Three-time reigning WDF women’s world champion Beau Greaves is to enter the PDC’s Q School in the new year with the hope of earning a two-year tour card.
The PDC Qualifying Schools provide any darts player aged 16 and above the opportunity to compete alongside the sport’s biggest stars on the professional circuit.
The 2025 PDC Q School will be held from January 6-12 in Milton Keynes and Kalkar, Germany, though Greaves heads straight into the final phase from January 9 due to finishing in the top eight of the Development Tour order of merit.
A statement from her management company, Opus Sports Management, said: “We are so excited to see what happens over those 4 days in Milton Keynes!
“Not only is there opportunity for a tour card, but even if that isn’t achieved, it opens the door for much more darting action in 2025.”
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Speaking on Love The Darts, Polly James and Glen Durrant discuss Beau Greaves’ comments saying that it would be ‘silly’ to think a female player could win the World Championship
Greaves, nicknamed ‘Beau ‘n’ Arrow’, recently called for a separate PDC women’s event to be introduced after claiming her third consecutive WDF women’s world title with a 4-1 win over Sophie McKinlay in the final.
The 20-year-old’s participation in the WDF event means she will be ineligible for this year’s PDC World Championship, despite it being open to both men and women.
Greaves, who plays in the PDC Women’s Series and the World Matchplay, has called on darts chiefs to introduce a separate ladies-only Worlds.
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Beau Greaves successfully retained her Women’s World Matchplay title earlier this year with a 6-3 victory over Fallon Sherrock
PDC Chief Executive Matt Porter responded to Greaves’ comments by saying the Worlds at Ally Pally is “open to all players”.
He said in a statement to Sky Sports: “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 present we do not plan to introduce a separate Women’s World Championship; the Paddy Power World Darts Championship is open to all players and is a reward for successful players on the PDC Women’s Series and the Women’s World Matchplay winner.”
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PDC chief executive officer Matt Porter says he gets Beau Greaves’ decision to play at this year’s WDF Lakeside instead of the PDC’s World Championships but hopes to see her at the Ally Pally in the near future
After wrapping up another WDF world title win, Doncaster thrower Greaves said: “I love WDF darts. It’s the only tour that gives you a World Championship for women.
“The PDC is great. But it doesn’t have a World Championship [for women]. It has a World Matchplay. That isn’t good enough.
“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.
“At the same time, we want more for it. The ruling about not being able to play both is stupid.
“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 ladies’ world championship, and you have to pick what is best for you.”
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