The Rio Open, also known as the Rio Open presented by Claro for sponsorship reasons, is a tennis event on the ATP Tour and a former WTA tour-level 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).
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. 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.Rio Open Added To 2014 Calendar – WTA, 26 March 2013
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.
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. 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. This change never occurred.
Past finals
Men's singles YearChampionRunner-upScore2014 Rafael Nadal Alexandr Dolgopolov 6–3, 7–6(7–3)2015 David Ferrer Fabio Fognini 6–2, 6–32016 Pablo Cuevas Guido Pella 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–42017 Dominic Thiem Pablo Carreño Busta 7–5, 6–42018 Diego Schwartzman Fernando Verdasco 6–2, 6–32019 Laslo Djere Félix Auger-Aliassime 6–3, 7–52020 Cristian Garín Gianluca Mager 7–6(7–3), 7–52021 Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic2022 Carlos Alcaraz Diego Schwartzman 6–4, 6–22023 Cameron Norrie Carlos Alcaraz 5–7, 6–4, 7–52024 Sebastián Báez Mariano Navone 6–2, 6–12025 Sebastián Báez (2) Alexandre Müller 6–2, 6–32026 Tomás Martín Etcheverry Alejandro Tabilo 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4
Men's doubles YearChampionsRunner-upScore2014 Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah David Marrero Marcelo Melo 6–4, 6–22015 Martin Kližan Philipp Oswald Pablo Andújar Oliver Marach 7–6(7–3), 6–42016 Juan Sebastián Cabal (2) Robert Farah (2) Pablo Carreño Busta David Marrero 7–6(7–5), 6–12017 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 pandemic2022 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, 6–32025 Rafael Matos (2) Marcelo Melo Pedro Martínez Jaume Munar 6–2, 7–52026 João Fonseca Marcelo Melo (2) Constantin Frantzen Robin Haase 3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Women's singles YearChampionRunner-upScore2014 Kurumi Nara Klára Zakopalová 6–1, 4–6, 6–12015 Sara Errani Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 7–6(7–2), 6–12016 Francesca Schiavone Shelby Rogers 2–6, 6–2, 6–2
Women's doubles YearChampionsRunner-upScore2014 Irina-Camelia Begu María Irigoyen Johanna Larsson Chanelle Scheepers 6–2, 6–02015 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
External links
Rio Open | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis