Three-time reigning WDF Women’s World Champion Bo Greaves is set to enroll in the PDC’s Q School in the new year in the hope of earning a two-year tour card.
PDC Qualifying Schools gives any darts player aged 16 and over the chance to compete alongside the sport’s biggest stars on the professional circuit.
The 2025 PDC Q School will be held from January 6-12 in Milton Keynes and Kalkar, Germany, although Greaves goes straight into the finals from January 9 by virtue of finishing in the top eight on the Development Tour’s order of merit.
His management company, Opus Sports Management, said in a statement: “We are so excited to see what happens over those 4 days in Milton Keynes.
“Not only is there a chance for a tourist card, but even if that doesn’t happen, it opens the door to much more aggressive action in 2025.”
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Speaking on Love The Darts, Polly James and Glenn Durant discuss Bo Greaves’ comments, saying it would be “silly” to think a female player could win the World Cup.
Greaves, nicknamed ‘Beau ‘n’ Arrow’, recently called for a separate PDC women’s event to be unveiled afterwards. winning her third consecutive WDF Women’s World Championship title, defeating Sophie McKinlay 4-1 in the final..
The 20-year-old’s participation in the WDF event means she cannot compete in this year’s PDC World Championship, although it is open to both men and women.
Greaves, who plays in the PDC Women’s Series and World Matchplay, has called on darts chiefs to introduce separate Worlds just for women.
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Bo Greaves successfully retained her World Women’s title earlier this year with a 6-3 victory over Fallon Sherock.
PDC chief executive Matt Porter responded to Greaves’ comments, saying the Worlds at Ally Pally were “open to all players”.
He said Sky Sports“We have invested over £700,000 in women’s darts over the past five years since the introduction of the PDC Women’s Series and Betfred World Matchplay and remain committed to giving all players opportunities to progress through the PDC system.
“Currently, we do not plan to invest in a separate women’s world championship. The Paddy Power World Darts Championship is open to all players and rewards successful players in the PDC Women’s Series and the winners of the Women’s World Matchplay.”
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PDC chief executive Matt Porter says he accepts Bo Greaves’ decision to play at this year’s WDF Lakeside instead of the PDC World Championships, but hopes to see him at Ally Pally in the near future.
After winning another WDF title, Doncaster archer Greaves said:
“PDC is great. But it doesn’t have a World Cup (for women). It’s not good enough.
“PDC needs to have a world championship to justify having a women’s tour. The women’s series is great and the money is good.
“At the same time we want more for it, the decision not to be able to play both is stupid.
“I can understand how they do it to the men, but to the women, I don’t understand that part of it, they don’t have a women’s World Cup.
“The WDF has a women’s world championship and you have to choose what’s best for you.”
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