The ninth edition of the Rio de Janeiro Open, main tennis tournament of Brazil and only ATP 500 from South America, will be disputed between the 12 and the February 20, 2022, after being suspended in 2021 for the pandemic of Covid-19, announced this Thursday (28) its organizers.
The clay court tournament that has become traditional for Spanish and Argentine tennis players at the beginning of the season will be played again at the facilities of the Brazilian Jockey Club of Rio de JaneiroThe organization announced in a message on its social networks.
“I miss you It was huge, but we are back. The return of Rio Open It is a great gift for the city of Rio de Janeiro“, Said the director of the tournament, Marcia Casz.
“The success of vaccination in the country, especially in Rio, brought back the desire to get together, which is part of the soul of Rio. This is what will happen in February in the Jockey Club and with all the necessary security of course ”, he added.
The Rio Open is disputed since 2014 and has hosted several of the tennis players who have been among the top ten in the world ranking of the ATP What Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, John Isner, Marin Cilic, Gael Monfils and Fabio Fognini.
In its last edition, in January 2020, the tournament distributed prizes of 1.9 million dollars, of which 355 thousand 530 dollars to the winner of the individual title along with the 500 points in the classification ATP.
The winner of the last edition was the Chilean Cristian Garin, who beat the Italian in the final Gianluca Mager -who eliminated the Austrian Dominic Thiem, then fourth in the world- and won the points that allowed him to rise from position 25 to 18 in the ranking of the ATP.
Garin succeeded the Serbian as champion Laszlo Djere, which conquered the title of River on 2019. The first champion was the Spanish Rafael Nadal (2014), who was followed by Spanish David ferrer (2015), the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas (2016), the Austrian Thiem (2017), the Argentine Diego Schwartzman (2018) and Serbian Dear (2019).
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