The Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Classic hosted by USTA Louisiana at New Orleans City Park Tennis Center will return on Saturday, November 9th through Monday, November 11th. The tournament will be played at five locations (City Park Tennis Center, Atkinson Stern, Audubon Tennis Center, UNO Tennis Center, and Xavier Tennis Center), matches will start at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday at all locations. The finals will take place at City Park Tennis Center on Monday, November 11th starting at 9:30 a.m. The tournament is free and open to the public at all locations.

Official Tournament Website

The Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Classic is a USTA National Tournament for female and male players from throughout the United States and Puerto Rico in the 12&Under, 14&Under, 16&Under, and 18&Under age divisions. Over 900 youth players registered to be play in the event with only 256 being selected for the main draw in singles – the top 32 in each of the eight divisions. Those selected for the singles draws have the opportunity to play doubles with a partner from the draw; if they opt out, an alternate replaces for doubles bringing the total number of players to approximately 300.

Local athletes competing in the event – which is the highest level of junior competition in Louisiana – include:

Parker Bryan of Baton Rouge – last year’s champion in the Boys 12&Under, competing in 14&Under
Mikayla Person of Baton Rouge – competing in Girls 14&Under
My-Anh Holmes of New Orleans – competing in Girls 18&Under

2023: Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Tournament Returns
2022: Canceled Due to Court Damages from Hurricane Ida
2021: Canceled Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
2020: Canceled Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
2019: Allstate Sugar Bowl Welcomes Nation’s Top Junior Tennis Players
2018: Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Classic Expands to National-Level Event
2017: Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Tournament Welcomes 1,500 Competitors
2016: Successful Return for Allstate Sugar Bowl Tennis Tournament

The Sugar Bowl sponsored a junior tennis tournament from 1948-1993. It evolved into a collegiate and international tourney from 1994 to 2001.

LHSAA Class 5A Region III Tennis Tournament

The Allstate Sugar Bowl has also sponsored the Louisiana High School Athletic Association Class 5A Region IV Tennis Tournament for the past 11 years at the City Park/Pepsi Tennis Center. The event crowns the top boys’ and girls’ tennis teams and individuals from the Bayou region of Louisiana and the South-shore Metro New Orleans area. Each quarterfinalist in singles and doubles qualifies for the LHSAA State Championships.

Brother Martin High School and Mount Carmel Academy successfully defended their boys’ and girls’ championships, respectively, at the 2019 event.

Top-seeded Iris Westmoreland, from Mount Carmel, won the girls’ singles title with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Mary-Parker Whisnant from Dominican. Mount Carmel had the top two-seeded teams in the girls’ doubles bracket and that held to form in the tournament as the duo of Caroline Arnold and Niki Bountovinas topped teammates Sydney Green and Casey Pappas, 6-3, 6-0, in the title match. Arnold and Bountovinas also won the regional doubles title last year.

In boys’ singles action, Brother Martin’s Matthew Armbruster defeated defending champion Jojo Sandoz from Jesuit, 6-1, 6-3. In doubles action, the Crusaders also came out on top as the team of Hunter Kael and Jack Robinson posted a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Nick Crockens and James Henican from Jesuit. Kael and Robinson had been the regional runners-up in 2018.

2019: Brother Martin and Mt. Carmel Repeat as Region IV Tennis Champs
2018: Brother Martin and Mt. Carmel Halt Region IV Tennis Dynasties
2017: Dynasties Continue at Class 5A Region IV Tennis Championships
2016: Jesuit and Dominican Continue Regional Tennis Dominance
2015: Familiar Faces Repeat as Champs at the Regional Tennis Tournament
2014: Dominican and Jesuit Repeat as Class 5A Regional IV Tennis Champs
2013: Dominican and Jesuit Capture Class 5A Region IV Tennis Titles
2012: Jesuit and Mount Carmel Make It Four Straight Regional Tennis Titles, but Dominican Earns Share in Girls Event
2011: Jesuit and Mount Carmel Make It Three Straight Tennis Titles
2010: Jesuit and Mount Carmel Win Class 5A Region IV Tennis Titles
2009: Jesuit and Mount Carmel Collect LHSAA Class 5A Region IV Tennis Titles

World Junior Tennis Classic

The Sugar Bowl’s World Junior Tennis Classic was held from 1994 to 2001. The event showcased the top American and international junior tennis players. The Classic was an International Tennis Federation sanctioned event. The eight-day event was played in the beginning of September and held indoors at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside’s Rivercenter Racquet and Health Club courts.

