Noam Behr ( he, נועם בר; born 13 October 1975) is an Israeli professional
tennis player
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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).
Tennis career
Most of Behr's success was on the
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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
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Oliel is a two-time Junior Orange Bowl champion, having won in 2012 and 201 ...
, 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
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in Tel Aviv, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5. In October 1998 he and
Eyal Ran
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His career high ATP ranking in singles was 138 (21 April 1997), and in doubles it was 71 (11 October 1999).
Earl ...
won in
Uzbekistan
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. In December 1998 and February and April 1999, he and Ran won in
Mumbai
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,
Calcutta
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, 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
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. In October 2000 in Germany, he defeated world No. 66
Martin Damm
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, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4. That same month he and partner
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
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of Pakistan won in Nevers, France. In July 2001 in Toronto, he beat world No. 53
David Prinosil
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, 6–1, 7–6
(2). In September in Shanghai, he beat world No. 80
Andrew Ilie
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7–5, 6–4. In January 2001, he and
Andy Ram
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won in
Aventura, Florida
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. In March, he and
Noam Okun
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He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 95 in April 2002. Okun won several challenger tournaments in his career, and was a c ...
won in
Kyoto, Japan
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, and in
Hamilton, New Zealand
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.
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
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. He was eliminated in qualifiers at the 2002
U.S. Open.
Behr is now the coach of Ram and Erhlich.
Davis Cup
Behr was 6–7 in
Davis Cup
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play for Israel from 1995 to 2001.
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 10 (3–7)
Doubles: 38 (16–22)
Performance timeline
Singles
See also
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List of select Jewish tennis players
References
External links
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Jewish Virtual Library bioJews in Sports bio
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1975 births
Living people
People from Tel Aviv
Israeli Jews
Israeli male tennis players
Jewish tennis players