Tricia Wright (born 1 September 1958) is an English former professional

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player from

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. Her nickname was The Wright Stuff.

Career

Wright competed in the first

PDC Women's World Championship The 2010 PDC Women's World Championship was the only ever staging of the PDC Women's World Darts Championship, and the first women's tournament to be organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was one of the three new tournaments that ...

final in 2010, losing 6-5 to

Stacy Bromberg Stacy Bromberg (July 27, 1956 – February 12, 2017) was an American darts player who was a PDC Women's World Darts Champion. Bromberg was born in Los Angeles, and dominated the American darts circuit in the last decade through winning the US w ...

despite having four darts to win it. She played at the

2010 Grand Slam of Darts The 2010 Daily Mirror Grand Slam of Darts was the fourth staging of the darts tournament, the Grand Slam of Darts organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 13–21 November 2010 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, W ...

, losing all 3 of her group matches to

Raymond van Barneveld Raymond van Barneveld (born 20 April 1967) is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he was ranked world number one from January 2008 to June 2008. Nicknamed "Barney", he is a five-t ...

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and

Colin Lloyd Colin Edward Lloyd (born 7 August 1973), nicknamed Jaws, is an English former professional darts player. He formerly competed in Professional Darts Corporation events, where he was ranked world number one from April 2005 to January 2007 (except ...

. Since 2001 she has won over 50 amateur titles. Wright was due to be one of three ladies to play on the 2011 PDC ProTour, along with Bromberg and

Anastasia Dobromyslova Anastasia Petrovna Dobromyslova-Martin (; born 26 September 1984) is a professional darts player. She is a three-time Women's World Professional Darts Champion of the British Darts Organisation (BDO). After winning her first title in 2008, Dobr ...

but after the PDC decided to drop the Women's World championship and thus its qualification to the Grand Slam of Darts she decided to go back to the BDO without playing a single PDC event.

World Championship results

PDC

* 2010: Runner-up (lost to

5–6)

BDO

* 2018: Last 16: lost to

Lorraine Winstanley Lorraine Winstanley (née Farlam, born 28 October 1975) is an English darts player who plays in both World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Career Winstanley won the 2011 Romanian International Darts Ope ...

0–2)

Career finals

BDO major finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

PDC premier event finals: 1 (1 runner-up)

External links

Tricia Wright Unicorn Darts

Profile and stats on Darts Database
English darts players 1958 births Living people British Darts Organisation players Sportspeople from the London Borough of Merton Professional Darts Corporation former tour card holders Professional Darts Corporation women's players Sportspeople from Epping People from Mitcham {{UK-darts-bio-stub