# 2019 Rio Open > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2019_Rio_Open > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2019_Rio_Open.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Rio_Open > Source revision: 1339243760 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts Tennis tournament 2019 Rio Open Date 18–24 February Edition 6th Draw 32S / 16D Prize money $1,471,315 Surface Clay Location Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Venue Jockey Club Brasileiro Champions Singles Laslo Đere Doubles Máximo González / Nicolás Jarry ← 2018 · Rio Open · 2020 → The **2019 Rio Open** was a professional men's [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on outdoor [clay courts](/source/Clay_court). It was the sixth edition of the [Rio Open](/source/Rio_Open), and formed part of the [ATP Tour 500](/source/ATP_Tour_500) series of the [2019 ATP Tour](/source/2019_ATP_Tour). It took place in [Rio de Janeiro](/source/Rio_de_Janeiro), Brazil between February 18 and 24, 2019. There was a plan to move the tournament from the clay court surface in [Jockey Club Brasileiro](/source/Jockey_Club_Brasileiro) to the outdoor [hard courts](/source/Hard_courts) at the [Olympic Tennis Centre](/source/Olympic_Tennis_Centre_(Rio_de_Janeiro)), which hosted the [tennis events](/source/Tennis_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics) of the [2016 Summer Olympics](/source/2016_Summer_Olympics) situated in [Barra Olympic Park](/source/Barra_Olympic_Park).[1] The intention was to attract more world class players in the tournament such as [Novak Djokovič](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Novak_Djokovi%C4%8D&action=edit&redlink=1), [Roger Federer](/source/Roger_Federer), and [Andy Murray](/source/Andy_Murray) who consistently declined to play the event. [Juan Martín del Potro](/source/Juan_Mart%C3%ADn_del_Potro) once said to the Rio Open director Luiz Carvalho that he would play Rio Open when the surface changes.[2] ## Finals ### Singles Main article: [2019 Rio Open – Singles](/source/2019_Rio_Open_%E2%80%93_Singles) - [Laslo Đere](/source/Laslo_%C4%90ere) defeated [Félix Auger-Aliassime](/source/F%C3%A9lix_Auger-Aliassime), 6–3, 7–5 ### Doubles Main article: [2019 Rio Open – Doubles](/source/2019_Rio_Open_%E2%80%93_Doubles) - [Máximo González](/source/M%C3%A1ximo_Gonz%C3%A1lez) / [Nicolás Jarry](/source/Nicol%C3%A1s_Jarry) defeated [Thomaz Bellucci](/source/Thomaz_Bellucci) / [Rogério Dutra Silva](/source/Rog%C3%A9rio_Dutra_Silva), 6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–7] ## Points and prize money ### Point distribution 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 —N/a 45 25 ### Prize money 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 —N/a —N/a —N/a Doubles prize money per team 1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money ## Singles main-draw entrants ### Seeds 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 The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: - [Félix Auger-Aliassime](/source/F%C3%A9lix_Auger-Aliassime) - [Thiago Monteiro](/source/Thiago_Monteiro_(tennis)) - [Thiago Seyboth Wild](/source/Thiago_Seyboth_Wild)[4] The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: - [Hugo Dellien](/source/Hugo_Dellien) - [Juan Ignacio Londero](/source/Juan_Ignacio_Londero) - [Casper Ruud](/source/Casper_Ruud) - [Elias Ymer](/source/Elias_Ymer) The following player received entry as a lucky loser: - [Carlos Berlocq](/source/Carlos_Berlocq) ### Withdrawals **Before the tournament** - [Pablo Andújar](/source/Pablo_And%C3%BAjar) → replaced by [Carlos Berlocq](/source/Carlos_Berlocq) - [Pablo Carreño Busta](/source/Pablo_Carre%C3%B1o_Busta) → replaced by [Cameron Norrie](/source/Cameron_Norrie) ### Retirements - [Diego Schwartzman](/source/Diego_Schwartzman) - [Aljaž Bedene](/source/Alja%C5%BE_Bedene) ## Doubles main-draw entrants ### Seeds 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 The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw: - [Thomaz Bellucci](/source/Thomaz_Bellucci) / [Rogério Dutra Silva](/source/Rog%C3%A9rio_Dutra_Silva) - [Thiago Monteiro](/source/Thiago_Monteiro_(tennis)) / [Fernando Romboli](/source/Fernando_Romboli) The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw: - [Cameron Norrie](/source/Cameron_Norrie) / [João Sousa](/source/Jo%C3%A3o_Sousa) The following pairs received entry as lucky losers: - [Mateus Alves](/source/Mateus_Alves) / [Thiago Seyboth Wild](/source/Thiago_Seyboth_Wild) - [Nicholas Monroe](/source/Nicholas_Monroe) / [Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela](/source/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Reyes-Varela) ### Withdrawals **Before the tournament** - [Fabio Fognini](/source/Fabio_Fognini) - [Diego Schwartzman](/source/Diego_Schwartzman) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Parceria avança, e Rio Open deve mudar para Parque Olímpico em 2019"](https://www.lance.com.br/tenis/mudanca-rio-open-para-arena-olimpica-esta-certa-diz-aglo.html). *[Lance!](/source/Lance!)* (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-01-10. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Rio Open hoping to move to Olympic Tennis Centre, surface change possible"](https://www.ubitennis.net/2017/12/rio-open-hoping-move-olympic-tennis-centre-surface-change-possible). *Ubitennis*. Retrieved 2019-01-10. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Thiem, Fognini, Cecchinato and Schwartzman lead Rio Open entry list"](http://www.rioopen.com/en/2019/01/thiem-fognini-cecchinato-and-schwartzman-lead-rio-open-entry-list/). 10 January 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Thiem, Fognini, Cecchinato and Schwartzman lead Rio Open entry list"](http://www.rioopen.com/en/2019/01/thiem-fognini-cecchinato-and-schwartzman-lead-rio-open-entry-list/). 10 January 2019. ## External links - [Official website](http://www.rioopen.com/) v t e Rio Open 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 v t e 2019 ATP Tour « 2018 2020 » Grand Slam events Australian Open (S, D, X) French Open (S, D, X) Wimbledon (S, D, X) US Open (S, D, X) ATP Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells (S, D) Miami (S, D) Monte Carlo (S, D) Madrid (S, D) Rome (S, D) Montreal (S, D) Cincinnati (S, D) Shanghai (S, D) Paris (S, D) ATP Tour 500 Rotterdam (S, D) Rio de Janeiro (S, D) Dubai (S, D) Acapulco (S, D) Barcelona (S, D) London (S, D) Halle (S, D) Hamburg (S, D) Washington D.C. (S, D) Beijing (S, D) Tokyo (S, D) Vienna (S, D) Basel (S, D) ATP Tour 250 Brisbane (S, D) Doha (S, D) Pune (S, D) Auckland (S, D) Sydney (S, D) Montpellier (S, D) Sofia (S, D) Córdoba (S, D) Buenos Aires (S, D) Uniondale (S, D) Delray Beach (S, D) Marseille (S, D) São Paulo (S, D) Houston (S, D) Marrakesh (S, D) Budapest (S, D) Estoril (S, D) Munich (S, D) Geneva (S, D) Lyon (S, D) Rosmalen (S, D) Stuttgart (S, D) Antalya (S, D) Eastbourne (S, D) Båstad (S, D) Newport (S, D) Umag (S, D) Atlanta (S, D) Gstaad (S, D) Kitzbühel (S, D) Los Cabos (S, D) Winston-Salem (S, D) Metz (S, D) St. Petersburg (S, D) Chengdu (S, D) Zhuhai (S, D) Antwerp (S, D) Moscow (S, D) Stockholm (S, D) Team events Davis Cup qualifying round finals Laver Cup ATP Finals, London (S, D) Next Gen ATP Finals, Milan --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [2019 Rio Open](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Rio_Open) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Rio_Open?action=history)). 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