The Sports Guru
Beau Greaves won twice in one day on the Women's Series and is now a single title from a number no rival is anywhere near. This piece looks at how she got there, the one moment her form actually wobbled, and what her lead at the top of the rankings means for who joins her at next year's World Championship.
Beau Greaves sat out Saturday's Women's Series action and still finished the weekend two titles heavier than when she started it. On Sunday at the Mattioli Arena, the Doncaster player beat Lisa Ashton 5-3 to win Event 19, then returned within hours to beat Aileen de Graaf 5-0 in the Event 20 final, taking her tally on the circuit to 59 titles. A 60th is now the only number left to chase, and on this evidence there is little reason to think it will take long to arrive.
A morning that started shaky and ended ruthless
Greaves opened Event 19 the way she has opened most things this year: with whitewashes. She beat Jane Hawtin, Sue Lowther and Vicky Pruim in three consecutive matches without dropping a leg. The one genuine scare of her day followed almost immediately, against Gemma Hayter, when she fell 3-2 behind before recovering to book her place in the quarter-final stage.
From there the gap reopened quickly. She beat de Graaf 5-1 in the quarter-final with an average above 96, then saw off Kirsty Hutchinson 5-2 to reach the final. Waiting there was Lisa Ashton, in a repeat of their 2025 Women's World Matchplay semi-final. Greaves dropped the opening leg, then won three in a row to move two clear, before closing out the match with a 14-dart leg to win 5-3 and claim her 58th Women's Series title.
Event 20 arrives before the ink is dry
There was no gap to reset. Greaves opened her second campaign of the day exactly as she had opened her first, beating Leanne Halls and Felicia Bay 4-0 in successive matches. She followed that with 4-1 wins over Louise Pearson and Rhian O'Sullivan, then dispatched Angela Kirkwood 5-0 to reach the semi-finals. Across the entire event she dropped only three legs.
In the last four she beat Karolina Ratajska 5-1, opening the match with an 11-dart leg. De Graaf had also come through the other side of the draw, seeing off Fallon Sherrock 5-3 in the quarter-final and Jo Locke 5-1 in the semi-final to reach the final. But her form deserted her against Greaves, who won 5-0, averaging upwards of 91, to claim her 59th title of the campaign.
The Hayter scare says more about the field than about Greaves
Strip out the 3-2 deficit against Gemma Hayter and Sunday was two whitewash-heavy, largely one-sided title runs stitched together with barely a pause between them. That single passage of resistance is worth noting precisely because it stood alone. Hayter currently sits fourth in the Women's Series rankings, in the final qualification spot for the 2026/27 World Darts Championship, and pushing Greaves to a deciding stretch of legs is not nothing. But the fact that it is the only such moment across two full-day title runs says less about a crack in Greaves' game and more about how rarely one appears at all.
What a 60th title actually protects
Greaves remains top of the Women's Series rankings, with Ashton and Fallon Sherrock holding second and third. The top three players in the final rankings qualify for the 2026/27 Paddy Power World Darts Championship, and the top-ranked player also earns a place in the 2026 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts. None of that is in doubt for Greaves at this point in the season; what Sunday did was extend the margin by which she leads it. Fifty-eight titles became fifty-nine within a few hours, and the 60th is now simply the next number in a sequence nobody else on the circuit is running anywhere near as fast.
The wider Event 19 and 20 draws showed the depth beneath her, too. Jo Locke needed a deciding leg to edge past Lauren Bloomfield 5-4 in Event 19, while Ashton herself beat Angela Kirkwood 5-0 en route to that final. None of it changed the outcome at the top.
Why the number matters more than the run
Titles fifty-eight and fifty-nine will not be remembered individually in six months. What they do is compress the distance to a milestone that turns a very good season into a defining one. One more final win gets Greaves to 60 Women's Series titles, and on a weekend where she needed barely more than a day to add two to the count, the wait for a round number looks unlikely to stretch far into the autumn.
Frequently Asked Questions
Fifty-nine, after winning Events 19 and 20 at the Mattioli Arena on Sunday 23 August 2026.
She beat Lisa Ashton 5-3 in the Event 19 final and Aileen de Graaf 5-0 in the Event 20 final.
No. Her closest moment came against Gemma Hayter, when she trailed 3-2 before recovering to reach the quarter-final stage.
The top three players in the final rankings qualify for the 2026/27 Paddy Power World Darts Championship, and the top-ranked player also qualifies for the 2026 Mr Vegas Grand Slam of Darts.
Lisa Ashton is second and Fallon Sherrock is third, with Gemma Hayter fourth and in the final World Championship qualification spot.
Research: This article uses the archived evidence supplied for this story. Story inspiration: Sky Sports' original report.