The turn of the century did not alter the hegemony of Spanish tennis players in the Conde de Godó Trophy. Although the victory in 2000 was achieved by the Russian, trained in Valencia, Marat Safin, the decade followed the success of Juan Carlos Ferrero in 2001 in a Spanish final in which he beat Carlos Moyà, although two years later, in 2003, perhaps when he least expected it, the Mallorcan player lifted the Conde de Godó Trophy.
In a way, the turn of the century heralded the arrival of a golden era for our tennis, once, at the Palau Sant Jordi, with a team formed by Juan Carlos Ferrero, Albert Costa, Alex Corretja and Joan Balcells, and led by a technical group made up of Javier Duarte, Jordi Vilaró, Juan Bautista Avendaño and Josep Perlas, achieved the coveted Davis Cup for Spain before the delirium of the fans.
Between Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moyà, both perched on the pedestal of the world number one in the ATP, the list of winners of the Conde de Godó Trophy incorporated the name of the Argentine Gastón Gaudio, champion in 2002 against Albert Costa in the year of the 50th anniversary of the competition, and in which the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona brought together and honored the historical champions of the competition.
In parallel with the dominance of Spanish tennis on clay, Argentine tennis also filled the tables of the ATP tournaments with the names of its members in the final rounds. In 2004, again a Spaniard, and player of the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, Tommy Robredo, was crowned in Barcelona beating Gastón Gaudio in the final. A year earlier, the name of a young Mallorcan named Rafael Nadal Parera had appeared for the first time in his main draw.
Rafa Nadal, due to a foot injury that occurred in the Estoril tournament, could not play the Conde de Godó Trophy in 2004, but from 2005 he began to dominate not only in Barcelona, but also in the Monte tournaments. Carlo and Roma and in the great cathedral of Roland Garros, breaking all records. Nadal's figures in the tournament and on the clay court circuit mean, with 52 major titles in the clay court season, without any doubt, it is the most difficult challenge, if not impossible, to overcome in the history of the tennis.
