2018 Tashkent Open
# 2018 Tashkent Open

The 2018 Tashkent Open was a WTA International tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the Tashkent Open, on the 2018 WTA Tour. It took place at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, between September 24 and 29, 2018.

## Points and prize money

### Point distribution

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 1 |
| Doubles | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 1 | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of $32^1$ | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,200 | $3,420 | $2,220 | $1,285 | $750 |
| Doubles * | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |

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## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| ROU | Irina-Camelia Begu | 55 | 1 |
| BLR | Vera Lapko | 66 | 2 |
| SLO | Tamara Zidanšek | 72 | 3 |
| SUI | Stefanie Vögele | 73 | 4 |
| GER | Tatjana Maria | 74 | 5 |
| SVK | Anna Karolína Schmiedlová | 79 | 6 |
| RUS | Evgeniya Rodina | 84 | 7 |
| SLO | Dalila Jakupović | 89 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of September 17, 2017

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Nigina Abduraimova
* Anna Kalinskaya
* Vera Zvonareva

The following players received entry using protected rankings:

* Margarita Gasparyan
* Bojana Jovanovski Petrović

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Ivana Jorović
* Anastasia Potapova
* Dejana Radanović
* Fanny Stollár

### Withdrawals

* Vitalia Diatchenko → replaced by Marta Kostyuk
* Pauline Parmentier → replaced by Nao Hibino

## Doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ROU | Irina-Camelia Begu | ROU | Raluca Olaru | 77 | 1 |
| JPN | Nao Hibino | GEO | Oksana Kalashnikova | 119 | 2 |
| CHI | Alexa Guarachi | USA | Desirae Krawczyk | 151 | 3 |
| SLO | Dalila Jakupović | BLR | Vera Lapko | 152 | 4 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of September 17, 2017

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Nigina Abduraimova / Anna Kalinskaya
* Akgul Amanmuradova / Eugenie Bouchard

## Champions

### Singles

* Margarita Gasparyan def. Anastasia Potapova 6–2, 6–1

### Doubles

* Olga Danilović / Tamara Zidanšek def. Irina-Camelia Begu / Raluca Olaru, 7–5, 6–3
