I believe Beau Greaves will win a PDC Major in 2026. This weekend at the UK open I believe she could come to the forefront of the sport.
A prediction grounded in a season of statistical dominance that has left the rest of the women’s circuit trailing by a historic margin.
Greaves, 22, has turned the PDC Women’s Series into something close to a personal exhibition. By June 2025, she had amassed £21,600 in prize money, more than double the £9,500 earned by second-placed Fallon Sherrock. That £12,100 gap between first and second is unusually large for a professional darts circuit and reflects a player who was reaching the final stages of almost every event she entered.
The winning streaks show the disparity. Greaves holds seven of the top eight longest winning runs in PDC Women’s Series history, including the all-time record of 70 consecutive match wins. Her second-longest streak stands at 41. During the 2025 season alone, she won four consecutive tournaments and built a 32-match unbeaten run.
Winning streaks in context
For comparison, Sherrock’s longest streak is 29 matches. Lisa Ashton, a four-time women’s world champion, tops out at 17. The full leaderboard reads:
- 70 matches, Beau Greaves (all-time record)
- 41 matches, Beau Greaves
- 32 matches, Beau Greaves (active as of June 2025)
- 29 matches, Fallon Sherrock
- 21 matches, Beau Greaves
- 20 matches, Beau Greaves
I believe she is a player who can maintain that level of consistency over dozens of matches and possesses the mental endurance and technical floor needed to survive the multi-round grind of a PDC Major.
I believe at 125/1 with most bookmakers this weekend for the 2026 UK Open, she is a great each way value bet. Greaves’ winning streaks suggest she has the mental capability to perform, it’s just can she compete with the best in the men’s game?
The routes in
The UK Open, with its open draw, offers opportunity where consistency can carry a player deep into the tournament. Beau is certainly consistent. Greaves has several paths into PDC Major competition. Her top ranking in the Women’s Series earns qualification for the Grand Slam of Darts, whose group-stage format suits a high-volume winner. It also provides a direct route to the World Championship at Alexandra Palace.
Sherrock proved the concept in 2020 when she beat Ted Evetts and Mensur Suljović at the World Championship, becoming the first woman to win matches at that event. But where Sherrock’s crossover success came in isolated moments, the case for Greaves is built on sustained volume. She has not just beaten the women’s field, she has lapped it.
A player who has outgrown her circuit
The 2025 Women’s Series standings underline the point. Behind Greaves and Sherrock, Ashton sits third on £8,100, followed by Noa-Lynn van Leuven on £6,400 and Gemma Hayter on £5,500. Every player outside the top spot earned less than half of Greaves’ total. In professional darts, where prize money tracks directly with match wins and tournament progression, that gap suggests she has, in practical terms, solved the circuit she competes on.
Greaves demonstrated versatility in her 2025 campaign, defeating players from across Europe and North America, from Finnish contender Kirsi Viinikainen to Belgian rival Noa-Lynn van Leuven to established English veterans like Ashton. The diversity of opponents she dispatched suggests her game adapts well to different styles of play.
Shaw’s prediction is grounded. Most professionals never string together 32 consecutive wins at any level. Greaves has done it repeatedly, and her 70-match record stands as an outlier in the sport regardless of gender. Whether the breakthrough comes at the Grand Slam, the Worlds or the UK Open, the question is when.
