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Barry MacKay (August 31, 1935 - June 15, 2012) is a former American tennis player and tournament director and a current tennis broadcaster. While competing in college for the University of Michigan, he won the singles title at the 1957 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship to clinch the team title for Michigan. He was also a finalist in the 1957 NCAA doubles competition with Dick Potter. He competed on five United States Davis Cup teams from 1956 to 1960 and was a doubles finalist at the U.S. Open in 1958, with Sam Giammalva. He reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon in 1959, losing to Rod Laver. He was seeded #1 at the French Championships in 1960, after winning the Italian Championships in early May, beating defending champion, Luis Ayala, in five sets. MacKay has twice won the Pacific Coast Championships, now the SAP Open, first in 1959, and again in 1960, when he won ten more tournaments, to earn the No. 1 ranking in the United States. Also in 1960, he won the Bob Hope Award for the Amateur Athlete of the Year. He was ranked #9 Nationally in 1970.

MacKay was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He was a Ohio State High School Tennis Champion in 1952.

MacKay enjoyed a 20-year career as an amateur and a professional tennis player. He started in the early 1950s as the Ohio State High School Champion. From there, he enrolled at the University of Michigan and played under tennis coach William E. "Bill" Murphy. He won five Big Ten Conference championships while at the University of Michigan -- singles championships in 1956 and 1957, and doubles championships with partner, Dick Potter, in 1955, 1956, and 1957. In June 1957, when MacKay won the singles title at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship, defeating Sam Giammalva in five sets at Salt Lake City, the Michigan Wolverines captured their first and only NCAA Team Championship. He was the first Big Ten player to win the NCAA singles title, was a runner-up for the doubles title with Dick Potter, losing in four sets to Crawford Henry and Ron Holmberg of Tulane, and was the first Michigan player to be named as an All-American.

MacKay also played on five United States Davis Cup teams in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960. The 1958 Davis Cup team beat Australia for the Davis Cup Championship.

After winning the NCAA Singles Title in June 1957, MacKay played amateur tennis for three additional summers. In 1959, at Wimbledon, he lost in the Semifinals to Rod Laver in 87 games over five sets (11-13,11-9,10-8,7-9,6-3). In 1960, he was ranked as the No. 1 amateur in the U.S. after winning these eleven tournaments: Atlanta, Buffalo, Dallas, River Oaks, River Forest (U.S. clay courts), Rome (Italian), New York Indoors (Nationals), Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tuscaloosa, and Victoria, Australia.

In 1961, MacKay turned professional. He played three years with the Jack Kramer Professional Tennis Tour. MacKay recalled the Kramer Tour, "Matches were played in one city after another on a nightly basis across the country and around the world. It was a barnstorming type of tour."

In 1964, MacKay moved to California and worked for Jack Kramer on the International Professional Tennis Tour. He remained with Kramer through the late 1960s. In 1970, MacKay bought a controlling interest in the Pacific Coast Championships (now SAP Open) at Berkeley, in Northern California. In 1973, he started a company called BMK Sports, which organized a major tennis event until MacKay sold the business in 1995.[2] MacKay has served as tournament director and promoter for more than 12 annual events, highlighted by promoting two U.S. Davis Cup finals.

Since the 1970s, MacKay has been a tennis broadcaster. Over his broadcasting career, MacKay has teamed with Arthur Ashe, Bud Collins, Donald Dell, Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert, John McEnroe, Pam Shriver, Tracy Austin, and Leif Shiras. He has been the on-air voice for American broadcasts of the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open,and many ATP and WTA tournaments. He currently provides color commentary, play-by-play, and lead analysis for The Tennis Channel and DirecTV tennis coverage. He spent 30 years broadcasting Wimbledon for HBO and the US Open on the USA Network. He provided color commentary on Fox Sports Network, and served as the play-by-play announcer for the NBC Sports coverage of tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.

Honors
Inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1980.
Inducted into the Cincinnati Tennis Hall of Fame in 2003.
Inducted into the NCAA Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.
Presented the Bob Hope Award for "Amateur Athlete of the Year" in 1960.