Anastasia Dobromyslova smiles as she remembers the first time she played darts, as a 12-year‑old in her home city of Tver, just over 100 miles from Moscow, and realised she had an unerring knack for hitting trebles and doubles – and beating the older boys at her youth club. “I wasn’t very well liked,” she laughs. “I think that’s what toughened me up, because I’ve always had to be amongst the boys. Being a girl I have had to fight for my spot.”
Not a great deal has changed in the intervening two decades. But having qualified for one of two new women’s spots at this year’s expanded PDC World Championship, which begins at Alexandra Palace on Thursday, the 34-year-old Dobromyslova intends to make the most of her opportunity. “You don’t realise how many emotions I have,” she says. “I’m excited, I’m nervous and I know playing in front of thousands of people will be challenging. But with a bit of luck, who knows what could happen?”
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/12/anastasia-dobromyslova-russian-darts-pdc-world-championship under the title “Anastasia Dobromyslova: ‘Being a girl, I’ve had to fight for my spot in darts’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
