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2024 PDC Women's Series
The 2024 PDC Women's Series consisted of 24 darts tournaments on the 2024 PDC Pro Tour. Beau Greaves topped the Women's Series Order of Merit final ranking, and qualified for the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts, alongside second-placed Noa-Lynn van Leuven. Alongside van Leuven, Fallon Sherrock qualified for the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship via this Tour. March Women's Series 1 Women's Series 1 was contested on Saturday 23 March 2024 at the Robin Park Tennis Court in Wigan. The event was won by Fallon Sherrock, who defeated Beau Greaves 5–4 in the final. Women's Series 2 Women's Series 2 was contested on Saturday 23 March 2024 at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan. The event was won by , who defeated 5–2 in the final. Women's Series 3 Women's Series 3 was contested on Sunday 24 March 2024 at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan. The event was won by , who defeated 5–4 in the final. Women's Series 4 Women's Series 4 was contested on Sunday 24 March 2024 at the Robin Park Are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 PDC Pro Tour
The 2024 PDC Pro Tour was a series of non-televised darts tournaments organised by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). Players Championships and European Tour events are the events that make up the Pro Tour. There were thirty Players Championship events and thirteen PDC European Tour events, as well as 24 events for the Challenge and Development Tours, and the Women's Series. Dave Chisnall topped the 2024 Pro Tour Order of Merit, with Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Stephen Bunting and Ryan Searle completing the top five. Prize money This is how the prize money was divided: PDC Tour Card 128 players were granted Tour Cards, which enabled them to participate in all Players Championships events, the UK Open and qualifiers for all European Tour and select televised events. Tour cards The 2024 Tour Cards were awarded to: * (64) The top 64 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the 2024 World Championship. * (25) 25 qualifiers from 2023 Q-School not ranked in the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 WDF World Darts Championship
The 2024 WDF Lakeside World Darts Championship was the third edition of the WDF World Darts Championship organised by the World Darts Federation (WDF). The tournament was held at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey, England. Andy Baetens was the defending men's champion, but was not able to defend his title after winning a PDC Tour Card in January 2024. Beau Greaves secured her third women's title by beating Sophie McKinlay, having beaten Aileen de Graaf in the 2023 final. Shane McGuirk defeated Paul Lim 6–3 in the men's final to become the first World Darts Champion from the Republic of Ireland. 70-year-old Lim also became the oldest darts player to reach a World Championship final. Prize money There was a slight decrease in prize money from the previous edition, although the winners of both senior tournaments will receive the same as the previous year. Schedule Men's Format and qualifiers 48 players played for the men's title, with D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 Women's World Matchplay
The 2024 Betfred Women's World Matchplay was the third edition of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament featured the top eight players on the 2024 PDC Women's Series Order of Merit, competing in a knockout format, with the winner earning a place in the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts and the 2025 PDC World Darts Championship. The tournament was held at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on 21 July 2024. Beau Greaves was the defending champion, defeating Mikuru Suzuki 6–1 in the 2023 final. Greaves won her second Women's World Matchplay title, beating Fallon Sherrock 6–3 in the final. Qualifiers The eight qualifiers for the tournament were the top 8 ranked players on the one-year rolling PDC Women's Series Order of Merit, comprising the last 12 events of the 2023 PDC Women's Series The 2023 PDC Women's Series consisted of 24 darts tournaments on the 2023 PDC Pro Tour. The top 8 ranked players, with earnings from the last 8 2022 PDC Women's Series e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Leicester
Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a population of in . The greater Leicester urban area had a population of 559,017 in 2021, making it the 11th most populous in England, and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 13th most populous in the United Kingdom. A 2023 report ranked Leicester 16th out of the 50 largest UK cities on a range of economic measures, and the first of seven East Midlands cities. The city lies on the River Soar and is approximately north-northwest of London, east-northeast of Birmingham and northeast of Coventry. Nottingham and Derby lie around to the north and northwest respectively, whilst Peterborough is located to the east. Leicester is close to the eastern end of the National Forest, England, National Forest. Leicester has a long history exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Leicester Arena
The Leicester Arena (officially known as the Mattioli Arena due to sponsorship reasons) is a multi-purpose sports arena located in Leicester, England. The arena has a seating capacity for 3,000 spectators and its main tenants are the Leicester Riders of the British Basketball League, whilst regularly hosting darts and snooker competitions. From 2018 to 2024, the arena was known as Morningside Arena. Background The £4.8 million arena, which is owned by the Leicester Riders Foundation, was officially opened in January 2016. It is used as the home venue for the basketball team Leicester Riders, as well as the wheelchair basketball team the Leicester Cobras. It is also used by the students of Leicester College as well as by the local community. It hosted its first game on 30 January 2016, in a quarter-final match between Leicester Riders and Surrey Scorchers in the British Basketball League Trophy, won by the Riders 77–60. In 2018 Morningside Pharmaceuticals agreed to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Niedernhausen
Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants. Geography Location Niedernhausen lies in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park in the west of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region north of Wiesbaden. The main centre of Niedernhausen (which alone is home to more than half the community's inhabitants) and the outlying centre of Königshofen stretch along the slopes of a dale. The heart of the community is found in the bottom of the dale. The community is surrounded by mixed forest covering 60% of the municipal area. Niedernhausen lies on the south flank of the Taunus low mountain range, a Fold mountain, fold range that stretches from the Niederwald ("Lower Forest") near Rüdesheim am Rhein towards the northeast, on into the Wetterau near Bad Nauheim. This range is subdivided by two gaps, namely the Idstein Basin and the Saalburg Basin, into three parts: the Rheingau-Taunus, the High T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British broadcasting of sports events, subscription sports channels operated by the satellite television, satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the Football League First Division, First Division to break away from the English Football League, Football League to form the Premier League in 1992. Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League, Football, Cricket, Golf, F1, Action and Tennis are available as a premium package on top of the basic Sky package. These services are also available as premium channels on nearly every satellite, cable television, cable and IPTV broadcasting system in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beau Greaves
Beau Greaves (born 9 January 2004) is an English professional darts player who competes in both World Darts Federation (WDF) events, where she is currently ranked women's world number one, and in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where she has finished top of the Women's Series rankings in 2023 and 2024. She is the reigning three-time WDF Women's World Champion, having won consecutive titles in 2022, 2023, and 2024. By doing so, she became only the second woman (alongside Trina Gulliver) to win the title on three successive occasions. She is also the reigning two-time back-to-back PDC Women's World Matchplay champion, having won the event in 2023 and 2024. Greaves has won five other WDF majors: the 2022 Australian Open, the Dutch Open in 2022 and 2024, and the World Masters in 2022 and 2024. She has also won a record thirty-eight titles on the affiliated PDC Women's Series tour. She also competes in the PDC's secondary mixed-gender tours, winning two Challenge Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Professional Darts Corporation
The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the World Darts Council (WDC). Sports promoter Eddie Hearn is the PDC chairman. The PDC developed and holds several competitions, including the annual PDC World Darts Championship, the World Matchplay (darts), World Matchplay, World Grand Prix (darts), World Grand Prix, UK Open, Premier League Darts, Premier League, and Grand Slam of Darts, Grand Slam. It also runs its own Darts world rankings, world rankings based on players' performances. History Darts had experienced a boom in the 1980s. A number of tournaments were televised on BBC and ITV (TV network), ITV, which allowed the top players to make a full-time living from the sport and turn professional. However, darts steadily dropped from television schedules and by 1989 the only remaining t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
