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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).
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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.
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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 .
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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] 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.
[7] 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
Women's doubles
See also
References
External links
2009–2020 2011–2020 2013–2020 2014–2020 2015–2020 2016–2020 2019–2020 2020 Defunct