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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
The women's final is set at the 2024 WDF Lakeside World Championship as Beau Greaves will face Sophie McKinlay on Sunday evening as she goes for a third straight World title. Greaves saw off Deta Hedman with relative ease but admitted pre-match and all tournament that she is not happy with her game and has an issue that she can't quite put her finger on and put right. But as Lorraine Winstanley and Helen Chamberlain put it on BLAZE!, you'd love to be playing as she is while she hasa.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
In the girls' category at the 2024 WDF World Championship, Sophie McKinlay qualified for the final. The 18-year-old Scot, who also made the final in the women's category this afternoon by defeating Lorena Rietbergen 3-1, won 2-0 over Italy's Aurora Fochesato. Fochesato was defending champion but instead it will be England v Scotland in the final. McKinlay won both sets 3-1. In the final, she will take on Britain's Paige Pauling.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
Shane McGuirk followed up his brilliant participation in the 2024 WDF World Championship at Lakeside by qualifying for the men's final. That was at the expense of Francois Schweyen, who saw a strong tournament run aground in the semifinals. McGuirk had already emerged as the most stable player among the men this week. McGuirk dealt with Mark Barilli (2-0), Edwin Torbjörnsson (3-0), Brandon Weening (3-0) and Peter Machin (4-0). McGuirk was thus still without a set loss after four matches.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
Sophie McKinlay could play in two finals this weekend and is into the first as she will face either Beau Greaves or Deta Hedman at the 2024 WDF World Championship. The Scot is the big surprise of this tournament for now. The 18-year-old player caused a resounding surprise in the first round by eliminating four-time women's world champion Lisa Ashton to start at the Lakeside. That was followed by a 2-1 win over Irina Armstrong before Aileen de Graaf also faced McKinlay.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
It is double success for English players to start the day in reaching tomorrow's showpiece finals as Jenson Walker and Paige Pauling move through at the WDF World Championship. Pauling was superb in seeing off Jentl Fransen. The rising English star who is a multiple-time World Master in the system saw off Fransen with a showpiece conclusion. She hit a 157 checkout which is the best anyone has hit this week.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
John Henderson captured the title Friday night at the Border Masters demonstration tournament in the Scottish town of Kelso. Gary Anderson showed great form during the event, but ultimately just missed out on the overall victory. Anderson had recorded a whopping 118.66 average in his quarterfinal against Stuart Bell (3-0). Dirk van Duijvenbode also impressed in his match against Chris Harvey (3-2), in which the Dutchman threw a moyenne of 106.57.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
The PDC has introduced the 'Bigger 180' campaign ahead of the upcoming Darts World Cup. Main sponsor Paddy Power will donate £1,000 for every 180 score during the World Cup to Prostate Cancer UK, while a bonus of £180,000 for every nine-darter during the World Championship will be split between the player, Prostate Cancer UK and one lucky fan in attendance at Alexandra Palace.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Samuel Gill |Thomas Moffatt
Dimitri Van den Bergh won this year's UK Open, the second major of his career. The 30-year-old Belgian gives an insight into his personality before the start of the World Darts Championship. Van den Bergh values respect. "What you see is what you get to be fair with me. I'll be myself, I'll always try to be a good example, because obviously I'm an older brother, I've got three younger brothers and I'm also a dad now. So it's very important to be a good example," Van den Bergh said to Sky Sports.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Kieran Wood |Thomas Moffatt
The 2024 WDF World Championship at the iconic Lakeside Country Club has dealt up a number of interesting stories to follow over the last week. On Friday night though, one of the more unique occurrences in the illustrious history of the Lakeside happened as Australian qualifier Amanda Loch actually got married on stage!After a heart-breaking opening round defeat to Kirsi Viinikainen in straight sets, Loch ensured her trip to the Lakeside this December would be one she'd never forget.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dartsnews.com | Kieran Wood |Thomas Moffatt
For the third time in three days, Luke Humphries has won an exhibition tournament. 'Cool Hand Luke' won earlier this week in Leeds and Newcastle, and also proved the best at the Scarborough Masters on Friday night. In addition to Humphries, big name players Raymond van Barneveld, Ricky Evans and Scott Williams were the crowd-pleasers at the exhibition event in northern England. The fans in attendance watched Humphries beat Evans 4-1 in the first semifinal.
