The 2025 Rio Open is set for another exciting edition after the entry list for the ATP 500 event has been released.
The ATP 500 tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is one of the most entertaining tournaments at the start of the season. It has a special place in the calendar, which often presents an alternative route for the players.
With the Australian Open being held in January and the Sunshine Double (Indian Wells and Miami) being staged in March, not many players want to switch surfaces between these important events.
Still, many clay-court specialists choose to do so. It also doesn't apply only to the clay-court specialists, as Carlos Alcaraz played the popular Golden Swing in the previous seasons.
This year, however, Alcaraz chose to compete at the Rotterdam Open and in Doha instead of traveling to South America. Luckily for the fans in Brazil and Argentina, the organizers managed to sign a few exciting players, who will compete in 2025.
The Jockey Club Brasileiro will welcome already 11th edition of the Rio Open after the event was founded in 2014 and not held in 2021. So far, no player has won the Rio Open twice, but the list of former winners includes names such as Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, and Alcaraz.
In 2025, the Rio Open will run from February 17th to 23rd, and Alexander Zverev will be the player headlining the field of players. He was the first player announced, driving up the interest in tickets.
Soon after Zverev's announcement, the tournament organizers announced another new name. Holger Rune never competed at the Golden Swing, but he will do that in 2025, playing both in Buenos Aires and in Rio de Janeiro.
These two players will be the highest-ranked players at the event, but there will be plenty of more interesting names. Sebastian Baez won the title in 2024, and he will try to defend it this year against the very strong field.
Lorenzo Musetti competed at the Rio Open in 2023. He lost in the first round to Nicolas Jarry, but he will attempt to improve on his result this year, as he signed up for the tournament as well.
Home fans will certainly be excited about all of these players competing, but there is one name that will excite them more than any other name on the entry list. Paradoxically, it's a player who didn't even qualify for the event directly, as he received a wild card from the tournament organizers.
His name is Joao Fonseca and fans in Rio de Janeiro know him very well. In 2024, he reached the quarter-finals of the tournament, beating Arthur Fils, 6-0, 6-4, and Cristian Garin, 6-4, 6-4, before losing to Mariano Navone.
Since then, Fonseca caused a frenzy after beating Andrey Rublev at the 2025 Australian Open, so he will return to the tournament as an even bigger star in 2025.
The likes of Alejandro Tabilo, Francisco Cerundolo, Nicolas Jarry, and Tomas Martin Etcheverry will all certainly have plenty of fans supporting them in Rio de Janeiro, as it won't be far from fans from the nearby South American countries to visit the tournament in Brazil.
2025 Rio Open ATP Players' Entry List:
| Seed | Name | Entry Ranking |
| 1 | Alexander Zverev | 2 |
| 2 | Holger Rune | 13 |
| 3 | Lorenzo Musetti | 15 |
| 4 | Alejandro Tabilo | 26 |
| 5 | Sebastian Baez | 28 |
| 6 | Francisco Cerundolo | 31 |
| 7 | Nicolas Jarry | 36 |
| 8 | Tomas Martin Etcheverry | 38 |
| Pedro Martinez | 44 | |
| Luciano Darderi | 45 | |
| Mariano Navone | 47 | |
| Roberto Carballes Baena | 57 | |
| Alexandre Muller | 58 | |
| Jaume Munar | 62 | |
| Alejandro Davidovich Fokina | 66 | |
| Yunchaokete Bu | 67 | |
| Corentin Moutet | 69 | |
| Facundo Diaz Acosta | 73 | |
| Alexander Shevchenko | 77 | |
| Thiago Seyboth Wild | 79 | |
| Dusan Lajovic | 80 | |
| Hugo Gaston | 81 | |
| Damir Dzumhur | 82 | |
| (WC) Joao Fonseca | ||
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