there, however we all know Lisa and Fallon are the highest two performing gamers during the last couple of years,” she mentioned.

“That is one thing the ladies have requested for for fairly a while so to see them come out of their numbers, it is the chance the PDC can supply.

“To have it on this skilled stage with the well-oiled machine the PDC is, you’ve got acquired folks like my daughters who sit at residence and watch sport. They are going to see that and say ‘I need to do this’.

“That is the place you need to construct up extra numbers and requirements will then develop. The game in itself will develop and develop into extra fashionable than it already is.

“It might sound very bold from the place we’re in the mean time however I believe shifting ahead over the subsequent a number of years, we may even see the subsequent technology of gamers coming via.”

The Ladies’s Collection continues on April 30 and Might 1 with Occasions 5-Eight in Wigan, with an extra £20,000 in prize cash on supply.

As well as, locations in the summertime’s Ladies’s World Matchplay are on supply for the highest eight gamers after 12 occasions, alongside spots for the 12 months’s ultimate high two within the World Darts Championship.

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