Beau Greaves: Darts star prepared for ‘subsequent step’ in profession and ‘robust darts’ forward after incomes PDC Tour Card and World Championship return

Beau Greaves has confirmed herself because the dominant pressure in ladies’s darts, with the 21-year-old now producing extra headlines heading right into a doubtlessly historic spell for her within the sport.

Greaves prolonged her personal successful streak on the PDC Girls’s Collection to 86 matches as she secured all 4 of the remaining titles in Wigan final weekend, that means she now received the final 13 one-day tournaments on the circuit and 18 in the course of the season.

Her unbeaten run on the PDC Girls’s Collection stretches again to April 13, smashing her earlier file successful streak of 70 matches on the tour, with Greaves’ success including to an already spectacular marketing campaign.

“I have a good games and I have my poor games, but I know when to step it up at the right time,” Greaves stated after her win. “I know I’ve won a lot of games on the trot and I know it’s sometimes not an amazing standard, but it’s still a lot of darts to throw. It’s a good achievement.”

Greaves completed second on the Winmau Growth Tour this season to safe a PDC Tour Card for the following two years, simply the second lady – after Lisa Ashton – to ever accomplish that on advantage, having received thrice on the circuit throughout 2025.

A busy conclusion to the season now sees Greaves make a 3rd consecutive Grand Slam of Darts look and face Gian van Veen within the PDC World Youth Championship last, then return to the PDC World Darts Championship for the primary time in three years.

“It’s a great end to the season,” Greaves advised PDC TV. “I stay up for subsequent yr already however I’ve received a busy finish of the yr! I completely love taking part in, so it is not a battle for me. I really like the competitiveness of all of it.

“It’s just making sure I’m still enjoying it and not just playing for the sake of it. Obviously I know it’s amazing to have a Tour card, but you still need to look after yourself and you’re still okay and happy and content with what you’re doing.

“It is most likely going to be a giant shock to me subsequent yr and I am already conscious of that. I simply need to give it a superb and see what occurs, however I positively must plan forward.”

Greaves backs herself for world youth glory

‘Beau ‘n’ Arrow’ additionally received two occasions on the PDC Problem Tour and had a run to the final 64 of the UK Open throughout 2025, dropping 10-7 to Luke Humphries, plus took world champion Luke Littler to a final-leg decider throughout a Gamers Championship occasion in August.

The 2-time PDC Girls’s World Matchplay champion then loved a memorable debut on the PDC World Youth Championship earlier this month, the place she beat Littler in an epic last-leg decider to guide her spot within the last towards defending champion Van Veen.

“That [reaching the final] was a massive bonus,” Greaves advised PDC TV. “Taking part in somebody like Gian goes to be actually exhausting for me – I am effectively conscious of that and I do know I will should play effectively, however I can do it.

“I wouldn’t be there if I couldn’t do it, so it’s going to be really exciting. I’ll definitely look more forward to those sort of games than I have done previous years. It’s nice to challenge myself, push myself and I feel really confident at the minute.”

Greaves suffered a first-round exit in her solely earlier World Championship look on the Alexandra Palace in 2023 however will return for this yr’s contest, stay from December 11-January 3 on Sky Sports activities, relatively than chase a fourth consecutive WDF World Darts Championship win.

“It has been a tough one,” Greaves admitted. “Missing Lakeside this year is obviously going to be hard, but I’m ready for the next step. I love the WDF, but the PDC is obviously where it’s at.”

Is Greaves a real Ally Pally contender?

As of October 20, with simply over 50 days till the PDC World Darts Championship will get below method, Greaves is broadly being touted as a 66/1 outsider with bookmakers to win the Sid Waddell Trophy.

That is the identical worth Littler was when the-then 16-year-old was throughout his fairy-tale run to the ultimate two years in the past, with it additionally making Greaves – within the bookies’ eyes – a extra possible contender than a number of former world champions and a number of winners of TV titles.

2018 champion Rob Cross, two-time winner Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright and five-time world champion Raymond van Barneveld are all at the moment heading into this yr’s contest at longer odds than Greaves, together with 2023 champion Michael Smith.

Dirk van Duijvenbode, who completed runner-up on the German Darts Championship last and was a quarter-finalist on the World Grand Prix earlier this month, Joe Cullen, Dave Chisnall and Dimitri van den Bergh are additionally gamers thought-about extra unlikely candidates at this stage.

“The important thing is that the media don’t put pressure on her,” world No 1 Humphries warned forward of his run to the World Grand Prix last. “If we keep talking about her too much and keep putting her name all the time in the headlines, it’ll just put pressure on her.”

Huge spell forward for ‘future champion’ Greaves?

Even when Greaves fails to change into the primary feminine since Fallon Sherrock to progress from the Grand Slam of Darts group stage or past the opening spherical of the PDC World Darts Championship within the coming months, an thrilling 2026 follows for one of many sports activities’ largest stars.

Humphries has backed Greaves to “flourish” on the PDC ProTour and believes she has the expertise to interrupt into the highest 64 inside two years, whereas the ladies’s No 1 is worked up to juggle balancing competing on the lads’s and girls’s circuits.

“I’m definitely going to try and play all the Women’s Series,” Greaves insisted. “On the similar time, I have not even seemed on the schedule to be trustworthy! It is all fairly new to me and I do know I must handle it effectively.

“I seem to have done an alright job of it [managing schedule] so far. I know it’s a lot of darts and it’s tough darts, but that’s what I signed up for at the end of the day! I need to go through it and see what the plan is.”

Deta Hedman – the primary feminine darts participant to beat a male participant in a televised main – has described Greaves as “the best ladies player in history”, with pleasure constructing about what she may doubtlessly obtain within the sport.

“Beau has dominated the women’s series and dominated women’s darts across all codes that she is allowed to play in,” Chris Murphy advised the ‘Love The Darts’ podcast. “I feel she is having a extremely unbelievable rise and her throw is technically excellent.

“Her temperament is spot on and she is just kind of carefree – that’s dangerous for her opponents. There are many more chapters to be written. She will win a pro tour next year, I am calling it now. I think it’s time to challenge herself.

“I feel she might be the world champion. Not the ladies’s world champion, the world champion.”

What’s next?

The next TV major live on Sky Sports is the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton from November 8-16, before the World Darts Championship runs from December 11-January 3 at the Alexandra Palace. Stream darts, soccer, golf, cricket and extra contract-free with NOW.