Rio de Janeiro Open Tennis

The Rio de Janeiro Open (more commonly known as Rio 500) is an ATP Tour affiliated Tennis Tournament that will be held between February 15 and February 23 of 2014 in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil

The tournament was played originally as Banespa Open from 1989 to 1990 on Indoor Carpet Courts and will be revived for 2014, this time as part of the ATP World Tour 500 and WTA International  in place of the US National Indoor Tennis Championships which was relegated to ATP 250 status

 The Rio Open 500 will be held on clay courts at the Jockey Club Brasileiro. It is the highest ranked tournament in South America since the Grand Prix era

Previous Winners -Men's Singles

Year    Winner                                  Runner-Up                                       Score
1989   Luiz Mattar(Brazil)                Martin Jaite(Argentina)                      6-4,5-7,6-4   
1990  Luiz Mattar(Brazil)                 Andrew Sznajder(Canada)                6-4,6-4


Previous Winners -Men's Doubles

Year     Winner                                     Runner-Up                                   Score

1989   Jorge Lozano(Mexico)&           USA's Patrick McEnroe&            2-6,6-4,6-4
          Todd Witsken(USA)                  Tim Wilkinson

1990  USA's Brian Garrow &              Brazils' Nelson Aerts &
           Sven Salumaa                            Fernando Roese                        7-5,6-3