"Beau's got the ability to play like these men" - Fallon Sherrock says she feels less pressure to lead women's darts after emergence of Greaves

Beau Greaves left a big impression with her performances at the 2025 UK Open. The 21-year-old Englishwoman was allowed to participate in this major thanks to her strong performance on the PDC Development Tour in 2024 and took full advantage, defeating Stefan Bellmont, Rhys Griffin and Mickey Mansell in succession before eventually losing in a fourth round thriller 10-7 to Luke Humphries.

For a while, Greaves looked to be pulling off an upset against Humphries, taking a 7-5 lead. Afterwards, however, she lost five legs in a row and thus the match. Fellow star of the women's game, Fallon Sherrock was impressed with Greaves' performance. "We've been keeping an eye because we all know Beau's potential, we all just want her to go and succeed. It's so good for the women's game and I'm like 'come on Beau, keep going!'" said Sherrock to ITV.

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Asked if Greaves' emergence will take the pressure off herself? "100 per cent," Sherrock answered firmly. "I've been saying for ages I need someone like Beau to come through because Beau's got the ability to play like these men do. I just think it's nice to have the pressure off because everyone expected me to just go up and win every time, but it doesn't work like that."

Beau Greaves

"To have someone like Beau coming through now, she's doing it on the ladies' tour, development tour and challenge tour, and hopefully now she can do it here [at the UK Open]. Imagine if she won it here, how good would that be for the women's game," Sherrock added. "She just loves playing darts. She knows her ability and she comes here, she's not scared of anyone. Why would she be?"

Humphries also responded with praise after his match against Greaves. "I really enjoyed it, that's what I said to her afterwards. I really, really enjoyed it," Humphries said. "It was great fun, she was amazing. She played so great. I think she dropped off in the end, that's what she said. But the long format she's probably not used to playing. She's a fantastic player there and she really had to bring the best of me."

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