2018 Shanghai Challenger
# 2018 Shanghai Challenger

The 2018 Shanghai Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Shanghai, China between 10 and 16 September 2018.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| TPE | Jason Jung | 115 | 1 |
| ESP | Enrique López Pérez | 159 | 2 |
| JPN | Tatsuma Ito | 163 | 3 |
| CHN | Zhang Ze | 168 | 4 |
| JPN | Go Soeda | 176 | 5 |
| CAN | Filip Peliwo | 185 | 6 |
| SRB | Miomir Kecmanović | 196 | 7 |
| JPN | Hiroki Moriya | 197 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of 27 August 2018.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Hua Runhao
* Te Rigele
* Wu Yibing
* Zhang Zhizhen

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Bai Yan
* Dayne Kelly
* Tristan Lamasine
* Aldin Šetkić

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

* Viktor Durasovic

## Champions

### Singles

* Blaž Kavčič def. Hiroki Moriya 6–1, $7–6^{(7–1)}.$

### Doubles

* Gong Maoxin / Zhang Ze def. Hua Runhao / Zhang Zhizhen 6–4, 3–6, [10–4].
