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Porto Alegre Junior Championships
Tournament information
Founded	1978 (Copa Gerdau in 1984)
Location	Porto Alegre Brazil
Venue	Associação Leopoldina Juvenil and Sogipa
Category	ITF Junior Grade A (2007–current)
Surface	Red clay – outdoors
Draw	64S / 64Q / 32D (Boys) 64S / 48Q / 32D (Girls)
Website	www.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

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

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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

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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

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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