Gary Blades

Gary "Razor" Blades (born 16 November 1980) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.

Gary Blades
Personal information
Nickname	"Razor", "Mr Gary"
Born	(1980-11-16) 16 November 1980 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Home town	Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
Darts information
Playing darts since	1993
Darts	23g Loxley
Laterality	Right-handed
Organisation (see split in darts)
PDC	2005–2010, 2019–
PDC premier events – best performances
UK Open	Last 96: 2021

Career

Blades has played in the UK Open four times. He lost 4–3 in the 1st Round to Gary Flynn in 2005. In 2007, he beat Justin Henshaw 8–6 in the preliminary round, before losing 8–6 to Simon Craven in the 1st Round. In 2020, he lost 6–1 to Wayne Jones in the 1st round. In 2021 he beat Dom Taylor in Round 2 6-0, but then lost 6-3 to Andy Hamilton in the 3rd round.

After returning to the circuit in 2019 without a great deal of success, Blades entered Q-School on 16 January 2020 and won his Tour Card on the first day by beating Tony Newell 5–1 in the final round. He will play on the PDC ProTour in 2020 and 2021.

So far in 2020 he has had moderate success, making the last 32 twice in the first 8 PDC Players Championship events, beating Darren Webster and Scott Waites among others.

External links

• Gary Blades player profile at Darts Orakel