Fallon Sherrock interview: ‘My health is a lot better now… you’re going to see me a lot longer!’
Fallon Sherrock feared that she would need to sit out the entirety of 2026 to 'get well again' - but is now able to look forward to the remainder of the darting year.
The 31-year-old stated in June that she was set to take a break from darts this year in order to 'get healthy again'.
Sherrock, who has spoken openly in the past about how she has had to manage her health, had to cancel several exhibitions as she 'lack[ed] the stamina', and was even struggling to practice regularly at home.
"I just need to sort myself out," she told Online Darts. "I need to get myself well again and then, once I do, the sky is the limit because I know I can do it, I know how many hours I've got to put in, what standard I've got to play.
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"So I can do it, I just need the energy for it first."
She said prior to the World Championship in December that she had received 'positive news' and felt '100% better'.
Fast-forward three months from those comments, and Sherrock is competing in both the MODUS Super Series and the PDC Women's Series, having qualified for the 2026 World Championship before losing 3-0 to Dave Chisnall in round one.
One of her next assignments is the MODUS International Pairs Week, where she has been paired with the legendary Steve Beaton - who she describes as 'so iconic' - as part of Team England.
Speaking to SPORTbible, Sherrock explained: "I thought I was going to have to [take a break], but I don't have to do that now.
"It was all to do with my health. My health is a lot better now, manageable now, and stuff like that, so I'm not taking any break.
"I'm quite happy about that because I enjoy playing darts."
She laughed: "So unfortunately for everyone, you're going to see me a lot longer!"
"It's there or thereabouts," she says of where her game is currently at. "There's still a lot of inconsistencies, but I can perfect that.
"I think now that the year is getting more into darts, and I'm playing a little bit more, it should become a bit better, because I'm hitting some good averages but then I'm following up with some not so good averages.
"I take the positives that I am hitting the high averages."
Part of her early season schedule was an appearance at UK Q-School - a four-day event which she says is 'so relentless'.
The second and final stage, which Sherrock entered, sees 128 players compete for just 13 two-year PDC tour cards - eight awarded to the two finalists from each day, and five via the Order of Merit.
By the fourth day, any player who hasn't guaranteed a spot in the top five of the OoM is in must-win territory, creating one of the most unparalleled environments in all of sports.
Though Sherrock was one of 115 players who failed to win a tour card - a list that also includes the likes of Beaton, Scott Waites, Jim Williams and Ted Evetts - she has been able to compete regularly in the MODUS Super Series.
The Super Series launched in 2022 as a successor to the Online Darts Live League, which initially gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as darts players looked to find alternative ways to play the sport from home.
All matches are played at the purpose-built MODUS Live Lounge in Portsmouth, with a number of current PDC tour card holders having established themselves in the series before entering Q-School.
It was during a MODUS match in February 2024 that Sherrock became the first woman to hit a nine-darter in a televised match.
"It's a great thing to be part of," Sherrock says of MODUS. "Obviously it was during COVID that we started, and it's just grown since then.
"It's so good for the sport because it's a good way to build the people up. A lot of these champions have gone on, like Luke Littler, and you've got Charlie Manby, who's just won the last one [Super Series title].
"Everyone that's the weekly winners, they're all established names as well. They've grown into it.
"I think it's a good thing because it's like grassroots, and people have got to qualify for it to get into it. And it's stage practice as well."
Despite never having held a tour card, Sherrock has previously competed in PDC ProTour events, having been selected as a highest-ranked reserve from the Challenge Tour for two Players Championship tournaments in 2023.
Lisa Ashton became the second female player to hold an active PDC tour card when she came through Q-School in 2021 - before Beau Greaves achieved the feat through her performances on the Development Tour in 2025.
Greaves, 22, hit a nine-darter in a Players Championship tournament last month, and already has two last 16 appearances to her name this year.
On the Women's Series, she has won 17 consecutive tournaments and is on a staggering 113-match win streak.
Sherrock believes that Greaves' emergence will significantly help women's darts as a whole - as it can unlock even more opportunities for players.
"So many people are watching Beau, so it gives us women more of a stance to go from," she says. "Because Beau has come through the Dev Tour and the Women's Series.
"So we can push forward and say, 'Hang on a minute, she's come from your grassroots. Come on, push the women's game. Get us into, maybe, the UK Open at some point'.
"It is encouraging more women to take [darts] up as well, because obviously they see what Beau does, they see what Lisa's done, they see what I do. So it's just helping the women's game as a whole.
"Everyone's kind of putting more effort in [to challenge Greaves]. They're practicing a bit more. They're playing more ADCs (amateur tournaments).
"They're playing more leagues, because everyone wants to be on that pedestal and be up there.
"Obviously they know they've got to increase their games. For example, the women's series, you only have that once a month, or once every two months. So you need to play in other stuff as well.
"You can definitely see the women are more hungry for it, especially with the World Championship opening up to more places now, and the [Women's] Matchplay."
But, aside from the averages and her incredible win record, what else does Greaves do that makes her such an intimidating opponent?
"She just throws," Sherrock states. "And because she's got such a natural throw, it just goes in. I've been on the back end of that a lot!
"You've just got to look at it and just be in awe of it, because it's like she doesn't feel pressure, as such, either.
"So it's like, if anything, you just take it and you learn from it. I actually look at how Beau plays and take my own tips from it, and try to help myself be better as well."
When asked about the next step for the Women's Series, she explains: "I think they need to try and put a few more [events], because I feel like the women will attend more.
"I still am pushing, and I still think that the women should be in the UK Open.
"I don't see why we can't at the moment, especially when you can definitely fill eight players, because we've got the Matchplay that is the top 16.
"Even if they didn't want to take a lot of women, they could definitely take the top eight or top four or something, and just give women some opportunities, because I feel that's what the women's game needs.
"We need a little bit more opportunity to kind of keep up with the men, because the men obviously get more of a stage, they get more publicity, they get more everything, whereas we're still fighting for it."
International Pairs 3 will stream live and exclusively on Pluto TV's MODUS Super Series Darts channel between 20-25 April 2026. For more information on the channel, visit Pluto TV's website.
Ryan Smart