Beau Greaves has won on the PDC Challenge Tour for the first time in her career.
In the first event of the year on the second-tier series in Milton Keynes featuring non-PDC Tour card holders who attended 2025 qualifying schools, Greaves impressively won the last three legs of the final against Switzerland’s Stefan Bellmont to triumph 5-4.
Noa-Lynn van Leuven was the first woman to win a darts Challenge Tour event last March.
Greaves had earlier beaten Michael Unterbuchner 5-3 in the semi-final and Henry Coates, 5-1, in the quarter-final – finishing with an average of at least 90 in all nine of her matches through the event.
Former Premier League players Simon Whitlock and Mervyn King were knocked out in the quarter-finals, while Fallon Sherrock dropped out early at the last-128 stage.
Challenge Tour 2 follows later on Friday at the same Arena MK venue.
The Challenge Tour calendar features 24 events in 2025 with the top two players in the end-of-year Order of Merit securing 2026-27 PDC Tour cards and places in the World Darts Championship.
Placings on the Order of Merit are also used to select reserve players for Players Championship events when players on the ProTour drop out of tournaments.
Greaves, Sherrock, Whitlock and King were among the well-known names who missed out on Tour Cards at Q-School in Milton Keynes last weekend.
Greaves, 21, has won the last three WDF women’s world championships and is also the reigning back-to-back PDC Women’s Matchplay champion. Her 2024 season also saw her become the first woman to win on the PDC’s Development Tour.
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