Ryan Joyce
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| Ryan Joyce | |||||||
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 Joyce at the 2024 World Grand Prix | |||||||
| Personal information | |||||||
| Nickname | "Relentless" | ||||||
| Born | 20 September 1985[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 | 35  (31 October 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 | |||||||
Players Championships
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Ryan Joyce (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Career
[edit]BDO
[edit]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
[edit]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, at the second Players Championship event of the Summer Series, he won a first PDC title, coming back from 7–3 down to defeat Dave Chisnall 8–7 in the final.[3]
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.
In November 2023, Joyce reached a first major televised semi-final losing 11–3 to eventual champion Luke Humphries at the Players Championship Finals.[4]
World Championship results
[edit]BDO
[edit]- 2017: First round: (lost to Martin Adams 2–3)
PDC
[edit]- 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
[edit]| Tournament | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 3R | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Matchplay | Non-PDC | DNQ | 1R | DNQ | 1R | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Grand Prix | Non-PDC | DNQ | 2R | DNQ | SF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam of Darts | Non-PDC | DNQ | RR | 2R | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Players Championship Finals | Non-PDC | 1R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 3R | SF | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PDC Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Series of Darts Finals | Non-PDC | DNQ | QF | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 |
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| 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 WD | GDC 2R | FDT 3R | HDT WD | SDT WD | CDO |
PDC Players Championships
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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| 2018 | BAR SF | BAR QF | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | MIL 3R | MIL 4R | BAR 4R | BAR 4R | WIG 4R | WIG 1R | MIL 4R | MIL 2R | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 4R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | DUB 1R | DUB 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | ||||||||
| 2019 | WIG 2R | WIG 3R | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 4R | WIG 2R | WIG 3R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR QF | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | BAR QF | BAR 1R | HIL 1R | HIL 3R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | DUB SF | DUB 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R |
| 2020 | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | WIG 4R | WIG 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | MIL 1R | MIL W | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | MIL 2R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 3R | COV 1R | COV 4R | COV 3R | COV 1R | COV QF | |||||||
| 2021 | BOL 1R | BOL 3R | BOL 2R | BOL 2R | MIL QF | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | MIL 3R | NIE 1R | NIE 1R | NIE 2R | NIE 2R | MIL 2R | MIL 2R | MIL 3R | MIL 3R | COV 4R | COV 1R | COV SF | COV 3R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 4R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | BAR 3R | BAR 4R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R |
| 2022 | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | WIG 1R | WIG 4R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | NIE DNP | NIE DNP | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | WIG 3R | WIG SF | NIE DNP | NIE DNP | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 3R | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R |
| 2023 | BAR 1R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 2R | HIL 1R | HIL 2R | WIG 1R | WIG 1R | LEI 4R | LEI 2R | HIL DNP | HIL DNP | LEI 2R | LEI F | HIL 3R | HIL 3R | BAR SF | BAR 2R | BAR 1R | BAR 3R | BAR 4R | BAR F | BAR 3R | BAR W | BAR 4R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R | BAR 2R |
| 2024 | WIG 2R | WIG 4R | LEI 1R | LEI 2R | HIL DNP | HIL DNP | LEI 1R | LEI 2R | HIL F | HIL 4R | HIL DNP | HIL DNP | MIL 1R | MIL SF | MIL 1R | MIL 4R | MIL 4R | MIL 2R | MIL 1R | WIG 3R | WIG 1R | MIL 1R | MIL 2R | WIG 2R | WIG QF | WIG 3R | WIG 2R | WIG QF | LEI 2R | LEI 2R |
| Performance Table Legend | |||||||||||
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| W | Won the tournament | F | Finalist | SF | Semifinalist | QF | Quarterfinalist | #R RR Prel. | Lost in # round Round-robin Preliminary round | DQ | Disqualified |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | DNP | Did not participate | WD | Withdrew | NH | Tournament not held | NYF | Not yet founded | ||
References
[edit]- ^ "Ryan Joyce". pdc.tv/. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ^ "Darts results: Ryan Joyce wins second Players Championship event of PDC Summer Series". www.sportinglife.com. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ "Humphries denies nine-dart Van Gerwen for Minehead glory". www.pdc.tv. 26 November 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2024.