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The launch of a new PDC Women’s Series season arrived carrying the promise of renewal, disruption, and a freshly shuffled hierarchy, but within hours that optimism had been quietly dismantled. Any notion of a competitive reset dissolved as the opening weekend unfolded, the tungsten dust settling into a familiar configuration as the campaign immediately began orbiting once more around the inescapable gravitational certainty of Beau Greaves in Hildesheim.
Germany provided the stage, a fresh campaign provided the narrative promise, yet the outcome felt eerily familiar. Greaves, the Doncaster prodigy collected another title with the casual inevitability of habit. Fourteen consecutive Women’s Series victories now sit beside her name, this latest triumph sealed against none other than reigning Matchplay champion Lisa Ashton.
You must go back to April last year to find the last time Beau didn’t go all the way. That came in Rosmalen, Netherlands, and can be explained simply by the fact that she wasn’t there. Context only sharpens the absurdity of it all. In a couple of days, Greaves is due to embark on her PDC ProTour debut as the circuit’s sole female Tour Card holder, a moment of historic significance that might reasonably unsettle even the most seasoned professional. Instead, any suggestion of distraction was annihilated almost immediately. The youngster tore through a field brimming with pedigree, experience, and ambition, dismantling opposition with the air of someone completing an administrative task.
It took until the latter stages of the event for pressure to even flirt with her orbit. Two legs dropped before the quarter-finals, including a fleeting concession against Finland’s Kirsi Viinikainen, proved nothing more than statistical decoration. Fallon Sherrock briefly threatened to complicate matters, extracting a pair of legs in the quarters, but was ultimately repelled 5–2 with minimal fuss.
When the 22-year old obliterated Robyn Byrne in the semi-finals without surrendering a single leg, the sense of foreboding became unmistakable. Ashton stood as the final barrier once again. The Lancastrian produced a commendable performance, posting a 90-plus average, yet even that level of competence merely delayed the inevitable.
A 5–2 scoreline confirmed Greaves’ supremacy in a distinctly one-sided Battle of the Roses.If the first event felt definitive, the second bordered on theatrical repetition. The three times Lakeside World Champion returned from the break to an almost audible collective groan, and then proceeded to re-enact the script with even greater authority.
Another march to the final. Another collision with Ashton. This time, however, Lancashire registered nothing at all, brushed aside in a whitewash that stripped the contest of suspense entirely.
There were flickers elsewhere. Jade Gofford briefly disrupted the rhythm by claiming three legs, while Gemma Hayter offered spirited resistance in the latter stages. A nod, too, for Darts World very own Natalie Gilbert, who produced a commendable semi-final run before succumbing to Ashton.
But ultimately, Saturday afternoon belonged to one figure alone. Beau Greaves continues to distort the competitive landscape, rewriting expectation with relentless efficiency. She is rewiring the women’s game at a pace comparable to Luke Littler on the men’s side – a comparison that is neither casual nor hyperbolic.Records are not merely falling. They are being rendered obsolete.
PDC WOMENS SERIES – EVENT ONE (Sat 7th Feb)
Quarter-FinalsBeau Greaves 5–2 Fallon Sherrock
Robyn Byrne 5–4 Vicky Pruim
Steph Clarke 5–2 Silvia Lindner
Lisa Ashton 5–1 Aoife McCormack
Semi-Finals
Beau Greaves 5–0 Robyn Byrne
Lisa Ashton 5–1 Steph Clarke
Final
Beau Greaves 5–2 Lisa Ashton
PDC WOMENS SERIES – EVENT TWO (Sat 7th Feb)
Quarter-Finals
Beau Greaves 5–3 Jade Gofford
Gemma Hayter 5–2 Trina Gulliver
Natalie Gilbert 5–3 Steph ClarkeLisa Ashton 5–3 Angela Kirkwood
Semi-Finals
Beau Greaves 5–2 Gemma Hayter
Lisa Ashton 5–2 Natalie Gilbert
Final
Beau Greaves 5–0 Lisa Ashton
—–Ends—–
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