# 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.

## 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.

## Singles champions

| Year | Boys | Girls |
| ↓ 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 Aramburú | 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 |
| 2019 | Thiago Agustín Tirante | Ane Mintegi del Olmo |
| 2020 | Li Hanwen | Elvina Kalieva |
| 2021 | Shang Juncheng | Océane Babel |
| 2022 | Nishesh Basavareddy | Lucie Havlíčková |
| 2023 | Yaroslav Demin | Mayu Crossley |

## Doubles champions

| Year | Boys | Girls |
| 1998 | Tomáš Cakl Jiří Vrbka | Clarisa Fernández María Emilia Salerni |
| 1999 | José de Armas Daniel Langre | Eugenia Chialvo Erica Krauth |
| 2000 | Lee Childs James Nelson | Eugenia Chialvo María Emilia Salerni |
| 2001 | Alejandro Falla Carlos Salamanca | Petra Cetkovská Barbora Strýcová |
| 2002 | Fred Gil Leonardo Tavares | Myriam Casanova Elke Clijsters |
| 2003 | Fred Gil Chris Kwon | Larissa Carvalho Soledad Esperón |
| 2004 | Lukáš Lacko Peter Miklušičák | Alisa Kleybanova Irina Kotkina |
| 2005 | Piero Luisi David Navarrete | Bianca Ioana Bonifate Sharon Fichman |
| 2006 | Jamie Hunt Nathaniel Schnugg | Klaudia Boczová Kristína Kučová |
| ↓ Copa Gerdau ↓ |||
| 2007 | Daniel Cox David Rice | Tatiana Búa Roxane Vaisemberg |
| 2008 | Axel Michon Guillaume Rufin | Kristina Mladenovic Maryna Zanevska |
| 2009 | Patrik Brydolf Tristan-Samuel Weissborn | Kristina Mladenovic Silvia Njirić |
| 2010 | Filip Horanský Jozef Kovalík | Jana Čepelová Vivien Juhászová |
| 2011 | Marco Aurelio Núñez Kaichi Uchida | Doménica González Montserrat González |
| 2012 | Luke Bambridge Joshua Ward-Hibbert | Anna Danilina Zuzanna Maciejewska |
| 2013 | Orlando Luz Marcelo Zormann | Alejandra Cisneros Victoria Rodríguez |
| 2014 | Quentin Halys Johan Tatlot | Priscilla Hon Jil Teichmann |
| 2015 | Felipe Cunha e Silva Alejandro Tabilo | Francesca Di Lorenzo Luisa Stefani |
| 2016 | Brian Cernoch Vasil Kirkov | Panna Udvardy Dayana Yastremska |
| 2017 | Alafia Ayeni Trent Bryde | María José Portillo Ramírez Sofia Sewing |
| 2018 | Sebastián Báez Clément Tabur | Clara Tauson Anastasia Tikhonova |
| 2019 | Shunsuke Mitsui Keisuke Saitoh | Natsumi Kawaguchi Shavit Kimchi |
| 2020 | Luciano Darderi Gustavo Heide | Ana Geller Guillermina Grant |
| 2021 | Alexander Bernard Dali Blanch | Kira Pavlova Diana Shnaider |
| 2022 | Aidan Kim Cooper Williams | Irina Balus Nikola Daubnerová |
| 2023 | Federico Cina Rei Sakamoto | Francesca Gandolfi Greta Greco Lucchina |