Argentina Open

Event: Argentina Open
Sport: Tennis
Venue: Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Live Streaming Availability: All Matches
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ATP Buenos Aires

The Argentina Open, also known as ATP Buenos Aires, is a professional tennis tournament on the men’s ATP Tour where it is a ATP World Tour 250 Series ranked event.

The tournament is held at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina where matches are played on outdoor clay courts.

The main stadium at the complex holds 5,500 fans with the local supporters famed for bringing a vibrant atmosphere to the action no matter who is playing.

First established in 1970, the Argentina Open has gone through a number of changes from its position on the tour to the name of the event with former names including the South American International Championships, South American Open, Copa AT&T and Copa Telmex.

Down the years the tournament has struggled to attract big-name stars but there is always a good sprinkling of top 20 ranked players with those who excel on clay courts often heading down to Argentina for the event. With a mix or in anocal and international players, it is no surprise to see a number of Argentinians winning the event or at least reaching the final but over the last decade or so it has been clay court specialists form Spain who have reigned supreme including the likes of David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro and the King of Clay, Rafael Nadal all picking up the Argentina Open title.

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The ATP Buenos Aires also goes by the name as the Argentine Championships which gives an idea of the history of this tournament which is one of the oldest tennis events to be held on the South American continent.

First established in 1921 as the Argentine Championships, the tournament changed name to the South American International Championships in 1968 before quickly becoming the South American Open in 1969. That lasted until 1974 and then after a couple of changes to sponsored names, the event became known as the Argentina Open (known locally as the Abierto de Buenos Aires) for which it is known as today, although many know it as the ATP Buenos Aires.

Down the years they have been a number of big name players to have participated at the Argentina Open and who have gone on to win the Argentine Championship trophy including the likes or in anocal favourite Enrique Morea, Luis Ayala, Cliff Richey, Zeljko Franulovic, Guillermo Vilas, Jose Luis Clerc, Ivan Lendl, Carlos Moya, Gustavo Kuerten, David Nalbandian, Juan Carlos Ferrero, David Ferrer, Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, Marco Cecchinato and Casper Rudd.

As you can see from many of the names above, the tournament has attracted some of the true superstars of tennis down the years but you will also notice that it has been clay court specialists who have enjoyed the most success down the years and that has led to the majority of winners coming from Argentina or Spain.

Whilst the Argentina Open is broadcast live locally, it can be difficult or impossible to watch the action from Buenos Aires live on British tv and even if you do manage to find it, you will likely need an expensive subscription to a pay tv channel but the great news for any fans of tennis is that you can watch all of the action live from the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club live online via our ATP Buenos Aires live stream partners.

The tournament takes place in the Palermo barrio (neighbourhood) of the Arginine capital city of Buenos Aires, which is in the northwest of the city and is amongst the most affluent parts of the city.

The district is the largest in Buenos Aires and is home to the cities Polo Stadium, Galileo Galilei planetarium and one of the region’s leading Botanical Gardens but when the Argentina Open is on, the area is all about tennis.

The tournament has been traditionally one of the first clay events on the ATP Tour and has often featured well outside of clay court season.

That has sometimes been to its benefit, as it has been able to attract clay court specialists not wanting to participated on other surfaces but it has often caused a limited field or in anower ranked players or those based in South America.

Perhaps the best way to show that is in the quality of players who have competed in the tournament and come up short with Stan Wawrinka, David Ferrer, Kei Nishikori and Diego Schwartzman all been losing finalists recently whist the likes of Casper Ruud and Alexandr Dolgopolov have picked up the title and the trophy.

That up and down nature of the attractiveness of the event has led to a number of relative unknowns claiming the title alongside many star names and that has helped to create a tournament that is unpredictable and that is a place for people to make a name for themselves on the tour.

The tournament has also struggled with obtaining a higher ranking level with it been given the ranked for ATP 250 series level event for much of its existence, although it has also dropped down to Challenger level relatively recently and that has also impacted on it’s ability to attract big names and its ability to attract big sponsors.

That is turn has led to the tournament not been able to offer a massive prize fund and when you couple that with the extra expense of traveling to Argentina and you have an event that is unpredictable in terms of the talent on show and in terms of the focus that those on show have.

That leads to up and down matches, full of surprise and for the opportunity for up and coming players to really take the mantle and to make a name for themselves and that is one of the interest to many wanting to watch the event live.

History

The Argentinian Open is one of the oldest tennis tournaments held in Southern America, where the first final took place at the inaugural 1956 event, where the tournament moved from a local event to an international standard event, and to the joy of those in attendance it was local favourite Enrique Morea who picked up the first title by defeating Ulf Schmidt from Sweden.

South American Success

The first all South American line up to battling it out over the title came just a year later when Morea reached the final once more but this time he lost to Luis Ayala of Chile.

It took until the 4th edition of the event in 1959 for the first European success in Buenos Aires when Manual Santana of Spain defeated Ayala in the final.

The next milestone for the tournament came in 1964 when the first US star picked up the silverware when Chuck McKinley defeated Santana when the Spaniard retired in the 5th set.

It was another US player to put his name into the record books 3 years alter when Cliff Richey became the first player to defend his title after winning both the 1966 and 1967 editions of the event.

In both finals he defeated Brazilian players and in both finals he won in 4 sets.

In the following years final, the iconic Roy Emerson defeated fellow icon of Australian tennis Rod Laver to become the first winner from Australia and Oceania.

Up until the 1970’s, the tournament had enjoyed a good variety of champions from all across the globe but that changed in 1973 when local favourite Guillermo Vilas picked up his first tile by defeating Bjorn Borg to start an era of dominance.

The Argentine would go on to win each of the next 5 events to make it 6 titles in a row and he would win 2 of the next 5 tournaments after that for a total of 8 titles between 1973 to 1982.

Struggles

The event would not be held in both 1983 and 1984 and between 1989-1992 and after 4 years of victories for Spanish players, the event was downgraded to become a 2nd tier event, known as the Buenos Aires Challenger between 1996-2000.

Return To Top Level

Upon its return to the top level in 2001, it was Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil who picked up the title in an all-South American final against Argentine player Jose Acasuso.

For much of the next decade, it was local players who enjoyed the most success before Spanish players took control of the ATP Buenos Aires title with Tommy Robredo, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nicolas Almagro, David Ferrer and Rafa Nadal enjoying wins between 2009-2015.

Back In Local Hands

Since then the title has been shared around a bit more but it was still dominance for players from Europe until the 2021 season when it was an all Argentine final which saw Diego Schwartzman defeat Francisco Cerundolo to become the first home winner since David Nalbandian in 2008.

In the 2020 final, Casper Ruud became the first ever winner of the event from the country of Norway and he showed his love for the event by also winning in 2022, when he defeated home favourite Diego Schwartzman in a minor upset despite been the number 1 ranked player at the tournament.