Beau Greaves continued her domination of the ladies’s sport with back-to-back PDC Ladies’s Collection titles in Wigan on Saturday.
The reigning two-time Ladies’s World Matchplay champion gained 12 consecutive matches on the Robin Park Tennis Centre, extending her lead on the high of the Ladies’s Collection Order of Advantage within the course of.
Dutch duo Laura van den Berg and Desiree Geel had been swept apart by Greaves within the early levels of Occasion 17, and the Doncaster darter additionally dispatched Eve Watson to ebook her place within the quarter-finals.
Greaves then averted a late fightback from Kirsi Viinikainen to win via a deciding-leg conflict within the final eight, earlier than powering previous Aileen de Graaf 5-1 within the semi-finals.
This arrange a repeat of the Ladies’s World Matchplay last between Greaves and Fallon Sherrock, who denied Mikuru Suzuki and Noa-Lynn van Leuven in last-leg tussles to pocket the £1,000 runner-up prize.
Sherrock recovered from a sluggish begin to degree at two apiece towards her previous adversary, however Greaves took management within the latter levels, profitable the final three legs with out reply to triumph.
The 20-year-old maintained her profitable run with a whitewash win towards Brieg Ramsey within the opening spherical of Occasion 18, earlier than averaging 101.90 in a four-leg blitz of Aoife McCormack.
Beau Greaves has now gained a record-extending 27 Ladies’s Collection titles
Greaves backed this up by averaging 97 in a 4-2 win over Trina Gulliver, and after whitewashing Rhian O’Sullivan within the quarter-finals, she overcame Denise Cassidy within the final 4.
She accomplished the double with a comeback win over Van Leuven in a hard-fought Occasion 18 last, recovering from 4-2 right down to clinch a record-extending twenty seventh Ladies’s Collection title.
Van Leuven – a winner of three Ladies’s Collection titles in 2024 – averaged 93 in her final 16 win over Angela Kirkwood, earlier than whitewashing Sherrock within the quarter-finals to cement second spot on the Ladies’s Collection Order of Advantage.
The highest two ranked gamers from the ultimate PDC Ladies’s Collection Order of Advantage – apart from Greaves – will qualify for the 2024/25 Paddy Energy World Darts Championship.
The highest-ranked participant may even be assured of a spot in November’s Grand Slam of Darts alongside Greaves, with Van Leuven at the moment £2,200 above Sherrock with six occasions remaining.
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