Ryan Joyce

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Ryan Joyce
Ryan Joyce Darts Actueel 2022.jpg
Joyce in 2022
Personal information
Nickname"Relentless"
Born (1985-09-20) 20 September 1985 (age 38) [1]
Newcastle, England
Home townNewcastle, England
Darts information
Playing darts since2007
Darts21g Mission Darts Signature
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music"Tetris" by Doctor Spin
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 2013–2018
PDC 2018–
(Tour Card: 2018-)
Current world ranking 37 Steady2.svg (12 June 2024) [2]
WDF major events – best performances
World Ch'ship Last 32: 2017
World Masters Last 48: 2014
World Trophy Last 32: 2016
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship Quarter Final: 2019
World Matchplay Last 32: 2020
World Grand Prix Last 16: 2020
UK Open Last 64: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Grand Slam Last 16: 2021
PC Finals Semi Final: 2023
World Series Finals Quarter Final: 2022
Other tournament wins
BDO Gold Cup 2017

Players Championships

Players Championship (BAR) 2023
Players Championship (MK) 2020

Ryan Joyce (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Contents

Career

BDO

In 2014 he reached the Last 48 of the World Masters. He took part in the 2016 BDO World Trophy, he was knocked out in the first round losing to Jamie Hughes. He qualified for the 2017 BDO World Darts Championship, where he won 3–0 against Dennis Nilsson in the Preliminary round. In the First Round, he lost to Martin Adams 2–3 in a sudden death leg, after throwing for the match twice and missing one dart at double 18 to win followed by Adams hitting a 115 checkout to stay in the match, before Joyce himself survived a dart at 5-4 down before hitting a 164 checkout to take the game to the deciding leg.

Outside of the major tournaments he has reached 3 BDO ranked event finals, the first was the 2013 Turkish Open where he lost 5–0 to Martin Phillips, then the Isle of Man Open in 2016, losing 6–4 to Tony O'Shea also the Denmark Masters in 2016 losing 6–4 to Glen Durrant. He has had more success in pairs competitions winning the Turkish open pairs 2013, Welsh open pairs 2015 and losing in the final of the British open pairs 2016 all while partnering Andy Chalmers. He won the Scottish open pairs 2017 title with Kevin McDine. His most recent success came in the BDO Gold cup singles tournament 2017 which he won beating Wayne Warren 6–3 in the final.

In October 2017 Joyce along with Kevin McDine, Andy Lynn, Alan Davie, David Gradwell, Shaun Pomeroy and Tony Hardy won the National Punch Tavern pub darts team event, representing the Black Bull of Blaydon defeating The Red Lion of Bradford. The Red Lion team included Double BDO World Champion Scott Waites and former British open winner Martin Atkins. The Black Bull won 6–5 with Shaun Pomeroy defeating Martin Atkins in the nail biting deciding leg.

PDC

He joined the PDC in 2018 after a successful first attempt at Q school and after a very good first year qualified for the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, and drew Anastasia Dobromyslova in round 1, winning the match 3–0. He then went on to take out three seeded players, defeating Simon Whitlock 3–0, Alan Norris 4–3 and James Wade 4–3. However, he was beaten in the quarter finals 5–1 by the eventual winner Michael van Gerwen. This was his debut appearance in the PDC World Championship.

In July 2020 he won his first PDC title at the Summer Series Pro Tour event at Milton Keynes. Victories over Andy Hamilton, Luke Humphries, Chris Dobey, Madars Razma, Glen Durrant and Gary Anderson set up a final with Dave Chisnall. Ryan winning 8–7.

Ryan saw a return to form on the PDC tour in 2023, winning his second title in October 2023 when he beat Gerwyn Price 8–7 in Players Championship 26. He also made the finals of Players Championship 16 and Players Championship 24.

The following month he made it through to the semi-finals of the 2023 Players Championship Finals in Minehead, with victories over Daniel Klose 6–3, Joe Cullen 6-4, Jermaine Wattimena 10–7 and Damon Heta 10–6, before losing to eventual champion Luke Humphries 11–3.

World Championship results

BDO

PDC

Performance timeline

Tournament20142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship Non-PDC QF 1R 2R 2R 1R 2R
UK Open Non-PDCDNQ 4R 4R 4R 4R 3R 3R
World Matchplay Non-PDCDNQ 1R DNQ
World Grand Prix Non-PDCDNQ 2R DNQ
Grand Slam of Darts Non-PDCDNQ RR 2R DNQ
Players Championship Finals Non-PDC 1R 1R 1R 2R 3R SF
BDO Ranked televised events
BDO World Championship DNPDNQDNP 1R DNQPDCNH
BDO World Trophy DNP 1R DNPPDCNH
Winmau World Masters 4R DNP 1R 3R PDCNH
Career statistics
Year-end ranking183 (BDO)330 (BDO)36 (BDO)104 (BDO)514244344437

PDC European Tour

Season12345678910111213
2018 EDO
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
GDO
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
EDG
DNQ
DDM
2R
GDT
DNQ
DDO
2R
EDM
2R
GDC
2R
DDC
DNQ
IDO
DNQ
EDT
2R
2019 EDO
GDC
GDG
GDO
ADO
EDG
DDM
1R
DDO
2R
CDO
DNQ
ADC
DNQ
EDM
1R
IDO
DNQ
GDT
2R
2020 BDC
DNQ
GDC
DNQ
EDG
WD
IDO
DNQ
2021 HDT
DNQ
GDT
DNQ
2022 IDO
WD
GDC
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
EDO
DNQ
CDO
DNQ
EDG
1R
DDC
DNQ
EDM
DNQ
HDT
DNQ
GDO
DNQ
BDO
DNQ
GDT
3R
2023 BSD
1R
EDO
2R
IDO
DNQ
GDG
DNQ
ADO
DNQ
DDC
DNQ
BDO
DNQ
CDO
DNQ
EDG
WD
EDM
3R
GDO
DNQ
HDT
DNQ
GDC
1R
2024 BDO
3R
GDG
3R
IDO
DNP
EDG
DNP
ADO
1R
BSD
1R
DDC
1R
EDO
GDC
FDT
HDT
SDT
CDO

PDC Players Championships

Season123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
2024 WIG
2R
WIG
4R
LEI
1R
LEI
2R
HIL
DNP
HIL
DNP
LEI
1R
LEI
2R
HIL
F
HIL
4R
HIL
HIL
MIL
MIL
MIL
MIL
MIL
MIL
MIL
WIG
WIG
MIL
MIL
WIG
WIG
WIG
WIG
WIG
LEI
LEI
Performance Table Legend
WWon the tournamentFFinalistSFSemifinalistQFQuarterfinalist#R
RR
Prel.
Lost in # round
Round-robin
Preliminary round
DQDisqualified
DNQDid not qualifyDNPDid not participateWDWithdrewNHTournament not heldNYFNot yet founded


Key
W F SFQF#RRRPrel.DNQDNPNHEXWD
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Prel.) Preliminary round; (DNQ) Did not qualify; (DNP) Did not participate; (NH) Not held; (EX) Excluded; (WD) Withdrew

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References

  1. "Ryan Joyce". pdc.tv/. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  2. "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.