"There's not enough superlatives to explain quite how good she is" - Laura Turner urges Beau Greaves to embrace Pro Tour call ups after Challenge Tour success

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Wednesday, 22 January 2025 at 23:16
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Beau Greaves made an incredible start to life on the Challenge Tour last weekend, winning two of the first five tournaments. For Laura Turner, a player herself and also active as an analyst for Sky Sports, those achievements came as no surprise.

"I was glued to Dart Connect, which just sounds like a really strange thing, because all you're doing is watching numbers populate the screen. But yeah, it was really good!" Turner says with a smile to Tungsten Tales. "It doesn't come as a surprise to me, in so much as just the abundance of talent that we've all said that she's got. But obviously, it's just having that belief and just doing it and not only just doing it once, but doing it twice on the opening weekend."

Greaves became the WDF world champion for the third year in a row late last year, once again proving her supreme dominance over the rest of the women's game. With these latest successes, Greaves is showing herself as one of the very best non-Tour Card holders, male or female. "It's not just picking up the titles that's amazing. It's that level of consistency she shows," Turner notes. "There's not enough superlatives I guess, to explain quite how good she is. But it's great to actually see her now on the Challenge Tour, taking up that challenge and running with it and getting the wins."

Beau Greaves won two the first five tournaments of the 2025 Challenge Tour
Beau Greaves won two the first five tournaments of the 2025 Challenge Tour

At Q-School 2025, the 21-year-old Englishwoman narrowly missed out on a PDC Tour Card. "She was unlucky perhaps, just had a couple of slow days to start with and then really pushed towards the tailend. But, the conciliation of Q-School is obviously, you get to play on the Challenge Tour and I'm so glad she took it up," says Turner.

As an added bonus of her fest start on the Challenge Tour, Greaves will also be the first name called upon when players drop out of Pro Tour events, giving the women's world champion a first taste of the Players Championship circuit and potential battles with the likes of Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen and the rest. "I'm just hoping now that this is that kind of catalyst, that spark that she needed, to perhaps push forward now and take on things like the Pro Tour," Turner concludes. "But it's got to be on her terms and I think as much as we want to see her do brilliant things, and I think she will do, it's when she's ready."

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