Anastasia Dobromyslova Joins the PDC Circuit

Carrickman

She has left the BDO:

Dobromyslova To Join PDC Circuit
RUSSIA'S Anastasia Dobromyslova will compete in the 2009 Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship after opting to move onto the PDC circuit.

Dobromyslova has taken the final place in the Preliminary Round of the tournament following the withdrawal of an Indian Qualifier, which saw that place awarded to a Russian representative.

The 24-year-old, the current Women's World Champion, will become only the second female to compete in the PDC World Championship, succeeding Gayl King, who lost 3-1 to Graeme Stoddart in the 2001 event.

"We're delighted that Anastasia has chosen to compete on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit," said PDC Chairman Barry Hearn.

"Her ambition is to compete amongst the best players in darts for the greatest prize money and she has already proven in the UK Open and Grand Slam of Darts this year that she can do just that.

"The Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship will be another great opportunity for Anastasia and we will look forward to her competing at Alexandra Palace.

"She will compete for over £5 million in prize money on the PDC circuit next year - and I'm sure she will cause plenty of shocks along the way!"

Dobromyslova won a place earlier this year in the Blue Square UK Open, where she lost 6-5 to Robert Thornton in round one, as well as competing more recently in the PartyPoker.com Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton.

She will follow up her appearance in the World Championship, which begins on Friday December 19 at Alexandra Palace, by competing full-time on the PDC circuit next year.

Her last appearance on the WDF/BDO circuit - where Dobromyslova was ranked as the women's number one - came on Sunday at the World Masters, where she reached the final before losing to Francis Hoenselaar 4-3.

Kingp35

Think this deserves it's own thread.

I think this is good for women playing darts but I'm not so sure if it is a wise decision by Ana. I mean she can play darts to a good standard but nowhere near most of the men on the circuit, she will really have to improve big time if she is to move up the rankings. She only made the TV tournaments this year because of Wild Card entries but she is going to have to qualify by right now which i don't think she has the ability to do yet. Hopefully I'm wrong because I think it would be great to have women mixing it with the men, it would bring something totally new to the sport.

Anyway good luck to her, we will see what she's got at the World's.

dionsiseire

Well will you see what she has at the worlds?

Prelim's arnt broadcast are they? she might not even make it!

Kingp35

dionsiseire wrote: »

Prelim's arnt broadcast are they? she might not even make it!

They are as far as I know. I remember watching it last year thinking I could beat some of players in it!

dionsiseire

I would guess the standard is going up, Shane O'Connor is a fantastic player when he plays well, at the whitehouse he was on my board, had i won my semi final i'd have faced him in the final

if i remember correctly he won the final 4-0 with a 10 dart two 12 dart and one 13 dart legs.

More than capable on his day

Kingp35

Oh yeah Shane would definitely be capable, I think it's a sad state of affairs that Ireland only gets one qualifier. It's the other people in it, like the lads from Japan and Barbados that are usually pretty poor. No disrespect to them, i think they should be allowed enter because it is a World Championships, but their standard of play can be pretty awful for a professional tournament.

dionsiseire

Well i guess then its down to us to knuckle down, become fantastic and both of us qualify to the world championship

what ya think

dionsiseire + Kingp35 for World Championships 2009

My first aim is to qualify for Kilkenny in August

dionsiseire

Well i guess then its down to us to knuckle down, become fantastic and both of us qualify to the world championship

what ya think

dionsiseire + Kingp35 for World Championships 2009

My first aim is to qualify for Kilkenny in August

Kingp35

dionsiseire wrote: »

Well i guess then its down to us to knuckle down, become fantastic and both of us qualify to the world championship

what ya think

dionsiseire + Kingp35 for World Championships 2009

My first aim is to qualify for Kilkenny in August

Sounds good to me, I'll play you in the final!

dionsiseire

Kingp35 wrote: »

Sounds good to me, I'll lose to you in the final!

Sounds Great

Kingp35

dionsiseire wrote: »

Sounds Great

Glad you're so confident, it will make my victory all the sweeter! :pac:

Double Top

If Anastasia joined the PDC what will happen to her women's championship, will she not be able to try and defend it becacuse it's a BDO tournament?

Kingp35

Double Top wrote: »

If Anastasia joined the PDC what will happen to her women's championship, will she not be able to try and defend it becacuse it's a BDO tournament?

No she won't be competing in any of the Women's tournaments anymore.

Bull Buchanan

She is truly an inspiration to female darts players everywhere.

dionsiseire

Kingp35 wrote: »

Glad you're so confident, it will make my victory all the sweeter! :pac:

you should probably re-read my quote, your a little misquoted