"I don’t want to be compared to Fallon": Greaves doesn't see Sherrock as a role model ahead of PDC World Darts Championship debut

Beau Greaves despite receiving a lot of acclaim for her achievements has always gone about her business relaxed, focused at the task at hand and wanting to tread her own path and that is no more the case for the PDC World Darts Championship.

Fallon Sherrock has long been lauded for her brilliant run at the Ally Pally two years ago but Greaves does not see the Queen of the Palace as a role model to follow and wants to blaze her own trail in the sport as she prepares to face William O'Connor in just over a weeks time.

“What Fallon did was brilliant, you can’t take that away from her,” she told PA. “She did brilliant darts and obviously the opportunities anyone would take.

“For me I have never looked up to her as a role model because I knew her before she did that. I don’t want to be compared to Fallon in stuff like that, what she did was amazing, but I want to do my own thing and just sort of keep to myself and keep enjoying it.

“I have never really had a role model. It is only me throwing the darts and we will see what happens. Sometimes I still forget that I am still a teenager, I am only 18 and I forget that when I am doing all this stuff.

“I am really grateful for it and the life I have had up until now has been amazing and I wouldn’t change it for the world. I am just going to keep doing what I am doing.”

Since winning the WDF World Championship at 18, Greaves has continued to play the circuit and only just entered the Women's Series with a few events to go but won eight in a row and that form has continued reaching the semi-finals of the World Masters this weekend not losing a leg.

“I never thought of it as a dream, I was more for just playing the ladies darts and I was content with that,” she said. “It sort of happened, I didn’t plan it or expect it. My mindset hasn’t changed at all, I am just so happy just to play anywhere, I enjoy playing.

“I am trying not to think about it too much, I don’t want to overthink it and end up dreading it. I am not one to normally look forward to that sort of stuff but I know I will have a lot of support. For me it was just a bonus and I am over the moon to get the chance.”  

But instead of hunting shocks, Greaves just wants to take in and enjoy her Ally Pally debut knowing full well that the crowd will likely be on her side.

“I know the crowd could be on my side, I am not too bothered about causing shocks, as long as I want to be up there and I enjoy being up there than that is just enough for me,” she said.

“I am still coming back this year, I have had such a good year and the Ally Pally was a bonus for me and in my mind that is just what it is. I feel like I shouldn’t be there almost. It doesn’t matter if I don’t win, I can say I have played there. I am just going to do my best and hopefully it works.

“But I know I can play well and I feel like no one has ever seen me play how I can really play. I feel like I have got gears and I can turn it on when I need to.”