The 2018
Canberra Challenger
The Canberra Challenger is a tennis tournament held in Canberra, Australia since 2016. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor hard court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is pl ...
was a 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 ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
tournament played on outdoor
hard court
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface ...
s. It was the third edition of the tournament which was a 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
Canberra, Australia between 8 and 13 January 2018.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of January 1, 2017.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Alexander Crnokrak
*
Benjamin Mitchell
*
Dane Propoggia
Dane Propoggia (born 24 April 1990) is an Australian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures
The ITF World Tennis Tour (formerly known as the ''ITF Men's World Tennis Tour'', and previously '' ...
* Gavin van Peperzeel
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Jeremy Beale
Jeremy Beale (born 4 October 1994) is an Australian tennis player.
Beale has a career high ATP singles ranking of 459 achieved on 8 October 2018. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 224 achieved on 22 December 2018.
Beale has won 1 A ...
*
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 ...
*
Thomas Fancutt
Thomas Fancutt (born 25 February 1995) is an Australian tennis player.
Fancutt has a career high ATP singles ranking of 491 achieved on 28 January 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 276 achieved on 2 December 2018.
Fancutt ...
*
Nathan Pasha
Nathan Pasha (born July 15, 1992) is an American tennis player.
Pasha has a career high ATP singles ranking of 507 achieved on January 7, 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 119 achieved on December 3, 2018.
Pasha made his A ...
Champions
Singles
*
Andreas Seppi
Andreas Seppi (born 21 February 1984) is an Italian former professional tennis player.
He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 on 28 January 2013. He became the first Italian to win a title on all three surfaces.
Tennis c ...
def.
Márton Fucsovics
Márton Fucsovics ( hu, Fucsovics Márton, ; born 8 February 1992) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 31 on 4 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Hungarian player.
Early life
Fucso ...
5–7, 6–4, 6–3.
Doubles
*
Jonathan Erlich
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich ( he, יונתן דאריו "יוני" ארליך, born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the ...
/
Divij Sharan
Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has won 5 ATP World Tour titles in men's doubles and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold med ...
def.
Hans Podlipnik Castillo
Hans Podlipnik Castillo (; born 9 January 1988) is a Chilean retired tennis player of Slovenian descent. His best results are in doubles, winning one ATP World Tour and reaching another final in this category, besides from winning 19 Challenge ...
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Andrei Vasilevski 7–6
(7–1), 6–2.
External links
Official Website
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