Beau Greaves is guaranteed a call-up to Premier League Darts if she performs well at next month's World Championship. The women's world No.1 has enjoyed a sensational 2025 - she is unbeaten in her last 86 matches on the PDC Women's Series and has won 18 titles. She will face defending champion Gian van Veen in this year's final after beating Luke Littler 6-5 in the semi-finals.

Greaves is the first woman ever to reach the World Youth Championship final and would be the first ever invited to the eight-player Premier League. And Dutch icon Van Barneveld is confident Greaves will be asked to get involved. The five-time world champion said: "First of all, I'm so proud of her, you know, what she is doing. She's beaten me 6-4. She beat Luke Littler in the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship.

"That says it all, in the last leg, an 11-dart finish! How great is that? And trust me, she's going to cause trouble next year on the ProTour. No one can say to me, 'Ray, do you feel ashamed because you lost to a woman?'

"Well, try your luck, pal. Try to beat her. Show me! She beat an opponent 6-0 with a 106 average just before she played me. So, you can say, 'yeah, a woman', but she's quality. And she does her country proud, and her family, and herself. If she does well in the World Championship, I can guarantee you she'll get a Premier League ticket."

Doncaster thrower Greaves has won 13 successive events on the PDC Women's Series having not lost since April. She has won a Tour Card for 2026/27 after finishing second in the Development Tour rankings.

The 21-year-old has beaten defending world champion Littler twice, sealing a second win last Sunday at a MODUS exhibition night, and ran world No.1 Luke Humphries close at the UK Open, eventually losing 10-7 after building a 7-5 lead.

Greaves will take on Van Barneveld's countryman Michael van Gerwen, himself a three-time champion at Ally Pally, at the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton. She is Group G which also includes Gary Anderson and Niko Springer.

Van Barneveld added: "In the past people would say, 'yeah, she's doesn't have a Tour Card so she's not a PDC member' but she has that now and she's making so much progress. I think it will be fantastic to see a woman with her ability playing in the Premier League. I can't see why not!

"We saw Stephen Bunting having problems to win a game in the Premier League competing against the best players for eight weeks, then he won a night and then he won on the Euro Tour and now he's back. But she has the ability to compete with the best player in the world. That's because she's so good.

"She's got a really smooth throw. What I like about her is that she was 5-5 against the best player in the world Luke Littler and she landed an 11-darter, finishing on 84 in two darts to reach the World Youth Championship final - that is quality."