Greaves insists she has done “nowhere near” enough for World Series call-up

BEAU GREAVES insists she has done “nowhere near” enough to earn a World Series call-up despite her record-breaking season.

The world No76 has been tipped for a potential invitation after rewriting the history books on the PDC circuit this year.

Greaves, 22, became the first woman to win a PDC ProTour title when she beat Michael Smith 8-7 in the Players Championship 11 final.

Beau ‘n’ Arrow then made more history at the Czech Darts Open by becoming the first woman to win a match on the European Tour after defeating Daryl Gurney 6-4 in Prague last week.

But the Doncaster star admits she was stunned when the prospect of competing on the global stage was first raised.

She told the Weekly Dartscast: “A couple of people mentioned it to me, but nothing, I was like, oh, no way, I haven't done nowhere near enough.

“There's obviously the other players, and I think it's a really strange one, because if it got offered to me, I would 100% take it.

“But I would also be thinking, I have not earned this as much as other people, and I've always thought I would love to earn my place in stuff, rather than win one or two comps or whatever, or do really well here and get put in stuff.

“But that doesn't mean I wouldn't take the opportunity, you have to take everything, don't you?

“But yeah, when people said to me, I was like, oh, no way, I've only won one ProTour or so. But I do understand the gist of things, obviously, it's, yeah, I don't know.

“I try not to think about it because I don't want to ever get my hopes up for anything.

“And I just think if I won more, then maybe I might have had a better chance. But they weren't even on my radar at all.

“I mean, I was just thinking about, obviously, the Euro Tours coming up and qualifying for more of them. And yeah, just kind of playing the ProTours and stuff like that.”

Greaves would not be the first woman to be handed a World Series opportunity.

Fallon Sherrock was invited onto the circuit after becoming the first woman to win a match at the 2020 World Championship.

The Queen of the Palace reached the third round before losing 4-2 to Chris Dobey.

Words: Aaron Nijjar

Image: Taylor Lanning