Shane Barr (born 21 October 1969) is a former professional

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player from Australia.

Career

Barr was the boys' singles champion at the 1985 Australian Open, beating

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in the final. Also that year, Barr was a member of the Australian team which won the World Youth Cup, a junior version of the Davis Cup. He was twice a runner-up in the boys' doubles at Grand Slams, in the

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with Hubert Karrasch and partnering Bryan Roe in the

1987 Australian Open The 1987 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 75th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 12 through 25 January 1987; the first tournament ...

. Barr and Roe were defeated in the final by the Jason Stoltenberg/

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combination and it was also Woodbridge that beat him in the singles semi-finals. In the 1987 Australian Open, Barr also participated in the men's draw and beat countryman

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in the first round (his only Grand Slam singles win), before being knocked out of the tournament by Tim Wilkison.The junior's event didn't begin until the second week, so Barr was able to compete in both draws He also made the mixed doubles quarter-finals, partnering

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. The Australian twice made the second round of the men's doubles at his home event, with

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in 1988 and

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two years later.ATP World Tour Profile
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. In 1987 he eliminated sixth seed

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from the Swan Premium Open in Sydney and the following year once again defeated Cahill, now 25 in the world, in the

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. His other big win came when he beat Yugoslavian

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en route to a quarter-final appearance in the 1989 Queensland Open. He only narrowly missed out on a spot in the semi-finals, losing his quarter-final match to

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in a third set tiebreak. Another notable performance was at the 1988 Stella Artois Championships (Queen's), where he won a set against Stefan Edberg. The Swede would go on to win Wimbledon that year. Barr lived in

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in the 1990s, started playing tennis there in 1996,https://www.realestate.com.au/news/australian-tennis-player-shane-barr-is-offloading-his-large-property-holding/ and played in the Davis Cup for the territory, which included a tie against the

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in 1998. His career-best world ranking was No. 160 in 1988. He played in four Australian Opens from 1987–1990. Apart from tennis, Barr's family was also behind the ice-cream chain Cold Rock in Australia. He and his father Selwyn opened the first of their Cold Rock ice cream stores in 1996.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Doubles: 3 (0–3)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Notes

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barr, Shane 1969 births Living people Australian male tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Hong Kong male tennis players Tennis people from Queensland Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles Sportsmen from Queensland