WDF makes huge blunder with Lakeside draw and is forced to admit extra player into field of participants

The draw was completed for the WDF World Championship on Sunday for both the men's and women's tournaments post the World Masters in Budapest which also saw the last gasp qualifier for the showpiece at Frimley Green between November 28 to December 7 or so two players thought.

MayumI Ouchi and Nina-Lech Musialska qualified through on Sunday in Budapest but will be forced to play another match to even get into the first round after an administrative error on the side of the WDF.

In a tweet since deleted by the WDF, they stated that there was an error in calculating the final place awarded from the race table used to dictate the field. Maud Jansson was invited and included in the draw instead of Lisa Zollikofer and Jansson was kept in the draw putting it up to 25 players. Jansson plays Jitka Cisarova, the winner takes on Rhian O;Sullivan.

The WDF elected to invite both players and Zollikofer will now take her spot as the second qualifier in the draw and faces Paige Pauling with the winner taking on last year's finalist Sophie McKinlay. But the sting in the tail was that the second qualifier will now come from a play-in match to get into the draw between Ouchi and Musialska who did the hard work in qualifying on Sunday.

The winner then goes on face Priscilla Steenbergen and will have played twice if they get through to face Tracy Feiertag. As well as removing the post though, it was duly noted that in putting the draw on Facebook they also disabled the comments. Albeit while criticised, the WDF will award first round prize money no matter what to all three players so Jansson, Zollikofer and the two qualifiers are all guaranteed to receive at least first round prize money which was used to remedy the situation.

The draw was live streamed on Sunday with among the top ties being potentially Deta Hedman facing either Mikuru Suzuki or Kirsi Viinikainen. As one of the main perennial winners on the tour, Hedman is missing one main crown and that is Lakeside. But if she is to do it, it will be the hard way.

Others involved include Aileen de Graaf, Rhian O'Sullivan, recent World Master Lorraine Hyde and Kiwi talent Nicole Regnaud among the main seeds. It is also the first year that they won't have their leading light with Beau Greaves deciding to play Ally Pally after snubbing the PDC showpiece in recent years for a legacy approach in being multiple time Women's World Champion.

But Greaves has decided to make a full-time move over to the PDC and will play on the ProTour next year having clinched her Tour Card on the Development Tour which means a new name will be etched onto the trophy.