Sam Barry (born 27 January 1992) 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 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.

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 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)

DateCategoryTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore8 December 2013FuturesDoha, F3Hard Liam Broady7–6(7–2), 6–411 May 2014FuturesAshkelon, F5Clay Adrien Bossel4–6, 6–1, 6–214 June 2014FuturesHerzlia, F8Hard Peter Kobelt6–4, 7–6(7–5) 31 August 2014FuturesLibreville, F2Hard Ruan Roelofse6–3, 7–529 November 2015FuturesTel Aviv, F16Hard Amir Weintraub6–3, 6–414 February 2016FuturesSurbiton, F2Hard(i) Maxime Teixeira4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–3)

Runner-up (6)

DateCategoryTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore16 March 2014FuturesManchester, F8Hard Marcus Willis6–7(4–7), 4–624 August 2014FuturesLibreville, F1Hard Arthur Surreaux7–5, 6–7(3–7), 1–619 October 2014FuturesPonta Delgada, F10Hard Frederico Ferreira Silva4–6, 3–616 August 2015FuturesHyvinkää, F2Clay Gonzalo Lama2–6, 3–66 December 2015FuturesTel Aviv, F16Hard Peter Kobelt6–2, 3–6, 4–622 May 2016ChallengerBangkok, ThailandHard James Duckworth6–7(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 2010Futures Heraklion, F4 Hard Miķelis Lībietis Rok Jarc Tom Kočevar-Dešman 7–6(8–6), 6–7(4–7), [11–9] 15 May 2011Futures Samsun, F17 Hard Barry King Issam Al Taweel Mohamed Safwat 6–2, 6–2 27 August 2011Futures Nastola, F3 Clay Daniel Glancy Herkko Pöllänen Max Wennakoski 6–4, 6–2 19 March 2012Futures Fujairah, F1 Hard James Marsalek Alexander Satschko Mikhail Vasiliev 6–4, 7–6(7–4) 26 March 2012Futures Manama, F1 Hard James McGee Jeremy Jahn Matthew Short 7–5, 4–6, [10–8] 11 March 2013Futures Guimarães, F4 Hard Colin O'Brien Goncalo Pereira Danyal Sualehe 6–1, 6–1 29 April 2013Futures Ashkelon, F8 Hard Sebastian Lavie Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa 7–6(9–7), 2–6, [12–10] 17 June 2013Futures Herzliya, F12 Hard Elie Rousset Ashley Hewitt George Morgan 6–1, 6–1 30 August 2013Futures Libreville, F2 Hard Elie Rousset Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan 6–0, 6–0 17 May 2014Futures Akko, F6 Hard Evan Song Matías Franco Descotte Gustavo Guerses 6–2, 6–0 25 May 2014Futures Sousse, F2 Hard Claudio Grassi Moez Echargui Slim Hamza 6–4, 7–6(7–2) 1 June 2014Futures Sousse, F3 Hard Claudio Grassi Rémi Boutillier Maxime Tchoutakian 6–2, 6–4 24 August 2014Futures Libreville, F1 Hard Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Ruan Roelofse Mark Fynn 6–2, 6–2 31 August 2014Futures 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 2010Futures Heraklion, F3 Carpet Colin O'Brien Daniel Glancy Marcus Willis 5–7, 7–5, [8–10] 14 March 2011Futures Albufeira, F3 Hard Daniel Glancy Augustin Boje-Ordonez Morgan Phillips 3–6, 6–7(4–7) 16 May 2011Futures Samsun, F18 Clay Barry King Andrei Ciumac Denis Molchanov 3–6, 2–6 10 October 2011Futures Saint-Dizier, F18 Hard James Cluskey Holger Fischer Jan Mertl 4–6, 5–7 7 November 2011Challenger Loughborough Hard Daniel Glancy Jamie Delgado Jonathan Marray 2–6, 2–6 11 June 2012Futures Martos, F16 Hard James Cluskey Ivan Arenas-Gualda Jaime Pulgar-Garcia 6–7(4–7), 6–7(7–9) 20 August 2012Futures Enschede, F5 Clay Daniel Glancy Alexander Blom Kevin Griekspoor 3–6, 6–7(8–10) 24 September 2012Futures Pozzuoli, F28 Hard Cristian Rodríguez Enrico Fioravante Matteo Volante 4–6, 2–6 29 October 2012Futures Ashkelon, F12 Hard Sebastian Lavie Stephan Fransen Wesley Koolhof 6–4, 6–7(4–7), [9–11] 21 January 2013Futures Sheffield, F2 Hard Colin O'Brien Ken Skupski Neal Skupski 6–3, 3–6, [5–10] 25 February 2013Futures 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 2013Futures Ramat HaSharon, F9 Hard Daniel Glancy Takuto Niki Arata Onozawa 3–6, 4–6 10 June 2013Futures Herzliya, F11 Hard Michal Konečný Albano Olivetti Elie Rousset 4–6, 7–6(7–5) [4–10] 19 August 2013Futures Libreville, F1 Hard Elie Rousset Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan 4–6, 6–7(4–7) 29 September 2013Futures Marathon, F12 Hard Tiago Fernandes Kevin Griekspoor Scott Griekspoor 7–6(7–5), 3–6, [5–10]

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