Rio Open

This article is about the current tennis tournament. For the defunct tennis tournament, see Rio de Janeiro Open.

Rio Open
Tournament information
Founded	2014
Editions	10 (2024)
Location	Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Venue	Jockey Club Brasileiro
Surface	Clay (outdoors)
Website	rioopen.com
Current champions (2024)
Men's singles	Sebastián Báez
Men's doubles	Nicolás Barrientos Rafael Matos
ATP Tour Category ATP Tour 500 Draw 32S / 16Q / 16D / 4Q Prize money US$2,178,980 (2023)
WTA Tour Category WTA International Tournaments (2014–2016)[1] Draw 32S / 24Q / 16D Prize money US$250,000 (2016)

The Rio Open, also known as the Rio Open presented by Claro for sponsorship reasons, is a tennis event on the ATP Tour and former WTA International Tournaments event. The tournament is played on outdoor clay courts at the Jockey Club Brasileiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the only ATP Tour 500 event in South America and the only ATP Tour event in Brazil (since 2020).^[2][3]

History

There have been a number of precursor tournaments to this one held in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio de Janeiro International was a combined men's and women's event played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ILTF South American Circuit from 1947 to 1967 at the Rio de Janeiro Country Club. Later, the Rio de Janeiro Open was played on indoor carpet courts from 1989 to 1990 and was the first ATP World Series event played in Brazil.^[4][5] The licence for the men's event was taken over from the U.S. National Indoor Championships which did continue but was downgraded from an ATP 500 to an ATP 250 tournament.^[6][7]

The first edition in 2014 was headlined by former world number one, Rafael Nadal and fellow Spanish player David Ferrer. Both of them are well known clay court specialists.

The women's tournament was discontinued and replaced by Hungarian Ladies Open after the 2016 edition.^[8]

Prior to the 2019 edition, there was talk of moving the tournament from the clay court surface of Jockey Club Brasileiro to the outdoor hard courts at the Olympic Tennis Centre, which hosted the tennis events of the 2016 Summer Olympics situated in Barra Olympic Park.^[9] The reasoning was to attract more world-class players to the tournament such as Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Andy Murray who consistently declined to play the event. Juan Martin del Potro once mentioned to the Rio Open director Luiz Carvalho that he would enter the Rio Open when the surface changes.^[10] This change never occurred.

Past finals

Men's singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2014	Rafael Nadal	Alexandr Dolgopolov	6–3, 7–6^(7–3)
2015	David Ferrer	Fabio Fognini	6–2, 6–3
2016	Pablo Cuevas	Guido Pella	6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 6–4
2017	Dominic Thiem	Pablo Carreño Busta	7–5, 6–4
2018	Diego Schwartzman	Fernando Verdasco	6–2, 6–3
2019	Laslo Đere	Félix Auger-Aliassime	6–3, 7–5
2020	Cristian Garín	Gianluca Mager	7–6^(7–3), 7–5
2021	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Carlos Alcaraz	Diego Schwartzman	6–4, 6–2
2023	Cameron Norrie	Carlos Alcaraz	5–7, 6–4, 7–5
2024	Sebastián Báez	Mariano Navone	6–2, 6–1

Men's doubles

Year	Champions	Runner-up	Score
2014	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	David Marrero Marcelo Melo	6–4, 6–2
2015	Martin Kližan Philipp Oswald	Pablo Andújar Oliver Marach	7–6^(7–3), 6–4
2016	Juan Sebastián Cabal (2) Robert Farah (2)	Pablo Carreño Busta David Marrero	7–6^(7–5), 6–1
2017	Pablo Carreño Busta Pablo Cuevas	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
2018	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	Nikola Mektić Alexander Peya	5–7, 7–5, [10–8]
2019	Máximo González Nicolás Jarry	Thomaz Bellucci Rogério Dutra Silva	6–7^(3–7), 6–3, [10–7]
2020	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	Salvatore Caruso Federico Gaio	6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
2021	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	7–5, 6–7^(2–7), [10–6]
2023	Máximo González (2) Andrés Molteni	Juan Sebastián Cabal Marcelo Melo	6–1, 7–6^(7–3)
2024	Nicolás Barrientos Rafael Matos	Alexander Erler Lucas Miedler	6–4, 6–3

Women's singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2014	Kurumi Nara	Klára Zakopalová	6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2015	Sara Errani	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	7–6^(7–2), 6–1
2016	Francesca Schiavone	Shelby Rogers	2–6, 6–2, 6–2

Women's doubles

Year	Champions	Runner-up	Score
2014	Irina-Camelia Begu María Irigoyen	Johanna Larsson Chanelle Scheepers	6–2, 6–0
2015	Ysaline Bonaventure Rebecca Peterson	Irina-Camelia Begu María Irigoyen	3–0, ret.
2016	Verónica Cepede Royg María Irigoyen (2)	Tara Moore Conny Perrin	6–1, 7–6^(7–5)

See also

• Rio de Janeiro Open – men's Grand Prix tournament (1989–1990)
• Rio Tennis Classic – men's Challenger tournament (2017)

References

1. "Rio Open exclui torneio WTA para 2017 - Tenis News". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
2. "Tournaments | ATP Tour | Tennis".
3. "Rio Open - Rio Open confirma Nishikori e Thiem na edição de 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-04-07. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
4. "Tennis: Steffi Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez 6–3, 6–2 and..." Chicago Tribune. 16 April 1989. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
5. "Mattar, Sznajder Reach Rio De Janeiro Tennis Final". Seattle Times. 8 April 1990. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
6. "ATP approves event in Rio beginning in 2014". Long Island Tennis Magazine. 25 April 2012.
7. Rio Open Added To 2014 Calendar – WTA, 26 March 2013
8. "Para crescer, Rio Open 'empresta' WTA e terá apenas ATP 500" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Globo Esporte. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
9. "Parceria avança, e Rio Open deve mudar para Parque Olímpico em 2019". Lance! (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-01-10.
10. "Rio Open hoping to move to Olympic Tennis Centre, surface change possible". Ubitennis. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-10.

External links

• Official website
• Tournament info at ATP