The 2018 Chennai Open Challenger was a professional

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tournament played on

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. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, India between 12 and 17 February 2018.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 5 February 2018.

Other entrants

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

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* Nitin Kumar Sinha * Dhakshineswar Suresh * Manish Sureshkumar The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: *

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The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

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* Sidharth Rawat * Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam *

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Champions

Singles

* Jordan Thompson def.

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7–5, 3–6, 7–5.

Doubles

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def.

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/ Danilo Petrović 7–6^(7–5), 5–7, 0–5

References

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