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).

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. 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.

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.

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. 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. This change never occurred.

Past finals

Men's singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
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 DjereCanada 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
2024Argentina Sebastián BáezArgentina Mariano Navone6–2, 6–1
2025Argentina Sebastián Báez (2)France Alexandre Müller6–2, 6–3
2026Argentina Tomás Martín EtcheverryChile Alejandro Tabilo3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–4

Men's doubles

YearChampionsRunner-upScore
2014Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Colombia Robert FarahSpain David Marrero Brazil Marcelo Melo6–4, 6–2
2015Slovakia Martin Kližan Austria Philipp OswaldSpain Pablo Andújar Austria Oliver Marach7–6(7–3), 6–4
2016Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal (2) Colombia Robert Farah (2)Spain Pablo Carreño Busta Spain David Marrero7–6(7–5), 6–1
2017Spain Pablo Carreño Busta Uruguay Pablo CuevasColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Colombia Robert Farah6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
2018Spain David Marrero Spain Fernando VerdascoCroatia Nikola Mektić Austria Alexander Peya5–7, 7–5, [10–8]
2019Argentina Máximo González Chile Nicolás JarryBrazil Thomaz Bellucci Brazil Rogério Dutra Silva6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–7]
2020Spain Marcel Granollers Argentina Horacio ZeballosItaly Salvatore Caruso Italy Federico Gaio6–4, 5–7, [10–7]
2021Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022Italy Simone Bolelli Italy Fabio FogniniUnited Kingdom Jamie Murray Brazil Bruno Soares7–5, 6–7(2–7), [10–6]
2023Argentina Máximo González (2) Argentina Andrés MolteniColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Brazil Marcelo Melo6–1, 7–6(7–3)
2024Colombia Nicolás Barrientos Brazil Rafael MatosAustria Alexander Erler Austria Lucas Miedler6–4, 6–3
2025Brazil Rafael Matos (2) Brazil Marcelo MeloSpain Pedro Martínez Spain Jaume Munar6–2, 7–5
2026Brazil João Fonseca Brazil Marcelo Melo (2)Germany Constantin Frantzen Netherlands Robin Haase3–6, 6–3, [10–8]

Women's singles

YearChampionRunner-upScore
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

YearChampionsRunner-upScore
2014Romania Irina-Camelia Begu Argentina María IrigoyenSweden Johanna Larsson South Africa Chanelle Scheepers6–2, 6–0
2015Belgium Ysaline Bonaventure Sweden Rebecca PetersonRomania Irina-Camelia Begu Argentina María Irigoyen3–0, ret.
2016Paraguay Verónica Cepede Royg Argentina María Irigoyen (2)United Kingdom Tara Moore Switzerland Conny Perrin6–1, 7–6(7–5)

See also

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