Golden Swing

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The Golden Swing is a group of four ATP tennis tournaments played every February in Latin America. The series is named after Chilean Olympic champions Nicolas Massú and Fernando González. It began in 2001 with four events: Viña del Mar (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Costa do Sauípe (Brazil), and Acapulco (Mexico). Since 2001, no player has won more than two Golden Swing titles in a single year.

Over the years, many events moved or changed. In 2010 the Chile Open moved from Viña del Mar to Santiago, but it returned to Viña del Mar two years later. In 2015, investors moved the Chile Open to Quito, Ecuador; that tournament lasted until 2018 when it ended for lack of funding and later moved to Córdoba, Argentina. The Brasil Open moved in 2012 from Costa do Sauípe to São Paulo and became an indoor event. In 2014 the Mexican Open switched from clay to hard courts and began serving as a lead-up to Indian Wells. Also in 2014, Brazilian investors bought an ATP 500 event from Memphis and moved it to Rio de Janeiro as the new anchor tournament of the Golden Swing. In 2019 the Brasil Open was replaced by a new Chile Open edition in 2020. Since then there have been long gaps between Chile editions, while the Ecuador Open and Brasil Open were disbanded, and the Mexican Open has become a hard-court warm-up for Indian Wells and Miami.

(If a reader wants, they can look up the exact win counts for players with multiple Golden Swing titles, which are shown in parentheses in detailed records.)