Beau Greaves won’t take her place at this yr’s World Darts Championship however hopes to return to Alexandra Palace sooner or later.
Greaves defeated Fallon Sherlock 6-3 on Sunday to retain her Ladies’s Match Play title and earn a spot within the end-of-season exhibition.
However the 20-year-old stated she’s going to miss out on competitors once more – having denied herself eligibility final season – and as an alternative give attention to profitable a 3rd successive WDF Ladies’s World Championship.
Greaves instructed Sky Sports activities Information: “I’ve gained back-to-back Ladies’s World Championships now and I do not wish to miss the chance to defend my title, so that is what it is all about.
“Hopefully I can return to Ally Pally within the subsequent few years however for now I wish to give attention to girls’s darts”
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Greaves stated she was nervous forward of the Match Play remaining however stated she was wanting ahead to celebrating
sky sports activities information It’s understood Greaves has not formally notified the PDC that she won’t be taking up her place, and should accomplish that by November 24.
Greaves, who misplaced to William O’Connor within the first spherical on her World Championship debut in 2022, stated she stays centered on girls’s darts for now as taking part in in opposition to males “on a regular basis” stays a problem.
“It is not that we will not beat them, it is simply that we do it on a regular basis. It is not straightforward to go on stage and need to play very well to beat anyone, and it feels a bit troublesome for me,” she stated.
“Generally, some girls, myself included, do play nicely. However that is not all the time the case. Guys simply have that consistency in that second than we do. However you by no means know.
Beau Greaves tells Sky Sports activities she’s going to as soon as once more miss the World Darts Championship to defend her girls’s world title
“That is how I give it some thought now and I most likely will not give it some thought in just a few years. However proper now I might somewhat play girls’s darts than attempt to overdo it in opposition to the boys.”
Responding to Greaves’ feedback, PDC chief government Matt Porter stated: “We’ve got invested over £1 million in our girls’s darts program in recent times and are dedicated to persevering with to take action.
“We’ve got all the time been clear that we see the potential for women and men to compete on a degree taking part in discipline within the sport as an asset, not a hindrance, and all of our occasions have all the time been open to each female and male athletes.
“The progress so many feminine gamers have made in recent times exhibits the wealthy expertise pool on the market and within the coming years we hope to see much more feminine gamers competing alongside their male counterparts at our greatest occasions.”
