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
ResidenceLimerick, Ireland
Born (1992-01-27) 27 January 1992 (age 32)
Limerick, Ireland
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro2011
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$116,474
Singles
Career record2–7
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 255 (28 November 2016)
Current rankingNo. 374 (13 November 2017)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Junior2R (2010)
French Open Junior1R (2010)
Wimbledon JuniorQ1 (2009, 2010)
US Open Junior2R (2010)
Doubles
Career record3–2
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 221 (10 August 2015)
Current rankingNo. 676 (16 October 2017)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open Junior2R (2010)
French Open Junior1R (2010)
Wimbledon Junior2R (2010)
US Open Junior2R (2010)
Last updated on: 16 October 2017.

Career

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Juniors

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  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.
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