Beau Greaves keeps Lakeside hat-trick dreams alive, eases past Deta Hedman as Sophie McKinlay final awaits
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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.
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.
𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲!
— WDF Darts (@DartsWDF) December 7, 2024
Beau Greaves eases past former mentor Deta Hedman in straight sets to book a title decider against Sophie McKinlay tomorrow.
With a combined age of just 38, it will be the youngest senior World Championship final of all time!… pic.twitter.com/hKWc8hDtLn
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- No, I wasn't expecting Heta to be in it either having won nothing of any significance. Although he is charismatic and has personality unlike the boring and dull as dishwater Dobey. It is quite pathetic and desperate the way Bunting and Arsepinall pander to the crowd to dance to their walk on music, that has worked though. I would like to see more players involved on a weekly basis similar to the Modus Super Series. A knockout tournament with 16 winners from each week. The Premier league is too boring with the same players. Plus it would eliminate all the whining and booing from unselected players.richieburnettrocks07-01-2025
- Why is World Champion Richie Burnett not highlighted in bold font nor 2 time World Champion Scotty 2 Hotty. COME ON RICHIE BURNETT AND SCOTTY 2 HOTTY Although where the hell has 2 HOTTY been the past year!richieburnettrocks07-01-2025
- It's not tennis, snooker or golf, nobody mentioned Fallon,great as she is. Beau beats her week in,week out. But she isn't interested. If you want to include crowd pleasers,get Les Wallace back!!! He was a world champion,and wore a kilt!!!rick6707-01-2025
- I'm glad wright and van Ben bergh were overlooked. Too much dancing,not enough darting. Bunting is always quality,as for price,he's a crowd pleaser(!!?) too. Aspinall has had his problems,but it's nice to see him back,he's a decent chap. Dobey is a top player,big hitter,so I won't complain. Cross will finish bottom,much as I like him,he seems to be off lately. I'm glad they didn't pick a Belgian just for the audience. But I don't agree with the tournament or format,so I guess it's immaterial to me. They might as well turn up at a random pub and play for the beers!!!rick6707-01-2025
- I think the PDC's choice is too conservative. EIther or both of Damon Heta and Mike de Dekker should have been in, at the expense of Aspinall and possibly Price. I guess the PDC's reasoning is that they do not want too much turnover from year to year, and so having already rejected Smith and Wright, they have kept Price and Aspinall, but I guess those two are "on probation".
UndartedWaters06-01-2025 - Two from the three of Price, Aspinall and Dobey should have been excluded, De Decker and Edhouse should have been in. I would have offered a place to Beau Greaves though i doubt she would have accepted it and probably not really ready for it confidence wise.Mysstree06-01-2025
- Tennis has a protected ranking system for injuries and Golf has a system that as a Major winner you get invited back of a number of years regardless of your ranking. Barry Hearn gave Stephen Hendry a wildcard for some tournaments though he still had to enter at the qualification stage. Doubt the PDC would give Burnett an exemption as he has never won a PDC Major, same would apply to Steve Beaton. It’s a slippery slope to abandoning a meritocratic system, if the PDC did do so they could then (for example) award a place to Fallon Sherrock even though she has yet to qualify at any level for a tour card.Mysstree06-01-2025
- I'd have said the same about Ady Lewis,but the PDC is indeed a law unto itself,so sorry bud,get your leg kicking and do it for the good lads!!rick6705-01-2025
- COME ON RICHIE BURNETT Surely a World Champion and player with the calibra of Richie should be exempt from ever losing a tour card and having to qualify.richieburnettrocks04-01-2025
- That's true, Richie. Taylor used to call it, "Manley's millions."MrYnyslas197103-01-2025