World Championship Women

The 2022 Lakeside WDF World Championship was held between April 2 and 10 at the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green. Twenty-four players from all over the world qualified to have a shot at the title. It is Beau Greaves who eventually takes the first WDF world title. She beats Kirsty Hutchinson in the final 4-0. Twenty-four players from all over the world qualify for the title. It is Beau Greaves who eventually takes the first WDF world title. She beat Kirsty Hutchinson in the final 4-0. In 2020, the BDO will stop organizing the tournament that has been organized under their auspices since the first edition. The World Darts Federation adopts the tournament but has had to postpone playing it several times due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

The Lakeside Country Club was chosen as the location for the first edition under the WDF flag, with a new set-up that allows more players from various countries to qualify for this World Championship. With 12 different nationalities, that promise is fulfilled. In the first round, the unseeded players play against each other, after which the eight seeded players enter in round two. There are several big names missing from this World Championship. Lisa Ashton has a PDC tour card and cannot play. Fallon Sherrock refuses the invitation and Anastasia Dobromyslova is a victim of international rules on athletes from Russia. Ten-time world champion Trina Gulliver is also not there for the first time.

In that second round, several the big names that are present immediately fall. The two-time and defending champion Mikuru Suzuki from Japan flies out against Aileen de Graaf from the Netherlands. The number 1 in the world ranking Deta Hedman can also go home. Australian ace Tori Kewish is responsible for this. Both Kewish and De Graaf lose immediately a round later themselves. Hungarian Veronika is writes history in this round by noting the highest finish ever in the women's tournament with 164.

In the first semifinal, Kirsty Hutchinson beats Rhian O'Sullivan 3-2 in sets and thus qualifies for the final on her debut. Hutchinson had also defeated Jo Clements and Priscilla Steenbergen in the tournament. In the other semi-final, 18-year-old Beau Greaves thunders over Lorraine Winstanley. Only in the last set Winstanley manages to win legs. Earlier Beau had already put Veronika Ihasz and Aileen de Graaf aside. Ihasz will prove to be the only one who can grab a set of Greaves this year. The final is just as one-sided. Beau Greaves simply plays too well. For a long time, she averages above 100 in the final, that drops to more than 92 in the end, which is still the highest in the final in the history of the women's World Cup. Hutchinson only wins 1 leg in the final and Beau Greaves is crowned world champion for the first time.