The 2018 Smart Fibre

Launceston International The Launceston Tennis International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hardcourts. It is part of the ITF Women's Circuit and has been held in Launceston, Australia, since 2012. In 2014, it was upgraded to a $50k event. In 201 ...

is a professional

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tournament played on outdoor

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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 ...

and the

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 $25,000 for women. It was the fourth (for men) and seventh (for women) edition of the tournament.

Men's singles entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 January 2018.

Other entrants

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

Alex Bolt Alex Bolt (born 5 January 1993) is an inactive Australian professional tennis player. His career-high ranking is World No. 125 in singles and World No. 81 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Highlights of Bolt's career ...

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 ...

* Andrew Harris *

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 from the qualifying draw: *

Nathaniel Lammons Nathaniel Lammons (born August 12, 1993) is an American tennis player. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 45, achieved on 7 November 2022. Lammons has won two ATP doubles title. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of Worl ...

Marinko Matosevic Marinko Matosevic ( hr, Marinko Matošević, ; born 8 August 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 39, which he achieved in February 2013. Matosevic defeated top players including ...

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 ...

* Benjamin Mitchell The following player received entry as a lucky loser: *

Lucas Catarina Lucas Catarina (born 26 August 1996) is a Monégasque tennis player. Catarina has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 341 achieved on 11 June 2018. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 526 achieved on 27 May 2019. He has wo ...

Women's singles entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 January 2018

Other entrants

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

Kimberly Birrell Kimberly Birrell (born 29 April 1998) is an Australian tennis player. She has won two singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Birrell reached her best singles ranking of world No. 154 on 6 May 2019. Personal life Birrell wa ...

* Renee McBryde *

Kaylah McPhee Kaylah McPhee (born 4 February 1998) is an Australian tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 199 in singles, achieved on 16 September 2019, and 228 in doubles, reached on 10 February 2020. She has won four doubles titles on the ITF ...

Alana Parnaby Alana Parnaby (born 15 September 1994) is an Australian tennis player. Parnaby has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of world No. 428 achieved on 22 May 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 201, achieved on 28 N ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Shuko Aoyama is a Japanese tennis player. Aoyama became a professional tennis player after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4, ...

Alexandra Bozovic Alexandra Bozovic (born 15 February 1999) is a professional Australian tennis player. Bozovic has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of No. 305, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 223, both achieved on ...

Allie Kiick Alexandra Kiick (; born June 30, 1995) is an American tennis player. Kiick has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In June 2019, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 126. In May 2014, sh ...

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 ...

Himari Sato is a Japanese tennis player. Sato has a career-high doubles ranking of 685 by the WTA, achieved on 12 June 2023. She has represented Japan at the Billie Jean King Cup, where she made her debut at the 2021 play-offs against Ukraine Uk ...

Riko Sawayanagi is a Japanese 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 ...

Yuuki Tanaka is a Japanese former tennis player. On 11 September 2017, Tanaka reached her best singles ranking of world No. 308. On 29 August 2016, she peaked at No. 214 in the doubles rankings. In her career, Tanaka won one singles title and six doubles t ...

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 ...

Champions

Men's singles

* Marc Polmans def.

Bradley Mousley Bradley Mousley (born 3 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player. Mousley won the Australian Open boys' doubles title in both 2013 and 2014. In August 2014, Mousley received a one-year ban, backdated to 30 May 2014, after testing positive ...

6–2, 6–2.

Women's singles

Gabriella Taylor Gabriella Patricia Taylor (born 7 March 1998) is an inactive British tennis player. Taylor has won six singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 12 December 2018, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 162. On 19 March ...

def.

Asia Muhammad Asia Muhammad (born April 4, 1991) is an American professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, Muhammad has won seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, four doubles titles on WTA Challenger Tour as well as 13 singles and 35 doubles titles o ...

, 6–3, 6–4

Men's doubles

def.

Sekou Bangoura Sekou Bangoura Jr. (born November 18, 1991) is an American professional tennis player. Bangoura partnered with Nathan Pasha to win the 2010 Kalamazoo Boys' Junior National Tennis Championship, defeating Jack Sock and Matthew Kandath 7–5, 6� ...

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 ...

7–6^(8–6), 6–0.

Women's doubles

* Jessica Moore /

Ellen Perez Ellen Perez (born 10 October 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. Perez has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as two singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. ...

def.

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 ...

Valeria Savinykh Valeria Dmitrievna Savinykh (russian: Валерия Дмитриевна Савиных; born 20 February 1991) is a Russian tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or betwe ...

, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4

External links

2018 Smart Fibre Launceston International
at Tennis Australia

References

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