Barry Cowan (tennis)
Barry Cowan ( born August 24, 1974 in Southport ) is a former British tennis player from England.
Career
Cowan won on the second-rate Challenger Tour in his career, two Challenger titles, including one each in singles and in doubles. On the ATP Tour, he was in 2001 in Chennai in the final, but lost on the side of Moses Navarre against the Zimbabweans Byron and Wayne Black. At Grand Slam tournaments in 2001 and 2002 he could be reached the second round in singles at Wimbledon, in 1999 he succeeded in double the knockout phase.
He took part in the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. He went to both the individual as well as in doubles. In individual he met in the opening round of the Canadian Daniel Nestor, whom he defeated with 7:5, 1:6, 4:6. In the doubles competition, he retired to the side of Kyle Spencer also already in the first round. They lost to the Russians Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin with 6:72, 4:6.
Cowan denied 2001, a meeting of the British Davis Cup team. In the opening match of the World Group against Ecuador he came in fourth individual used, which he clearly lost with 1:6, 4:6. However, the defeat had no impact on the advancement of the team since Great Britain was already at the time with 4-0 lead. It remained Cowans single insert.