Greaves began regularly playing in tournaments and league at age 10 and soon started competing in BDO youth competitions, becoming a two-time girls' World Masters champion before making her senior world championship debut in the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship's women's event at age 15. After a battle with dartitis, she won her first women's world title at the 2022 WDF World Darts Championship and would defend it at the next two editions. She made her PDC Women's Series debut during the 2022 season and has finished top of the Women's Series rankings every year since 2023, culminating the 2025 season by winning 86 matches in a row to capture the last 13 titles of the year. She won the 2023 Women's World Matchplay on debut and defended her title the following year. Alongside her three world titles, 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.
Outside of the women's game, she has participated in one PDC World Darts Championship, losing in the first round of the 2023 event, with her second appearance due to take place at the 2026 edition. She competed on both the PDC Challenge Tour and PDC Development Tour in 2025 and finished second on the 2025 Development Tour rankings, which ensured her qualification for the 2026 PDC World Championship and meant that she earned a PDC Tour Card, becoming the second female player to earn one on merit, after Lisa Ashton. She is also the first woman to reach the final of the PDC World Youth Championship, beating world champion Luke Littler in the semi-finals of the 2025 event.
Career
Early career
Greaves started playing regularly in tournaments and league games at age 10,[4] having been introduced to darts by her brother Taylor.[5] 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 whitewashingKatie 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.[6] 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.[7]
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.[9] She subsequently won four more consecutive finals to end the year with a record eight straight Women's Series titles.[10]
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.[11] In the final, she beat Almudena Fajardo 7–4 in legs.[12][13]
In early February, Greaves reclaimed the WDFDutch 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.[39] She beat Aileen de Graaf 5–1 in the final to win the Dutch Open for the second time in her career.[40] 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.[41]
In April, Greaves made her 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.[42][43] 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.[44][45]
On 21 July 2024, Greaves successfully defended her Women's World Matchplay title, defeating Fallon Sherrock 6–3 in the final.[46] 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."[47][48] Greaves was drawn in Group B alongside Danny Noppert, Martin Schindler, and Cameron Menzies.[49][50] Greaves lost her opening two matches: to Danny Noppert 5–3;[51] and to Martin Schindler 5–1 and was eliminated.[52] However she achieved a 5–1 victory against Menzies in her final group game.[53][54] 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.[55]
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".[56] 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.[57] She was top seed at the WDF Lakeside World Championship for the third year in a row,[58] and began her defence with whitewash victories in the last 16,[59][60] and quarter-finals. She achieved another whitewash in the semi-finals, defeating Deta Hedman, reaching her third consecutive Lakeside final.[61][62] 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.[63][64]
2025
At the beginning of 2025, Greaves entered PDC Qualifying School (Q-School) in hopes of earning a two-year PDC Tour Card, being automatically sent through to the final stage due to finishing in the top eight of the 2024 Development Tour Order of Merit ranking.[65][66] She reached the quarter-finals of the third day's tournament but a 6–5 loss to Carl Sneyd on the final day resulted in her finishing 17th on the final ranking table, which was outside of the Tour Card places.[67][68][69] In February, 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.[70] 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."[71]
Throughout the year, Greaves competed on all three of the PDC's secondary tours: the Women's Series, Challenge Tour, Development Tour. In late February, following title wins on each tour, she occupied the top spots on the Women's Series, Challenge Tour and Development Tour Orders of Merit concurrently, becoming the first player in PDC history to do so.[72] In total, she won two Challenge Tour titles,[73] three Development Tour titles,[74] and eighteen Women's Series titles. She captured the last 13 Women's Series titles in a row, winning a record-breaking 86 matches in succession.[75][76] In October, Greaves earned a two-year Tour Card through finishing second on the Development Tour[77] to become the fourth woman to hold a Tour Card—after Stacy Bromberg, Tricia Wright and Lisa Ashton—and the second woman to earn a Tour Card on merit, after Ashton obtained one at 2020 PDC Q-School.[74][78]
After competing in the final Development Tour events of the year, Greaves participated in the 2025 World Youth Championship, where she reached the final following a 6–5 victory over Luke Littler in the semi-finals, becoming the first woman to reach the final of the tournament. She will face Gian van Veen in the final on 23 November.[79][80] Days after her win against Littler, it was confirmed that Greaves would compete in the PDC World Darts Championship for the second time in her career in December.[77][81]
Personal life
Greaves is the youngest of six siblings.[82] Her older sister Bobbi regularly accompanies her to darts competitions.[5][82] Her older brother Taylor is also a darts player, most recently competing at 2025 PDC Q-School alongside Greaves.[83]
She was given her nickname, "Beau 'n' Arrow", by her father's friend from her local pub in Doncaster.[84]
↑ Greaves chose to play the WDF World Darts Championship[106][107] following a ruling by the PDC which did not allow players to compete in both World Championships in the same year.[108]
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