Rio Open

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]

Rio Open
Tournament information
Founded2014
LocationRio de Janeiro
Brazil
VenueJockey Club Brasileiro
SurfaceClay (outdoors)
Websiterioopen.com
Current champions (2023)
Men's singlesUnited Kingdom Cameron Norrie
Men's doublesArgentina Máximo González
Argentina Andrés Molteni
ATP Tour
CategoryATP Tour 500
(2014–current)
Draw32S / 16Q / 16D / 4Q
Prize moneyUS$2,178,980 (2023)
WTA Tour
CategoryWTA International Tournaments
(2014–2016)[1]
Draw32S / 24Q / 16D
Prize moneyUS$250,000 (2016)

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. Followed by The Rio de Janeiro Open with indoor carpet courts from 1989 to 1990 was the first ATP World Series 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 2016 edition.[5]

For the 2019 edition, there was plan to move the tournament from the clay court surface in 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] The reason behind was to attract more world class players in 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 will play Rio Open when the surface changes.[7]

Past finals

Men's singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score
↓  ATP Tour 500  ↓
2014Spain Rafael NadalUkraine Alexandr Dolgopolov6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2015Spain David FerrerItaly Fabio Fognini6–2, 6–3
2016Uruguay Pablo CuevasArgentina Guido Pella6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–4
2017Austria Dominic ThiemSpain Pablo Carreño Busta7–5, 6–4
2018Argentina Diego SchwartzmanSpain Fernando Verdasco6–2, 6–3
2019Serbia Laslo ĐereCanada Félix Auger-Aliassime6–3, 7–5
2020Chile Cristian GarínItaly Gianluca Mager7–6(7–3), 7–5
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022Spain Carlos AlcarazArgentina Diego Schwartzman6–4, 6–2
2023United Kingdom Cameron NorrieSpain Carlos Alcaraz5–7, 6–4, 7–5

Men's doubles
Year Champions Runner-up Score
↓  ATP Tour 500  ↓
2014Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal
Colombia Robert Farah		Spain David Marrero
Brazil Marcelo Melo		6–4, 6–2
2015Slovakia Martin Kližan
Austria Philipp Oswald		Spain Pablo Andújar
Austria Oliver Marach		7–6(7–3), 6–4
2016Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal (2)
Colombia Robert Farah (2)		Spain Pablo Carreño Busta
Spain David Marrero		7–6(7–5), 6–1
2017Spain Pablo Carreño Busta
Uruguay Pablo Cuevas		Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal
Colombia Robert Farah		6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
2018Spain David Marrero
Spain Fernando Verdasco		Croatia Nikola Mektić
Austria Alexander Peya		5–7, 7–5, [10–8]
2019Argentina Máximo González
Chile Nicolás Jarry		Brazil Thomaz Bellucci
Brazil Rogério Dutra Silva		6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–7]
2020Spain Marcel Granollers
Argentina Horacio Zeballos		Italy Salvatore Caruso
Italy Federico Gaio		6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022Italy Simone Bolelli
Italy Fabio Fognini		United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Brazil Bruno Soares		7–5, 6–7(2–7), [10–6]
2023Argentina Máximo González (2)
Argentina Andrés Molteni		Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal
Brazil Marcelo Melo		6–1, 7–6(7–3)

Women's singles
Year Champion Runner-up Score
2014Japan Kurumi NaraCzech Republic Klára Zakopalová6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2015Italy Sara ErraniSlovakia Anna Karolína Schmiedlová7–6(7–2), 6–1
2016Italy Francesca SchiavoneUnited States Shelby Rogers2–6, 6–2, 6–2

Women's doubles
Year Champions Runner-up Score
2014Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
Argentina María Irigoyen		Sweden Johanna Larsson
South Africa Chanelle Scheepers		6–2, 6–0
2015Belgium Ysaline Bonaventure
Sweden Rebecca Peterson		Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
Argentina María Irigoyen		3–0, ret.
2016Paraguay Verónica Cepede Royg
Argentina María Irigoyen (2)		United Kingdom Tara Moore
Switzerland Conny Perrin		6–1, 7–6(7–5)

See also

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. "Tennis: Steffi Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez 6-3, 6-2 and..." Chicago Tribune. April 16, 1989. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
    "Mattar, Sznajder Reach Rio De Janeiro Tennis Final". Seattle Times. April 8, 1990. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
  4. Rio Open Added To 2014 Calendar - WTA, 26 March 2013
  5. "Para crescer, Rio Open 'empresta' WTA e terá apenas ATP 500" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Globo Esporte. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  6. "Parceria avança, e Rio Open deve mudar para Parque Olímpico em 2019". Lance! (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  7. "Rio Open hoping to move to Olympic Tennis Centre, surface change possible". Ubitennis. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
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