The 2018

Kunming Open The Kunming Open (formerly known as the ATP China International Tennis Challenge – Anning and the Anning Open) is a tennis tournament held in Anning, China since 2012. The women's event first started in 2014, joining the men's Challenger. The ...

was a professional

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tournament played on outdoor

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s. It was the seventh (ATP) and first (WTA) edition of the tournament and part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the

2018 WTA 125K series The WTA 125K series is the secondary professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association. The 2018 WTA 125K series calendar consisted of ten tournaments, each with a total prize fund of $125,000 each except the Oracle Challenge ...

. It took place in Anning, China, from 23 April–5 May 2018.

Men's singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 16 April 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: * Bai Yan * Li Yuanfeng * Wang Ruikai * Wang Ruixuan The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Sriram Balaji Sriram Balaji (born 18 March 1990) is an Indian professional tennis player. Balaji has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 287, achieved on 19 June 2017 and a doubles ranking of world No. 96 achieved on 23 July 2018. Balaji has won ...

Chung Yun-seong Chung Yun-seong ( ko, 정윤성; born 27 March 1998) is a South Korean tennis player. Chung has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 233 achieved on 22 July 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 129 achieved on 22 Ma ...

Sasikumar Mukund Mukund Sasikumar (born 14 January 1997) is an Indian tennis player. Sasikumar has a career high ATP singles ranking of 229 achieved on 17 October 2019. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 431 achieved on 3 February 2020. Sasikuma ...

Vishnu Vardhan Vishnu Vardhan (born 27 July 1987), also known as J. Vishnuvardhan, is a professional tennis player from India. He won bronze medal in men's doubles at 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou, China. He paired-up with and Sania Mirza for mixed doubles an ...

The following player entered as a lucky loser: *

Hugo Grenier Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French tennis player. Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022 ...

Women's singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 23 April 2018.

Other entrants

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

Jiang Xinyu Jiang Xinyu (; ; born 3 March 1999) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. On 29 May 2017, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 561. On 2 April 2018, she peaked at No. 88 in the doubles rankings. Jiang has won two doubles tit ...

Peng Shuai Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either single ...

Tang Qianhui Tang Qianhui (; ; born 10 September 2000) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. Tang has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 617, achieved on 24 June 2019. She peaked at No. 109 in the doubles rankings on 3 February 2020. Tang has won ...

Yang Zhaoxuan Yang Zhaoxuan (; ; born 11 February 1995) is a Chinese professional tennis player. Yang reached her best doubles ranking of world No. 11 in the WTA doubles rankings on 24 October 2022. Yang has won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour and one W ...

Zheng Wushuang Zheng Wushuang (; ; born 29 November 1998) is a Chinese former tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 430, achieved on 24 February 2020. On 9 September 2019, she peaked at No. 309 in the WTA doubles rankings. On the ITF ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Nagi Hanatani Nagi Hanatani (born 7 March 1995) is a Japanese tennis player. Hanatani has a career high WTA singles ranking of 356 achieved on 10 August 2020. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 369 achieved on 28 January 2019. Hanatani made ...

* Natalija Kostić * Nika Kukharchuk * Aleksandrina Naydenova

Women's doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of 23 April 2018 The following team received wildcard into the doubles draw: *

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Champions

Men's singles

Prajnesh Gunneswaran Prajnesh Gunneswaran (born 12 November 1989) is an Indian tennis player. He has won 2 ATP Challenger and 8 ITF titles in singles and 1 ITF title in doubles. He is currently the highest-ranked Indian singles player. He represents India at the Dav ...

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Mohamed Safwat Mohamed Safwat ( ar, محمد صفوت; born 19 September 1990) is an Egyptian tennis player. Safwat has been a regular player on the Egypt Davis Cup team since 2009. Safwat has won one singles and three titles in doubles on the ATP Challenger To ...

, 5–7, 6–3, 6–1

Women's singles

Irina Khromacheva Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva ( rus, Ирина Павловна Хромачёва; born 12 May 1995) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She has career-high WTA rankings of 89 in singles and 41 in doubles. Khromacheva was provisionally ...

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Zheng Saisai Zheng Saisai or Zheng Sai-Sai (; born February 5, 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. She won one WTA singles title (at the Premier level 2019 Silicon Valley Classic), five WTA doubles titles, and reached the final of the 2019 French Open in dou ...

, 3–6, 6–4, 7–6^(7–5)

Men's doubles

Aliaksandr Bury Aliaksandr Ivanavich Bury ( be, Аляксандр Іванавіч Буры; russian: Александр Иванович Бурый; also spelt Alexander Bury), (born 14 September 1987) is a Belarusian professional tennis player and competes ma ...

/ Lloyd Harris def.

Gong Maoxin Gong Maoxin (; ; born August 24, 1987), is a professional male 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 ...

Zhang Ze Zhang Ze (; ; born July 4, 1990), is a Chinese male tennis player. Zhang's career highlights include reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 China Open (defeating Richard Gasquet en route), playing the Australian Open main draw in two consec ...

, 6–3, 6–4

Women's doubles

Dalila Jakupović Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent. Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ...

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Guo Hanyu Guo Hanyu (; ; born 18 May 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has won one WTA doubles and three singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit, and has reached career-high WTA rankings of 278 in singles and 122 ...

Sun Xuliu Sun Xuliu (; ; born 7 March 1994) is a former professional Chinese tennis player. On 14 May 2018, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 384. On 1 May 2017, she peaked at No. 268 in the doubles rankings. Sun made her WTA To ...

, 6–1, 6–1

References

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