Noam Behr

 ( 1975 Births ) 

Noam Behr (; born 13 October 1975) is an Israeli professional tennis player who turned pro in 1994.

His career-high singles ranking was No. 127 (October 2001), and his career-high doubles ranking was No. 109 (October 1999).

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Tennis career Most of Behr's success was on the Challenger and Futures level, but he often participated in qualifying tournaments of major ATP events.

In 1992, he reached the finals of the US Open boys' singles, losing 7–5, 6–2 to Brian Dunn of the United States. He and Yshai Oliel, who reached the boys' singles final at the 2017 Australian Open, are the only two Israelis to have reached the finals in a boys' Grand Slam event.

In October 1995, he upset world No. 97 Jeff Tarango in Tel Aviv, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5. In October 1998 he and Eyal Ran won in Uzbekistan. In December 1998 and February and April 1999, he and Ran won in Mumbai, Calcutta, and New Delhi, India. In October, he and Ran won in Tel Aviv, and he and Andrei Stoliarov won in Uzbekistan.

In July 2000, he and partner Eyal Erlich won in Istanbul, Turkey. In October 2000 in Germany, he defeated world No. 66 Martin Damm, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4. That same month he and partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan won in Nevers, France. In July 2001 in Toronto, he beat world No. 53 David Prinosil, 6–1, 7–6⁽²⁾. In September in Shanghai, he beat world No. 80 Andrew Ilie 7–5, 6–4. In January 2001, he and Andy Ram won in Aventura, Florida. In March, he and Noam Okun won in Kyoto, Japan, and in Hamilton, New Zealand.

In April 2002, he and Ota Fukárek won the doubles in Leon, Mexico. In July 2002, he and partner Michael Joyce won a tournament in Quebec, Canada. He was eliminated in qualifiers at the 2002 US Open.

Behr is now the coach of Ram and Erhlich.

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Davis Cup Behr was 6–7 in Davis Cup play for Israel from 1995 to 2001.

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Junior Grand Slam finals

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Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

5–7, 2–6

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ATP career finals

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Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP Masters Series (0–0)

ATP Championship Series (0–0)

ATP World Series (0–1)

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Hard (0–1)

Clay (0–0)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Outdoors (0–1)

Indoors (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Tel Aviv, Israel	World Series	Hard	Eyal Erlich	Marcos Ondruska Grant Stafford	3–6, 2–6

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 10 (3–7)

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ATP Challenger (1–4)

ITF Futures (2–3)

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Hard (3–5)

Clay (0–1)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–1)

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Loss	0–1		Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Stéphane Simian	6–7, 6–7
Loss	0–2		Israel F1, Jaffa	Futures	Hard	Harel Levy	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–2		Israel F2, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Oren Motevassel	6–3, 7–6
Loss	1–3		USA F14, Tampa	Futures	Clay	Cedric Kauffmann	3–6, 3–6
Loss	1–4		France F20, Nevers	Futures	Hard	Jérôme Haehnel	7–6(11–9), 5–7, 3–6
Win	2–4		Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Alexander Shvets	4–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–0
Win	3–4		Turkey F2, Istanbul	Futures	Hard	Dmitriy Tomashevich	6–4, 6–2
Loss	3–5		Binghamton, United States	Challenger	Hard	Cedric Kauffmann	5–7, 1–6
Loss	3–6		Aptos, United States	Challenger	Hard	Brian Vahaly	6–2, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	3–7		Kyoto, Japan	Challenger	Carpet	Michal Tabara	2–6, 2–6

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Doubles: 38 (16–22)

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ATP Challenger (14–16)

ITF Futures (2–6)

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Hard (0–0)

