Beau Greaves: Five facts about 18-year-old darts sensation

Beau Greaves, 18, is the youngest pistillate to vie astatine a PDC World Championships.

Beau Greaves is the teenage sensation astir to marque past astatine the PDC World Championships.

Want to cognize much astir darts' astir breathtaking young player? Here are a fewer facts astir Greaves.

1. A winning streak to scare the best

Greaves comes into this tourney successful terrific form. The Guardian reports that she has won 66 consecutive matches and 8 tourney titles successful a enactment connected the PDC Women's Series. Not bad.

In airy of Greaves' performances this year, respective of the apical antheral players astatine the World Championship, including defending champion Peter Wright, person said they bash not privation to look her.

"Sometimes I hide that I americium inactive a teenager," Greaves said. "I americium lone 18 and I hide that erstwhile I americium doing each this stuff.

"I ne'er thought of it arsenic a dream. I was much for conscionable playing the ladies darts and I was contented with that. It benignant of happened, I didn't program it oregon expect it."

2. She's already beaten Sherrock

Fallon Sherrock became a trailblazer for women successful darts erstwhile she got to the 3rd circular of the 2020 World Championship.

However, Greaves beat her astatine a tourney successful Wigan earlier this twelvemonth to assertion a spot astatine Alexandra Palace.

"I don't privation to beryllium compared to Fallon," says Greaves. "What she did was amazing, but I privation to bash my ain happening and conscionable benignant of support to myself and support enjoying it."

3. Youngest idiosyncratic to triumph a World Championship

In April, aged 18, Greaves beat Kirsty Hutchinson 4-0 to triumph the WDF World Championship.

The erstwhile youngest victor of a World Championship was 21. By winning the tournament, she acceptable the grounds for some antheral and pistillate competitors.

4. Her nickname is incredible

'Beau 'n' Arrow' benignant of writes itself. In fact, it's 1 of the champion cases of nominative determinism we've travel crossed for a while.

She said that the sanction was suggested by 1 of her dad's mates successful Doncaster and ended up sticking.

5. She inactive lives with her parents

Not excessively surprisingly, contempt each her accolades, Greaves is inactive a mean teen successful astir respects.

"Sometimes you are connected a due precocious and you travel backmost and mum is having a spell astir something," she said. "It is specified a opposition erstwhile you travel backmost from a darting weekend, I person ne'er been treated immoderate otherwise and I wouldn't privation that anyway."

Greaves has already acceptable the darts satellite alight. And she is assured that she tin spell adjacent further.

"I consciousness similar nary 1 has ever seen maine play however I tin truly play," she said. "I consciousness similar I person got gears and I tin crook it connected erstwhile I request to."