| Ryan Thomas Meikle | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Meikle in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Nickname | The Barber | ||
| Born | 13 August 1996 Ipswich, Suffolk, England | ||
| Home town | Leiston, Suffolk, England | ||
| Darts information | |||
| Playing darts since | 2014 | ||
| Darts | 22g Red Dragon Amberjacks | ||
| Laterality | Left-handed | ||
| Walk-on music | "This Girl" by Kungs vs. Cookin' on 3 Burners | ||
| Organisation (see split in darts) | |||
| PDC | 2015– (Tour Card: 2016-) | ||
| Current world ranking | 59  5 (3 January 2024)[1] | ||
| PDC premier events – best performances | |||
| World Ch'ship | Last 64: 2022, 2023 | ||
| UK Open | Last 32: 2018 | ||
| European Ch'ship | Last 32: 2022 | ||
| PC Finals | Last 16: 2019 | ||
| Other tournament wins | |||
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Ryan Meikle (/ˈmiːkəl/ born 13 August 1996) is an English professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
Career
Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, Meikle is a barber by trade, hence his nickname of "The Barber". He won a PDC Pro Tour card by qualifying from the second day of Q School in 2016.[2]
He made his PDC European Tour debut in the 2016 International Darts Open in Riesa, Germany, where he whitewashed Austrian Michael Rasztovits 6–0 thanks to an opening 151 checkout. He was scheduled to play world number one Michael van Gerwen in the next round, but an ankle injury forced Van Gerwen to withdraw, giving Meikle a bye to round three, where he lost 6–2 to Yordi Meeuwisse.[3]
In 2018, he won his second PDC Development Tour title, defeating Rowby-John Rodriguez 5–3 in the final of Development Tour 11 in Wigan.
Meikle made the semi-finals of the 2019 PDC World Youth Championship but lost 6–3 to Adam Gawlas.
World Championship results
PDC
- 2020: First round (lost to Yuki Yamada 1–3)
- 2021: First round (lost to Keegan Brown 0–3)
- 2022: Second round (lost to Peter Wright 0–3)
- 2023: Second round (lost to Raymond van Barneveld 1–3)
Performance timeline
| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDC World Championship | Did not qualify | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | DNQ | ||||||||
| UK Open | DNP | DNQ | 2R | 4R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 4R | 3R | |||||
| European Championship | Did not qualify | 1R | DNQ | |||||||||||
| Players Championship Finals | DNP | DNQ | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | DNQ | |||||||
| Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||
| PDC World Youth Championship | 1R | 1R | 1R | 3R | SF | QF | DNP | |||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | - | 113 | 92 | 81 | 69 | 97 | 60 | 45 | 59 | |||||
PDC European Tour
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | DDM DNP |
GDM DNP |
GDT DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
IDO 3R |
EDT DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
GDC DNQ | |||
| 2017 | GDC 1R |
GDM DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
DDM DNQ |
GDG 1R |
IDO DNQ |
EDT DNQ | |
| 2018 | EDO 1R |
GDG 2R |
GDO DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
DDM DNQ |
GDT DNQ |
DDO DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
DDC DNP |
IDO DNP |
EDT DNQ |
| 2019 | EDO 1R |
GDC DNQ |
GDG DNQ |
GDO DNQ |
ADO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
DDM DNQ |
DDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
ADC DNQ |
EDM 2R |
IDO DNQ |
GDT 1R |
| 2020 | BDC DNP |
GDC DNP |
EDG DNQ |
IDO DNQ | |||||||||
| 2021 | HDT DNQ |
GDT DNQ | |||||||||||
| 2022 | IDO DNQ |
GDC DNQ |
GDG 1R |
ADO DNQ |
EDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
EDG 2R |
DDC 3R |
EDM DNQ |
HDT QF |
GDO DNQ |
BDO 2R |
GDT 1R |
| 2023 | BSD 1R |
EDO 3R |
IDO 1R |
GDG DNQ |
ADO 2R |
DDC DNQ |
BDO DNQ |
CDO DNQ |
EDG DNQ |
EDM DNQ |
GDO DNP |
HDT DNQ |
GDC DNP |
References
- ↑ "PDC Order of Merit". PDPA. 3 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ↑ "2016 PDC Qualifying School Day Two". PDC. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ↑ "2016 PDC International Darts Open Results". Darts Database. Retrieved 28 December 2016.