Darts star desperate not to play his girlfriend Fallon Sherrock at Ally Pally
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Scottish darts player Cameron Menzies was delighted to go through to the second round of the World Darts Championship with a straight-sets victory over Rusty-Jake Rodriguez, but there is one opponent he is desperate not to be matched up against. Menzies is in a relationship with fellow professional Fallon Sherrock and was reading the draw with fear that they may face each other.
Menzies’ victory over Rodriguez sets up a second-round tie with Dave Chisnall. And his first-round win came after Menzies had spent the morning of his win working as a plumber. He finished his half-shift before rushing over to Alexandra Palace in order to take on the Austrian and ensure he would keep his Tour card along with at least £15,000 in prize money.
But the further he goes into the tournament, the greater chance he has of being paired up against his girlfriend Sherrock – something he is keen to avoid. “You don’t understand how many issues we had,” Menzies admitted. “She went down for the draw, I was on the computer going: ‘Please, not Fallon, please, not Fallon’.
“There’s a handful of players you don’t want to draw and Fallon is up there. I play Fallon in the house and I beat her eight times out of 10, but she has a moment when she smashes me.
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“I know for a fact up there she would batter me. It’s her stage, she would batter me. Rusty is a very good player but I would take him over Fallon in a heartbeat.”
The opening day of the tournament was a busy one for Menzies, having travelled from Milton Keynes where he worked as a plumber to Ally Pally to compete in the most prestigious darts tournament in the world. He explained that going to his day job helped prepare him mentally for the match.
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“I was panicking earlier because I was working today but it kind of chilled me out – it made me realise that darts is a hobby and it’s not the be-all and end-all,” he said.
“Today I changed the waste in a basin, I couldn’t get the pedestal out because it was concreted in. Then I did an emergency which was a burst water main and I fixed it, then I went to a tenant’s house to fix a bath and she wouldn’t let me in.
“Then I went to another job to fix a kitchen sink, so my job is maintenance. Basically, it is burst pipes and blocked drains – it’s not pretty. I would like to be in a situation where I can give up the day job and do this full-time, but I have a long way to go.”
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