Beau Greaves and Aileen de Graaf will compete against each other for the title at the Dutch Open Darts for the second consecutive year. De Graaf managed to surprise her English rival in the 2023 final, while Greaves will try to take the overall victory in Assen for the second time after her title in 2022.
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Greaves had to surrender only two legs in her seven matches until the final. She successively defeated Jacqueline Seitzinger (3-0), Rachelle Boshoven (3-0), Jaynie Bloem (3-0), Desiree Geel (4-0) and Lerena Rietbergen (4-0) without losing a single leg. After that, only Lorraine Hyde (4-1) and Noa-Lynn van Leuven (4-1) managed to take one leg away from the 20-year-old Englishwoman.
De Graaf started her tournament with 3-0 victories over Baukje Smid, Jewel Troost and Denise Leferink (3-0), before the Dutchwoman struggled to deal with Nathalie van Marm (4-3). Then Adriana van Wijgerden-Vermaat (4-1), Anca Zijlstra (4-1) and Natalie Gilbert (4-2) also had to bow to De Graaf.
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For the third consecutive year, Beau Greaves is through to the Dutch Open final.
To get there this year, she followed up a quarter-final victory over Lorraine Hyde by defeating Noa-Lynn van Leuven 4-1 in the semis.