Porto Alegre Junior Championships
The Porto Alegre Junior Championships ( Portuguese : Campeonato Internacional Juvenil de Tênis de Porto Alegre ), also known as Copa Gerdau until 2013, are a world junior tennis tournament that is held annually in February or March on a clay court in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre by the ITF is carried out. Until 2019, the tournament was part of the internationally most important series of Grade A tournaments together with the Trofeo Bonfiglio , the Osaka Mayor's Cup , the Abierto Juvenil Mexicano , and the Orange Bowl and thus belonged to the four Grand Slam tournaments together with the junior competitions to the world's most important tennis tournaments for juniors. In 2020 it was downgraded to the G1 category and renamed the Brasil Juniors Cup .
history
The first edition of the Porto Alegre Junior Championships took place in 1984 as a national junior tournament. In 1987, players from abroad were also admitted for the first time. In 2007, the championships were designated as a Grade A tournament for the first time to compensate for the devaluation of the traditional Banana Bowl and thus included in the rank of the most important junior tournaments. For the 50th edition of the Banana Bowl 2020, Porto Alegre lost the license for the Grade A tournament, which is now being played as the Banana Bowl in Criciúma .
Winners list
Some of the former titleholders subsequently managed to rise to the top international tennis players. The winners include the gold medalist of the 2016 Olympic Games Mónica Puig and the Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard . The later leaders of the WTA double world rankings Gisela Dulko and Kristina Mladenovic could each decide the tournament for themselves.
singles
| year | Men's | Ladies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ Category: Grade 3 ↓ | |||
| 1999 |
 Lucas Engel
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 Gisela Dulko
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| 2000 |
Cristian Villagrán
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 Tunde Nemeth
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| ↓ Category: Grade 2 ↓ | |||
| 2001 |
 Clement Morel
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 Matea Mezak
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| 2002 |
 Marcel Felder
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 Myriam Casanova
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| 2003 |
 Daniel Gimeno Traver
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 Kateryna Bondarenko
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| ↓ Category: Grade 1 ↓ | |||
| 2004 |
Eduardo Schwank
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 Irina Kotkina
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| 2005 |
Raony Carvalho
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 Alexandra Dulgheru
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| 2006 |
Albert Ramos Viñolas
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 Kateřina Vaňková
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| ↓ Category: Grade A ↓ | |||
| 2007 |
 Uladsimir Ihnazik
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Cindy Chala
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| 2008 |
José Pereira
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Elena Bogdan
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| 2009 |
José Pereira
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Silvia Njirić
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| 2010 |
Mathias Bourgue
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 Mónica Puig
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| 2011 |
Thiago Monteiro
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 Eugenie Bouchard
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| 2012 |
Mathias Bourgue
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 Anna Danilina
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| 2013 |
 Gianluigi Quinzi
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Varvara Swift
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| 2014 |
Orlando Luz
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Jil Teichmann
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| 2015 |
Orlando Luz
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 Usue Maitane Arconada
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| 2016 |
 Yōsuke Watanuki
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Usue Maitane Arconada
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| 2017 |
Trent Bryde
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Amanda Anisimova
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| 2018 |
Sebastián Báez
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Leylah Annie Fernandez
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| 2019 |
Thiago Agustín Tirante
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Ane Mintegi Del Olmo
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| ↓ Category: Grade 1 ↓ | |||
| 2020 |
Luciano Darderi
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Matilde Paoletti
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Double
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ J1 Porto Alegre. In: itftennis.com. Accessed August 10, 2020 (English).