Sam Barry is an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 professional tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player. He was born and raised in Limerick

Limerick

Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...

, Ireland.

Career

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. As a junior player, he was ranked in the top 100 players in the world U-18 boys' singles.

He turned professional in October 2010 and immediately reached the quarter-final of his first tournament, the F29 Futures in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of 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

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 F2 Futures, reaching the semi-finals and defeating Joshua Milton along the way.

Doubles 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 (3)

Wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	05 November 2010	Heraklion Heraklion Heraklion, or Heraclion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece. It is the 4th largest city in Greece.... , Greece, F4	Hard	Mikelis Libietis	Rok Jarc    Tom Kocevar-Desman	7–6(6) 6–7(4) [11–9]
2.	15 May 2011	Samsun Samsun Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:... , F17	Hard	Barry King	Issam Al Taweel    Mohamed Safwat	6–2, 6–2
2.	27 August 2011	Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... , F3	Clay	Daniel Glancy	Herkko Pollanen    Max Wennakoski	6–4, 6–2

Runner-up (5)

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