The 2018

Shymkent Challenger The Shymkent Challenger is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Shymkent, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially th ...

was a professional

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tournament played on

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s. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

Shymkent Shymkent (; Шымкент, Şymkent), known until 1993 as Chimkent ( uz, Çımkent, چىمكېنت; Yañalif: Çimkent ()); russian: Чимкент, translit=Chimkent (), is a city in Kazakhstan. It is near the border with Uzbekistan. It is one ...

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between 4 and 9 June 2018.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of 28 May 2018.

Other entrants

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

Alen Avidzba Alen Akhrovich Avidzba (russian: Ален Ахрович Авидзба; born 24 February 2000) is a Russian tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of t ...

* Roman Khassanov *

Grigoriy Lomakin Grigoriy Lomakin (born 18 March 1998) is a Kazakh tennis player. Lomakin has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 768 achieved on 15 November 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 189 achieved on 20 March 2023. Lomakin ...

Denis Yevseyev Denis Yevseyev (born 22 May 1993) is a Kazakh tennis player. Yevseyev has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 262 achieved on 8 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 247 achieved on 12 July 2021. Career 2017 ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Kevin Krawietz Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the French Open doubles title in both 2019 and 2020 alongside compatriot Andreas Mies. The ...

Daniel Masur Daniel Masur (born 6 November 1994 in Bückeburg) is a German professional tennis player. Masur has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 176, which he first achieved in March 2022 and in doubles of No. 149 achieved in September 2022. ...

Jurij Rodionov Jurij Rodionov (born 16 May 1999) is an Austrian tennis player of Belarusian descent. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 120 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 268 achieved on ...

Wu Tung-lin Wu Tung-lin (; born 12 May 1998), also known as Tony Wu, is a Taiwanese tennis player. Wu has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 158, achieved on 3 April 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 246, achiev ...

Champions

Singles

Yannick Hanfmann Yannick Hanfmann (born 13 November 1991) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 92, first achieved in May 2021. He is known for his powerful serves (up to 143 mph) and groundstrokes. H ...

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Roberto Cid Subervi Roberto Cid Subervi (; born 30 August 1993) is a Dominican–American tennis player. Cid Subervi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 211 achieved on 14 September 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 262, achieved on 19 ...

7–6^(7–3), 4–6, 6–2.

Doubles

Lorenzo Giustino Lorenzo Giustino (; born 10 September 1991, in Naples) is an Italian tennis player. Giustino has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 127 achieved on 12 August 2019 and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of 311 achieved on 15 April 2019. Giusti ...

Gonçalo Oliveira Gonçalo Oliveira (born 17 February 1995) is a Portuguese tennis player. Oliveira has a career high ATP singles ranking of 194 achieved on 25 December 2017. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 78 achieved on 9 March 2020. Oliveira has ...

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Lucas Miedler Lucas Miedler (; born 21 June 1996) is an Austrian tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP ranking of World No. 201 achieved on 15 October 2018 and a doubles ranking of No. 53 achieved 7 November 2022. He has won two doubles titles on ...

Sebastian Ofner Sebastian Ofner (born 12 May 1996) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 126 achieved on 6 May 2019. He was a semifinalist at the 2017 Generali Open Kitzbühel in his home country. Pro ...

6–2, 7–6^(7–4).

References

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