| Ryan Meikle | |
| Nickname: | The Barber |
| Birth Date: | 13 August 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
| Hometown: | Leiston, Suffolk, England |
| Since: | 2014 |
| Darts: | 22g Red Dragon Amberjacks |
| Laterality: | Left-handed |
| Music: | "This Girl" by Kungs vs. Cookin' on 3 Burners |
| Pdc: | 2015– (Tour Card: 2016-) |
| Pdc World: | Last 64: 2022, 2023 |
| Uk Open: | Last 32: 2018, 2024 |
| Pc Finals: | Last 16: 2019 |
Ryan Thomas Meikle (born 13 August 1996) is an English professional darts player who plays in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).
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.[1]
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.[2]
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.
| 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 | |||||||||||
| DNP | DNQ | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | DNQ | ||||||||
| Non-ranked televised events | ||||||||||||||
| 1R | 1R | 1R | 3R | SF | QF | DNP | ||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
| Year-end ranking | style="text-align:center; | - | 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 |
| 2024 | BDO DNQ | GDG DNQ | IDO DNQ | EDG DNQ | ADO DNQ | BSD DNQ | DDC 1R | EDO 1R | GDC DNQ | FDT DNQ | HDT | SDT | CDO |