Ryan Joyce

Ryan Joyce, known as Relentless, is an English darts player from Newcastle upon Tyne who competes on the PDC tour. Born in Newcastle on 20 September 1985, he was 26th on the PDC Order of Merit when the rankings were last published on 2 November 2026, with £397,500 in ranking prize money over the two-year period the list covers. The PDC credits him with two senior titles, both of them Players Championship events on the Pro Tour.

Joyce reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 PDC World Championship, beating Simon Whitlock 3-0, Alan Norris 4-3 and James Wade 4-3 before losing 5-1 to Michael van Gerwen. He won his first PDC ranking title at Players Championship 10 in July 2020, beating Dave Chisnall 8-7 in the final, and added a second at Players Championship 26 in October 2023 with an 8-7 win over Gerwyn Price. He reached the semi-finals of the 2023 Players Championship Finals, losing 11-3 to Luke Humphries, and the semi-finals of the 2024 World Grand Prix, where Humphries beat him 5-0 in sets. He has also lost two European Tour finals, to Nathan Aspinall at the 2025 European Darts Trophy and to Luke Woodhouse at the 2026 Baltic Sea Darts Open.

At the 2026 World Grand Prix he beat Michael van Gerwen 2-1 and Danny Noppert 3-0 in sets before a 3-0 quarter-final defeat to Nathan Aspinall. In October he beat Owen Bates 6-0 at the Dutch Darts Championship before losing 6-2 to Ross Smith, and he lost 6-3 to Jermaine Wattimena in the first round of the European Championship. The PDC records no nine-dart finishes for him across its events. He throws 21-gram Mission darts and walks on to "Tetris".