The first female dartist to win a match at the PDC world championship on internet trolls, life as a single parent and coping with her new-found fame
“Every little bit of hate just gees me on to do better and prove them all wrong,” Fallon Sherrock says with quiet calm as she explains how the abuse she has suffered online helped her make history as the first female darts player to win a match at the PDC world championship in December. “It made me a stronger person, and more determined. I don’t know if I’d still be as strong if I didn’t have all that hate. I needed hate to make me more determined.”
It seems the best and most coherent way of dealing with the epidemic of hate, especially towards women, that infects social media. Sherrock not only won two matches in the world championship but this Thursday in Nottingham she will become the first woman to play Premier League darts. She has also been exalted on social media, with plaudits for her sporting breakthrough ranging from tweets by Billie Jean King to Instagram posts by Sarah Jessica Parker who wrote, of Sherrock: “Making history and our hearts stop as we watched in astonishment and awe.” But, after 45 minutes in Sherrock’s company, it is plain that bleak misogyny has fired her determination.
Written by Donald McRae
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/10/fallon-sherrock-darts-hate-makes-me-more-determined-first-female-win-match-pdc-world-championships under the title “Fallon Sherrock: ‘All the hate just makes me more determined’ | Donald McRae”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
