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Lisa Ashton (born 27 August 1970) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where she has finished top of the Women's Series rankings in 2020 and 2022 and won the Women's World Matchplay in 2025. She held a PDC Tour Card from 2020–2021, having become the first woman to win a tour card at Q-School.
Nicknamed " the Lancashire Rose", Ashton formerly competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) and World Darts Federation (WDF) events. She is a four-time BDO Women's World Champion. She is also a three-time World Masters champion and a three-time winner of the BDO World Trophy.
She has won over 100 titles in women's darts competitions.
Ashton then won the 2008 Women's Zuiderduin Masters, beating Trina Gulliver in the final. Ashton qualified for the 2009 Women's World Championship and made her debut at the event. She met Gulliver once more in the quarter-finals but was beaten 2–0. In 2010, Ashton got as far as the semi-finals of the Winmau World Masters, where she lost to Francis Hoenselaar 4–2. In 2011, Ashton defeated Trina Gulliver 4–1 to win the Winmau World Masters. Ashton reached the final of the 2013 BDO World Darts Championship after defeating both Deta Hedman and Sharon Prins 2–0, before she eventually lost to Anastasia Dobromyslova 2–1.
Ashton hit ten 180s on her way to winning the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship at the Lakeside Country Club, which had 16 women qualifiers for the first time in its history. She defeated Aileen de Graaf in the first round, which went to a sudden death deciding leg. She then defeated Tamara Schuur in the Quarter Finals. She then beat Anastasia Dobromyslova, in the semi-final, surviving 6 match darts, before eventually going on to beat Deta Hedman in the final, 3–2. She successfully defended her title in 2015 with a 3–1 win over Fallon Sherrock. Ashton then won the BDO World Trophy, by defeating Anastasia Dobromyslova in the final. At the Winmau World Masters, she lost in the final to Aileen de Graaf after missing six match darts.
At the 2016 BDO World Darts Championship, Ashton was beaten 2–1 by Trina Gulliver in the quarter-finals. At the 2016 BDO World Trophy, she hit a record three-dart average for a televised women's match of 98.85. In the 2017 BDO World Darts Championship, both Ashton and Corrine Hammond reached the final without losing a set. Ashton won the final 3–0. Ashton won the 2018 BDO World Darts Championship after she beat Dobromyslova 3–1 in the final. This was her fourth World Championship title in five years. Ashton entered the 2019 PDC Qualifying School. She missed out on getting a tour card by one point.
After losing out in the final of the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship to defending champion Mikuru Suzuki, Ashton became the first woman to win a PDC Tour card through Q-School, by finishing in twelfth place on the UK Q-School Order of Merit. On 5 March 2021, she became the first female to win a match at the UK Open since 2005, defeating Aaron Beeney 6–2 in Round 2 of the 2021 UK Open, and, also setting a new world record, for the highest average of 100.3, on TV, by a female player in her victory over Beeney.
In the 2022 PDC World Darts Championship she lost 3–0 to Ron Meulenkamp in the first round and also lost her PDC tour card. She didn't win it back at Q School. In February, she played in the 2022 World Seniors Darts Championship and got a bye into second round, where she lost 1–3 by sets to Terry Jenkins. Ashton qualified for the 2022 Women's World Matchplay by being in the top 8 in the PDC Women's Series after 12 events. She beat Chloe O'Brien 4–0 in the Quarter-finals but lost 5–4 to Aileen de Graaf in the semi-finals.
Ashton played at the 2023 PDC World Championship. She was defeated in the first round by Ryan Meikle 3–2.
In 2025, Ashton won the Women's World Matchplay for the first time; she defeated Robyn Byrne, Beau Greaves and Fallon Sherrock en route.
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PDC Players Championships
| 2020 | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | NIE 3R | NIE 1R | NIE 4R | NIE 2R | NIE 2R | COV 1R | COV 1R | COV 1R | COV 2R | COV 2R | |||||||
| 2021 | BOL 1R | BOL 1R | BOL 1R | BOL 1R | MIL 4R | MIL 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 2R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | MIL 1R | COV 1R | COV 1R | COV 1R | COV 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R |
| World Championship (4–2) |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2013 | World Championship | Anastasia Dobromyslova | 1–2 (s) |
| Winner | 1. | 2014 | World Championship | Deta Hedman | 3–2 (s) |
| Winner | 1. | 2015 | World Championship | Fallon Sherrock | 3–1 (s) |
| Winner | 1. | 2017 | World Championship | Corrine Hammond | 3–0 (s) |
| Winner | 1. | 2018 | World Championship | Anastasia Dobromyslova | 3–1 (s) |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2020 | World Championship | Mikuru Suzuki | 0–3 (s) |
| Women's World Matchplay (1–0) |
| Winner | 1. | 2025 | Women's World Matchplay | 6–5 (l) |
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