Michael van Gerwen showed true colours with private message to Fallon Sherrock

Fallon Sherrock was astatine the centre of the sporting satellite during her historical tally astatine the World Darts Championship erstwhile Michael van Gerwen passed connected immoderate important advice

Fallon Sherrock has recalled a captious portion of proposal she received from Michael van Gerwen during her history-making show astatine the World Darts Championship.

Sherrock continues to beryllium known arsenic the Queen of the Palace acknowledgment to her tally to the 3rd circular astatine Alexandra Palace successful 2019. By beating Ted Evetts successful circular one, she became the archetypal pistillate to bushed a antheral subordinate astatine the PDC’s premier event.

She past incredibly defeated erstwhile World Matchplay finalist Mensur Suljovic earlier yet bowing retired to Chris Dobey. Sherrock concisely became 1 of the astir in-demand stars connected the planet, receiving galore interrogation requests from astir the world and adjacent getting messages from sporting royalty similar tennis icon Billy Jean King.

However, the clamour for her clip became excessively overmuch astatine 1 stage, prompting three-time satellite champion Van Gerwen to intervene. Addressing however she handled the media attention, Sherrock told Wayne Mardle’s Club 501 show: “It was truly scary due to the fact that I’m not the benignant of idiosyncratic to enactment myself retired there.

“Being enactment left, close and centre successful each interview… bearing successful caput my interviews astatine the clip were shocking. I truly couldn’t talk successful an interview. I was similar ‘er, yes, no, yes’. “Michael really said to my manager, ‘you request to fto her prepare, she’s got a truly important game’. Because we were getting carried distant with it, we stopped everything [media duties] for 1 oregon 2 days.”

Meanwhile, Sherrock, who is hoping to instrumentality to Ally Pally for the 2024/25 World Championship, believes women’s darts would payment if players went up against men much often. Sherrock, who remains the lone pistillate to bushed a antheral astatine the PDC World Championship, added: “If the women really enactment successful the effort and the signifier and really played against the men much regularly, past they would get up to that standard.

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"That’s wherefore I support saying we request much opportunities to play against the men due to the fact that doing truthful volition marque our crippled better. I deliberation pistillate players mightiness beryllium frightened to play against men connected a regular basis.

"They’re comfy conscionable staying successful their ain small league and they’re blessed conscionable to vie against each other. If they pushed themselves past they’d spot conscionable however overmuch their crippled could really improve."

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