Beau Greaves keeps Lakeside hat-trick dreams alive, eases past Deta Hedman as Sophie McKinlay final awaits

The women's final is set at the 2024 WDF Lakeside World Championship as Beau Greaves will face Sophie McKinlay on Sunday evening as she goes for a third straight World title.

Greaves saw off Deta Hedman with relative ease but admitted pre-match and all tournament that she is not happy with her game and has an issue that she can't quite put her finger on and put right.

But as Lorraine Winstanley and Helen Chamberlain put it on BLAZE!, you'd love to be playing as she is while she hasa. problem with her game as she continues as the far and away top player in the draw.

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Facing an icon of the sport as well as a close friend is never easy, they have played pairs throughout Greaves' career and Hedman has been a mentor to the Doncaster ace. But it was a seventh semi-final and an exit for Hedman.

Hedman missed chances in the opening leg to hold and Greaves hit 105 to set up 36 which she pinned for 1-0. Hedman hit back though breaking throw with Greaves encountering double trouble herself. But a 148 set her well on her way to the opening set. She hit two 180's in the next leg but had trouble closing it out only to hit 13 eventually.

A 13-darter followed as Greaves hit a 180, 121 and pinned double 10 for a hold. She broke to win the set with a 14-darter going 180, 121, 81 and did so to start the third set with a 17-darter.

Hedman was handed chances and broke back immediately with Greaves struggles on the doubles amid her epic scoring a problem. But she went one away and was throwing for the match.

Greaves was first to a finish on 120 and with Hedman waiting on 93, she pinned it superbly to seal the win alleviating previous double woes to claim the win.

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