# Petits As

Les Petits As – Le Mondial Lacoste (English: Little champions – The Lacoste world championship) is a junior tennis tournament for players aged 12–14, held in Tarbes, France. This tournament is now one of the five Super Category tournaments in the U14 circuit of the Tennis Europe Junior Tour, and it is universally recognized as the world’s leading indoor U14 competition. The tournament is traditionally held at the end of January, although the 2020 and 2021 editions had to take place in September due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The event has seen a number of its champions go on to become slam winners, including Rafael Nadal, Michael Chang, Martina Hingis, Kim Clijsters, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Jeļena Ostapenko and Bianca Andreescu. Due to the relatively restrictive age range, few players have won the title more than once, although Hingis and Timea Bacsinszky have both done so. Most recently, upcoming Spanish player Carlos Boluda became the first boy to do so.

## Format

The tournament is played on indoor GreenSet (hard) courts. Roughly 7,000 players enter the pre-qualifying tournaments held across France, with that number being narrowed down to 350 for the final qualifying stage, and 64 for the final tournament. This event welcomes 45 000 visitors each year in Tarbes and garners over 125 000 live-stream viewers across 151 countries yearly. The event is regulated by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and has businesses such as Head, Eurosport, Coca-Cola, and Peugeot amongst its portfolio of partners.
Notably, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray faced each other for the very first time in the quarterfinals of the 2001 edition, which was won by Murray 6-0 6-1. In the 2017 edition, the 13-year-old Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune played together in the doubles competition. In 1994, future No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero produced one of the competition's most unexpected triumphs when he won the tournament without a ranking.

## Results
### Boys' singles

| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
| 1983 | Jean-Baptiste Bollée | Juan Manuel Naves | |
| 1984 | Frédéric Fontang | Marek Miskolci | |
| 1985 | Richard Krajicek | Philippe Leblanc | |
| 1986 | Michael Chang | Johan Alvén | |
| 1987 | Reinhard Wawra | David Klein | |
| 1988 | Brian Dunn | Julian Knowle | |
| 1989 | Tommy Shimada | Gonzalo Corrales | |
| 1990 | Maxime Boyé | Magnus Norman | |
| 1991 | Răzvan Sabău | Juan Antonio Saiz | |
| 1992 | Olivier Mutis | Björn Rehnquist | |
| 1993 | Miha Gregorc | Dumitru Caradima | |
| 1994 | Juan Carlos Ferrero | Fernando González | |
| 1995 | Olivier Rochus | Gasper Martinjak | |
| 1996 | Paul-Henri Mathieu | Todor Enev | |
| 1997 | Julien Maigret | Carlos Cuadrado | 2–6, 6–1, 6–2 |
| 1998 | Matthew Smith | Mario Ančić | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 1999 | Richard Gasquet | Brian Baker | 7–5, 6–3 |
| 2000 | Rafael Nadal | Julien Gely | 6–4, 6–1 |
| 2001 | Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy | Andy Murray | 3–6, 7–5, 6–3 |
| 2002 | Dylan Arnould | Robin Roshardt | 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–2)}$ |
| 2003 | Donald Young | Leo Rosenberg | 6–2, 6–1 |
| 2004 | Andrew Thomas | Daniel Cox | 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
| 2005 | Chase Buchanan | Lazare Kukhalashvili | 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
| 2006 | Carlos Boluda | Sebastian Lavie | 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 6–3 |
| 2007 | Carlos Boluda | Christian Harrison | 6–2, 6–2 |
| 2008 | Edward Nguyen | Liam Broady | 6–4, 7–5 |
| 2009 | Nikola Milojević | Borna Ćorić | 6–2, 6–3 |
| 2010 | Quentin Halys | Noah Rubin | 6–1, 6–2 |
| 2011 | Henrik Wiersholm | Bogdan Borza | 6–2, 5–7, 6–3 |
| 2012 | Frances Tiafoe | William Blumberg | 6–0, 6–2 |
| 2013 | Samuele Ramazzotti | Miomir Kecmanović | 7–6$^{(10–8)}$, 0–6, 6–0 |
| 2014 | Rayane Roumane | Nicola Kuhn | 5–7, 7–5, 6–1 |
| 2015 | Tseng Chun-hsin | Timofey Skatov | 6–4, 6–1 |
| 2016 | Stefan Leustian | Borna Devald | 6–2, 6–1 |
| 2017 | Luca Nardi | Hamad Međedović | 6–2, 7–5 |
| 2018 | Victor Lilov | Mikhail Gorokhov | 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–6)}$ |
| 2019 | Vojtech Petr | Rashed Nawaf | 4-6, 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–1)}$ |
| 2020 | Oleksandr Ponomar | Janis Rafael Simmen | 6–4, 6-1 |
| 2021 | Maxim Mrva | Federico Cinà | 6–3, 3-6, 6-0 |
| 2022 | Thijs Boogaard | Carel Aubriel Ngounoue | 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 |
| 2023 | Mark Ceban | Daniel Jade | 6-3, 6-2 |
| 2024 | Michael Antonius | Izan Baranes Lasala | 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 |
| 2025 | Mario Vukovic | Tristan Ascenzo | 6-1, 6-0 |

