WDF Darts News
WDF World Championship 2024
The third staging of the WDF World Championship takes place at Lakeside from November 29 to December 8.
A total of 48 men, 24 women, eight boys and four girls will compete for the respective titles and an overall prize fund of £257,000 at the ‘home of world darts’.
Andy Baetens clinched the men’s title in 2023 but is unable to defend his crown after obtaining a PDC Tour Card in January, while 20-year-old sensation Beau Greaves is bidding to make it a hat-trick of women’s world titles.
The men’s field includes top seed Danny Porter of Australia, 2022 champion Neil Duff and former PDC Tour Card holders Matthew Edgar, Brian Raman, Carl Wilkinson and Kai Fan Leung.
Paul Lim, who hit the first, and to date only, televised nine-darter at Lakeside back in 1990, returns to the historic stage at the age of 70, while the likes of Jimmy van Schie, Gary Stone and Moreno Blom are also vying for glory.
Greaves heads the women’s field alongside four-time champion Lisa Ashton and former finalists Kristy Hutchinson and Aileen De Graaf.
Third seed Rhian O’Sullivan, fourth seed Deta Hedman and New Zealand’s Nicole Regnaud are also among the line-up.
The tournament will be streamed live on YouTube, while the final two days are to be shown on Blaze TV in the UK.