Greaves becomes first woman to qualify for European Tour after averaging 103

Beau Greaves has made more darting history after becoming the first woman to qualify for the European Tour.

Greaves will compete at the Hungarian Darts Trophy in August after making it through the European Tour 11 qualifier.

Keane Barry, Ritchie Edhouse, Tom Sykes, Maik Kuivenhoven, Adam Leek, James Hurrell, Connor Scutt, Samuel Price, and Cristo Reyes are the other names to make it through.

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Greaves started out with a 6-4 victory over Andy Boulton in the top 160, and followed it with a 6-2 drubbing of Charlie Manby.

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The 22-year-old then made it into the top 20 by beating Arno Merk 6-4.

It was in the crunch match against Tom Bissell that Greaves hit new heights, averaging 103.03 for a 6-4 victory that confirmed her spot in Hungary.

It is, of course, not the first time that Greaves has made history.

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Back in April, she became the first woman to win a PDC ranking title with a historic 8-7 victory over Michael Smith in the Players Championship 11 final.

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She also produced a stunning win over world No 1 Luke Littler at the PDC World Youth Championships last October and was already a winner of 50 plus titles on the PDC Women's Series.

Not only that, she became the first woman to hit a nine-darter on the tour back in February.

Before Greaves, Lisa Ashton was the first woman to win a tour card at Q-School (2020-21). Fallon Sherrock was the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Darts Championship (2019). And going further back to 2009, Anastasia Dobromyslova, who was the first woman to beat a male professional on TV in the Grand Slam of Darts.

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