RIO, March 24, 2026 (Media Release)

The UTS Tour will make its debut in South America this coming July with a brand new event at Rio’s 11,000-seater Maracanazinho stadium.

This new UTS Rio event will take place on an indoor hard court over July 16, 17 and 18, with an eight-man line-up that will be confirmed in the coming weeks. It will mark the second stage of the 2026 UTS Tour following next month’s Bastide UTS Nimes, which will be held at the historic Arenes de Nimes in France on April 3 and 4.

Casper Ruud, Karen Kachnanov, Andrey Rublev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Grigor Dimitrov, Alexander Bublik and Ugo Humbert are set to compete in the 2000-year-old amphitheater for a total prize money purse of $1 million USD.

The UTS Tour, founded in 2020 by globally respected tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou, has grown into a highly successful elite global tennis league featuring a succession of the world’s best male players and with events in some of the world’s most exciting cities.

UTS has brought its innovative, fast-moving tennis format to events in London, Los Angeles, New York, Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Oslo, Nîmes and now Rio, a city with a rich sporting pedigree having hosted the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

The UTS format is designed to deliver fan-friendly tennis at a fast pace and with maximum excitement, entertainment and crowd interaction. Players compete over eight-minute quarters, which can be decided by sudden death points, and only get one serve. They can also use bonus cards to up the stakes.

UTS Tour events offer generous prize-money to ensure that every point counts and a DJ, MC and lightshow add to the atmosphere. Fans even get to hear from players at the end of every quarter so that they always feel part of all the action.