The 2019 Rio Open was a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the sixth edition of the Rio Open, and formed part of the ATP Tour 500 series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between February 18 and 24, 2019.

2019 Rio Open
Date18–24 February
Edition6th
Draw32S / 16D
Prize money$1,471,315
SurfaceClay
LocationRio de Janeiro, Brazil
VenueJockey Club Brasileiro
Champions
Singles
Serbia Laslo Đere
Doubles
Argentina Máximo González / Chile Nicolás Jarry
← 2018 · Rio Open · 2020 →

There was a plan to move the tournament from the clay court surface in 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.[1] The intention was to attract more world class players in the tournament such as Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Andy Murray who consistently declined to play the event. Juan Martín del Potro once said to the Rio Open director Luiz Carvalho that he would play Rio Open when the surface changes.[2]

Finals

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Singles

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Doubles

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Points and prize money

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Point distribution

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Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q2 Q1
Singles 500 300 180 90 45 0 20 10 0
Doubles 0 45 25

Prize money

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Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q2 Q1
Singles $369,000 $185,325 $93,500 $49,140 $24,560 $13,590 $5,225 $2,610
Doubles $115,940 $56,750 $28,460 $14,600 $7,550
Doubles prize money per team

1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money

Singles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Rank1 Seed
  AUT Dominic Thiem 8 1
  ITA Fabio Fognini 15 2
  ITA Marco Cecchinato 18 3
  ARG Diego Schwartzman 19 4
  POR João Sousa 41 5
  SRB Dušan Lajović 43 6
  TUN Malek Jaziri 44 7
  CHI Nicolás Jarry 47 8
  • 1 Rankings as of February 11, 2018.[3]

Other entrants

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The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

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Before the tournament

Retirements

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Doubles main-draw entrants

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Seeds

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Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
  BRA Marcelo Melo   BRA Bruno Soares 17 1
  COL Juan Sebastián Cabal   COL Robert Farah 20 2
  CRO Nikola Mektić   ARG Horacio Zeballos 37 3
  URU Pablo Cuevas   ESP Marc López 79 4
  • 1 Rankings as of February 11, 2019.

Other entrants

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The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following pairs received entry as lucky losers:

Withdrawals

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Before the tournament

References

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  1. ^ "Parceria avança, e Rio Open deve mudar para Parque Olímpico em 2019". Lance! (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  2. ^ "Rio Open hoping to move to Olympic Tennis Centre, surface change possible". Ubitennis. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  3. ^ "Thiem, Fognini, Cecchinato and Schwartzman lead Rio Open entry list". 10 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Thiem, Fognini, Cecchinato and Schwartzman lead Rio Open entry list". 10 January 2019.
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