Beau Greaves

**Beau Greaves** (born 9 January 2004) is an English professional darts player who currently plays in the World Darts Federation (WDF) and Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. She is the current World Darts Federation women's world champion, having won the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship. She is also a WDF Europe Cup Champion.

## Career

### Early career

Greaves started playing regularly in tournaments and league games at the age of 10, having been introduced to darts by her brother Taylor. She made her stage debut at the girls' 2014 World Masters and lost in the final to Robyn Byrne. Two years later, she won a gold medal in the 2016 WDF Europe Cup Youth singles competition against Christina Schuler by 4–1 in legs and also takes gold and silver medal in others competition. In the same year, she advanced for a second time to the final of the girls' 2016 World Masters and lost to Veronika Koroleva.

Not only did Greaves win numerous national girls' titles, but she also became a regular contender in the women's tournaments, reaching the final of the Jersey Classic at the age of 13. In 2017, she advanced for third time to the final of the girls' 2017 World Masters and successfully took the title after defeating Katie Sheldon in a whitewash. Greaves successfully defended her title at the girls' 2018 World Masters by beating Hayley Crowley in the final, also without giving up a leg. In 2018, she won the all-girls competition of the 2018 WDF Europe Cup Youth, defeating Emine Dursan in the singles competition.

### Entered to seniors

In April 2019, she threw a 9-dart finish at a tournament in her hometown of Doncaster. In May 2019, Greaves won both the Welsh Open and the Welsh Classic in the women's category. Later in June, she won both women's singles titles, the girls' title and the overall youth title at the England National Singles and the England Open. Only the women's doubles title was narrowly denied to her that weekend, but she was the youngest player ever to win the British Pentathlon. At the end of the month she also won the BDO Gold Cup, followed by another title at the West Midlands Open at the end of August.

At the beginning of September 2019, Greaves won the England Matchplay. At the 2019 WDF World Cup in Romania, she won the girls' singles and doubles with Shannon Reeves, and she was also successful at the premiere of the Northern Cyprus Open. At the age of 15, Greaves then qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship for the first time as the sixth seed, becoming the youngest women player to play in the World Darts Championship. She beat Tori Kewish in the first round and Aileen de Graaf in the quarter-finals to reach the last four on debut, where she lost to reigning champion Mikuru Suzuki.

By winning the Scottish Open in February 2020, Greaves took first place in the women's British Darts Organisation rankings at the age of 16. In 2021, Greaves struggled with dartitis during the coronavirus pandemic, but still won the Welsh Classic and a year later both events on the Isle of Man. Greaves then took part in the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship at Lakeside, where she defeated Veronika Ihász by 2–1 in sets in the first game and then defeated Aileen de Graaf by 2–0 in sets. A 3–0 win over Lorraine Winstanley made Greaves the youngest ever women's World Championship finalist, and the following day she was crowned World Champion with a 4–0 win over Kirsty Hutchinson.

### Professional Darts Corporation debut

In 2022, Greaves won the Welsh Open for the second time in May and the 2022 Dutch Open in June. She was also able to win the individual event of the Six Nations Cup, she also won the Romanian Open and England Open and the platinum title at the 2022 Australian Open also belonged to her. In August 2022, Greaves made her debut at the 2022 PDC Women's Series and won four consecutive finals, becoming the first player to do so. She subsequently won four more consecutive finals to end the year with a record eight straight Women's Series titles.

At the end of September 2022, Greaves was selected by the national federation to participate in the 2022 WDF Europe Cup held in Spain. On the second day of the tournament, she advanced to the finals of the singles competition, defeating Anca Zijlstra, Robyn Byrne, and Rhian O'Sullivan en route to the final. In the final, she beat Almudena Fajardo 7–4 in legs.

In December 2022, Greaves made her debut at the PDC World Darts Championship, losing to William O'Connor 0–3 in the first round. Greaves qualified for the 2023 Women's World Matchplay.

## World Championship results

### BDO/WDF

* 2020: Semi-finals (lost to Mikuru Suzuki 1–2)
* 2022:  **Winner** (beat Kirsty Hutchinson 4–0)
* 2023:

### PDC

* 2023: First round (lost to William O'Connor 0–3)

## Career finals

### WDF major/platinum finals: (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

 WDF Europe Cup (1–0)

1. ↑ (l) = score in legs, (s) = score in sets.

## References

1. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Beau Greaves reaches semi-finals on 16th birthday". Eurosport. 9 January 2020.
2. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Aldred, Tanya (13 December 2022). "Beau Greaves: 'Darts has taught me everything I've needed to know'". *The Guardian*.
3. ↑ World Professional Darts Championship: Automatic Qualification Places Complete (28 October 2019).
4. ↑ World Pro 2020 Day 1 results.
5. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Beau Greaves is youngest-ever darts World Championship winner". BBC. 11 April 2022.
6. ↑ Brilliant Beau Greaves makes history with four consecutive PDC Women's Series titles in Hildesheim sealing Event 16. dartsnews.com.
7. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Beau Greaves ready to set World Darts Championship stage alight: 'I can beat anyone'". Sky Sports. 16 December 2022.
8. ↑ WDF Europe Cup Women Singles. World Darts Federation.
9. ↑ Greaves and Fajardo to women's singles final at WDF Europe Cup. dartsnews.com.
10. ↑ Labre and Greaves capture gold medal in singles at WDF Europe Cup. dartsnews.com.
11. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>McVeigh, Niall (16 December 2022). "Beau Greaves denied by William O'Connor on her PDC world darts debut". *The Guardian*.
12. ↑ World Championship Women 2022 (en).
13. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Beau Greaves is youngest-ever darts World Championship winner". *BBC News*. 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
14. ↑ Dutch Open Women 2022 (en).
15. ↑ Gill, Samuel (2022-06-12). Klaasen and Greaves seal 2022 Dutch Open Darts titles (en).
16. ↑ Australian Open Women 2022 (en).
17. ↑ Gill, Samuel (2022-08-06). Smith and Greaves crowned champions at 2022 WDF Australian Open (en).
18. ↑ WDF Europe Cup Women Singles 2022 (en).
19. ↑ Verbeek, Pieter (2022-10-02). Labre and Greaves capture gold medal in singles at WDF Europe Cup (en).
20. ↑ World Masters Women 2022 (en).
21. ↑ Gill, Samuel (2022-12-11). Greaves completes WDF Major double, adds World Masters to World Championship as Plaisier becomes first Dutch winner in 16 years (en).
22. ↑ Dutch Open Women 2023 (en).
23. ↑ Gill, Samuel (2023-01-30). De Graaf stuns Greaves in Dutch Open Darts final: "What a great win, especially because it was against Beau" (en).