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).
6-683: 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
12-609: 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
18-592: 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. Rio de Janeiro International The Rio de Janeiro International was a combined clay court tennis competition founded in 1947. Also known as the Internacional do Rio de Janeiro , it was played annually at the Rio de Janeiro Country Club, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil until 1967. The event
24-429: 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
30-531: Was part of the ILTF South American Circuit . In 1913 the Rio de Janeiro Country Club was founded. In 1947 it established a clay court event called the Torneio Internacional do Rio de Janeiro or Rio de Janeiro International. This tournament ran annually until 1967 when it was discontinued with the advent of the Open Era in 1968. In 1989 a new successor international men-only tennis tournament
36-556: Was revived called the Rio de Janeiro Open , however this was played in indoor carpet courts until 1990 then it too ended. In 2014 a combined tennis tournament returned once more to Rio de Janeiro when the new Rio Open this time a clay court event, was first staged at the Jockey Club Brasileiro. It remained a combined ATP and WTA tournament until 2016 when the women's event was ended, this men's event still continues as of 2024. In 2017 international tennis returned to
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