The 2018
Antalya Open
The Antalya Open is an ATP Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour launched in June 2017 in Antalya, Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transc ...
(also known as the Turkish Airlines Open Antalya for sponsorship reasons) was a men's
tennis
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tournament played on
grass court
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Although grass ...
s. It was the 2nd edition of the event, and part of the
ATP World Tour 250 series
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of the
2018 ATP World Tour
The 2018 ATP World Tour was the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 ATP World Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (superv ...
. It took place at the Kaya Palazzo Resort in
Belek
Belek is a township in the Serik district in Turkey's Antalya Province. The local population in 2022 is 73,260.
Belek is one of the centers of Turkey's tourism industry and is home to more than thirty four-star and five-star hotels and many ...
,
Antalya Province
Antalya Province ( tr, ) is located on the Mediterranean coast of south-west Turkey, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea.
Antalya Province is the centre of Turkey's tourism industry, attracting 30% of foreign tourists vi ...
, Turkey, from June 24–30.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of June 11, 2018.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
Cem İlkel
*
Gaël Monfils
Gaël Sébastien Monfils (; born 1 September 1986) is a French professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in November 2016. His career high ...
*
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (; born 15 November 1983) is a Spanish professional tennis player.
His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7, achieved in April 2009.
His best performance in a Grand Slam was making the semifinals of the 2009 ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Taro Daniel
is a Japanese-American professional tennis player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title at the 2018 Istanbul Open, seven ATP Challenger Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 64 on 27 August 2018.
Pers ...
*
Filip Horanský
Filip Horanský (; born 7 January 1993) is a tennis player from Slovakia.
Junior career
Filip, with partner Jiří Veselý, won the 2011 Boys Doubles Australian Open. He also won the bronze medal in doubles at 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, pa ...
*
Blaž Kavčič
Blaž Kavčič (born 5 March 1987) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player.
He was the highest ranked Slovenian male player ever, achieving a career-high of World No. 68 in August 2012, until Aljaž Bedene began to play for Slovenia ...
*
Mikhail Youzhny
Mikhail Mikhailovich Youzhny (born 25 June 1982), nicknamed "Misha" and "Colonel" by his fans, is a Russian retired professional tennis player who was ranked inside the top 10 and was the Russian No. 1. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Assoc ...
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (; born January 1, 1986) is an inactive Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna.
He has won six singles titles and has a career-high singles ranking o ...
→ replaced by
Jordan Thompson
*
Lu Yen-hsun
Lu Yen-hsun (; born 14 August 1983) is a Taiwanese retired professional tennis player, who goes by the nickname Rendy Lu.
He won the most titles on the ATP Challenger Tour in tennis history. His favorite surface is hardcourt, though several of ...
→ replaced by
Mirza Bašić
*
Maximilian Marterer
Maximilian Marterer (born 15 June 1995) is a German tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 45, achieved in August 2018.
Professional career
2015: ATP debut
Marterer made his ATP main draw debut at the MercedesCup i ...
→ replaced by
Marcos Baghdatis
Marcos Baghdatis ( el, Μάρκος Παγδατής, ar, ماركوس بغداتيس; ; born 17 June 1985) is a Cypriot former professional tennis player. He was the runner-up at the 2006 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2006 Wimbled ...
*
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; cs, Vašek Pospíšil, ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high world singles ranking of No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 ...
→ replaced by
Ričardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis (; born June 21, 1990) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian citizen (not counting Lithuanian American Vitas Gerulaitis) to enter the ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranke ...
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
* Rankings are as of June 18, 2018.
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Tuna Altuna
Tuna Altuna (born 30 January 1989, in Istanbul) is a Turkish tennis player.
Altuna has a career high ATP singles ranking of 651 achieved on 9 September 2013. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 355 achieved on 28 December 2015. In ...
/
Konstantin Kravchuk
Konstantin Vladimirovich Kravchuk ( rus, Константи́н Влади́мирович Кравчу́к, , kənstɐnʲˈtʲin krɐfˈtɕuk; born 23 February 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player. He is known for his strong serve an ...
*
Koray Kırcı /
Ergi Kırkın
Ergi Kırkın (born 27 January 1999) is a Turkish tennis player.
Kırkın has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 270 achieved on 25 July 2022. He has won 9 ITF singles titles. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World N ...
Champions
Singles
*
Damir Džumhur
Damir Džumhur ( ; born 20 May 1992) is a professional tennis player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently Bosnia and Herzegovina's No. 1 player. His career-best singles ranking of World No. 23 achieved on 2 July 2018, makes him the highes ...
def.
Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title at the 2019 Rosmalen Open on grass. He is c ...
, 6–1, 1–6, 6–1
Doubles
*
Marcelo Demoliner
Marcelo Fedrizzi Demoliner (born 18 January 1989) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, he won his first title at the ATP 250 Antalya Open with Santiago González in June 2018, after having reached six finals at that ...
/
Santiago González def.
Sander Arends
Sander Arends (born 9 August 1991) is a Dutch professional tennis player.
Arends has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) doubles ranking of world No. 55, achieved on 16 July 2019, and also attained his singles career-high ran ...
/
Matwé Middelkoop
Matwé Middelkoop (; born 3 September 1983) is a Dutch professional tennis player who specialises in doubles.
He has won 13 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, most notably the 2022 Rotterdam Open alongside Robin Haase, and reached a career high dou ...
, 7–5, 6–7
(6–8),
0–8
References
External links
Official website
{{2018 ATP World Tour
Antalya Open
Antalya Open
The Antalya Open is an ATP Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour launched in June 2017 in Antalya, Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transc ...
Antalya Open
The Antalya Open is an ATP Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour launched in June 2017 in Antalya, Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transc ...
Antalya Open
The Antalya Open is an ATP Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour launched in June 2017 in Antalya, Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transc ...