The 2018
Wolffkran Open
The Wolffkran Open is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Ismaning, Germany
Germany,, officiall ...
was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
carpet courts
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. It was the second 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
Ismaning
Ismaning is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located near Munich.
Geography
In 2016 it had 16,770 inhabitants. The town is located about seven kilometers northeast of Munich on the right high bank of the Isar River that flows into the Danube ...
,
Germany
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between 15 and 21 October 2018.
Singles main draw entrants
Seeds
*
1 Rankings are as of 8 October 2018.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Jeremy Jahn
* Kai Lemstra
*
Christian Seraphim
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Louis Wessels
Louis Wessels (german: Weßels; born 27 August 1998) is a German tennis player.
Tennis career
On the junior tour, Wessels has a career high ITF junior ranking of 17 achieved in May 2016. Wessels has reached the doubles semifinals at three of ...
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:
*
Grégoire Barrère
Grégoire Barrère (; born 16 February 1994) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 80 achieved on 7 October 2019. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 achieved on 26 April 2021. ...
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Ugo Humbert
Ugo Humbert (; born 26 June 1998) is a French professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 25 on 21 June 2021. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 361 achieved on 14 October 2019.
Humbert ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
*
Alexander Erler
Alexander Erler (; born 27 October 1997) is an Austrian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 322, achieved on 4 October 2021. He has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 32, achieved on 8 May 20 ...
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Johannes Härteis
Johannes Härteis (born 22 February 1996) is a German tennis player.
Härteis achieved a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 300 in November 2020.
He made his ATP main draw debut at the 2019 Hamburg European Open in the doubles compet ...
*
Lukáš Klein
Lukáš Klein (born 22 March 1998) is a Slovak tennis player. Klein has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 136, achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 240, achieved on 5 April 2021.
Kle ...
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Tristan Lamasine
Tristan Lamasine (; born 5 March 1993) is a French, professional tennis player.
Career
2010–2015
From 2010 to 2015, Lamasine played mostly in the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Men's Circuit.
He made his ITF Men's Circuit singles debut (a ...
Champions
Singles
*
Filippo Baldi
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Gleb Sakharov
Gleb Sakharov (born 10 June 1988) is a Soviet-born French tennis player.
Sakharov has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 153 achieved on 8 January 2018. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 385 achieved on 11 June ...
6–4, 6–4.
Doubles
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Purav Raja
Purav Raja ( ; born 7 December 1985) is an Indian tennis player. He specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has 2 ATP world tour level titles in men's doubles. He represents India in the Davis Cup.
Personal and early lif ...
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Rameez Junaid
Rameez Junaid (born 25 May 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player of Pakistani descent.
Junaid is based in Melbourne, Victoria, and is currently ranked in the top 100 in doubles. His doubles partners have included Philipp Marx, ...
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David Pel
David Pel (born 9 July 1991) is a Dutch tennis player.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 885 achieved on 1 May 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 76 achieved on 19 July 2021. Pel has won one doub ...
5–7, 6–4,
0–5
External links
Official website
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Wolffkran Open
The Wolffkran Open is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It is held annually in Ismaning, Germany
Germany,, officiall ...
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