Mitsubishi Lancer International Junior Tennis Championship

The Mitsubishi Lancer International Junior Tennis Championship (MLIJTC) is an international junior tennis tournament in the Philippines.

The Mitsubishi Lancer International Junior Tennis Championship (MLIJTC), a tournament sponsored by Mitsubishi Motors Philippines, held its first edition in 1990.^[1] It has been part of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior circuit starting as a Grade 3 competition.^[2]

By 1996, the MLIJTC is already Grade 2 tournament. It was reportedly the third largest tournament in Asia after the Suntory Open in Japan (Grade 1) and the Hong Kong Interntional Juniors (Grade 2) at around that time.^[3]

In 2002, the MLIJTC was elevated to Grade 1.^[2] It remained so until its last iteration.^[4]

The tournament held its 25th edition in 2014.^[5][6] The Philippine Tennis Association announced in 2015, that Mitsubishi has informed them that it is dissolving the tournament over unaddressed issues over the state of the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center.^[7]

The Rizal Memorial Tennis Center in Manila is the main venue of the MLIJTC.^[7] In 1996, the tournament was held at the Manila Polo Club in Makati instead when the Rizal venue was being renovated.^[3]

The tournament itself was inducted to the PSA Hall of Fame of the 2015 Annual Awards of the Philippine Sportswriters Association.^[8]

Dominated by foreign tennis players, the boys' single tournament has never been won by a Filipino.^[9] Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick, Leander Paes, and Mark Philippoussis have played in the MLIJTC.^[1] In 2009, Francis Alcantara teamed up with Swedish player Daniel Berta to win the boys' doubles.^[10]

There are three Filipina winners in the girls' tournament: Francesca La'O (1991 and 1994), Jennifer Saret (1993), and Maricris Fernandez (1995 and 1997).^[1][5]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score	Ref.
1990–1992	No information (3)
1993	Martin Hromec	James Sekulov	6–3, 6–3	[11]
1994	Andrian Raturandang	Dominik Hrbatý	7–5 4–6 6–3	[12]
1995	Martin Lee	Jocelyn Robichaud	w/o	[13]
1996	Miha Gregorc	Lee Seung-hoon	6–3, 6–4	[14]
1997	Wesley Whitehouse	Lleyton Hewitt	6–4, 6–3	[15]
1998	Danai Udomchoke	Jacob Adaktusson	7–5, 6–0	[16]
1999	David Martin	Mardy Fish	7–6, 6–3	[17]
2000	Simon Stadler	Matthew Emeryn	6–2, 6–0	[18]
2001	Luka Gregorc	Clint Charles	6–4, 6–3	[19]
2002	Robert Smeets	Chris Kwon	6–3, 3–6, 6–4	[20]
2003	Adam Feeney	Jamie Baker	6–2, 6–2	[21]
2004	Tom Rushby	Tushar Liberhan	6–4, 7–6 (8)	[22]
2005	Abdullah Maqdes	Martin Sayer	6–3, 6–3	[23]
2006	Lee Hsin-Han	Sho Aida	7–6 (2), 5–7, 6–4	[24]
2007	John-Patrick Smith	Silvio Dadic	6–4, 6–4	[25]
2008	Cho Soong-Jae	Borut Puc	7–5, 6–1	[26]
2009	Daniel Berta	Riki McLachlan	6–3, 6–4	[27]
2010	James Duckworth	Tobias Blomgren	6–3, 6–2	[28]
2011	Andrew Whittington	Jeson Patrombon	6–2, 6–3	[29]
2012	Nikola Milojević	Jordan Thompson	6–0, 7–5	[30]
2013	Cameron Norrie	Luke Bambridge	6–2, 6–4	[31]
2014	Kang Ku-keon	Rhett Purcell	6–3, 6–4	[32]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score	Ref.
1990	No information
1991	Francesca La'O			[1]
1992	Cătălina Cristea			[33]
1993	Jennifer Saret			[1]
1994	Francesca La'O	Jodi Richardson	1–6, 6–4, 6–3	[34]
1995	Maricris Fernandez			[3]
1996	Saori Obata	Liu Weina	6–3, 6–3	[35]
1997	Maricris Fernandez			[5]
1998–1999	No information (2)
2000	Angelique Widjaja	Nicole Kriz	6–4, 6–4	[36]
2001	Hsieh Su-wei			[37]
2002–2006	No information (5)
2007	Zhang Li	Chang Kai-chen	6–4, 6–1	[38]
2008	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn	Timea Babos	3–6, 7–5, 6–4	[39]
2009	Polina Leykina	Ekaterina Nikitina	6–2, 6–4	[40]
2010	Irina Khromacheva	Tian Ran	6–2, 6–2	[41]
2011	Jovana Jović	Anett Kontaveit	6–4, 7–6 (3)	[42]
2012	Storm Sanders	Anna Tyulpa	4–6, 6–3, 6–1	[43]
2013	İpek Soylu	Katie Boulter	6–2 4–6 6–3	[44]
2014	Gloria Liang	Kimberly Birrell	6–2 7–5	[45]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score	Ref.
1990–1993	No information
1994	Chris Santoso Novak Nash	Dominik Hrbatý Milan Turkovik	3–6, 7–5, 6–3	[34]
1995	No information
1996	Wesley Whitehouse Damien Roberts	Dominik Hrbatý Xavier Malisse	7–6 (2), 6–2	[35]
1997–1998	No information
1999	David Martin Chris Martin			[9]
2000–2005	No information
2006	Lee Hsin-Han Peng Hsien-yin			[9]
2007	Peng Hsien-yin Yang Tsung-hua	Nikita Zotov Evgeny Donskoy	6–3, 6–3	[38]
2008	Borut Puc Kittipong Wachiramanowong	Andrew Thomas Mark Verryth	7–6 (1), 6–1	[39]
2009	Francis Alcantara Daniel Berta	Ben McLachlan Niki McLachlan	6–3, 6–0	[9]
2010	Francis Alcantara Raymond Sarmiento	Sam Barry Ben McLachlan	6–4, 6–3	[41]
2011–2013	No information
2014	Rhett Purcell Alexander Klintcharov	Lin Wei De Yang Shao Chi	7–6 (5), 7–5	[45]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score	Ref.
1990–1995	No information
1996	Saori Obata Nami Orabe	Surina de Beer Marissa Niroj	6–3, 7–5	[35]
1997–1998	No information
2000	Angelique Widjaja Dea Sumantri	Elena Baltacha Jane O'Donoghue	6–1, 3–6, 6–3	[36]
2001–2006	No information
2007	Denise Dy Jessy Rompies	Chang Kai-chen Veronica Li	6–3, 6–1	[38]
2008	Timea Babos Réka Luca Jani	Misaki Doi Elena Chernyakova	6–5 (4), 6–0, 10–7	[39]
2009	No information
2010	Tamara Čurović Luksika Kumkhum	Irina Khromacheva Ilona Kremen	5–7, 6–4, 10–8	[41]
2011–2013	No information
2014	Katie Boulder Freya Christie	Natsuho Arakawa Lizette Cabrera	6–4, 6–1	[45]

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