Teenage sensation overcame the yips to go on a remarkable winning streak ahead of her first PDC World Championship
Photograph: Chris Sargeant/ProSports/ShutterstockPhotograph: Chris Sargeant/ProSports/Shutterstockinter is swirling into Doncaster, blowing up the train tracks and down past Balby Bridge Social Club, five minutes from where teenage darts sensation Beau Greaves grew up with her five brothers and sisters. Inside it is warm, a Christmas tree in the corner, England flags strung across the ceiling, while Greaves uncomplainingly goes through a complex photoshoot upstairs.
“She’s already a star,” the darts commentator Rod Studd says. “In a way her sex is irrelevant. If she was Brian Greaves she’d still be incredible, it’s the standard she’s performing at. She’s won 66 consecutive darts matches, it’s absolutely extraordinary, the sort of numbers you’d associate with Phil Taylor at his best.“Numbers are a big thing in darts. If you’re averaging 50 plus in Test cricket you’re a good player, in darts the barometer is a three‑dart average of over 100.
By 12 she was representing England at youth darts, travelling all over Europe. “I felt dead lucky to do it at such a young age,” she says, and was drafted into the senior competition in 2021. Greaves kept her hand in during lockdown playing online darts, left school and had a good spell on the ladies tour before going to Doncaster College, who even sponsored her for a year. She pocketed her maths and English GCSEs and did a year’s painting and decorating course before throwing her lot in with darts.
But most of all she’s enjoying herself, travelling and playing, accompanied by her older sister Bobbi, who is also responsible for her hand tattoos.
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