Background
He was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland.
He was born and raised in Limerick, Ireland.
Juniors This was his first International Tennis Federation 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 International Tennis Federation Andorra Louisiana Vella, defeating Andrés Artuñedo in the final.
Throughout 2010, he competed in the Boys Singles at the Australian Open, French Open and United States. Open.
His 2nd round defeat to Damir Dzumhur at the United States. 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.
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 Association of Tennis Professionals 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 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.