Ryan Joyce

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Ryan Joyce
Joyce at the 2024 World Grand Prix
Personal information
Nickname	"Relentless"
Born	(1985-09-20) 20 September 1985 (age 39)[1] 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	33 1 (24 November 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, 2024
World Grand Prix	Semi Final: 2024
UK Open	Last 64: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Grand Slam	Last 16: 2021, 2024
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. He has won 2 ranking PDC titles.

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.

Joyce attended Q-School for the first time in 2018 and earned a two–year PDC Tour Card by finishing 10th on the UK Q-School Order of Merit.

Joyce made his Players Championship Finals debut at the 2018 edition as the 27th seed. He lost to the 38th seed Steven Lennon 6–2 in the first round.

Joyce made his debut at the 2019 PDC World Darts Championship, whitewashing both Anastasia Dobromyslova and Simon Whitlock 3–0, then defeating both Alan Norris and James Wade 4–3 in sets. However, he was beaten in the quarter-finals by the eventual winner Michael van Gerwen 5–1.

In July 2020, at Players Championship 10, the second Players Championship event of the Summer Series, Joyce won his first PDC title, coming back from 7–3 down to defeat Dave Chisnall 8–7 in the final.^[3]

On the 2023 PDC Pro Tour, Joyce was the runner-up at Players Championship 16 and Players Championship 24. In October, Joyce won his second PDC title. He defeated Gerwyn Price 8–7 in the final of Players Championship 26.

In November 2023, Joyce reached a first major televised semi-final at the 2023 Players Championship Finals, losing 11–3 to eventual champion Luke Humphries.^[4][5]

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

• 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)

PDC European Tour

PDC Players Championships

• Ryan Joyce player profile at Darts Orakel