Fallon Sherrock reckons talk of a showdown with Luke Littler already is disrespectful.
The Queen of the Palace could meet the teenage wonder in a jaw-dropping World Championship second round tie on Saturday. However, Sherrock needs to defeat Ryan Meikle tonight and insists that’ll be no easy task. She knows people are looking beyond her first game and says that’s massively unfair on her first-round opponent.
Meikle knocked Gary Anderson out of the Players Championship Finals last month and Sherrock said: “There’s so many people that have messaged and come up to me already and said ‘Oh, you’re playing Luke Littler’. And I’m like: ‘I haven’t even won my first game yet.’
“My first game is one of the hardest games that you can play, so the fact that they’re not even thinking of Ryan and going straight into like Luke, I think it’s a bit disrespectful from people because the calibre of the player that Ryan is. I’m not even looking at playing Luke at the moment, my main objective is obviously playing Ryan, that’s my first goal.”
Despite Sherrock’s professionalism and caution, it would be a blockbuster and she added: “Well, you can’t ignore it, you’re literally playing one of the best people or person in the world at the moment. But Ryan is a really good player in his own way. I know I need to play my A game otherwise I’m losing, like that is just how my mentality is going into that game. There could have been better people that could have drawn. I don’t want to play Ryan, but it’s the draw and there we get the carrot at the end of it playing Luke.”
Ironically, Littler’s appearance has taken some of the spotlight off Sherrock. She was swamped after becoming the first woman to win a game in the tournament six years ago and knows what the Warrington kid is now going through in terms of attention.
She told Online Darts: “It’s like a bit like pressure kind of thing, you don’t want to put a foot out of line, you don’t want to do anything wrong and as soon as something happens, it’s like so blown up. It’s like a fine line with the pressure that you’re under to try and be like a role model, but try not to do anything wrong. I think he’s doing well though because obviously he’s still playing to his ability.”
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