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is a Japanese
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player. She was a two-time back-to-back
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(BDO) women's world champion. She plays in both
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(WDF) and
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(PDC) events.


Career

Suzuki is an experienced soft-tip darts player, having competed in many tournaments and professional tours in her home country of Japan, as well as across east Asia. She began playing darts in her late twenties, winning many mainly soft-tip tournaments in Asia before becoming BDO World Champion aged 36 in 2019.


BDO titles

In 2018, Suzuki qualified for the
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as a qualifier, where she caused a huge upset by defeating the reigning champion and number two seed and four-time champion Lisa Ashton in the first round, 2 sets to 0. At the Quarter-Final stages of the championship, she defeated Dutch player Sharon Prins by the same score to reach the Semi-Final. In the Semi-Finals, once again by 2 sets to 0, she defeated
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, keeping her Lakeside record of dropping no sets fully intact to reach her first
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final on her debut. She went on to defeat Lorraine Winstanley 3–0 to win the title on her debut year. She did not drop a set en route to the title, and only lost two legs in the Final. Former professional darts player and current pundit Chris Mason said of her victory on
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that: "She is the Phil Taylor of the ladies' game. He raised the bar for the men, this is the same for the ladies' game." Suzuki was also the Ladies' Singles winner in the 2019 Dutch Open. Suzuki retained her BDO title in 2020, beating Lisa Ashton in the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship final.


PDC

Suzuki qualified for the
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by winning a women's qualifying event. In the first round she was against James Richardson. She came from 0–2 down to bring it back to 2–2 but lost the deciding set in a 2–3 defeat. Suzuki participated in PDC UK Q-School in 2020, but was unable to obtain a tour card after losing to Nathan Rafferty. In 2021 Suzuki won one PDC Women's Series event but failed to qualify for the 2022 PDC World Championship. In 2022 Suzuki reached the final in five PDC Women's Series events but didn't win any of them. In the third PDC Women's Series event of 2023 Suzuki ended Beau Greaves 70 match winning run in PDC Women's Series events by beating her 5–4 in the quarter final. Suzuki then beat Trina Gulliver 5–0 in the semi final and
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5–1 in the final. Suzuki qualified for the 2023 Women's World Matchplay by being in the top 8 of Women's Series order of merit at the cut off point. This was her debut at the event. She reached the final but lost 1–6 to Greaves. In total Suzuki won three PDC Women's Series events in 2023 and qualified for the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship.


World Championship results


BDO/WDF

* 2019: Winner (beat Lorraine Winstanley 3–0) * 2020: Winner (beat Lisa Ashton 3–0) * 2022: Second round (lost to Aileen de Graaf 1–2)


PDC

* 2020: First round (lost to James Richardson 2–3) * 2024: First round (lost to Ricardo Pietreczko 0–3)


Performance timeline


References


External links


Twitter

Mikuru Suzuki's profile and stats on Darts Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Mikuru Living people Japanese darts players 1982 births BDO women's world darts champions Professional Darts Corporation associate players Sportspeople from Takamatsu, Kagawa Professional Darts Corporation women's players