{"id":3195,"date":"2019-12-18T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:07:56","slug":"pdc-darts-championship-fallon-sherrock-beats-ted-evetts-to-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2019\/12\/18\/pdc-darts-championship-fallon-sherrock-beats-ted-evetts-to-make-history\/","title":{"rendered":"PDC Darts Championship: Fallon Sherrock beats Ted Evetts to make history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/12\/110210405_sherrock-1-pa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/12\/110210405_sherrock-1-pa.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/12\/110210405_sherrock-1-pa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/12\/110210405_sherrock-1-pa-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25-year-old from Milton Keynes &#8211; only the fifth woman to play in the event &#8211; was cheered throughout a superb contest at Alexandra Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sherrock, the BDO Women&#8217;s World Championship runner-up in 2015, fell 2-1 behind but rallied to make history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have proved that we can play the men and can beat them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sherrock ended the night in joyful tears after a thrilling victory over 22-year-old world number 77 Evetts, also from England.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/darts\/50831338\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London. The 25-year-old from Milton Keynes &#8211; only the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}