1954 Torneo Godó
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The 1954 Torneo Godó was the second edition of the Torneo Godó
Torneo Godó
The Barcelona Open also known as Torneo Godó, Trofeo Conde de Godó, Open Banco Sabadell, is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players. The event has been held annually in Barcelona, Spain since 1953, and is played on clay courts. Originally an event of the Grand Prix tennis circuit...

 annual tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament played on clay courts in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. It took place from May 11-16, 1954.

Seeds



  1.   Tony Trabert
    Tony Trabert
    Marion Anthony Trabert is a retired American tennis champion and long-time tennis author, TV commentator, instructor, and motivational speaker...

     (Champion)

  2.   Vic Seixas
    Vic Seixas
    Elias Victor Seixas, Jr. is an American former tennis player.Seixas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Portuguese Sephardi Jewish ancestry. After serving in World War II, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he was a member of Alpha Sigma of the Chi Psi...

     (Runner-up)

  3.   Torsten Johansson
    Torsten Johansson
    Torsten Johansson was a Swedish tennis player. who set a record by shutting out two opponents at Wimbledon in 1946. A 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 victory is a tennis rarity. Johansson played for the Royal Tennis Club in the early 1940s and won more than 100 national titles for the club, a record that still stands...

     (Quarterfinalist)

  4.   Irving Dorfmann (Quarterfinalist)



    1.   Gilbert Shea (Semifinalist)

    2.   Jack Arkinstall (Semifinalist)

    3.   Malcolm Fox (Quarterfinalist)

    4.   Owen Williams (Quarterfinalist)


Final Four

Top half

Bottom half

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