The 2018 Gerry Weber Open was a men's
tennis
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tournament played on outdoor
grass court
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Although grass c ...
s. It was the 26th edition of the event and part of the
ATP World Tour 500 series of the
2018 ATP World Tour
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. It took place at the
Gerry Weber Stadion in
Halle Halle may refer to:
Places Germany
* Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt
** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany
** Hall ...
, Germany, between 18 June and 24 June 2018. Unsedeed
Borna Ćorić won the singles title.
Points and prize money
Point distribution
Prize money
*per team
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of June 11, 2018
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
*
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 ...
*
Florian Mayer
Florian Mayer (; born 5 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player.
Mayer reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in June 2011. Also in 2011, Mayer won his first ATP title after four previous defeats in ATP fin ...
*
Rudolf Molleker
Rudolf Molleker (born 26 October 2000) is a German tennis player. Molleker achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 146 on 29 July 2019 and a doubles ranking of World No. 376 on 21 March 2022.
Personal information
He was born i ...
The following players received as a special exempt:
*
Matthew Ebden
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He is a two-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships in men's ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Matthias Bachinger
*
Denis Kudla
*
Lukáš Lacko
*
Mikhail Youzhny
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The following players received entry as lucky losers:
*
Matteo Berrettini
*
Nikoloz Basilashvili
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
*
Chung Hyeon → replaced by
Jan-Lennard Struff
*
John Isner → replaced by
Márton Fucsovics
Márton Fucsovics ( hu, Fucsovics Márton, ; born 8 February 1992) is a Hungarian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 31 on 4 March 2019. He is currently the No. 1 Hungarian player.
Early life
Fucs ...
*
Albert Ramos Viñolas → replaced by
Matteo Berrettini
*
Andrey Rublev → replaced by
Malek Jaziri
Malek Jaziri ( ar, مالك الجزيري, Mālik al-Jazīrī; born January 20, 1984) is a Tunisian professional tennis player. Jaziri reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour of World 42 in January 2019. He reached the final of 2 ...
*
Peter Gojowczyk → replaced by
Nikoloz Basilashvili
Doubles main-draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of June 11, 2018
Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
*
Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Eberhard Hermann Kohlschreiber (; born 16 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player. The right-hander won eight singles and seven doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and made the quarterfinals at the 2012 Wimbledon Cha ...
/
Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner (born 24 March 1984) is a retired German professional tennis player. He was known for his hard-hitting forehand and bursts of speed around the court. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 9, which he achieved in ...
*
Jan-Lennard Struff /
Tim Pütz
The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Jonathan Erlich /
Nicholas Monroe
Finals
Singles
*
Borna Ćorić defeated
Roger Federer, 7–6
(8–6), 3–6, 6–2
Doubles
*
Łukasz Kubot /
Marcelo Melo
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* Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapi ...
defeated
Alexander Zverev
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/
Mischa Zverev
Mikhail "Mischa" Alexandrovich Zverev (russian: Михаил "Миша" Александрович Зверев, , ; born 22 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player born in Russia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world ...
, 7–6
(7–1), 6–4
References
External links
Official website
ATP website
{{2018 ATP World Tour