The 2018
Prosperita Open
The Prosperita Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Ostrava, Czech Republic, since 2004. In 2004, ...
was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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s. It was the 15th edition of the tournament which was part of the
2018 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, in 2018, was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2018 ATP Challenger Tour calendar comprised 159 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $50,000 up to $150,000. It was the 41st edition o ...
. It took place in
Ostrava
Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rive ...
,
Czech Republic
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between 30 April and 6 May.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of 23 April 2018.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Marek Gengel
Marek Gengel (born 17 September 1995) is a Czech tennis player.
Gengel has a career high ATP singles ranking of 256 achieved on 16 January 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 148 achieved on 20 March 2023.
Gengel has won 1 ATP Ch ...
* Dominik Kellovský
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Patrik Rikl
Patrik Rikl (born 6 January 1999) is a Czech 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 a tennis racket th ...
* Matěj Vocel
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Elliot Benchetrit
Elliot Benchetrit (born 2 October 1998) is a Moroccan tennis player who formerly represented France. Since 1 January 2021 Benchetrit started to represent Morocco. His highest singles ranking was No. 198 on 10 February 2020, and his highest doubl ...
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Mathias Bourgue
Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career
He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main dra ...
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Evan Furness
Evan Furness (born 13 August 1998) is a French professional tennis player.
Furness has a career high ATP singles ranking of 197, achieved on 2 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 513, achieved on 27 May 2019. Furness ...
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Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from to .
At the time o ...
Champions
Singles
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* Arthur De Greef (tennis) (born 1992), Belgian tennis player
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Nino Serdarušić
Nino Serdarušić (; born 13 December 1996) is a Croatian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 183 achieved on 4 April 2022. Juniors
Serdarušić had a career high junior ranking of No. 21, and partnering Petros Chryso ...
4–6, 6–4, 6–2.
Doubles
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Attila Balázs
Attila Balázs (; born September 27, 1988) is a Hungarian professional tennis player.
He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of No. 76 achieved on 2 March 2020. He is a seven time Hungarian National Tennis Champion; after Béla von Kehrling, ...
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Gonçalo Oliveira
Gonçalo Oliveira (born 17 February 1995) is a Portuguese tennis player.
Oliveira has a career high ATP singles ranking of 194 achieved on 25 December 2017. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 78 achieved on 9 March 2020.
Oliveira has ...
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Lukáš Rosol
Lukáš Rosol (; born 24 July 1985) is a Czech professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP Tour, both in singles and doubles. Rosol was coached by former Czech player, 1999 US Open quarterfinalist Ctislav Dosed ...
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Sergiy Stakhovsky
Sergiy Eduardovych Stakhovsky ( uk, Сергій Едуардович Стаховський, ; born January 6, 1986) is a Ukrainian former professional tennis player. Stakhovsky turned professional in 2003 and played mostly at the Challenger le ...
6–0, 7–5.
External links
Official Website
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2018 ATP Challenger Tour
2018
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2018 in Czech tennis