{"id":317151,"date":"2026-02-25T21:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:56:06","slug":"greaves-becomes-first-female-to-hit-nine-darter-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317151\/","title":{"rendered":"Greaves becomes first female to hit nine-darter on tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beau Greaves created history by becoming the first woman to hit a nine-dart finish on the PDC ProTour.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old hit perfection in her Players Championship 6 clash with Mensur Suljovic in Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>She hit consecutive 180s and then finished by taking out 141, pinning a double 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Doncaster thrower looked overwhelmed after the leg, with Suljovic offering her a handshake.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">BEAU LANDS THE NINE-DARTER 9\ufe0f\u20e3<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely sensational from Beau Greaves \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>Greaves becomes the first woman to hit a nine-darter on the PDC ProTour as she takes the perfect leg against Mensur Suljovic \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YyBPPwoMK8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/YyBPPwoMK8<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PC6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#PC6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BuASCcymRF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BuASCcymRF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPDC\/status\/2026678885404803180\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She managed to compose herself to claim a 6-5 victory in the last 32, winning a final-leg decider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d hit it! I just about hit the treble 19 and then I was quite confident that the double 12 was going in,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t stop smiling because I couldn&#8217;t wait to tell my dad, even though I knew he&#8217;d be watching it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve narrowly missed hitting one a few times to it was nice to finally hit one. It&#8217;s nice to be the first woman to hit one on the PDC ProTour, I&#8217;m glad it was on the stream as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was hard to get back into the game after I&#8217;d hit it, I was shaking afterwards. It was nerve-wracking but I managed to get the win in the end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m enjoying my start to life on the PDC ProTour, I&#8217;ve been struggling in patches with a bit of tension in my throw, but I am playing well and enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re playing the best players in the world so if you lose a game, it&#8217;s just a case of your opponent playing better than you on the day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greaves has been the flagbearer for the women&#8217;s game in recent years, seeming almost invincible on the women&#8217;s tour while also beating Luke Littler on her way to the World Youth Championship final.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">PRICE POWERS TO PC6 TITLE \u2744\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Gerwyn Price wins his first ranking title of 2026 \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>The Iceman eases past Andrew Gilding 8-1 to prove his worth as the number one seed on the Players Championship circuit and claim glory in Leicester \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PC6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#PC6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dQGQB6Oybi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dQGQB6Oybi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPDC\/status\/2026735645800997292\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gerwyn Price finished off a classy day in Leicester with a destructive 8-1 win over Andrew Gilding in the final.<\/p>\n<p>A host of big names \u2013 such as Luke Humphries, Michael van Gerwen and Littler \u2013 were absent from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Iceman averaged 98.68 and landed two ton-plus checkouts in a dominant performance to get his hands on his first Players Championship title of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Price knocked out Jonny Clayton and Kevin Doets on his way to the final.<\/p>\n<p>Fermanagh&#8217;s Brendan Dolan was best of the Irish contingent as he reached the last 16 before losing to Joe Cullen.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beau Greaves created history by becoming the first woman to hit a nine-dart finish on the PDC ProTour.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-317151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}