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The 2018 Las Vegas Challenger was a professional
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s. It was the fourth edition of the revamped tournament which was the part of the
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. It took place in
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between 22 and 28 October 2018.


Singles main draw entrants


Seeds

* 1 Rankings are as of October 15, 2018.


Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *
Alexander Cozbinov Alexandr Cozbinov (born 28 April 1995) is a Moldovan inactive tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 420 achieved on 21 August 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of No. 237 achieved on 8 August 2022. Co ...
* Evan Song *
Mikael Torpegaard Mikael Torpegaard (born 8 May 1994) is a Danish professional tennis player. He was a member of the Denmark Davis Cup team. Earlier career Torpegaard won his first career ATP Challenger $75,000 title at the 2016 Columbus Challenger, which is ...
* J. J. Wolf The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt: *
Borna Gojo Borna Gojo (; born 27 February 1998) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 72, achieved on 20 November 2023, and a doubles ranking of world No. 394 ach ...
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: *
Jan Choinski Jan Choinski (; born 10 June 1996 in Germany) is a German-born Polish-British tennis player who competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour. Choinski has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 126, achieved on 21 August 2023. Since 2019, ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *
Mathias Bourgue Mathias Bourgue (; born 18 January 1994) is a French tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 140 achieved on 24 April 2017. Career He received a wildcard to advance to the singles main dr ...
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Thai-Son Kwiatkowski Thai-Son Kwiatkowski (born February 13, 1995) is a Vietnamese American former tennis player. He played collegiately for the Virginia Cavaliers. On 29 May 2017, Kwiatkowski won the NCAA Men's Singles Championship. College career Coming out of hi ...
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Roberto Ortega Olmedo Roberto Ortega Olmedo (; born 30 April 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He advanced through the qualifiers of the 2016 Geneva Open to make the main draw defeating Michael Linzer and wild card Johan Nikles. In the main draw he w ...
* Tommy Paul The following players received entry as lucky losers: *
Evan King Evan King (born March 25, 1992) is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 18, achieved on May 5, 2025 and a singles ranking of No. 185, achieved on April 23, 2018 ...
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Alexander Sarkissian Alexander Sarkissian (born April 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two tea ...
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Jelle Sels Jelle Sels (born 10 August 1995) is a Dutch tennis player. Sels competes mainly in the Challenger tour circuit. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 127 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of ...


Champions


Singles

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Thanasi Kokkinakis Athanasios "Thanasi" Kokkinakis ( ; ; born 10 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 65 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 6 November 2023. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of ...
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Blaž Rola Blaž Rola (born 5 October 1990) is a Slovenian tennis player. His highest career ranking is No. 78 in singles and No. 186 in doubles. In his career, he has won one ATP 250 series doubles title, nine singles and six doubles ITF Futures tourname ...
6–4, 6–4.


Doubles

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Marcelo Arévalo Marcelo Arévalo González (; born October 17, 1990) is a Salvadoran professional tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles by the ATP, achieved on 11 November 2024 and has a career-high singles ranking of No. 139, attained in Ap ...
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Roberto Maytín Roberto Maytín () is a Venezuelan former tennis player. In 2015 he broke into the top 100 of the doubles rankings reaching a high of world No. 86. In singles, he reached a career high of No. 643. He was known mostly for doubles, and has 14 ATP C ...
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Robert Galloway Robert Galloway may refer to: * Robert Galloway (mining engineer) * Robert Galloway (tennis) Robert Galloway (born September 24, 1992) is an American professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career-high ATP doubles rank ...
/ Nathan Pasha 6–3, 6–3.


References

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