This article is about the current tennis tournament. For the defunct tennis tournament, see Rio de Janeiro Open.
Rio Open
joint
Current2026 Rio Open
CityRio de Janeiro
CountryBrazil
Founded2014
Editions11
VenueJockey Club Brasileiro
SurfaceClay (outdoors)
Websiterioopen.com
Completed event2026
Men's singlesTomás Martín Etcheverry
Men's doublesJoão Fonseca
Marcelo Melo
Atp categoryATP Tour 500
Atp draw32S / 16Q / 16D / 4Q
Atp prize moneyUS$2,178,980 (2023)
Wta tierWTA International Tournaments
(2014–2016)[1]
Wta draw32S / 24Q / 16D
Wta prize moneyUS$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 a former WTA tour-level 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][3]

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 as part of the ILTF South American Circuit from 1947 to 1967 at the Rio de Janeiro Country Club. 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.[4][5] 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.[6][7]

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.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10] This change never occurred.

Past finals

Men's singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2014Rafael NadalAlexandr Dolgopolov6–3, 7–6(7–3)
2015David FerrerFabio Fognini6–2, 6–3
2016Pablo CuevasGuido Pella6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–4
2017Dominic ThiemPablo Carreño Busta7–5, 6–4
2018Diego SchwartzmanFernando Verdasco6–2, 6–3
2019Laslo DjereFélix Auger-Aliassime6–3, 7–5
2020Cristian GarínGianluca Mager7–6(7–3), 7–5
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022Carlos AlcarazDiego Schwartzman6–4, 6–2
2023Cameron NorrieCarlos Alcaraz5–7, 6–4, 7–5
2024Sebastián BáezMariano Navone6–2, 6–1
2025Sebastián Báez (2)Alexandre Müller6–2, 6–3
2026Tomás Martín EtcheverryAlejandro Tabilo3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4

Men's doubles

YearChampionsRunner-upScore
2014Juan Sebastián Cabal
Robert Farah		David Marrero
Marcelo Melo		6–4, 6–2
2015Martin Kližan
Philipp Oswald		Pablo Andújar
Oliver Marach		7–6(7–3), 6–4
2016Juan Sebastián Cabal (2)
Robert Farah (2)		Pablo Carreño Busta
David Marrero		7–6(7–5), 6–1
2017Pablo Carreño Busta
Pablo Cuevas		Juan Sebastián Cabal
Robert Farah		6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
2018David Marrero
Fernando Verdasco		Nikola Mektić
Alexander Peya		5–7, 7–5, [10–8]
2019Máximo González
Nicolás Jarry		Thomaz Bellucci
Rogério Dutra Silva		6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–7]
2020Marcel Granollers
Horacio Zeballos		Salvatore Caruso
Federico Gaio		6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022Simone Bolelli
Fabio Fognini		Jamie Murray
Bruno Soares		7–5, 6–7(2–7), [10–6]
2023Máximo González (2)
Andrés Molteni		Juan Sebastián Cabal
Marcelo Melo		6–1, 7–6(7–3)
2024Nicolás Barrientos
Rafael Matos		Alexander Erler
Lucas Miedler		6–4, 6–3
2025Rafael Matos (2)
Marcelo Melo		Pedro Martínez
Jaume Munar		6–2, 7–5
2026João Fonseca
Marcelo Melo (2)		Constantin Frantzen
Robin Haase		3–6, 6–3, [10–8]

Women's singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2014Kurumi NaraKlára Zakopalová6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2015Sara ErraniAnna Karolína Schmiedlová7–6(7–2), 6–1
2016Francesca SchiavoneShelby Rogers2–6, 6–2, 6–2

Women's doubles

YearChampionsRunner-upScore
2014Irina-Camelia Begu
María Irigoyen		Johanna Larsson
Chanelle Scheepers		6–2, 6–0
2015Ysaline Bonaventure
Rebecca Peterson		Irina-Camelia Begu
María Irigoyen		3–0, ret.
2016Verónica Cepede Royg
María Irigoyen (2)		Tara Moore
Conny Perrin		6–1, 7–6(7–5)

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Tournaments | ATP Tour | Tennis"
  3. ^ "Rio Open - Rio Open confirma Nishikori e Thiem na edição de 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-04-07. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  4. ^ "Tennis: Steffi Graf beat Arantxa Sanchez 6–3, 6–2 and...". Chicago Tribune. 16 April 1989. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
  5. ^ "Mattar, Sznajder Reach Rio De Janeiro Tennis Final". Seattle Times. 8 April 1990. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
  6. ^ "ATP approves event in Rio beginning in 2014". Long Island Tennis Magazine. 25 April 2012.
  7. ^ Rio Open Added To 2014 Calendar – WTA, 26 March 2013
  8. ^ "Para crescer, Rio Open 'empresta' WTA e terá apenas ATP 500" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Globo Esporte. Archived from the original on 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  9. ^ "Parceria avança, e Rio Open deve mudar para Parque Olímpico em 2019" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Lance!. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  10. ^ "Rio Open hoping to move to Olympic Tennis Centre, surface change possible". Ubitennis. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-10.