Opening PDC Women's Series weekend in Germany cancelled due to low entries

The opening weekend of action in the PDC Women's Series in Germany has been cancelled with the tournaments added to the UK dates due to low entry numbers.

The entries that were received for the tournaments that were due to take place in Niedernhausen between August 28-29 were mainly UK based as well so the decision has been made to shift these tournaments to September and October.

As a result on the weekends of September 25-26 and October 23-24 at Milton Keynes and Barnsley, they will now have three tournaments a day with the top two players still qualifying for the World Championship.

The winner of each weekend as well will still claim the Grand Slam of Darts spots for November.

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"It's a shame that these events didn't attract a higher number of entries," said PDC Chief Executive Matt Porter. "It doesn't make sense for us to proceed with the cost of staging the events for such a low number of players, with only a handful being from mainland Europe.

"Almost all the 22 players who entered by Tuesday's closing date were from the UK and we don't want to deny those players the opportunity to compete across all 12 events, so we have taken the decision to reschedule the four German events to the later weekends in this year's Women’s Series.

"We appreciate that there are ongoing issues regarding travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, and also the cost of travel at present, so this will help the players who did show commitment to save on expenses too.

"We look forward to staging our further weekends in Milton Keynes in September and Barnsley in October and providing great opportunities for ambitious female players."

2021 PDC Women's Series
Revised Schedule
Events 1-3 - Saturday September 25, Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes
Events 4-6 - Sunday September 26, Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes
Events 7-9 - Saturday October 23, Barnsley Metrodome
Events 10-12 - Sunday October 24, Barnsley Metrodome