Three-time reigning WDF girls’s world champion Beau Greaves is to enter the PDC’s Q Faculty within the new 12 months with the hope of incomes a two-year tour card.
The PDC Qualifying Colleges present any darts participant aged 16 and above the chance to compete alongside the game’s greatest stars on the skilled circuit.
The 2025 PDC Q Faculty will probably be held from January 6-12 in Milton Keynes and Kalkar, Germany, although Greaves heads straight into the ultimate part from January 9 because of ending within the prime eight of the Improvement Tour order of advantage.
A press release from her administration firm, Opus Sports activities Administration, mentioned: “We are so excited to see what happens over those 4 days in Milton Keynes!
“Not solely is there alternative for a tour card, however even when that is not achieved, it opens the door for way more darting motion in 2025.”
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Talking on Love The Darts, Polly James and Glen Durrant focus on Beau Greaves’ feedback saying that it will be ‘foolish’ to assume a feminine participant might win the World Championship
Greaves, nicknamed ‘Beau ‘n’ Arrow’, just lately known as for a separate PDC girls’s occasion to be launched after claiming her third consecutive WDF girls’s world title with a 4-1 win over Sophie McKinlay within the ultimate.
The 20-year-old’s participation within the WDF occasion means she will probably be ineligible for this 12 months’s PDC World Championship, regardless of it being open to each women and men.
Greaves, who performs within the PDC Girls’s Collection and the World Matchplay, has known as on darts chiefs to introduce a separate ladies-only Worlds.
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Beau Greaves efficiently retained her Girls’s World Matchplay title earlier this 12 months with a 6-3 victory over Fallon Sherrock
PDC Chief Government Matt Porter responded to Greaves’ feedback by saying the Worlds at Ally Pally is “open to all players”.
He mentioned in an announcement to Sky Sports activities: “We have invested over £700,000 into women’s darts over the past five years since introducing the PDC Women’s Series and Betfred World Matchplay and remain committed to providing opportunities for all players to progress within the PDC system.
“At current we don’t plan to introduce a separate Girls’s World Championship; the Paddy Energy World Darts Championship is open to all gamers and is a reward for profitable gamers on the PDC Girls’s Collection and the Girls’s World Matchplay winner.”
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PDC chief govt officer Matt Porter says he will get Beau Greaves’ determination to play at this 12 months’s WDF Lakeside as a substitute of the PDC’s World Championships however hopes to see her on the Ally Pally within the close to future
After wrapping up one other WDF world title win, Doncaster thrower Greaves mentioned: “I love WDF darts. It’s the only tour that gives you a World Championship for women.
“The PDC is nice. Nevertheless it would not have a World Championship [for women]. It has a World Matchplay. That is not adequate.
“The PDC has to have a World Championship to justify having a Tour for the ladies. The Women’s Series is great, and the money is good.
“On the similar time, we wish extra for it. The ruling about not with the ability to play each is silly.
“I can understand the men doing it but the women, I don’t understand that part of it – they don’t have a World Championship for the women.
“The WDF has a girls’ world championship, and you need to choose what’s greatest for you.”
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