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This article is about the current tennis tournament. For the defunct tennis tournament, see
Rio de Janeiro Open .
Tennis tournament in Brazil
Tennis tournament
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]
History [ edit ] 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 from 1947 to 1969. 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.[3] [4]
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 .[5]
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 .[6] 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.[7]
Past finals [ edit ] Men's singles [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
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 [ edit ] Women's doubles [ edit ] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
2009–2020 2011–2020 2013–2020 2014–2020 2015–2020 2016–2020 2019–2020 2020 Defunct
Sebastián Báez
Nicolás Barrientos
Rafael Matos
Rafael Nadal
Alexandr Dolgopolov
Fabio Fognini
Pablo Cuevas
Dominic Thiem
Laslo Đere
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Cristian Garín
Cameron Norrie
Martin Kližan 
Nikola Mektić 
Kurumi Nara
Klára Zakopalová
Shelby Rogers
Irina-Camelia Begu 
Johanna Larsson 
Chanelle Scheepers
Ysaline Bonaventure 
Verónica Cepede Royg 
Conny Perrin