This article is about the current tennis tournament. For the defunct tennis tournament, see
Rio de Janeiro Open.
Tennis tournament in Brazil
Tennis tournament
TheRio Open, also known as theRio Open presented by Claro for sponsorship reasons, is a tennis event on theATP Tour and formerWTA International Tournaments event. The tournament is played on outdoorclay courts at theJockey Club Brasileiro inRio de Janeiro,Brazil. It is the onlyATP Tour 500 event inSouth America and the onlyATP Tour event in Brazil (since 2020).[2][3]
There have been a number of precursor tournaments to this one held in Rio de Janeiro. TheRio de Janeiro International was a combined men's and women's event played on outdoor clay courts as part of theILTF South American Circuit from 1947 to 1967 at the Rio de Janeiro Country Club. Later, theRio de Janeiro Open was played on indoorcarpet courts from 1989 to 1990 and was the firstATP World Series event played in Brazil.[4][5] The licence for the men's event was taken over from theU.S. National Indoor Championships which did continue but was downgraded from anATP 500 to anATP 250 tournament.[6][7]
The first edition in 2014 was headlined by former world number one,Rafael Nadal and fellow Spanish playerDavid Ferrer. Both of them are well knownclay court specialists.
The women's tournament was discontinued and replaced byHungarian Ladies Open after the2016 edition.[8]
Prior to the2019 edition, there was talk of moving the tournament from the clay court surface of Jockey Club Brasileiro to the outdoorhard courts at theOlympic Tennis Centre, which hosted thetennis events of the2016 Summer Olympics situated inBarra Olympic Park.[9] The reasoning was to attract more world-class players to the tournament such asNovak Djokovic,Roger Federer, andAndy 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.
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
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| 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 Djere |  Félix Auger-Aliassime | 6–3, 7–5 |
| 2020 |  Cristian Garín | Gianluca Mager | 7–6(7–3), 7–5 |
| 2021 | Not held due toCOVID-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 |
| 2025 | Sebastián Báez(2) |  Alexandre Müller | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Year | Champions | Runner-up | Score |
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| 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 toCOVID-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 |
| 2025 | Rafael Matos(2)
Marcelo Melo | Pedro Martínez
Jaume Munar | 6–2, 7–5 |
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2025 Rio Open
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Klára Zakopalová
Shelby Rogers
Irina-Camelia Begu
Johanna Larsson
Chanelle Scheepers
Ysaline Bonaventure
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Conny Perrin