Do men hold any sort of competitive advantage over women in darts (physical or otherwise)?
Do professional mixed competitions exist (where women actively face men in competition)?
Do professional mixed competitions exist (where women actively face men in competition)?
I’m not aware any of them ever won a match (but I also don’t follow this closely)
Also, this article seems to be about the top women playing in the BDO. Like in boxing, darts has multiple organizations organizing a world championship. Most of the really good male players play in the competing PDC. Comparing http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=... (profile of one of the players featured in this article) with http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=... (best female player I could find) that may not be the case here, but Lisa Ashton at her peak seems to have been a better player than Mikuru Suzuki is today.
I played league darts for about twenty years in the U.S. I had the privilege of knowing the First and Second ranked woman darters in the U.S. ten years ago. Either of them could tell you about games where they frustrated a male opponent who thought he was "just playing a girl".
To reverse that opinion I'd have to meet a Female darter who practiced as much as the highly skilled Male darters I know and still had a lower point-per-dart average. But in the US, that's not likely because everyone starts in league darts. league darts can be a "boys only club" depending on your team so the nature of the lower levels can be a little off-putting for woman.