Anastasia Dobromyslova

Anastasia Petrovna Dobromyslova-Martin (; born 26 September 1984) is a professional darts player. She is a three-time Women's World Professional Darts Champion of the British Darts Organisation (BDO).

After winning her first title in 2008, Dobromyslova decided to join the rival male-dominated Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) to play in their World Championship in 2009. After rejoining the BDO in 2011, she won her second World Championship in 2012 and a third in 2013.

Dobromyslova uses the song "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence. She carries the name From Russia with Love, although she has stated that it is not an official nickname. She is more commonly known as just Anastasia due to the difficulty English-speaking commentators and announcers have pronouncing her surname.

Career Dobromyslova started to play darts at the age of 12, and has won the Russian National Championship a total of 10 times. According to Dobromyslova, it was quite easy because hardly anyone played the game in Russia. She won the Girls' World Masters title in 2001 and won the WDF Europe Youth Cup singles title in 2001 and 2002.

She made her professional major debut at the 2004 Bavaria World Darts Trophy, where she beat Trina Gulliver in the quarter-final, averaging 90. After beating Mieke de Boer in the semis, she lost to Francis Hoenselaar in the final. In the first round, she was drawn to play Robert Thornton, who was also a BDO player who won through the Pub Qualifiers, and was the reigning World Masters champion. Thornton narrowly won 6–5. a decision that was publicly criticised by five-time world champion Eric Bristow.

Dobromyslova became the second female player to play in a men's world darts championship, after Canadian Gayl King played in the 2001 event. She was drawn in the preliminary round against Remco van Eijden, and lost 5 legs to 3.

She qualified for the 2012 BDO World Darts Championship, where in the quarter-final, she defeated second seeded Welsh woman Julie Gore by two sets to nil. In the semi-finals, she defeated third seed and title holder Trina Gulliver again by two sets to nil. Dobromyslova then recovered from losing the first set and needing to break her opponent Deta Hedman's throw to stay in the match to win her second world championship two sets to one.

In 2013 Dobromyslova won her third World title after beating Lisa Ashton 2–1 in sets.

She became the 2011 European singles champion in Benidorm. At the IDF World Cup in 2011, Dobromyslova won the Pro Singles Cricket event, but lost the Pro Singles (501) event final, and also won the Pro Mixed Pairs event. It meant she became the first woman to become the soft-tip and steel-tip (501) world darts champion in the same year.

1. 2000 Winmau World Masters Janine Gough 0–3 (l)

2. 2001 Winmau World Masters (1) Jeannett Thomassen 3–1 (l)

3. 2001 WDF Europe Youth Cup Singles (1) Unknown Unknown

4. 2002 WDF Europe Youth Cup Singles (2) Unknown Unknown

1. 1999 Europe Youth Cup Pairs (1)with Anastasia Borissova Unknown Unknown

1. 2004 World Darts Trophy Francis Hoenselaar 1–3 (s)

2. 2008 World Darts Championship (1) Trina Gulliver 2–0 (s)

3. 2008 Winmau World Masters Francis Hoenselaar 3–4 (l)

4. 2012 World Darts Championship (2) Deta Hedman 2–1 (s)

5. 2012 Zuiderduin Masters (1) Aileen de Graaf 2–1 (s)

6. 2013 World Darts Championship (3) Lisa Ashton 2–1 (s)

7. 2013 Zuiderduin Masters Aileen de Graaf 0–2 (s)

8. 2014 World Winmau Masters (1) Fallon Sherrock 4–1 (l)

9. 2014 BDO World Trophy (1) Lisa Ashton 9–7 (l)

10. 2014 Zuiderduin Masters (2) Aileen de Graaf 2–1 (s)

11. 2014 WDF Europe Cup Singles (1) Deta Hedman 7–5 (l)

12. 2015 BDO World Trophy Lisa Ashton 5–7 (l)

13. 2015 Zuiderduin Masters Fallon Sherrock 0–2 (s)

14. 2016 Zuiderduin Masters (3) Aileen de Graaf 2–1 (s)

15. 2017 BDO World Trophy Aileen de Graaf 2–6 (l)

16. 2018 World Darts Championship Lisa Ashton 1–3 (s)

17. 2019 BDO World Trophy Lisa Ashton 2–6 (l)

18. 2019 Winmau World Masters Lisa Ashton 4–5 (l)

WDF major team finals: 1 (1 title)

1. 2007 World Cup Pairs (1)with Irina Armstrong Maud Jansson Carina Ekberg 4–2 (l)

Performance timeline

She is the first and the only darts player to date to be awarded the honorary title "Merited Master of Sport of Russia".