Sam Barry (tennis)


Sam Barry is an Irish professional tennis player. He was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland.

Career

Juniors

In 2008, Barry won the under-18 boy's title at the National Junior Tennis Championships and the ITF U-18 boys' singles title in Tallinn, Estonia. 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 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.

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.
In March 2014, Barry reached the final of the Great Britain F8 Futures, however he finished runner-up to Marcus Willis. 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.
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

;Wins
DateCategoryTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
8 December 2013FuturesDoha, F3Hard Liam Broady7–6, 6–4
11 May 2014FuturesAshkelon, F5Clay Adrien Bossel4–6, 6–1, 6–2
14 June 2014FuturesHerzlia, F8Hard Peter Kobelt6–4, 7–6
31 August 2014FuturesLibreville, F2Hard Ruan Roelofse6–3, 7–5
29 November 2015FuturesTel Aviv, F16Hard Amir Weintraub6–3, 6–4
14 February 2016FuturesSurbiton, F2Hard Maxime Teixeira4–6, 6–3, 7–6

;Runner-up
DateCategoryTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
16 March 2014FuturesManchester, F8Hard Marcus Willis6–7, 4–6
24 August 2014FuturesLibreville, F1Hard Arthur Surreaux7–5, 6–7, 1–6
19 October 2014FuturesPonta Delgada, F10Hard Frederico Ferreira Silva4–6, 3–6
16 August 2015FuturesHyvinkää, F2Clay Gonzalo Lama2–6, 3–6
6 December 2015FuturesTel Aviv, F16Hard Peter Kobelt6–2, 3–6, 4–6
22 May 2016ChallengerBangkok, ThailandHard James Duckworth6–7, 4–6

Doubles titles

Wins
DateCategoryTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
5 November 2010FuturesHeraklion, F4Hard Mikelis Libietis Rok Jarc
Tom Kocevar-Desman
7–6, 6–7,
15 May 2011FuturesSamsun, F17Hard Barry King Issam Al Taweel
Mohamed Safwat
6–2, 6–2
27 August 2011FuturesNastola, F3Clay Daniel Glancy Herkko Pollanen
Max Wennakoski
6–4, 6–2
19 March 2012FuturesFujairah, F1Hard James Marsalek Alexander Satschko
Mikhail Vasiliev
6–4, 7–6
26 March 2012FuturesManama, F1Hard James McGee Jeremy Jahn
Matthew Short
7–5, 4–6,
11 March 2013FuturesGuimarães, F4Hard Colin O'Brien Goncalo Pereira
Danyal Sualehe
6–1, 6–1
29 April 2013FuturesAshkelon, F8Hard Sebastian Lavie Takuto Niki
Arata Onozawa
7–6, 2–6,
17 June 2013FuturesHerzliya, F12Hard Elie Rousset Ashley Hewitt
George Morgan
6–1, 6–1
30 August 2013FuturesLibreville, F2Hard Elie Rousset Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
Vishnu Vardhan
6–0, 6–0
17 May 2014FuturesAkko, F6Hard Evan Song Matías Franco Descotte
Gustavo Guerses
6–2, 6–0
25 May 2014FuturesSousse, F2Hard Claudio Grassi Moez Echargui
Slim Hamza
6–4, 7–6
1 June 2014FuturesSousse, F3Hard Claudio Grassi Remi Boutillier
Maxime Tchoutakian
6–2, 6–4
24 August 2014FuturesLibreville, F1Hard Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Ruan Roelofse
Mark Fynn
6–2, 6–2
31 August 2014FuturesLibreville, F2Hard Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Ruan Roelofse
Mark Fynn
7–6, 6–3

Runner-up
DateCategoryTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
25 October 2010FuturesHeraklion, F3Carpet Colin O'Brien Daniel Glancy
Marcus Willis
5–7, 7–5,
14 March 2011FuturesAlbufeira, F3Hard Daniel Glancy Augustin Boje-Ordonez
Morgan Phillips
3–6, 6–7
16 May 2011FuturesSamsun, F18Clay Barry King Andrei Ciumac
Denis Molchanov
3–6, 2–6
10 October 2011FuturesSaint-Dizier, F18Hard James Cluskey Holger Fischer
Jan Mertl
4–6, 5–7
7 November 2011ChallengerLoughboroughHard Daniel Glancy Jamie Delgado
Jonathan Marray
2–6, 2–6
11 June 2012FuturesMartos, F16Hard James Cluskey Ivan Arenas-Gualda
Jaime Pulgar-Garcia
6–7, 6–7
20 August 2012FuturesEnschede, F5Clay Daniel Glancy Alexander Blom
Kevin Griekspoor
3–6, 6–7
24 September 2012FuturesPozzuoli, F28Hard Cristian Rodriguez Enrico Fioravante
Matteo Volante
4–6, 2–6
29 October 2012FuturesAshkelon, F12Hard Sebastian Lavie Stephan Fransen
Wesley Koolhof
6–4, 6–7,
21 January 2013FuturesSheffield, F2Hard Colin O'Brien Ken Skupski
Neal Skupski
6–3, 3–6,
25 February 2013FuturesLoulé Municipality, F2Hard Colin O'Brien Ivan Arenas-Gualda
Enrique Lopez-Perez
7–6, 6–7,
6 May 2013FuturesRamat HaSharon, F9Hard Daniel Glancy Takuto Niki
Arata Onozawa
3–6, 4–6
10 June 2013FuturesHerzliya, F11Hard Michal Konečný Albano Olivetti
Elie Rousset
4–6, 7–6
19 August 2013FuturesLibreville, F1Hard Elie Rousset Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
Vishnu Vardhan
4–6, 6–7
29 September 2013FuturesMarathon, F12Hard Tiago Fernandes Kevin Griekspoor
Scott Griekspoor
7–6, 3–6,