It was in 1953 when Carlos Godo Valls, the ‘Conde De Godo’ gave the trophy for a new international championship, in the opening of the new Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899 site in Pedralbes. The new international championships followed the tradition of several past tournaments since 1903. The first edition was played from July 3rd to 7th, and American Vic Seixas was the first winner.  In 1954 after the international success of first edition, the ‘Conde De Godo’ Trophy changes its dates to join the European clay-court season. In 1960 and due to it’s increasing success, the building of a new centre court is necessary, which can hold 3,000 spectators. The opening ceremony coincides with first ever-Spanish victory, when Andres Gimeno -from RCT Barcelona-1899- achieves the title with a victory over Giuseppe Merlo of Italy and in 1961 Australian Roy Emerson captures the first of three singles titles winning the final over rising young Spanish star Manolo Santana. In 1967 the centre court is known as the “talisman court” thanks to the Spanish Davis Cup team success, and it enlarges its capacity up to 8,500 spectators. In 1968 the ‘Conde De Godo’ trophy becomes the International Championships of Spain, after the agreement with the Spanish Tennis Federation. 11 Spanish players have win at least once the trophy being Manolo Santana and Rafael Nadal the most relevant winners.Roy Emerson, Ilie Nastase, Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lend and Mats Wilander are also important international players that also win this tournament.

The Open Sabadell Atlantico Barcelona 2008 “56º Trofeo Conde de Godo” to be played at RCT Barcelona from Saturday 24^th April to Sunday 4^th May is set to feature four of the top seven ranked ATP players, headed by Rafael Nadal, winner of the past three editions of the event as well as the last three Roland Garros titles. Nadal is aiming to become the first player ever to win four titles in Barcelona.
Joining Rafael Nadal are some of the world’s greatest players, including Nikolay Davydenko from Russia, Tennis Masters Cup finalist David Ferrer from Spain and David Nalbandian from Argentina. The 43 players entered also include the likes of local favourite Tommy Robredo, Guillermo Cañas from Argentina, Marcos Baghdatis from Cyprus, Carlos Moya and Ivo Karlovic from Croatia, one of the fastest rising players on the circuit. Spain will once again be the best-representation nation in the draw, with a total of 11 players directly accepted into the draw according to their ranking. Nicolas Almagro,  winner of early season clay court events in Costa do Sauipe and Acapulco, will be joined by Feliciano Lopez, Fernando Verdasco, Albert Montañes, Guillermo Garcia Lopez, Oscar Hernandez and Santiago Ventura. Other players who will also attend the Godo Tournament will be Stanislas Wawrinka from Switzerland, Potito Starace and Filippo Volandri from Italy and Agustin Calleri from Argentina. The definitive list of the 43 players to be directly accepted into the draw will be known few days prior to the start of the competition.Capacity of the central court has been increased up to 7,800 seats and total amount of prizes is almost one million Euro.

Tennis in France has been very important for many years now and the French Open Tennis is an event every player wishes in his/her wildest dreams to win.
Also known as Tournoi de Roland Garros, the spans over two weeks between end May and early June at the Stade de Roland Garros in Paris. Scheduled as the second Grand Slam of the annual calendar year and the supreme clay court tournament in the world, the French Open Tennis began in the year 1891 with the name Championat de France International de Tennis, the women got to participate in 1897 and it was only in 1912 that the clay court was introduced instead of lawn tennis. Playing on the clay court is really different ball game and requires special talent to play the game, let alone winning it. Many great players have struggled to make it here while they have been champions on grass. Strange as it might sound, Pete Sampras, the winner of a walloping fourteen Grand Slam singles titles, Roger Federer, the present first seed, and Jimmy Connors have won each and every other Grand Slam singles title except the French Open. On the other side, players like Rafael Nadal, Gustavo Kuerten and Juan Carlos Ferrero have French Open Tennis and rarely any other Grand Slam.
From 25^th May to 8^th June seven different tennis categories will be present at Roland Garros courts: Senior Men and Women Singles, Doubles and  Mixed Double. Junior Boy and Girl Singles. Participants among the leading female tennis players taking part in the event mention can be made of names like Justine Henin, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic, Maria Sharapova, Anna Chakvetadze, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Daniela Hantuchová and Marion Bartoli and among the male players there are also some of the illustrious names like Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Davydenko, Ferrer, Roddick, Gonzalez, Nalbandian and Robredo.