Women’s darts champ Beau Greaves admits she’s not looking forward to facing Luke Littler and Co in £150,000 Grand Slam

BEAU GREAVES revealed she is not looking guardant to competing with Luke Littler and co. astatine the Grand Slam of Darts.

The youngster qualified for the tourney by winning the Women's World Matchplay successful the summer.

Greaves is present the highest-ranked pistillate darts subordinate but she is not looking guardant to brushing shoulders with the likes of Littler and Luke Humphries connected TV.

There is simply a £150,000 jackpot up for grabs but Greaves feels she is not accordant capable to triumph it.

She said: "People cognize I'm not keen connected playing the lads connected telly but it's a bully accidental for me.

"I had a decent twelvemonth determination past twelvemonth truthful hopefully I tin get comfy connected the stage. It's hard for maine to play but I look guardant to it. I'll signifier good for it and spot however it goes.

"I conscionable don't consciousness arsenic if I tin triumph it. People accidental I'm stubborn, radical accidental immoderate they want, but I cognize however bully I tin beryllium and what I'm similar astir of the time. It's astir that consistency and astir of the ladies don't person the consistency to vie with the men.

"I'm there, I've qualified for it truthful I'll play it. It's not thing I look guardant to and it's not thing I needfully privation to play successful but the accidental is there. I'll springiness it my champion crack.

"I'll ever effort my champion and springiness it 100 per cent connected signifier but possibly I should larn from that by being much affirmative astir playing successful it, but it's conscionable not what I similar playing in."

Greaves, 20, is adjacent sitting retired of the World Darts Championship successful December arsenic she wants to support her WDF Women's World Championship, which she has won for the erstwhile 2 years.

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She added: "I person won the ladies' World Championship backmost to backmost present and I don't privation to miss retired connected the accidental of retaining that title, truthful that is each it comes down to.

"Hopefully, I tin spell backmost to Ally Pally successful years to come, but close present I privation to absorption connected ladies' darts."

One subordinate who volition diagnostic astatine Ally Pally is Noa-Lynn van Leuven, who volition go the archetypal transgender darts prima to play successful the World Darts Championship.

Van Leuven precocious hit retired astatine her peers connected the women's tour, claiming immoderate clasp blimpish views.

She said: "They secretly archer maine that they don't recognize the commotion.

"But determination are a batch of conservative, toxic b****** connected the women's tour.

"They spot maine arsenic a threat."