2004 Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana
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The 2004 Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana was a 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 outdoor clay courts
Clay court
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 in Valencia in Spain
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 and was part of the International Series
ATP International Series
The International Series was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally as part of the ATP Tour until 2008....

 of the 2004 ATP Tour
2004 ATP Tour
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. The tournament ran from April 12 through April 18, 2004.

Men's Singles

  Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a professional tennis player. He is currently ranked no. 22 in the world. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years of age and had a full-time coach when he was eight...

defeated   Albert Montañés
Álbert Montañés
Albert Montañés Roca is a professional tennis player from Spain.He first entered the top-100 in 2001 and has been in the top-100 for all but 20 weeks since then...

 7–6 (7–5), 6–3
  • It was Verdasco's 1st title of the year and the 1st of his career.

Men's Doubles

  Gastón Etlis
Gastón Etlis
Gastón Etlis is a former tennis player from Argentina. He is Jewish.In January 2005 Etlis was ranked No.17 in doubles....

/   Martín Rodríguez
Martín Rodríguez (tennis)
Martín Rodríguez is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.Rodríguez turned professional in 1991. He reached his career-high singles ranking when he became World Number 71 on June 14, 1999...

defeated   Feliciano López
Feliciano López
Feliciano López Diaz-Guerra is a Spanish professional male tennis player. He was born in Toledo and now lives in the Spanish capital Madrid....

 /   Marc López
Marc López
Marc López i Tarrés is a professional male tennis player from Spain, who started playing tennis at the age of 8 years old and became professional in 1999...

7–5, 7–6 (7–5)
  • It was Etlis's only title of the year and the 3rd of his career. It was Rodríguez's only title of the year and the 4th of his career.

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