0:37 After creating history at last month’s World Darts Championship, Sherrock says she is proud to inspire more women to enter the game
Duzza: I’ve got a job to do
On Thursday evening, it’s the turn of Glen Durrant to face the history-making Sherrock on the big stage as he aims to build on victory over Michael Smith in Aberdeen.
Three-time BDO world champion Durrant follows that win with a contest against the Milton Keynes sensation, who was given the nod as one of nine ‘Challengers’ in this year’s Premier League.
“Fallon has come from nowhere,” said ‘Duzza’. “But that’s what the PDC does – the production, the marketing, now she’s got exhibitions coming out of her ears, she’s got some of the biggest ladies names in the world [supporting her], ie. Billie Jean King. It’s been absolutely stratospheric for ladies darts at the moment. And I’m proud of her.
“But come next week, I’ve got a job to do. Losing against Fallon would eradicate everything I’ve done [against Smith] so I’m in a better place going into that game. Really excited for it, but a tough, tough, tough game.”
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0:32 Sherrock says she is ‘excited’ to take part in this year’s Premier League and World Series events after her amazing World Darts Championship run
Night Two Fixtures, Nottingham
| Rob Cross v Nathan Aspinall |
| Gerwyn Price v Michael Smith |
| Gary Anderson v Peter Wright |
| Glen Durrant v Fallon Sherrock |
| Daryl Gurney v Michael van Gerwen |
The Middlesbrough native recorded a 7-3 win over the ‘Bully Boy’ in his opener and said: “If I can beat Fallon next week, four points, going into Gary Anderson in Cardiff, I think I’d be a lot more relaxed.
“I’m very aware of the [Sherrock] game. Huge challenge, exciting challenge, I’m not so sure if it’s the game that nobody wanted, or the game that everybody wanted. But to have 5,000, 10,000 people booing me is going to be a first. But I’ve got two points on the board. I think I’ll feel a hell of a lot better now than I would have done if I got a drubbing [against Smith].”
0:32 Glen Durrant beat Michael Smith in his Premier League opener
The World Matchplay, Grand Prix and Grand Slam semi-finalist has consulted Dobey on the peculiar challenge of taking on Sherrock.
“Obviously we’ve spoken about it,” Dobey said. “I just said to him, ‘just don’t think about it, don’t get annoyed with the crowd booing you or whatever. You’ve just got to play your game and forget about it’.
“You’ve seen what he’s done in the darting world. Obviously he’s got a lot more experience than Fallon as well. So you’ve got to put that down to being a three-time world champion; he’s got a better mentality than a lot of players on the tour. I think Glen should possibly win that, but obviously you don’t know how he’s going to react to the crowd. But that’s one bit of advice I gave him – ‘don’t get sucked into the crowd’.”
Sage advice, perhaps, but when the world’s top players are going to extra lengths to prepare for a darts match, it’s clear they’re feeling the heat.
Fallon Sherrock is no ordinary opponent.
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Coverage of the Premier League continues on Thursday, February 13 in Nottingham at 7pm on Sky Sports Action & Sky Sports Main Event with Fallon Sherrock – ‘The Sherrock of Nottingham’ up against Glen Durrant.
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