Ryan Joyce

Ryan Joyce
Joyce in 2022
Personal information
Nickname	"Relentless"
Born	(1985-09-20) 20 September 1985 Newcastle, England
Home town	Newcastle, England
Darts information
Playing darts since	2007
Darts	21g 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	39 (21 April 2024)
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.

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

• 2017: First round: (lost to Martin Adams 2–3)

PDC

• 2019: Quarter-finals (lost to Michael van Gerwen 1–5)
• 2020: First round (lost to Jan Dekker 2–3)
• 2021: Second round (lost to Krzysztof Ratajski 0–3)
• 2022: Second round (lost to Mervyn King 2–3)
• 2023: First round (lost to Scott Williams 1–3)
• 2024: Second round (lost to Stephen Bunting 0–3)

Performance timeline

Tournament	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
PDC Ranked televised events
PDC World Championship	Non-PDC					QF	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R
UK Open	Non-PDC				DNQ	4R	4R	4R	4R	3R
World Matchplay	Non-PDC				DNQ		1R	DNQ
World Grand Prix	Non-PDC				DNQ		2R	DNQ
Grand Slam of Darts	Non-PDC				DNQ		RR	2R	DNQ
Players Championship Finals	Non-PDC				1R	1R	1R	2R	3R	SF
BDO Ranked televised events
BDO World Championship	DNP	DNQ	DNP	1R	DNQ	PDC		NH
BDO World Trophy	DNP		1R	DNP	PDC		NH
Winmau World Masters	4R	DNP	1R	3R	PDC		NH
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	183 (BDO)	330 (BDO)	36 (BDO)	104 (BDO)	51	42	44	34	44	37

PDC European Tour

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
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	DDC	EDO	GDC	FDT	HDT	SDT	CDO

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Prel.

DNQ

DNP

NH

EX

WD

(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

External links

• Ryan Joyce player profile at Darts Orakel