The 2018

Chennai Open Challenger The Chennai Open Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras (List of renamed Indian cities a ...

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

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

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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: *

Vijay Sundar Prashanth Vijay Sundar Prashanth (born 27 October 1986) is a professional Indian tennis player. He caught everyone eye, when he won against Indian Davis Cup player Yuki Bhambri at 2015 Aircel Chennai Open. Prashanth has a career high ATP singles rankin ...

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

Saketh Myneni Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2017 and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in Mixed doubles and a silver medal in Men's doub ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Arjun Kadhe Arjun Kadhe ( mar, अर्जुन कढे; born 7 January 1994) is an Indian tennis player. Kadhe has a career high ATP singles ranking of 328 achieved on 27 August 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 133 achieved on ...

* Sidharth Rawat * Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam *

Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul ( th, วิชยา ตรงเจริญชัยกุล; born 8 April 1995) is a Thai tennis player. Trongcharoenchaikul has a career high ATP singles ranking of 426 achieved on 14 May 2018. He also has a ca ...

Champions

Singles

* Jordan Thompson def.

Yuki Bhambri Yuki Bhambri (born 4 July 1992) is an Indian professional tennis player. He is a former junior no. 1 and winner of the 2009 Australian Open Junior Championship. He is the first Indian to win the junior Australian Open title and the fourth Indi ...

7–5, 3–6, 7–5.

Doubles

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 ...

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 ...

def.

Cem İlkel Cem İlkel (born 21 August 1995) is a Turkish tennis player. İlkel has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 144 achieved on 29 November 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 299 achi ...

/ Danilo Petrović 7–6^(7–5), 5–7, 0–5

References

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