The 2018 Caterpillar

Burnie International The Burnie International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hardcourts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Women's Circuit. It is a $75k level tournament for the Challenger Tour and a $60,000 level tou ...

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2018 ITF Women's Circuit The 2018 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit is a second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organized by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The ITF Wo ...

, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money for men and $60,000 for women. It was the fifteenth (for men) and ninth (for women) edition of the tournament.

Men's singles entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 15 January 2018.

Other entrants

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

Harry Bourchier Harry Bourchier (born 24 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player. Bourchier has a career high ATP singles ranking of 279 achieved on 13 January 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 275 achieved on 2 March 2020. Bourchier ...

Blake Ellis Blake Ellis may refer to: * Blake Ellis (architect), American architect * Blake Ellis (tennis) (born 1999), Australian tennis player {{hndis, Ellis, Blake ...

* Andrew Harris The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Liam Caruana Liam Caruana (born 22 January 1998) is an Italian- American former tennis player. Caruana has a career high ATP singles ranking of 375 achieved on 12 February 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 894 achieved on 20 August 2018. ...

Gerard Granollers Gerard Granollers Pujol (; ; born 30 January 1989 in Barcelona) is an inactive professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( ...

Gianni Mina Gianni Mina (born 9 February 1992 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France) is a French professional tennis player. Tennis career Juniors On the junior circuit, Mina reached the No. 1 combined world ranking in March 2010. He finished runner-up to even ...

Luke Saville Luke Saville (born 1 February 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has had success as a doubles player where he reached his highest ranking of World No. 23 on 8 November 2021. Saville reached the final at the 2020 Australian Op ...

The following players received entry as lucky losers: *

Vijay Sundar Prashanth Vijay Sundar Prashanth (born 27 October 1986) is a professional Indian tennis player. He caught everyone eye, when he won against Indian Davis Cup player Yuki Bhambri at 2015 Aircel Chennai Open. Prashanth has a career high ATP singles rankin ...

Kaichi Uchida is a Japanese professional tennis player. Uchida has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 155 achieved on 3 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 202 also achieved on 19 September 2022. Uchida has won 2 Challe ...

Women's singles entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 15 January 2018

Other entrants

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

Zoe Hives Zoe Hives (born 24 October 1996) is a professional Australian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of World No. 142 in singles and World No. 144 in doubles, both achieved in 2019. Hives so far has won four singles and two doubles ...

Olivia Tjandramulia Olivia Tjandramulia (born 11 May 1997) is an Indonesian-born Australian tennis player. She was born in Jakarta, Indonesia but grew up in Rockhampton, Australia, and made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Hobart International, in singles and in ...

Sara Tomic Sara Tomic (; hr, Sara Tomić, ; born 5 February 1998) is a professional Australian tennis player. She is the younger sister of tennis player Bernard Tomic. In June 2015, she won her first professional-level title in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. ...

The following player received entry by a junior exempt: *

Marta Kostyuk Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( uk, Марта Олегівна Костюк; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has career-high rankings of 49 in singles, achieved on 14 February 2022, and world No. 39 in doubles, reached on 19 Septem ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Jennifer Elie Jennifer Elie (born September 22, 1986) is an American former professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 219 in singles, achieved June 2017, and 237 in doubles, set in May 2013. Elie has won two singles titles and six doubl ...

Chihiro Muramatsu is a Japanese tennis player. On 24 February 2020, Muramatsu achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 205. On 2 April 2018, she peaked at No. 303 in the WTA doubles rankings. Muramatsu has won one singles title and three doubles titl ...

Anastasia Pivovarova Anastasia Olegovna Pivovarova (russian: Анастасия Олеговна Пивоварова, born 16 June 1990) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached a career-high ranking of 93, in May 2011. During a successful j ...

Wang Xiyu Wang Xiyu (; ; born 28 March 2001) is a Chinese tennis player. On 7 November 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 50. On 27 May 2019, she peaked at No. 240 in the WTA doubles rankings. Junior career Junior Grand Slam ...

Champions

Men's singles

Stéphane Robert Stéphane Robert (; born 17 May 1980) is a professional French tennis player. Career Coach From 2001 to March 2010, Ronan Lafaix was Robert's coach. In May 2016, Lafaix, who is 12 years older than Robert, became Robert's coach for the secon ...

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Daniel Altmaier Daniel Altmaier (born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 53, achieved on 23 May 2022. Tennis career 2017: ATP debut Altmaier made his ATP main draw debut as a qualifie ...

6–1, 6–2.

Women's singles

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Viktorija Golubic Viktorija Golubic ( sr, Викторија Голубић, Viktorija Golubić; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. Golubic has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, two singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as ten s ...

, 6–4, 6–3

Men's doubles

Marcel Granollers Marcel Granollers Pujol (; ; born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 19 in July 2012, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4 in February 2013. Granollers h ...

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Evan King Evan King (born March 25, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. King has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 185, achieved in April 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 113, achieved in February 202 ...

Max Schnur Max Jacob Schnur (born 15 February 1993) is an American tennis player mostly playing on the ATP Challenger Tour, specializing in doubles. His highest ATP doubles ranking of World No. 87 was achieved on 12 September 2022. College career Schnur gra ...

7–6^(10–8), 6–2.

Women's doubles

Vania King Vania King (born February 3, 1989) is an American former tennis player. A former top-ten doubles player, King won both the Wimbledon and US Open women's doubles titles in 2010 with partner Yaroslava Shvedova, with whom she also reached the f ...

Laura Robson Laura Robson (born 21 January 1994) is a British former professional tennis player. She debuted on the ITF Junior Circuit in 2007, and a year later won the Junior Wimbledon championships at the age of 14. As a junior, she also twice reached th ...

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Momoko Kobori is a Japanese female tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 226 in singles, achieved in April 2019, and 136 in doubles, set in November 2018. Up to date, she has won two singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Kobori mad ...

, 7–6^(7–3), 6–1

External links

2018 Caterpillar Burnie International
at Tennis Australia
Official website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burnie International, 2018 2018 ITF Women's Circuit 2018 ATP Challenger Tour 2018 in Australian tennis

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