Porto Alegre Junior Championships

The Porto Alegre Junior Championships (Portuguese: Campeonato Internacional Juvenil de Tênis de Porto Alegre), also known as the Copa Gerdau, is a prestigious junior tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The tournament is held annually in late February or early March. It is one of five Grade A tournaments, the junior equivalent of ATP Masters or WTA Premier Mandatory events in terms of rankings points allocated.

Porto Alegre Junior Championships
Tournament information
Founded1978 (Copa Gerdau in 1984)
LocationPorto Alegre
Brazil
VenueAssociação Leopoldina Juvenil and Sogipa
CategoryITF Junior Grade A (2007–current)
SurfaceRed clay - outdoors
Draw64S / 64Q / 32D (Boys)
64S / 48Q / 32D (Girls)
Websitewww.campeonatointernacional.com.br
Current champions (2018)
Singles Sebastián Báez (Boys)
Leylah Annie Fernandez (Girls)
Doubles Sebastián Báez (Boys)
Clément Tabur
Clara Tauson (Girls)
Anastasia Tikhonova

History

The Copa Gerdau was founded in 1984, and has hosted international players since 1987. It has been a Grade A event since 2007. Before this event was promoted to Grade A, Brazil's Banana Bowl tournament had held that distinction since 1998. The original venue for the Grade A tournament was the International Championships of Venezuela, which was founded in 1978 and held in Caracas.[1]

Singles champions
YearBoysGirls
↓ International Championships of Venezuela ↓
1978 Alejandro Ganzábal Claudia Casabianca
1979 Raúl Viver Cláudia Monteiro
1980 Roberto Argüello Graciela Perez
1981 Eduardo Oncins Helena Suková
1982 Martín Jaite Helena Olsson
1983 Bill Stanley Silvana Campos
1984 Thomas Muster Silvana Campos
1985 Franco Davín Patricia Tarabini
1986 Gilbert Schaller Gisele Miró
1987 Alejandro Aramburu Tanja Weigl
1988 Nicolás Pereira Patricia Miller
1989 Aki Rahunen Florencia Labat
1990 Pavel Gazda Radka Bobková
1991 Juan Garat Eugenia Maia
1992 Gabriel Silberstein Cătălina Cristea
1993 Răzvan Sabău Nino Louarsabishvili
1994 Gustavo Kuerten Henrieta Nagyová
1995 Tomáš Čatár Aleksandra Olsza
1996 Rodolfo Rake Jessica Lehnhoff
1997 Julien Jeanpierre Melissa Middleton
↓ Banana Bowl ↓
1998 Fernando González Erica Krauth
1999 Paul-Henri Mathieu Anikó Kapros
2000 Andy Roddick María Emilia Salerni
2001 Gilles Müller Svetlana Kuznetsova
2002 Marcos Baghdatis Myriam Casanova
2003 David Brewer Alisa Kleybanova
2004 Eduardo Schwank Alisa Kleybanova
2005 Leonardo Mayer Sharon Fichman
2006 Albert Ramos Viñolas Alizé Cornet
↓ Copa Gerdau ↓
2007 Uladzimir Ignatic Cindy Chala
2008 José Pereira Elena Bogdan
2009 José Pereira Silvia Njirić
2010 Mathias Bourgue Monica Puig
2011 Thiago Monteiro Eugenie Bouchard
2012 Mathias Bourgue Anna Danilina
2013 Gianluigi Quinzi Varvara Flink
2014 Orlando Luz Jil Teichmann
2015 Orlando Luz Usue Maitane Arconada
2016 Yosuke Watanuki Usue Maitane Arconada
2017 Trent Bryde Amanda Anisimova
2018 Sebastián Báez Leylah Annie Fernandez

References
  1. "Porto Alegre Junior Championships". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
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