The 2018
Almaty Challenger was a professional
tennis tournament played on
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
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s. It was the second 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
Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
,
Kazakhstan between 11 and 16 June 2018.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of 28 May 2018.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Alen Avidzba
Alen Akhrovich Avidzba (russian: Ален Ахрович Авидзба; born 24 February 2000) is a Russian tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of t ...
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Timur Khabibulin
Timur Khabibulin ( tt-Cyrl, Тимур Хәбибуллин, translit=Timur Xäbibullin, born 2 August 1995) is an Uzbekistani–Kazakhstani tennis player of Tatar descent.
Khabibulin has a career high ATP singles ranking of 753 achieved on 9 Ma ...
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Timofei Skatov
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Denis Yevseyev
Denis Yevseyev (born 22 May 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player.
Yevseyev has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 262 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 247 achieved on 12 July 2021.
Career 2017 ...
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:
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Roberto Cid Subervi
Roberto Cid Subervi (; born 30 August 1993) is a Dominican–American tennis player.
Cid Subervi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 211 achieved on 14 September 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 262, achieved on 19 ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Gerard Granollers
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Daniel Masur
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Jurij Rodionov
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Rubin Statham
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
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Yusuke Takahashi
Champions
Singles
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Jurij Rodionov def.
Peđa Krstin
Peđa Krstin ( sr-Cyrl, Пеђа Крстин; born 3 September 1994) is a Serbian professional tennis player. Krstin has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 159, which he achieved on 9 May 2016. He also achieved a career high ATP doubles r ...
7–5, 6–2.
Doubles
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Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Andreas Mies. The ...
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Andreas Mies
Andreas Mies (; born 21 August 1990) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Kevin Krawietz. Th ...
def.
Laurynas Grigelis /
Vladyslav Manafov
Vladyslav Serhiyovych Manafov ( uk, Владислав Сергійович Манафов; born 22 April 1993 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian tennis player.
Manafov has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 327 achieved on 20 February 2017. H ...
6–2, 7–6
(7–2).
References
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2018 ATP Challenger Tour