Rio Open

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Rio Open
Tournament information
Founded2014
Editions10 (2024)
Location Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Venue Jockey Club Brasileiro
Surface Clay (outdoors)
Website rioopen.com
Current champions (2024)
Men's singles Flag of Argentina.svg Sebastián Báez
Men's doubles Flag of Colombia.svg Nicolás Barrientos
Flag of Brazil.svg Rafael Matos
ATP Tour
Category ATP Tour 500
Draw32S / 16Q / 16D / 4Q
Prize money US$2,178,980 (2023)
WTA Tour
Category WTA International Tournaments
(20142016) [1]
Draw32S / 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]

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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 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 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. [5] [6]

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. [7]

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. [8] 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. [9] This change never occurred.

Past finals

Men's singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2014 Flag of Spain.svg Rafael Nadal Flag of Ukraine.svg Alexandr Dolgopolov 6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2015 Flag of Spain.svg David Ferrer Flag of Italy.svg Fabio Fognini 6–2, 6–3
2016 Flag of Uruguay.svg Pablo Cuevas Flag of Argentina.svg Guido Pella 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–4
2017 Flag of Austria.svg Dominic Thiem Flag of Spain.svg Pablo Carreño Busta 7–5, 6–4
2018 Flag of Argentina.svg Diego Schwartzman Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Verdasco 6–2, 6–3
2019 Flag of Serbia.svg Laslo Đere Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Félix Auger-Aliassime 6–3, 7–5
2020 Flag of Chile.svg Cristian Garín Flag of Italy.svg Gianluca Mager 7–6(7–3), 7–5
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz Flag of Argentina.svg Diego Schwartzman 6–4, 6–2
2023 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Cameron Norrie Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Alcaraz 5–7, 6–4, 7–5
2024 Flag of Argentina.svg Sebastián Báez Flag of Argentina.svg Mariano Navone 6–2, 6–1

Men's doubles

YearChampionsRunner-upScore
2014 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Sebastián Cabal
Flag of Colombia.svg Robert Farah
Flag of Spain.svg David Marrero
Flag of Brazil.svg Marcelo Melo
6–4, 6–2
2015 Flag of Slovakia.svg Martin Kližan
Flag of Austria.svg Philipp Oswald
Flag of Spain.svg Pablo Andújar
Flag of Austria.svg Oliver Marach
7–6(7–3), 6–4
2016 Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Sebastián Cabal (2)
Flag of Colombia.svg Robert Farah (2)
Flag of Spain.svg Pablo Carreño Busta
Flag of Spain.svg David Marrero
7–6(7–5), 6–1
2017 Flag of Spain.svg Pablo Carreño Busta
Flag of Uruguay.svg Pablo Cuevas
Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Sebastián Cabal
Flag of Colombia.svg Robert Farah
6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
2018 Flag of Spain.svg David Marrero
Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Verdasco
Flag of Croatia.svg Nikola Mektić
Flag of Austria.svg Alexander Peya
5–7, 7–5, [10–8]
2019 Flag of Argentina.svg Máximo González
Flag of Chile.svg Nicolás Jarry
Flag of Brazil.svg Thomaz Bellucci
Flag of Brazil.svg Rogério Dutra Silva
6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–7]
2020 Flag of Spain.svg Marcel Granollers
Flag of Argentina.svg Horacio Zeballos
Flag of Italy.svg Salvatore Caruso
Flag of Italy.svg Federico Gaio
6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Flag of Italy.svg Simone Bolelli
Flag of Italy.svg Fabio Fognini
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Murray
Flag of Brazil.svg Bruno Soares
7–5, 6–7(2–7), [10–6]
2023 Flag of Argentina.svg Máximo González (2)
Flag of Argentina.svg Andrés Molteni
Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Sebastián Cabal
Flag of Brazil.svg Marcelo Melo
6–1, 7–6(7–3)
2024 Flag of Colombia.svg Nicolás Barrientos
Flag of Brazil.svg Rafael Matos
Flag of Austria.svg Alexander Erler
Flag of Austria.svg Lucas Miedler
6–4, 6–3

Women's singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2014 Flag of Japan.svg Kurumi Nara Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Klára Zakopalová 6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2015 Flag of Italy.svg Sara Errani Flag of Slovakia.svg Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 7–6(7–2), 6–1
2016 Flag of Italy.svg Francesca Schiavone Flag of the United States.svg Shelby Rogers 2–6, 6–2, 6–2

Women's doubles

YearChampionsRunner-upScore
2014 Flag of Romania.svg Irina-Camelia Begu
Flag of Argentina.svg María Irigoyen
Flag of Sweden.svg Johanna Larsson
Flag of South Africa.svg Chanelle Scheepers
6–2, 6–0
2015 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Ysaline Bonaventure
Flag of Sweden.svg Rebecca Peterson
Flag of Romania.svg Irina-Camelia Begu
Flag of Argentina.svg María Irigoyen
3–0, ret.
2016 Flag of Paraguay.svg Verónica Cepede Royg
Flag of Argentina.svg María Irigoyen (2)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Tara Moore
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Conny Perrin
6–1, 7–6(7–5)

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