Sam Barry (tennis)

Sam Barry (born 27 January 1992) is an Irish professional tennis player. He was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland.^[1]

Sam Barry

Country (sports)	Ireland
Residence	Limerick, Ireland
Born	(1992-01-27) 27 January 1992 (age 32) Limerick, Ireland
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$116,474
Singles
Career record	2–7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 255 (28 November 2016)
Current ranking	No. 374 (13 November 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2010)
French Open Junior	1R (2010)
Wimbledon Junior	Q1 (2009, 2010)
US Open Junior	2R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	3–2
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 221 (10 August 2015)
Current ranking	No. 676 (16 October 2017)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2010)
French Open Junior	1R (2010)
Wimbledon Junior	2R (2010)
US Open Junior	2R (2010)
Last updated on: 16 October 2017.

Career

Juniors

In 2008, Barry won the under-18 boy's title at the National Junior Tennis Championships^[2] and the ITF U-18 boys' singles title in Tallinn, Estonia.^[3] This was his first ITF under-18 title following defeats in the finals of similar events in Qatar and Turkmenistan the previous year. Barry had a strong finish to 2008, winning both the Semen Gresik Widjojo Soejono Junior Championships in Surabaya and the Solo Open International Junior Championships in Java in November. The following year, Barry was successful at the Torneig ITF Andorra La Vella, defeating Andrés Artuñedo in the final. Throughout 2010, he competed in the Boys Singles at the Australian Open, French Open and US Open. His 2nd round defeat to Damir Džumhur at the U.S. Open was to be his last match in the under-18 category. As a junior player, Barry reached a career-high ranking of 60th in the world U-18 boys' singles.^[4]

Professional

He turned professional in October 2010 and immediately reached the quarter-final of his first tournament, the F29 Futures in Naples. Barry continued to show promise in 2010 with notable wins over Jiri Kosler in the Thalassa Cup, and followed this up in 2011 with the strongest performance on his senior career in the Thailand F2 Futures, reaching the semi-finals and defeating Joshua Milton along the way.

Barry initially chose to focus on doubles. He has won 9 doubles tournaments on the Futures circuit and finished runner-up in 14 others, as well as reaching the final of the 2011 Aegon Pro-Series Loughborough tournament on the ATP Challenger Tour in November 2011 with Daniel Glancy, losing to the top 100 ranked British duo of Jamie Delgado and Jonathan Marray. Barry usually partners compatriots Glancy, James Cluskey and Colin O'Brien in tournaments.

From 2012 onwards, Barry's energies were more focussed on the singles game, and he reached the singles main draw of a challenger for the first time in September 2013 at the ATP Roller Open, where he lost in the first round to former top-20 player Paul-Henri Mathieu. He completed the year with victory in his first Futures final in December, defeating Liam Broady to claim the Qatar F3 Futures title in Doha.^[5]

In March 2014, Barry reached the final of the Great Britain F8 Futures, however he finished runner-up to Marcus Willis.^[6] This propelled him to a career-high ranking of 392 on 23 March 2014. He followed this up on 11 May with victory over Adrien Bossel at the Israel F5 Futures in Ashkelon, reaching the final without dropping a set. Barry then went on an impressive run in doubles, winning three consecutive tournaments. He then picked up his second futures title of the year, winning another Israeli futures event, this time in Herzliya.

His subsequent rise up the rankings enabled him to gain direct acceptance to challenger level tournaments and he competed at the OEC Kaohsiung but was defeated in his first round match.^[7]

Barry reached his highest ranking of 280th in the world and became Irish no.1 on 15 May 2015 after reaching the final of the Bangkok Challenger.

Davis Cup

Barry has played ten rubbers for the Ireland Davis Cup team, winning five and losing five. He pulled off an impressive win over 2010 Wimbledon junior champion Márton Fucsovics in a tie against Hungary in February 2012. This win did come in a dead rubber, however, with Ireland 3–1 down at the time.

Singles titles

Legend (singles)
Grand Slam (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 (0)
ATP World Tour 250 (0)
ATP Challenger Tour (0)
ITF Futures (6)

Wins (6)

Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
8 December 2013	Futures	Doha, F3	Hard	Liam Broady	7–6(7–2), 6–4
11 May 2014	Futures	Ashkelon, F5	Clay	Adrien Bossel	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
14 June 2014	Futures	Herzlia, F8	Hard	Peter Kobelt	6–4, 7–6(7–5)
31 August 2014	Futures	Libreville, F2	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	6–3, 7–5
29 November 2015	Futures	Tel Aviv, F16	Hard	Amir Weintraub	6–3, 6–4
14 February 2016	Futures	Surbiton, F2	Hard(i)	Maxime Teixeira	4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)

Runner-up (6)

Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
16 March 2014	Futures	Manchester, F8	Hard	Marcus Willis	6–7(4–7), 4–6
24 August 2014	Futures	Libreville, F1	Hard	Arthur Surreaux	7–5, 6–7(3–7), 1–6
19 October 2014	Futures	Ponta Delgada, F10	Hard	Frederico Ferreira Silva	4–6, 3–6
16 August 2015	Futures	Hyvinkää, F2	Clay	Gonzalo Lama	2–6, 3–6
6 December 2015	Futures	Tel Aviv, F16	Hard	Peter Kobelt	6–2, 3–6, 4–6
22 May 2016	Challenger	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	James Duckworth	6–7(5–7), 4–6

