Sam Barry (tennis)

Sam Barry

Country (sports)	Ireland
Residence	Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Born	27 January 1992 Limerick, Ireland
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$40,783
Singles
Career record	2–3
Career titles	0 ATP
Highest ranking	No. 286 (08 September 2014)
Current ranking	No. 286 (08 September 2014)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Junior	2R (2010)
French Open Junior	1R (2010)
US Open Junior	2R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	3–2
Career titles	0 ATP
Highest ranking	340 (16 April 2012)
Current ranking	442 (08 September 2014)
Last updated on: 08 September 2014.

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

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 previour 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 U.S. Open. His 2nd round defeat to Damir Dzumhur 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.^[1]

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.^[4]

In March 2014, Barry reached the final of the Great Britain F8 Futures, however he finished runner-up to Marcus Willis.^[5] This propelled him to a career-high ranking of 392 on March 23, 2014. He followed this up on May 11 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.^[6]

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 (4)

Wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	8 December 2013	Doha, F3	Hard	Liam Broady	7–6^(7–2), 6–4
2.	11 May 2014	Ashkelon, F5	Clay	Adrien Bossel	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
3.	14 June 2014	Herzlia, F8	Hard	Peter Kobelt	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
4.	31 August 2014	Libreville, F2	Hard	Ruan Roelofse	6–3, 7–5

Runner-up (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	16 March 2014	Manchester, F8	Hard	Marcus Willis	6–7^(4–7), 4–6
2.	24 August 2014	Libreville, F1	Hard	Arthur Surreaux	7–5, 6–7^(3–7), 1–6

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)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	5 November 2010	Heraklion, F4	Hard	Mikelis Libietis	Rok Jarc Tom Kocevar-Desman	7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(4–7), [11–9]
2.	15 May 2011	Samsun, F17	Hard	Barry King	Issam Al Taweel Mohamed Safwat	6–2, 6–2
3.	27 August 2011	Nastola, F3	Clay	Daniel Glancy	Herkko Pollanen Max Wennakoski	6–4, 6–2
4.	19 March 2012	Fujairah, F1	Hard	James Marsalek	Alexander Satschko Mikhail Vasiliev	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
5.	26 March 2012	Manama, F1	Hard	James McGee	Jeremy Jahn Matthew Short	7–5, 4–6, [10–8]
6.	11 March 2013	Guimarães, F4	Hard	Colin O'Brien	Goncalo Pereira Danyal Sualehe	6–1, 6–1
7.	29 April 2013	Ashkelon, F8	Hard	Sebastian Lavie	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	7–6^(9–7), 2–6, [12–10]
8.	17 June 2013	Herzliya, F12	Hard	Elie Rousset	Ashley Hewitt George Morgan	6–1, 6–1
9.	30 August 2013	Libreville, F2	Hard	Elie Rousset	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan	6–0, 6–0
10.	17 May 2014	Akko, F6	Hard	Evan Song	Matias Franco Descotte Gustavo Guerses	6–2, 6–0
11.	25 May 2014	Sousse, F2	Hard	Claudio Grassi	Moez Echargui Slim Hamza	6–4, 7–6^(7–2)
12.	1 June 2014	Sousse, F3	Hard	Claudio Grassi	Remi Boutillier Maxime Tchoutakian	6–2, 6–4
13.	24 August 2014	Libreville, F1	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Ruan Roelofse Mark Fynn	6–2, 6–2
14.	31 August 2014	Libreville, F2	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Ruan Roelofse Mark Fynn	7–6^(7–5), 6–3

Runner-up (14)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	25 October 2010	Heraklion, F3	Carpet	Colin O'Brien	Daniel Glancy Marcus Willis	5–7, 7–5, [8–10]
2.	14 March 2011	Albufeira, F3	Hard	Daniel Glancy	Augustin Boje-Ordonez Morgan Phillips	3–6, 6–7^(4–7)
3.	16 May 2011	Samsun, F18	Clay	Barry King	Andrei Ciumac Denis Molchanov	3–6, 2–6
4.	10 October 2011	Saint-Dizier, F18	Hard	James Cluskey	Holger Fischer Jan Mertl	4–6, 5–7
5.	7 November 2011	Loughborough	Hard	Daniel Glancy	Jamie Delgado Jonathan Marray	2–6, 2–6
6.	11 June 2012	Martos, F16	Hard	James Cluskey	Ivan Arenas-Gualda Jaime Pulgar-Garcia	6–7^(4–7), 6–7^(7–9)
6.	20 August 2012	Enschede, F5	Clay	Daniel Glancy	Alexander Blom Kevin Griekspoor	3–6, 6–7^(8–10)
7.	24 September 2012	Pozzuoli, F28	Hard	Cristian Rodriguez	Enrico Fioravante Matteo Volante	4–6, 2–6
8.	29 October 2012	Ashkelon, F12	Hard	Sebastian Lavie	Stephan Fransen Wesley Koolhof	6–4, 6–7^(4–7), [9–11]
9.	21 January 2013	Sheffield, F2	Hard	Colin O'Brien	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6–3, 3–6, [5–10]
10.	25 February 2013	Loulé Municipality, F2	Hard	Colin O'Brien	Ivan Arenas-Gualda Enrique Lopez-Perez	7–6^(7–2), 6–7^(5–7), [4–10]
11.	6 May 2013	Ramat HaSharon, F9	Hard	Daniel Glancy	Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa	3–6, 4–6
12.	10 June 2013	Herzliya, F11	Hard	Michal Konečný	Albano Olivetti Elie Rousset	4–6, 7–6^(7–5) [4–10]
13.	19 August 2013	Libreville, F1	Hard	Elie Rousset	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan	4–6, 6–7^(4–7)
14.	29 September 2013	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. http://www.qatartennis.org/news/more/2/441
5. http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/sport/sportsextra/articles/2014/03/20/98684-wokingham-tennis-ace-willis-wins-singles-and-doubles-at-tipton/
6. "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