Noa-Lynn van Leuven wins her first tournament on PDC Women's Series with wins over Beau Greaves & Fallon Sherrock en route
PDCSaturday, 23 March 2024 at 20:12
The second tournament of the PDC Women's Series has been won by Noa-Lynn van Leuven. It is the first time for the Dutch transwoman has been able to win a Women's Series tournament.
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This title comes a week after Van Leuven caused a sensation by winning a Challenge Tour tournament for the first time. Now the 27-year-old managed to beat some of the best women in the world.
With wins over Roos van der Velde (4-0), Anca Zijlstra (4-0), Hannah Meek (4-0) and Marie Fitton (4-2), the quarterfinals were easily reached. Van Leuven then won over both Beau Greaves (5-3) and Fallon Sherrock (5-3). Then Katie Sheldon was swept aside 5-2 in the final.
Van Leuven's title comes on the day two teammates decided to drop out of the Dutch women's team because of her. Anca Zijlstra and Aileen de Graaf refuse to be on a team with a trans woman any longer. Earlier, Deta Hedman spoke out in favor of not allowing transgender players to play women's darts.
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Results PDC Women's Series 2
Last 16
Lorraine Winstanley 4 | 0 Maria O'Brien
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Fallon Sherrock 4 | 3 Robyn Byrne
Noa-Lynn van Leuven 4 | 2 Marie Fitton
Beau Greaves 4 | 1 Yukie Sakaguchi
Anastasia Dobromyslova 4 | 0 Denise Cassidy
Katie Sheldon 4 | 2 Leanne Topper
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Mikuru Suzuki 4 | 2 Samantha Kirton
Angela Kirkwood 4 | 0 Chris Savvery
Quarterfinals
Fallon Sherrock 5 | 0 Lorraine Winstanley
Noa-Lynn van Leuven 5 | 3 Beau Greaves
Katie Sheldon 5 | 0 Anastasia Dobromyslova
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Mikuru Suzuki 5 | 1 Angela Kirkwood
Semi-final
Noa-Lynn van Leuven 5 | 3 Fallon Sherrock
Katie Sheldon 5 | 4 Mikuru Suzuki
Final
Noa-Lynn van Leuven 5 | 2 Katie Sheldon
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Kieran WoodDarts Journalist
Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He contributes to DartsNews.com, where he covers professional darts through news, match reports, analysis, and live coverage across the PDC calendar and major tournaments.
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- Need to see her take part in the womens tour. She'll break the inernet.medinabello08-09-2026
- If he can be bothered? He won't play darts in Germany yet he'll go over and get an award!??rick6702-09-2026
- Why is this the main story? He chose not to compete in loads of tournaments,yes he's number 1 in the world,but he does have to turn up at tournaments! Play the next world championship in Dortmund and see if he turns up!!rick6727-08-2026
- This is exactly what I mean,littler survives the 1st round,I think you'll find a lot of other players did. Can you just report on the real sport,and not just 1 person. I like Luke,but this is getting boring now,as Kevin painter once said to Taylor!! The sport is about every player,not 1 who everyone seems to have put the sport on the map.,which he hasn't,he's just got in when the money is massive. Great as he is,it seems like what's the point in anyone trying,he's going to win everything,unless it's in Germany or Australia!!!rick6726-08-2026
- I mean look, Littler's picture is first,wattimena is second and he won! Level it up. I know littler is fantastic,but the sport was here before him,and will be when he's retired. Any player in the top 64/128 can beat each other,it's not big news. Poor Jermaine,wins it,and not even the headline!!rick6726-08-2026
- I appreciate that littler is a fantastic player,but the top 3 articles are about him. Before he'd thrown a dart in the tournament. Level it out a bit, Taylor and van gerwen soon got disliked as the media could only see them,and nobody else seemed to matterrick6725-08-2026
- The two-point Lucky Loser qualifiers are Ross Smith, Robb, Whitlock, Sakai, Ilagan and Toylo. Jermaine is not on the entries list on Dartconnect for the TCH qualifier so the four from the main OoM are probably Searle, Nijman, Dobey, Wattimena.Scoobedybop24-08-2026
- The two-point Lucky Loser qualifiers are Ross Smith, Robb, Whitlock, Sakai, Ilagan and Toylo. Jermaine is not on the entries list on Dartconnect for the TCH qualifier so the four from the main OoM are probably Searle, Nijman, Dobey, Wattimena.Scoobedybop24-08-2026
- I'd happily pay for a site free of Van der Voort's every squeak and utterance.StraightArrowNoBull19-08-2026
- I think you miss the point. It is just a poll if you are willing to pay for an ad-free site. The content stays free.SheGotLegs16-08-2026
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