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 primarily based on the quantity of prize cash gained over a two-year interval in rating tournaments.
There’s a separate males’s and girls’s Order of Benefit. The highest two gamers from the Girls’s Sequence Order of Benefit qualify for the PDC World Championship.
For the 2024/25 match, Beau Greaves topped the ladies’s Order of Benefit. Nevertheless, 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 referred to as it “silly” that ladies should not in a position to play in each, and has referred to as for a separate PDC World Championship for ladies.
PDC chief govt Matt Porter stated: “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 Sequence and the Girls’s World Matchplay winner.
“Our ProTour, Problem Tour and Growth Tour stay open to all gamers, and from 2025, gamers from the PDC Girls’s Sequence can even get the possibility to qualify for the Winmau World Masters and in addition compete within the Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts along with free entry locations on provide on the PDC Qualifying Colleges.”
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 grew to become the primary girl to win a match on the PDC World Championship.
The Netherlands’ Van Leuven was the primary transgender participant to compete on the match.