Clay (0–0)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Lior Mor	Jean-Philippe Fleurian Nicolás Pereira	6–7, 2–6
Loss	0–2		Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Eyal Ran	Brian Dunn Attila Sávolt	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3		Jerusalem, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Neville Godwin Leander Paes	6–7, 5–7
Loss	0–4		Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Filippo Veglio	Mark Petchey Danny Sapsford	3–6, 7–6, 6–7
Win	1–4		Jerusalem, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Erlich	Neville Godwin David Nainkin	walkover
Win	2–4		Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Eyal Ran	Andrey Merinov Andrei Stoliarov	1–6, 6–4, 7–6
Loss	2–5		Ahmedabad, India	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Noam Okun Nir Welgreen	6–3, 0–6, 4–6
Win	3–5		Bombay, India	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Mahesh Bhupathi Gaurav Natekar	6–2, 7–6
Win	4–5		Calcutta, India	Challenger	Grass	Eyal Ran	Barry Cowan Wesley Whitehouse	6–4, 6–7, 6–2
Win	5–5		New Delhi, India	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Barry Cowan Wesley Whitehouse	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Loss	5–6		Espinho, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Eyal Ran	Joan Balcells Gastón Etlis	3–6, 2–6
Loss	5–7		Córdoba, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Oleg Ogorodov Satoshi Iwabuchi	3–6, 2–6
Win	6–7		Tel Aviv, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Amir Hadad Andrew Ilie	6–3, 6–2
Win	7–7		Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Andrei Stoliarov	Emilio Benfele Álvarez Kris Goossens	6–7, 6–3, 6–1
Loss	7–8		Jerusalem, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Ran	Kevin Ullyett Neville Godwin	6–7(4–7), 6–7(3–7)
Loss	7–9		Denver, United States	Challenger	Hard	Andy Ram	Lior Mor Jonathan Erlich	4–6, 7–5, 2–6
Loss	7–10		Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Eyal Erlich	Jordan Kerr Damien Roberts	3–6, 6–1, 3–6
Win	8–10		Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Eyal Erlich	Oleg Ogorodov Vadim Kutsenko	6–7(5–7), 6–3, 6–3
Loss	8–11		France F19, Plaisir	Futures	Hard	Aisam Qureshi	Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut	3–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win	9–11		France F20, Nevers	Futures	Hard	Aisam Qureshi	David Abelson Martin Štěpánek	6–2, 6–1
Loss	9–12		Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Aisam Qureshi	Oleg Ogorodov Vadim Kutsenko	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	9–13		Urbana, United States	Challenger	Hard	Michael Russell	Taylor Dent Mardy Fish	walkover
Win	10–13		USA F2, Delray Beach	Futures	Hard	Andy Ram	Andrej Kračman Lovro Zovko	6–4, 6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–4)
Loss	10–14		USA F3, Hallandale Beach	Futures	Hard	Giorgio Galimberti	Frédéric Niemeyer Jocelyn Robichaud	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss	10–15		Andrézieux, France	Challenger	Hard	Jonathan Erlich	Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut	3–6, 3–6
Win	11–15		Kyoto, Japan	Challenger	Carpet	Noam Okun	Kelly Gullett Brandon Hawk	6–3, 7–5
Win	12–15		Hamilton, New Zealand	Challenger	Hard	Noam Okun	Filippo Messori Tuomas Ketola	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Loss	12–16		Jerusalem, Israel	Challenger	Hard	Noam Okun	Jonathan Erlich Michaël Llodra	5–7, 6–4, 6–7(2–7)
Loss	12–17		Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Andy Ram	Jaroslav Levinský Michal Navrátil	3–6, 1–6
Win	13–17		Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard	Jonathan Erlich	Julien Benneteau Lionel Roux	walkover
Win	14–17		León, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Ota Fukárek	Yves Allegro Alexander Waske	7–6(8–6), 6–3
Win	15–17		Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Michael Joyce	Thomas Dupre Simon Larose	6–0, 6–3
Loss	15–18		Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Tomáš Zíb	Aleksandar Kitinov Lovro Zovko	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Win	16–18		Graz, Austria	Challenger	Hard	Ota Fukárek	Karsten Braasch Johan Landsberg	6–3, 6–2
Loss	16–19		Israel F4, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Tal Eros	Kevin Krawietz Sergei Krotiouk	6–2, 4–6, 5–10
Loss	16–20		Israel F6, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Igor Smilansky	James Cluskey John Paul Fruttero	3–6, 0–6
Loss	16–21		Israel F8, Ramat HaSharon	Futures	Hard	Noam Okun	Chen Ti Marcus Daniell	6–7(1–7), ret.
Loss	16–22		Israel F8, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Edan Bakshi	Tom Kočevar-Dešman Timon Reichelt	4–6, 4–6

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Performance timeline

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Singles

Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q3	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q1	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !
French Open	A	A	Q3	Q1	A	Q2	Q1	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !
Wimbledon	Q1	Q1	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q1 !0 / 0 !0–0 !
US Open	Q1	A	1R	Q1	Q2	Q2	Q2	A !0 / 1 !0–1 !
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	2R	Q2	A !0 / 1 !1–1 !

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See also

• List of select Jewish tennis players

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External links

• Jewish Virtual Library bio
• Jews in Sports bio

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