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Petits As

French junior tennis tournament

Les Petits As – Le Mondial Lacoste (English: Little champions – The Lacoste world championship) is a junior tennis tournament for players aged 12–16, held in Tarbes, France. This tournament is 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 Grand Slam winners later on, 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, 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	FRA Jean-Baptiste Bollée	ESP Juan Manuel Naves
1984	FRA Frédéric Fontang	TCH Marek Miskolci
1985	NED Richard Krajicek	FRA Philippe Leblanc
1986	USA Michael Chang	SWE Johan Alvén
1987	AUT Reinhard Wawra	USA David Klein
1988	USA Brian Dunn	AUT Julian Knowle
1989	USA Tommy Shimada	ESP Gonzalo Corrales
1990	FRA Maxime Boyé	SWE Magnus Norman
1991	ROU Răzvan Sabău	ESP Juan Antonio Saiz
1992	FRA Olivier Mutis	SWE Björn Rehnquist
1993	SLO Miha Gregorc	ROU Dumitru Caradima
1994	ESP Juan Carlos Ferrero	CHI Fernando González
1995	BEL Olivier Rochus	SLO Gasper Martinjak
1996	FRA Paul-Henri Mathieu	BUL Todor Enev
1997	FRA Julien Maigret	ESP Carlos Cuadrado	2–6, 6–1, 6–2
1998	GBR Matthew Smith	CRO Mario Ančić	6–1, 6–3
1999	FRA Richard Gasquet	USA Brian Baker	7–5, 6–3
2000	ESP Rafael Nadal	FRA Julien Gely	6–4, 6–1
2001	RUS Alexandre Krasnoroutskiy	GBR Andy Murray	3–6, 7–5, 6–3
2002	USA Dylan Arnould	SUI Robin Roshardt	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
2003	USA Donald Young	USA Leo Rosenberg	6–2, 6–1
2004	AUS Andrew Thomas	GBR Daniel Cox	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
2005	USA Chase Buchanan	GEO Lazare Kukhalashvili	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
2006	ESP Carlos Boluda	NZL Sebastian Lavie	7–6(7–3), 6–3
2007	ESP Carlos Boluda	USA Christian Harrison	6–2, 6–2
2008	CAN Edward Nguyen	GBR Liam Broady	6–4, 7–5
2009	SRB Nikola Milojević	CRO Borna Ćorić	6–2, 6–3
2010	FRA Quentin Halys	USA Noah Rubin	6–1, 6–2
2011	USA Henrik Wiersholm	ROU Bogdan Borza	6–2, 5–7, 6–3
2012	USA Frances Tiafoe	USA William Blumberg	6–0, 6–2
2013	ITA Samuele Ramazzotti	SRB Miomir Kecmanović	7–6(10–8), 0–6, 6–0
2014	FRA Rayane Roumane	GER Nicola Kuhn	5–7, 7–5, 6–1
2015	TPE Tseng Chun-hsin	RUS Timofey Skatov	6–4, 6–1
2016	USA Stefan Leustian	CRO Borna Devald	6–2, 6–1
2017	ITA Luca Nardi	SRB Hamad Međedović	6–2, 7–5
2018	BUL Victor Lilov	RUS Mikhail Gorokhov	6–4, 7–6(7–6)
2019	CZE Vojtech Petr	QAT Rashed Nawaf	4–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–1)
2020	UKR Oleksandr Ponomar	SUI Janis Rafael Simmen	6–4, 6–1
2021	CZE Maxim Mrva	ITA Federico Cinà	6–3, 3–6, 6–0
2022	NED Thijs Boogaard	USA Carel Aubriel Ngounoue	3–6, 6–2, 6–3
2023	GBR Mark Ceban	LIB Daniel Jade	6–3, 6–2
2024	USA Michael Antonius	ESP Izan Baranes Lasala	4–6, 6–2, 6–0
2025	FRA Mario Vukovic	USA Tristan Ascenzo	6–1, 6–0

Girls' singles

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

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