Beau Greaves has added another PDC landmark after becoming the first woman seeded for a Players Championship event, sharpening the focus on her Leicester return this week.
The 22-year-old’s latest marker came after Luke Humphries withdrew, moving Greaves into the seeded bracket for Players Championship 22. She lost in the opening round to Ritchie Edhouse, but the detail matters more than one result: Greaves is no longer simply being measured by women’s darts milestones, but by her position inside the mixed PDC ProTour order.
Why Greaves’ seeding matters
Greaves already changed the scale of the conversation in 2026 by becoming the first woman to win a PDC ranking title and by hitting a nine-darter on the ProTour. Her seeded status now underlines the week-to-week consequence of those runs, with Leicester’s next Players Championship events giving her another chance to turn ranking progress into a deeper floor-tournament push.
According to talkSPORT’s Beau Greaves report, she sits 53rd on the ProTour rankings and 78th on the PDC Order of Merit while holding a Tour Card in her first full season. That puts her in the World Championship and major-qualification conversation on sporting merit, not novelty value.
For the PDC, that is the significant part. Greaves’ next step is not proving she belongs in the field; it is making seeding count when the draw opens.