Doubles titles

Legend (doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 (0)
ATP World Tour 250 (0)
ATP Challenger Tour (0)
ITF Futures (14)

Wins (14)

Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
5 November 2010	Futures	Heraklion, F4	Hard	Miķelis Lībietis	Rok Jarc Tom Kočevar-Dešman	7–6(8–6), 6–7(4–7), [11–9]
15 May 2011	Futures	Samsun, F17	Hard	Barry King	Issam Al Taweel Mohamed Safwat	6–2, 6–2
27 August 2011	Futures	Nastola, F3	Clay	Daniel Glancy	Herkko Pöllänen Max Wennakoski	6–4, 6–2
19 March 2012	Futures	Fujairah, F1	Hard	James Marsalek	Alexander Satschko Mikhail Vasiliev	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
26 March 2012	Futures	Manama, F1	Hard	James McGee	Jeremy Jahn Matthew Short	7–5, 4–6, [10–8]
11 March 2013	Futures	Guimarães, F4	Hard	Colin O'Brien	Goncalo Pereira Danyal Sualehe	6–1, 6–1
29 April 2013	Futures	Ashkelon, F8	Hard	Sebastian Lavie	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	7–6(9–7), 2–6, [12–10]
17 June 2013	Futures	Herzliya, F12	Hard	Elie Rousset	Ashley Hewitt George Morgan	6–1, 6–1
30 August 2013	Futures	Libreville, F2	Hard	Elie Rousset	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan	6–0, 6–0
17 May 2014	Futures	Akko, F6	Hard	Evan Song	Matías Franco Descotte Gustavo Guerses	6–2, 6–0
25 May 2014	Futures	Sousse, F2	Hard	Claudio Grassi	Moez Echargui Slim Hamza	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
1 June 2014	Futures	Sousse, F3	Hard	Claudio Grassi	Rémi Boutillier Maxime Tchoutakian	6–2, 6–4
24 August 2014	Futures	Libreville, F1	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Ruan Roelofse Mark Fynn	6–2, 6–2
31 August 2014	Futures	Libreville, F2	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Ruan Roelofse Mark Fynn	7–6(7–5), 6–3

Runner-up (15)

Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
25 October 2010	Futures	Heraklion, F3	Carpet	Colin O'Brien	Daniel Glancy Marcus Willis	5–7, 7–5, [8–10]
14 March 2011	Futures	Albufeira, F3	Hard	Daniel Glancy	Augustin Boje-Ordonez Morgan Phillips	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
16 May 2011	Futures	Samsun, F18	Clay	Barry King	Andrei Ciumac Denis Molchanov	3–6, 2–6
10 October 2011	Futures	Saint-Dizier, F18	Hard	James Cluskey	Holger Fischer Jan Mertl	4–6, 5–7
7 November 2011	Challenger	Loughborough	Hard	Daniel Glancy	Jamie Delgado Jonathan Marray	2–6, 2–6
11 June 2012	Futures	Martos, F16	Hard	James Cluskey	Ivan Arenas-Gualda Jaime Pulgar-Garcia	6–7(4–7), 6–7(7–9)
20 August 2012	Futures	Enschede, F5	Clay	Daniel Glancy	Alexander Blom Kevin Griekspoor	3–6, 6–7(8–10)
24 September 2012	Futures	Pozzuoli, F28	Hard	Cristian Rodríguez	Enrico Fioravante Matteo Volante	4–6, 2–6
29 October 2012	Futures	Ashkelon, F12	Hard	Sebastian Lavie	Stephan Fransen Wesley Koolhof	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [9–11]
21 January 2013	Futures	Sheffield, F2	Hard	Colin O'Brien	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6–3, 3–6, [5–10]
25 February 2013	Futures	Loulé Municipality, F2	Hard	Colin O'Brien	Ivan Arenas-Gualda Enrique López Pérez	7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), [4–10]
6 May 2013	Futures	Ramat HaSharon, F9	Hard	Daniel Glancy	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	3–6, 4–6
10 June 2013	Futures	Herzliya, F11	Hard	Michal Konečný	Albano Olivetti Elie Rousset	4–6, 7–6(7–5) [4–10]
19 August 2013	Futures	Libreville, F1	Hard	Elie Rousset	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
29 September 2013	Futures	Marathon, F12	Hard	Tiago Fernandes	Kevin Griekspoor Scott Griekspoor	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [5–10]

References

1. Hickey, Paddy (10 December 2008). "High-flying Barry now sets sights on Australian Open". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
2. Naughton, Lindie (28 August 2008). "Brilliant Barry backs up his top-seed status in the Nationals". Evening Herald. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
3. "Tennis: Barry dismisses rival to land title". Irish Independent. 9 June 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
4. Hickey, Paddy (11 February 2009). "Barry eyes top 50 after assured Czech outing". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
5. "Qatar Tennis Federation | QTF | Qatar Tennis Tournaments and Championships". qatartennis.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
6. "Wokingham tennis ace Willis wins singles and doubles at Tipton".
7. "2014 OEC KAOHSIUNG ATP CHALLENGER" (PDF). ATP. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

External links

• Sam Barry at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Sam Barry at the International Tennis Federation
• Sam Barry at the Davis Cup