Rio Open

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Rio Open
Tournament information
Founded2014
Location
WTA International Tournaments
(2014–2016)[1]
Draw32S / 24Q / 16D
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 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. Later, the

ATP World Series event played in Brazil.[3][4]

The first edition in 2014 was headlined by former world number one,

clay court specialists
.

The women's tournament was discontinued and replaced by Hungarian Ladies Open after the 2016 edition.[5]

Prior to the

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

Men's doubles

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

Women's singles

Year Champion Runner-up Score
2014
Japan Kurumi Nara
Klára Zakopalová
6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2015
Italy Sara Errani Slovakia Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 7–6(7–2), 6–1
2016
Italy Francesca Schiavone United States Shelby Rogers 2–6, 6–2, 6–2

Women's doubles

Year Champions Runner-up Score
2014
Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
Argentina María Irigoyen
Johanna Larsson
South Africa Chanelle Scheepers
6–2, 6–0
2015
Belgium Ysaline Bonaventure
Sweden Rebecca Peterson
Romania Irina-Camelia Begu
Argentina María Irigoyen
3–0, ret.
2016
Paraguay 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. 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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