WDF World Cup Women Singles 2017

The 21st edition of the WDF World Cup was held from 3 to 7 October at the Kobe International Exhibition Hall in Japan. It is after Kuala Lumpur in 2011 the second time that the WDF World Cup is played in Asia. A number of leading darts countries are absent from this 21st edition of this event. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, among others, cannot get it financially in order to travel to Japan.

Yet it will be an unforgettable edition in which 28 men's teams, 26 women's teams and 12 youth teams compete for the big Cups. Hong Kong was last there in 1989 and returns to the WDF World Cup, Mongolia and South Korea make their debut, just as Marco Meijer does as a referee on the podium.

For the first time in history, the winner of the singles tournament is from Scandinavia. Vicky Pruim previously played five times for her native Belgium in the 90’s during WDF World Cups, but never got further than the last 16, in Japan she plays under the Swedish flag. In Kobe she beats Sari Nikula, Patricia de Peuter, Silke Lowe, Tina Osborne and Anastasia Dobromyslova en route to the final.

In the final, the Dutch ace Sharon Prins is her opponent. Prins already won the European Cup singles a year earlier and can now take the double. In the semi-final, Prins defeated her compatriot Aileen de Graaf and before that Anna Forsmark, Bianka Vojtkova, Rachna David, Kaisu Rekinen and Asia Marini. For the third time in four years the final goes to a thirteenth and decisive leg. The Dutch misses a total of six match darts and must leave the honour to her Swedish opponent.

WDF World Cup Women Singles

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Competitors Of WDF World Cup Women Singles 2017

Irina Armstrong

Asako Atarashi

Lisa Ayers

Sylvie Ballieu

Sanyogita Banjare

Gitte Banke

Kim Bellay-Rousselle

Sharon Prins

Caroline Breen

Daniela Büel

Robyn Byrne

Natalie Carter

Janine Cassar

Marzia Catino

Athena Chan

Ekaterina Cherkasova

Esther Cho

Hye-Jin Choi

Giada Ciofi

Jitka Císařová

Grace Crane

Aastha Dalal

Rachna David

Patricia De Peuter

Carine Dessein

Anastasia Dobromyslova

Patricia Farrell

Natalia Fefilova

Judy Fenton

Sandra Ferguson

Anna Forsmark

Carole Frison

Dianne Gobeil

Corrine Hammond

Iselin Hauen

Olivia Hendricks

Carole Herriott

Anna Hlavová

Henriette Honoré

Maud Jansson

Trudy Johnson

Marika Juhola

Karina Kaenzig

Taylor-Marsh Kahaki

Jana Kanovska

Mana Kawakami

Tori Kewish

A-Reum Kim

Marina Kononova

Janni Larsen

Dorothee Lemaire

Cathy Leung

Shinetsetseg Lkhagvasuren

Silke Lowe

Teresa Maher

Asia Marini

Aneesha Mehta

Wallace Mok

Ramona Mostad-Eriksen

Paula Murphy

Sari Sauvola

Jackie O'Neill

Kayleigh O'Neill

Johanna Oosthuizen

Tina Osborne

Barbara Osti

Vicky Pruim

Ongonsar Purev

Jargalsaikhan Purevdorj

Georgina Ratt

Kaisu Rekinen

Steffi Rennoch-Zwitkowitsch

Colette Rudin

Angela Russell

Naomi Saito

Tumentogtokh Samdan

Berit Schouw