Beau Greaves

Beau Greaves (born 9 January 2004) is an English professional darts player who competes in both World Darts Federation (WDF) events, where she is currently ranked women's world number one, and in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where she has finished top of the Women's Series rankings in 2023 and 2024.

She is the reigning three-time WDF Women's World Champion, having won consecutive titles in 2022, 2023, and 2024. By doing so, she became only the second woman (alongside Trina Gulliver) to win the title on three successive occasions. She is also the reigning two-time back-to-back PDC Women's World Matchplay champion, having won the event in 2023 and 2024. Greaves has won five other WDF majors: the 2022 Australian Open, the Dutch Open in 2022 and 2024, and the World Masters in 2022 and 2024.

She has also won a record thirty-eight titles on the affiliated PDC Women's Series tour. She also competes in the PDC's secondary mixed-gender tours, winning two Challenge Tour titles in 2025.

In her youth career, Greaves has played on the PDC Development Tour, winning four titles. She also won the Girls' World Masters twice.

Career

Early career

Greaves started playing regularly in tournaments and league games at age 10, having been introduced to darts by her brother Taylor. She made her stage debut at the girls' 2014 Winmau 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 4–1 in legs. In the same year, she advanced reached her second girls' World Masters final at the 2016 Winmau World Masters but lost to Veronika Koroleva.

As well as winning numerous national girls' titles, Greaves became a regular contender in the women's tournaments, reaching the final of the Jersey Classic at the age of 13. In 2017, in her third girls' World Masters final, at the 2017 Winmau World Masters, she took the title after whitewashing Katie Sheldon.

Greaves successfully defended her title at the girls' 2018 Winmau World Masters by whitewashing Hayley Crowley in the final. In 2018, she won the girls' competition in the 2018 WDF Europe Cup Youth, defeating Emine Dursan in the singles competition.

2019–2021

In April, she hit a nine-dart finish at a tournament in her hometown of Doncaster. In May 2019, Greaves won both the women's events Welsh Open and the Welsh Classic. 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. She also became the youngest player 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, Greaves won the England Matchplay. At the 2019 WDF World Cup in Romania, she won the girls' singles, and the doubles partnering Shannon Reeves. She also won the Northern Cyprus Open. At the age of 15, Greaves qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship for the first time as the sixth seed, becoming the youngest female 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.

After winning the Scottish Open in February 2020, Greaves was ranked number one in the women's British Darts Organisation rankings at the age of 16.

In 2021, Greaves struggled with dartitis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, she won the Welsh Classic and both events on the Isle of Man in 2022. Greaves then took part in the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship at Lakeside. A 3–0 win semi-final win over Lorraine Winstanley made Greaves the youngest woman to be in a Women's World Championship final. The following day, she was crowned the youngest ever Women's World Champion, after a 4–0 win over Kirsty Hutchinson.

2022: PDC World Darts Championship 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 Darts 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.

2023

After winning seven of the twelve Women's Series events, Greaves was the number one seed in her debut PDC Women's World Matchplay. On 23 July, Greaves participated in the 2023 Women's World Matchplay, having missing the inaugural tournament the year before. Greaves whitewashed Noa-Lynn van Leuven, defeated Robyn Byrne 5–3, and beat Mikuru Suzuki 6–1 in the final.

Greaves qualified for the 2023 Grand Slam of Darts with her title victory at the Women's Matchplay. In November, she was drawn into Group H alongside Nathan Aspinall, Damon Heta, and Ricardo Pietreczko. Her debut match at the Grand Slam of Darts was against Aspinall, to whom she lost 5–4. In her next match, she defeated Ricardo Pietreczko 5–1. However, she lost to Damon Heta 5–4, having missed a match dart. This meant she finished third in her group and was eliminated.

Before the start of the 2023 WDF Women's World Championship, the World Darts Federation (WDF) announced that the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) had placed a ban on participation in the 2024 PDC World Championship for players who played in the 2023 WDF World Championships. In order to defend her instead defend her WDF Women's World title, Greaves declined her invite to the PDC World Championship. Greaves reached the final for a second consecutive year, with whitewash wins in the last 16, quarter-finals, and against Rhian O'Sullivan in the semi-finals. Greaves retained her title by defeating Aileen de Graaf 4–1 in sets.

