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
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 ↓
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
Men's doubles
Year
Champions
Runner-up
Score
↓ ATP Tour 500 ↓
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)
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