### Girls' singles

| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
| 1983 | Sybille Niox-Château | Cécile Bourdaix | |
| 1984 | Emmanuelle Derly | Alexia Dechaume | |
| 1985 | Sandrine Jaquet | Annika Narbe | |
| 1986 | Laxmi Poruri | Yvonne Grubben | |
| 1987 | Kim Kessaris | Ursula Priller | |
| 1988 | Anke Huber | Katherine Denn Samuel | |
| 1989 | Nicole London | Zdeňka Málková | |
| 1990 | Heike Rusch | Lindsay Davenport | |
| 1991 | Martina Hingis | Dally Randriantefy | |
| 1992 | Martina Hingis | Rita Kuti-Kis | |
| 1993 | Stephanie Halsell | Réka Vidáts | |
| 1994 | Anna Kournikova | Stephanie Kovacik | |
| 1995 | Mirjana Lučić | Justine Henin | |
| 1996 | Jelena Pandžić | Melissa Middleton | |
| 1997 | Kim Clijsters | Elena Bovina | 7–5, 3–6, 6–2 |
| 1998 | Lina Krasnoroutskaya | Caroline Raba | |
| 1999 | Bethanie Mattek | Matea Mezak | |
| 2000 | Dinara Safina | Lina Stančiūtė | |
| 2001 | Vojislava Lukić | Dia Evtimova | |
| 2002 | Timea Bacsinszky | Alisa Kleybanova | |
| 2003 | Timea Bacsinszky | Raluca Olaru | |
| 2004 | Yelena Kulikova | Madison Brengle | 6–4, 6–4 |
| 2005 | Ksenia Pervak | Gracia Radovanovic | |
| 2006 | Gabriela Dabrowski | Anna Arina Marenko | 6–3, 6–4 |
| 2007 | Anna Orlik | Nicole Gibbs | 6–4, 6–1 |
| 2008 | Daria Gavrilova | Laura Robson | 6–3, 6–3 |
| 2009 | Yulia Putintseva | Irina Khromacheva | 6–4, 6–2 |
| 2010 | Kanami Tsuji | Indy de Vroome | 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
| 2011 | Jeļena Ostapenko | Anastasiya Komardina | 1–6, 6–3, 6–3 |
| 2012 | Jaqueline Cristian | Tornado Alicia Black | 6–2, 6–3 |
| 2013 | CiCi Bellis | Andreea Amalia Roșca | 6–0, 6–2 |
| 2014 | Bianca Andreescu | Claire Liu | 6–4, 7–5 |
| 2015 | Anastasia Potapova | Olga Danilović | 6–4, 6–4 |
| 2016 | Marta Kostyuk | Denisa Hindová | 6–2, 6–1 |
| 2017 | Maria Timofeeva | Daria Lopatetska | 6–3, 4–6, 6–3 |
| 2018 | Alexandra Eala | Linda Nosková | 5–7, 6–3, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$ |
| 2019 | Linda Fruhvirtová | Sofia Costoulas | 6–1, 6–0 |
| 2020 | Brenda Fruhvirtová | Clervie Ngounoue | 6–0, 3–6, 7–5 |
| 2021 | Mathilde Ngijol Carre | Mika Buchnik | 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 |
| 2022 | Julia Stusek | Hannah Klugman | 6-3, 6-3 |
| 2023 | Anna Pushkareva | Giulia Safina Popa | 7-5, 6-1 |
| 2024 | Mariia Makarova | Kseniia Ruchkina | 6-3, 6-2 |
| 2025 | Ekaterina Dotsenko | Darina Matvejeva | 6-3, 6-4 |

## Exhibitions

The tournament often features retired and/or active players making appearances in exhibition matches in the evening preceding the final day of play. It is common for upcoming and veteran French players to be present. In recent tournaments, players present have included:
* 2004: Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte.
* 2005: Juan Carlos Ferrero (a former champion) and David Nalbandian, who replaced compatriot and French Open champion Gastón Gaudio at the last minute.
* 2006: Rafael Nadal and Fabrice Santoro.
* 2007: Richard Gasquet and Gaël Monfils.
* 2008: Fabrice Santoro and Marc Gicquel, after Paul-Henri Mathieu and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga withdrew. Mathieu, who had injured himself at the 2008 Australian Open, signed autographs instead.