Barcelona has become an important training base for professional tennis players, especially clay court specialists. The Sanchez-Casal Academy is particularly renowned, the likes of Andy Murray, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Rafael Nadal and Daniela Hantuchova having perfected their games there in recent years. Most of the top Spanish national players are products of the city’s training programmes and so the affinity many of the circuit’s top players have with the city means that Barcelona’s tournaments attract big names. Spain’s Davis and Federations Cup home matches are usually held in the city too, at one of the venues cited below.