Beau Greaves will play within the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace later this 12 months.
Greaves confirmed her class on the World Youth Championship on Monday, averaging 105 to beat world champion Luke Littler in an epic last-leg decider within the semi-finals.
The Skilled Darts Company confirmed Greaves has accepted a spot on the World Championship, in addition to a tour card for the 2026 and 2027 seasons.
A press release launched by Greaves’ administration firm, Opus Sports activities Administration, stated: “After securing her tour card for 2026/2027, and after much speculation, we are excited to officially announce that Beau will be competing in the PDC World Championship 2025/26.
“After an unimaginable 12 months on the varied PDC circuits, and with subsequent 12 months turning into an enormous one forward, it was the choice that made probably the most sense for Beau & one that’s totally supported by all of us at Opus.
“We cannot wait to see her back on the famous Ally Pally stage.”
The 21-year-old grew to become simply the second lady to earn a PDC Tour Card on benefit, having completed runner-up within the Growth Tour rankings after profitable 3 times throughout a formidable marketing campaign.
Greaves has now assured her place on the skilled circuit for 2 years from the beginning of the 2026 season, the primary lady to take action since Lisa Ashton got here by way of Q Faculty to earn her card in 2020.
Greaves and Littler might meet once more on the Grand Slam of Darts, which Greaves has certified for by topping the PDC Girls’s Sequence Order of Benefit this 12 months.
Littler took to social media to congratulate Greaves on her win within the World Youth Championship. Writing on his Instagram story, Littler stated: “I had two 10-dart legs, missed double 12 for a nine and still couldn’t win. Fair play to Beau. All the best in Minehead. Some talent.”
“I think she’s an amazing player and she deserves it,” Humphries stated on the World Grand Prix. “I predict that she’ll flourish playing in it [PDC ProTour].
“She’s been a very nice participant on the secondary excursions this 12 months. She’s good on the problem tour, good on the event tour and he or she’ll be an actual risk going ahead for all of the gamers. Not only for me however for everybody.
“I think she’ll do really well. If she’s relaxed and she’s got no pressure on her shoulders yes, I believe she will be top 64 within the two years for sure.”
Greaves has beforehand expressed curiosity in a Tour Card, stating it could be “stupid” to not take one if provided, with the Englishwoman beforehand falling quick in her makes an attempt to earn one by way of Q-Faculty in January.
Her sister Bobbi appeared to trace that Greaves will take up the Tour Card after the ultimate two Growth Tour occasions of the season, writing on social media platform X: “My girl is now officially a tour card holder.”
In 2025 on the PDC circuit, Beau has:
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Highlights of the ultimate of the Girls’s World Matchplay, the place Lisa Ashton took on Sherrock
The highest three accessible gamers within the Girls’s Sequence rankings mechanically qualify for the World Championship, with Greaves’ Growth Tour end and Lisa Ashton’s Girls’s World Matchplay win already securing their spots for Alexandra Palace.
Fallon Sherrock sits second within the Order of Benefit between these two and has now formally confirmed a sixth World Championship look, with the 31-year-old unable to drop out of the three qualification spots throughout the remaining 4 Girls’s Sequence occasions.
She earned the nickname “Queen of the Palace” for her historic run to the third spherical in 2020, the place she grew to become the primary feminine to win a match on the occasion, though has suffered first-round exits in every of the previous 4 years.
The opposite two spots by way of the Girls’s Sequence Order of Benefit shall be confirmed after their 4 remaining occasions on October 18 and 19, with Noa-Lynn van Leuven and Gemma Hayter presently occupying these locations.
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