The 2018

Ningbo Challenger The Ningbo International Tennis Open is a tennis tournament held in Ningbo, China. The event was part of the WTA 125K series and is now part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is played on outdoor hardcourt A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface ...

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s. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in

Ningbo Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...

, China.

Singles entrants

Seeds

*¹ Rankings are as of 8 October 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

He Yecong He Yecong (; ; born 15 February 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of 492 achieved on 27 June 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 498 achieved on 21 August 2017. He made his ATP main ...

Te Rigele Te Rigele (born 9 October 1997) is a Chinese tennis player. On the junior tour, Te has a career-high ranking of No. 48, achieved in January 2015. Te has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 395, achieved on 22 October 2018. On 4 March 201 ...

Wu Yibing Wu Yibing (; ; born 14 October 1999) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 58, achieved on 13 February 2023, and a doubles ranking of No. 295, achieved on 23 April 2018. He is the first Chinese ma ...

* Xia Zihao The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Viktor Durasovic Viktor Durasovic ( sr, Viktor Đurasović; born 19 March 1997) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. Durasovic has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 298, which he achieved in October 2019. ...

Saketh Myneni Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in Mixed doubles and a silver medal in Men's doub ...

Sun Fajing Sun Fajing (; ; born 3 October 1996) is a Chinese tennis player. Sun has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 351 achieved on 10 February 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 223 achieved on 14 October 201 ...

Yusuke Takahashi is a Japanese tennis player. Takahashi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 238 achieved on 7 August 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 414 achieved on 20 November 2017. Takahashi made his ATP main draw debut at the 20 ...

Champions

Singles

Thomas Fabbiano Thomas Fabbiano (born 26 May 1989) is an Italian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 11 September 2017, he reached his then highest ATP singles ranking of 70. His highest doubles ranking was 208 on 20 July 2009. He reached his ...

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Prajnesh Gunneswaran Prajnesh Gunneswaran (born 12 November 1989) is an Indian tennis player. He has won 2 ATP Challenger and 8 ITF titles in singles and 1 ITF title in doubles. He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles player. He represents India at the Dav ...

7–6^(7–4), 4–6, 6–3.

Doubles

Gong Maoxin Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses ...

Zhang Ze Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consec ...

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Hsieh Cheng-peng Hsieh Cheng-peng (; born 22 September 1991) is an inactive tennis player from Taiwan. Alongside Yang Tsung-hua he won the 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He won the 2009 US Open – Boys' doubles with Márton Fucso ...

Christopher Rungkat Christopher Benjamin Rungkat (born 14 January 1990) is an Indonesian tennis player. In 2008, he won the final stage of French Open 2008 Boys' Doubles Juniors category with Finnish tennis player Henri Kontinen.(11 June 2008French Open glory fo ...

7–5, 2–6, 0–5

References

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2018 in Chinese tennis