BEAU SELECTOR

She may be an 80/1 shot on her Ally Pally debut but WDF women's champión Greaves isn't just along to make up numbers

- OneFinFOLEY

TEENAGE sensation Luke Littler has revolutionised not just the darts world but the sporting world as well.

How strange to hear his biggest World Championship fear is facing 21-year-old Beau Greaves at the coming World Championships.

World Nol Littler and 'Cool Hand' Luke Humphries may be the rivalry the actuaries and bookmakers are trying to measure with slide-rules and statistics.

But it’s the current men’s world champion against the WFD Women's World champion which is hogging the pre-tournament imagination.

Welcome to the world of professional darts - a perfect triangle showcasing precision skills that make you a millionaire in a year, showingcasing fascinating characters all through and a spectacle with giddier, happier audience participation than any other.

Sky Sports viewership for the recent Boylesports World Grand Prix final between Littler and Humphries came in at 3.71m, firmly establishing the sport in second place only to football.

The emergence of Greaves has been seismic for the sport.

And there are those who think that Lisa Ashton, Fallon Sherrock, Mikuru Suzuki have been the groundbreakers in, say, the way Nina Carberry, Katie Walsh opened up horse racing before Rachael Blackmore came through the gate to become the champion.