2000 Results
Boys’ Singles: No. 1 Andy Roddick (Boca Raton, Fla.) def. No. 3 Roman Valent (Switzerland), 6-4, 6-3.
Girls’ Singles: No. 1 Tatiana Perebiynis (Ukraine) def. No. 12 Jelena Jankovic (Yugoslavia), 26-, 6-3, 7-5.
Girls’ Doubles: No. 1 Christina Wheeler & Samantha Stosur (Australia) def. Unseeded So Hseih (Taipei) & Shuai Peng (China), 6-0, 4-6, 6-4.
Boys’ Doubles: No. 2 Bruno Echagaray & Santiago Gonzalez (Mexico) def. No. 4 Jacobo Hernandez (Mexico) & Amaud Segodo (Benin), 6-4, 7-6 (4).

1999 Results
Boys’ Singles: No. 14 Peter John Nomdo (South Africa) def. Andy Roddick (Boca Raton, Fla.), 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Girls’ Singles: No. 2 Lenka Dlhopolcova (Slovakia) def. No. 4 Melissa Sowse (Australia), 6-0, 6-3.
Boys’ Doubles: Unseeded Andrew Banks & ben Riby (Great Britain) def. No. 1 Todor Enev (Bulgaria) & Daniel Lange (Mexico), 6-4, 6-3.
Girls’ Doubles: No. 4 Christina Wheeler (Australia) & Natalie Grandin (South Africa) def. No. 1 Dlhopolcova & Lubomira Kurhajcova (Slovenia), 6-0, 6-3.

1998 Results
Boys’ Singles: Unseeded Joachim Johansson (Sweden) def. No. 6 Alexei Kedriouk (Kazakhstan), 7-6(5), 6-2.
Girls’ Singles: No. 6 Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzbekistan) def. No. 10 Monika Horvath (Hungary), 6-1, 6-0.
Girls’ Doubles: No. 1 Leanne Baker (New Zealand) & Erica Krauth (Argentina) def. Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzbekistan) & Zuzana Kucova (Slovak Republic), 3-6, 6-2, 6-0.
Boys’ Doubles: Philip Gubenco & Charles Sevigny (Canada) def. Ryan Haviland & John Gray (United States), 6-7(6), 7-6(3), 6-3.

1997 Results
Boys’ Singles: No. 1 Wei-Jen Cheng (Taipei) def. No. 2 Valentin Sanon (Ivory Coast), 6-3, 6-2.
Girls’ Singles: No. 8 Hannah Collin (Great Britain) def. No. 3 Stainislava Hrozenska (Slovakia): 1-0, ret.
Girls’ Doubles: No. 1 Paola Palencia (Mexico) & Alicia Pillay (South Africa) def. unseeded Masa Vesenjak & Urska Vesenjak (Slovenia), 6-1, 6-4.
Boys’ Doubles: No. 1 David Sherwood (Great Britain) & Jaco Vander Westhuizen (South Africa) def. Victor Romero & Rodrigo Echagaray (Mexico), 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

1996 Results
Boys’ Singles Champion: No. 1 Damien Roberts (South Africa).
Girls’ Singles Champion: No. 1 Surina DeBeer (South Africa).
Boys’ Doubles Champions: Damien Roberts & Wesley Whitehouse (South Africa).
Girls’ Doubles: Catalina Castano (Columbia) & Ira Selyutin (Kazakhyzstan) def. Surina DeBeer & Monique Leseuer (South Africa).

1995 Results
Boys’ Singles: Nick Cromwell def. Geoff Abrams (Tampa, Fla.), 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Girls’ Singles: Kristina Triska (Sweden) def. No. 3 Mirjana Lucic (Croatia), 6-4, 6-2.
Girls’ Doubles: Ana Elizabeth Jimenez & Paola Palencia (Mexico) def. Tracy Singian (Lake Forest, Fla.) & Brenda Vlasak (Westminster, Colo.), 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
Boys’ Doubles: Ryan Wolters (Fullerton, Calif.) & Kevin Kim (California) def. Doug Root (Mendham, N.J.) & Ramsey Smith (Hilton Head, S.C.), 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.

1994 Results
Boys’ Singles: No. 7 Louis Vosloo (South Africa) def. No. 8 Marc Urbainczyk (Miami, Fla.), 6-4, 7-6(3).
Girls’ Singles: No. 1 Jessica Steck (South Africa) def. Holly Parkinson (Tampa, Fla.), 7-5, 6-3.
Girls’ Doubles: No. 1 Jessica Steck (South Africa) & Samantha Reeves (Monona, Wis.) def. No. 4 Julie Ditty (Ashland, Kent.) & Tammy Encina (Miami Beach, Fla.), 6-2, 7-6(2).
Boys’ Doubles: No. 4 Brandon Kramer (Reno, Nev.) & Misha Palecek (Atherton, Calif.) def. No. 1 Ricardo Rosas & Fernando Sierra (Mexico), 6-4, 6-4