The 2018

Almaty Challenger The Almaty Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It was held annually in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 2017 until 2021. Past finals Singles ...

was a professional

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tournament played on

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s. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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between 11 and 16 June 2018.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 28 May 2018.

Other entrants

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

Alen Avidzba Alen Akhrovich Avidzba (; born 24 February 2000) is a Russian tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two playe ...

Timur Khabibulin Timur Khabibulin (, born 2 August 1995) is an Uzbekistani–Kazakhstani former tennis player of Tatar descent. Khabibulin had a career high ATP singles ranking of 753 achieved on 9 May 2016. He also had a career high doubles ranking of 154 achi ...

* Timofei Skatov *

Denis Yevseyev Denis Yevseyev (born 22 May 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player who competes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 153 achieved on 22 July 2024. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 247 ac ...

The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: *

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: *

Gerard Granollers Gerard Granollers Pujol (; ; born 30 January 1989 in Barcelona) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or bet ...

Daniel Masur Daniel Masur (; born 6 November 1994 in Bückeburg) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 176, achieved in March 2022 and in doubles of No. 149 achieved in September 2022. Juniors On the ju ...

Jurij Rodionov Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87 achieved on 19 February 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 254 achieved on 9 September 202 ...

Rubin Statham Rubin Statham (born 25 April 1987), often referred to by his nickname of "José," is a professional tennis player from New Zealand. He has reached a ATP career high ranking of No. 279 in singles on 25 February 2013, and No. 139 in doubles on 17 ...

The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Yusuke Takahashi is a Japanese tennis player. Takahashi has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, 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 m ...

Champions

Singles

def.

Peđa Krstin Peđa Krstin ( sr-Cyrl, Пеђа Крстин; born 3 September 1994) is a Serbian professional tennis player and coach.4 Krstin has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 159, which he achieved on 9 May 2016. He also achieved a career high A ...

7–5, 6–2.

Doubles

Kevin Krawietz Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 on 10 February 2025. Krawietz has won eleven doubles titles on the ATP Tour, inclu ...

Andreas Mies Andreas Mies (; born 21 August 1990) is a German professional tennis player who specializes 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. The ...

def.

Laurynas Grigelis Laurynas Grigelis (born August 14, 1991) is a Lithuanian former professional tennis player and a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Grigelis holds the best ATP doubles ranking of world No. 132 for a Lithuanian player of all time ...

Vladyslav Manafov Vladyslav Serhiyovych Manafov (; born 22 April 1993 in Kyiv) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian tennis player. Manafov has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of World No. 327 achieved on 20 February 2017. He also has a c ...

6–2, 7–6^(7–2).

References

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