Littler could face Sherrock at World Championship

Teenage star Luke Littler will face history-making female player Fallon Sherrock in the World Championship if she beats Ryan Meikle in the first round.

Fourth seed Littler, 17, lost January's world final to Luke Humphries, while Sherrock was the first woman to win matches at the tournament five years ago.

Humphries will start his PDC title defence against Thibault Tricole or Joe Comito.

The tournament starts on 15 December at London's Alexandra Palace.

The 2023 world champion and second seed Michael Smith will play Kevin Doets or Noa-Lynn van Leuven - the first first transgender woman to qualify for the tournament.

Three-time champion Michael van Gerwen faces the winner of James Hurrell against Jim Long.

The top 32 seeds enter in the second round, with the final taking place on Friday, 3 January 2025.

(Seedings in brackets. Seeds enter in second round)

(1) Luke Humphries (England) v Thibault Tricole/Joe Comito

(32) Raymond van Barneveld (Netherlands) v Nick Kenny/Stowe Buntz

(16) James Wade (England) v Jermaine Wattimena/Stefan Bellmont

(17) Peter Wright (Scotland) v Wesley Plaisier/Ryusei Azemoto

(8) Stephen Bunting (England) v Alan Soutar/Kai Gotthardt

(25) Dirk van Duijvenbode (Netherlands) v Madars Razma/Christian Kist

(9) Damon Heta (Australia) v Connor Scutt/Ben Robb

(24) Mike de Decker (Belgium) v Luke Woodhouse/Lourence Ilagan

(4) Luke Littler (England) v Ryan Meikle/Fallon Sherrock

(29) Ritchie Edhouse (England) v Ian White/Sandro Eric Sosing

(13) Danny Noppert (Netherlands) v Ryan Joyce/Darius Labanauskas

(20) Ryan Searle (England) v Mensur Suljovic/Matt Campbell

(5) Rob Cross (England) v Scott Williams/Niko Springer

(28) Gian van Veen (Netherlands) v Ricardo Pietreczko/Xiaochen Zong

(12) Nathan Aspinall (England) v Cameron Menzies/Leonard Gates

(21) Andrew Gilding (England) v Martin Lukeman/Nitin Kumar

(2) Michael Smith (England) v Kevin Doets/Noa-Lynn van Leuven

(31) Krzysztof Ratajski (Poland) v Richard Veenstra/Alexis Toylo

(15) Chris Dobey (England) v Stephen Burton/Alexander Merkx

(18) Josh Rock (Northern Ireland) v Karel Sedlacek/Rhys Griffin

(7) Jonny Clayton (Wales) v Mickey Mansell/Tomoya Goto

(26) Daryl Gurney (Northern Ireland) v Florian Hempel/Jeffrey de Zwaan

(10) Gerwyn Price (Wales) v Kim Huybrechts/Keane Barry

(23) Joe Cullen (England) v Wessel Nijman/Cameron Carolissen

(3) Michael van Gerwen (Netherlands) v James Hurrell/Jim Long

(30) Brendan Dolan (Northern Ireland) v Chris Landman/Lok Yin Lee

(14) Gary Anderson (Scotland) v Jeffrey de Graaf/Rashad Sweeting

(19) Ross Smith (England) v Jim Williams/Paolo Nebrida

(6) Dave Chisnall (England) v Ricky Evans/Gordon Mathers

(27) Gabriel Clemens (Germany) v Niels Zonneveld/Robert Owen

(11) Dimitri van den Bergh (Belgium) v William O'Connor/Dylan Slevin

(22) Martin Schindler (Germany) v Callan Rydz/Romeo Grbavac