Petits As

Les Petits As (English: Little champions) is a premier junior tennis tournament for players aged 12–14. It is held in Tarbes, France. It is often considered to be the European equivalent of the Junior Orange Bowl in Florida, United States due to the high number of international players that it attracts.

The event has seen a number of its champions go on to become slam winners, including Rafael Nadal, Michael Chang, Martina Hingis, Kim Clijsters, and Jeļena Ostapenko . 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.

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.[1] 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.[2]

Results

Boys' singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score
1983 Jean-Baptiste Bollée Juan Manuel Naves
1984 Frédéric Fontang Marek Miskolci[3]
1985 Richard Krajicek Philippe Leblanc
1986 Michael Chang Johan Alvenn
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 Dymitry Caradima
1994 Juan Carlos Ferrero Fernando González
1995 Olivier Rochus Gasper Martinjak
1996 Paul-Henri Mathieu Todor Enev
1997 Julien Maigret Carlos Cuadrado2–6, 6–1, 6–2
1998 Matthew Smith Mario Ančić6–1, 6–3
1999 Richard Gasquet Brian Baker7–5, 6–3
2000 Rafael Nadal Julien Gely6–4, 6–1
2001 Alexandre Krasnoroutski Andy Murray3–6, 7–5, 6–3
2002 Dylan Arnould Robin Roshardt6–4, 7–6(7–2)
2003 Donald Young Leo Rosenberg6–2, 6–1
2004 Andrew Thomas Vladimir Ignatic
2005 Chase Buchanan Lazare Kukhalashvili6–4, 4–6, 6–4[4]
2006 Carlos Boluda Sebastian Lavie7–6(7–3), 6–3
2007 Carlos Boluda Christian Harrison6–2, 6–2
2008 Edward Nguyen Liam Broady6–4, 7–5
2009 Nikola Milojević Borna Ćorić6–2, 6–3
2010 Quentin Halys Noah Rubin6–1, 6–2
2011 Henrik Wiersholm Bogdan Borza6–2, 5–7, 6–3
2012 Frances Tiafoe William Blumberg6–0, 6–2
2013 Samuele Ramazzotti Miomir Kecmanović7–6(10–8), 0–6, 6–0
2014 Rayane Roumane Nicola Kuhn5–7, 7–5, 6–1
2015 Tseng Chun-hsin Timofey Skatov6–4, 6–1
2016 Stefan Leustian Borna Devald6–2, 6–1
2017 Luca Nardi Hamad Međedović6–2, 7–5
2018 Victor Lilov Mikhail Gorokhov6–4, 7–6(7–6)

Girls' singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score Semifinalists
1983 Sybille Niox-Château Cécile Bourdaix
1984 Emmanuelle Derly Alexia Dechaume
1985 Sandrine Jaquet Hanika 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 Bovina7–5, 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 Brengle6–4, 6–4
2005 Ksenia Pervak Gracia Radovanovic
2006 Gabriela Dabrowski Anna Arina Marenko6–3, 6–4[5]
2007 Anna Orlik Nicole Gibbs6–4, 6–1 Grace Min
Ingrid Radu
2008 Daria Gavrilova Laura Robson6–3, 6–3 An-Sophie Mestach
Nastja Kolar
2009 Yulia Putintseva Irina Khromacheva6–4, 6–2 Petra Uberalová
Petra Rohanová
2010 Kanami Tsuji Indy de Vroome4–6, 6–3, 6–4 Marianna Zakarlyuk
Oleksandra Korashvili
2011 Jeļena Ostapenko Anastasiya Komardina1–6, 6–3, 6–3 Belinda Bencic
Veronika Kudermetova
2012 Jaqueline Cristian Tornado Alicia Black6–2, 6–3 Gabriella Taylor
Maia Lumsden
2013 CiCi Bellis Andreea Amalia Roșca6–0, 6–2 Sofya Zhuk
Markéta Vondroušová
2014 Bianca Andreescu Claire Liu6–4, 7–5 Elysia Bolton
Katarina Zavatska
2015 Anastasia Potapova Olga Danilović6–4, 6–4 Kamilla Rakhimova
Iga Świątek
2016 Marta Kostyuk Denisa Hindová6–2, 6–1 Ariana Arseneault
Himari Sato
2017 Maria Timofeeva Daria Lopatetska6–3, 4–6, 6–3 Coco Gauff
Polina Kudermetova
2018 Alexandra Eala Linda Nosková5–7, 6–3, 7–6(7–5) Katerina Dimitrova
Katja Wiersholm
2019 Linda Fruhvirtová Sofia Costoulas6–1, 6–0 Anastasiia Gureva
Kristyna Tomajková
2020 Brenda Fruhvirtová Clervie Ngounoue6–0, 3–6, 7–5 Weronika Ewald
Hannah Read

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:

Notable later meeting of Les Petites As competitors

In the 2011 Australian Open, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic met in the final. They had first played each other in Les Petits As in 2000 as 13-year-olds (born a week apart in May, 1987). Murray remembered winning the Petits As match "6-love, 6–1 maybe." Djokovic (3 seed in Australia 2011[6]), who had already eliminated Roger Federer (2 seed[6]) would "be just a bit tougher than that on Sunday," averred Murray. Murray (5 seed) had just beaten David Ferrer (7 seed) in the semis at Melbourne Park. Ferrer earlier in the 2011 tournament had beaten Rafael Nadal, who was the overall winner of the 2000 Petits As[7] and the top seed in the 2011 Open.[8] In the event, in Australia 2011, Djokovic beat Murray in a hard-fought but convincing straight sets win, following the match with "a warm embrace at the net as if to say to his longtime friend and rival, until next time", as one commentator put it.[9]

References
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