ATP Challenger Rio de Janeiro-3

This article is about the Rio de Janeiro Challenger . For the other Challenger tournaments in Rio de Janeiro, see ATP Challenger Rio de Janeiro and ATP Challenger Rio de Janeiro-2 .

Rio de Janeiro Challenger
ATP Challenger Tour
venue	Rio de Janeiro Brazil
First run	1980
Last event	2001
category	Challenger
Tournament type	Free place tournament
Game surface	sand
draw	32E / 32Q / 16D
Prize money	US $ 100,000
Status: end of the tournament

The ATP Challenger Rio de Janeiro (officially: Rio de Janeiro Challenger ) was a tennis tournament that was held annually in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , with interruptions from 1980 to 2001 . It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played outdoors on clay. Luiz Mattar won is the record winner of the tournament with three individual titles.

List of winners

singles

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2001	Kristian Pless	Ricardo Mello	6: 1, 6: 1
1996–2000: not held
1995	Nicolás Pereira	João Cunha e Silva	7: 5, 6: 3
1991–1994: not held
1990	Luiz Mattar (3)	Luis-Enrique Herrera	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3
1989	Luiz Mattar (2)	Francisco Roig	6: 4, 6: 3
1988	Javier Frana	Cássio Motta	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 3
1987	not carried out
1986 (2)	Cássio Motta	Carlos Kirmayr	6: 2, 6: 3
1986 (1)	Luiz Mattar (1)	Alejandro Ganzábal	6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 3
1985 (2)	Víctor Pecci	César Kist	6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 3
1985 (1)	Givaldo Barbosa	Marcelo Hennemann	7: 5, 6: 3
1983–1984: not held
1982	João Soares	Mark Dickson	6: 1, 0: 6, 6: 1
1981	Júlio Góes	Pablo Arraya	6: 3, 6: 3
1980	Carlos Kirmayr	Carlos Lando	6: 4, 6: 0

Double

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
2001	Justin Gimelstob David Macpherson	Julian Knowle Michael Kohlmann	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
1996–2000: not held
1995	João Cunha e Silva Óscar Ortiz	Jean-Philippe Fleurian Nicolás Pereira	7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 1
1991–1994: not held
1990	Roger Smith Tobias Svantesson	Shelby Cannon Alfonso Mora	7: 5, 6: 4
1989	Charles Beckman Shelby Cannon	Dácio Campos Luiz Mattar	6: 3, 6: 2
1988	Bruce Derlin Tony Mmoh	Horacio de la Peña Javier Frana	6: 7, 7: 5, 6: 3
1987	not carried out
1986 (2)	Eduardo Bengoechea Diego Pérez	Nelson Aerts Fernando Roese	6: 7, 7: 6, 6: 4
1986 (1)	Carlos Kirmayr Cássio Motta	Givaldo Barbosa Edvaldo Oliveira	7: 5, 6: 4
1985 (2)	Carlos di Laura Emilio Sánchez Vicario	Gustavo Guerrero Gustavo Tiberti	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
1985 (1)	Givaldo Barbosa Ivan Kley	Marcos Hocevar Alexandre Hocevar	6: 1, 6: 3
1983–1984: not held
1982	Dominique Bedel Belus Prajoux	Mark Dickson Joel Hoffman	6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 2
1981	Givaldo Barbosa João Soares	Guillermo Aubone Carlos Lando	6: 4, 6: 3
1980	Ricardo Cano Cássio Motta	Alejandro Ganzábal Gustavo Guerrero	6: 4, 6: 4

Web links

• Results archive of the ATP