2024

In early February, Greaves reclaimed the WDF Dutch Open trophy. She whitewashed all her opponents on her way to the quarter-finals, where she defeated Lorraine Hyde 4–1. Greaves defeated Noa-Lynn van Leuven 4–1 in the semi-finals to enter her third consecutive final. She beat Aileen de Graaf 5–1 in the final to win the Dutch Open for the second time in her career. A video during her quarter-final pair match went viral after Greaves hit ten perfect darts in a 701-leg match, including three consecutive maximums before hitting the double.

In April, Greaves made he
MODUS Super Series
debut in Group B. In a 4–1 win over Kevin Painter, she broke the record for highest televised average by a female player, averaging 114.56 and hitting six 180s along the way. She reached finals night unbeaten, and achieved 4–1 wins, in legs, against Sebastian Białecki, Marvin van Velzen and Adam Lipscombe. She defeated Białecki for the fourth time that week, 4–2 in the final to become the first woman to win a MODUS Super Series week and the first player to go unbeaten during a whole week.

On 21 July 2024, Greaves successfully defended her Women's World Matchplay title, defeating Fallon Sherrock 6–3 in the final. The victory qualified Greaves for the 2024 Grand Slam of Darts; however, she stated she was not looking forward to playing alongside the predominantly male field as she felt "most women don't have the consistency." Greaves was drawn in Group B alongside Danny Noppert, Martin Schindler, and Cameron Menzies. Greaves lost her opening two matches: to Danny Noppert 5–3; and to Martin Schindler 5–1 and was eliminated. However she achieved a 5–1 victory against Menzies in her final group game. Following her victory she later spoke about her will to compete with men more often in 2025 and beyond, as she felt the need to face new challenges.

After her match against Menzies, Greaves expressed her disapproval of the ruling preventing players from playing more than one organisation's World Championship in the same year calling it "stupid". Greaves decided to decline her invite to play in the 2025 PDC World Championship, for which she qualified for as the winner of the Women's Matchplay, to instead defend her back-to-back Lakeside titles. She was top seed at the WDF Lakeside World Championship for the third year in a row, and began her defence with whitewash victories in the last 16, and quarter-finals. She achieved another whitewash in the semi-finals, defeating Deta Hedman, reaching her third consecutive Lakeside final. Greaves successfully defended her back-to-back Lakeside titles, defeating debutant
Sophie McKinlay 4–1 in the final, becoming the second woman to win hat-trick of titles after Trina Gulliver.

2025

After finishing eighth on the 2024 Development Tour Order of Merit ranking, she accepted her invitation into the final stage of 2025 PDC Qualifying School (Q-School). On the third day she made the quarter-finals, before losing to Darryl Pilgrim 6–3. On the final day, she whitewashed Kevin McDine and Ted Evetts 6–0 before losing in a last-leg decider to Carl Sneyd, therefore did not secure a PDC Tour Card.

Greaves won her first Challenge Tour title by winning the opening event of the year. In the final she survived multiple match darts to overcome Stefan Bellmont 5–4. The following day, Greaves won her second Challenge Tour title, winning event three. By doing so, she became the first woman to win multiple Challenge Tours. Greaves whitewashed John Henderson 5–0 in the final.

Greaves made her UK Open debut at the 2025 event. After wins over Stefan Bellmont, Rhys Griffin and Mickey Mansell, she was drawn to play world number one Luke Humphries in the fourth round. She led the match 7–5 but conceded the next five legs to lose 10–7. Humphries praised her in his post-match interview, stating, "She belongs in this environment. She really did test me there and if we were in a Premier League game she would have beaten me."

Personal life

Greaves is the youngest of six siblings. Her older sister Bobbi regularly accompanies her to darts competitions. Her older brother Taylor is also a darts player, most recently competing at 2025 PDC Q-School alongside Greaves.

She was given her nickname, "Beau 'n' Arrow", by her father's friend from her local pub in Doncaster.

World Championship results

BDO/WDF

* 2020: Semi-finals (lost to Mikuru Suzuki 1–2)
* 2022: Winner (beat Kirsty Hutchinson 4–0)
* 2023: Winner (beat Aileen de Graaf 4–1)
* 2024: Winner (beat Sophie McKinlay 4–1)

PDC

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

Career finals

WDF major/platinum finals: 11 (10 titles)

PDC Women's televised finals: 2 (2 titles)

Performance timeline

PDC Players Championships

PDC Development Tour

PDC Challenge Tour

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Living people
English darts players
2004 births
Professional Darts Corporation women's players
WDF world darts champions