Bill Behrens

Bill Behrens (born June 26, 1970) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.

Behrens, who was born in Pasadena, played for four years at the University of California, Los Angeles before turning professional. He was an NCAA All-American in 1992.

His only title on the ATP World Tour came in the doubles event at St. Pölten in 1992, as an unseeded pairing with Matt Lucena. With the same partner he also finished runner-up in Atlanta in 1996. It was in doubles that he attained his highest ranking, 72 in the world. In singles he made it to 226 in the world and was a finalist in a Challenger tournament in Birmingham, Alabama in 1996, with wins over top 100 players Michael Joyce and Nicolas Lapentti.

Behrens competed in the main draw of the men's doubles events at six Grand Slam tournaments across 1996 and 1997. In the 1997 Wimbledon Championships he had his best result when he reached the third round, with South African Chris Haggard. He and partner Patrick McEnroe had an opening round win over the eighth seeds Pat Galbraith and Ellis Ferreira at the 1997 US Open, before making a second round exit.

He works as a tennis coach in Murrieta, California.

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	1995	St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Matt Lucena	Libor Pimek Byron Talbot	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	1996	Atlanta, U.S.	Clay	Matt Lucena	Christo Van Rensburg David Wheaton	6–7, 2–6

Doubles: (5)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1994	Celle, Germany	Carpet	Kirk Haygarth	Alexander Mronz Arne Thoms	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
2.	1995	Lippstadt, Germany	Carpet	Mathias Huning	Bret Garnett T. J. Middleton	6–4, 3–6, 7–6
3.	1995	Cherbourg, France	Hard	Matt Lucena	Marius Barnard Stefan Kruger	7–6, 6–1
4.	1995	Poznań, Poland	Clay	Matt Lucena	Jeff Belloli Jack Waite	7–5, 6–1
5.	1996	Cherbourg, France	Hard	Marius Barnard	João Cunha e Silva Mathias Huning	6–2, 4–6, 6–3