2018 Open Sud de France explained

The 2018 Open Sud de France was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the Open Sud de France, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It took placed at the Arena Montpellier in Montpellier, France, from February 5 to February 11, 2018.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	width=85	Q	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	250	150	90	45	20	0	12	6	0
Doubles					0

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	€85,945	€45,265	€24,520	€13,970	€8,230	€4,875	€2,195	€1,100
Doubles	€26,110	€13,730	€7,440	€4,260	€2,490
Doubles prize money per team

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
Belgium	David Goffin	7	1
France	Lucas Pouille	17	2
France	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	19	3
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Damir Džumhur	30	4
France	Richard Gasquet	33	5
Russian Federation	Andrey Rublev	35	6
Spain	David Ferrer	39	7
Japan	Yūichi Sugita	41	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of January 29, 2018.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Julien Benneteau
  • Calvin Hemery Lucas Pouille

The following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:

• Ričardas Berankis
• John Millman

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Kenny de Schepper
• Norbert Gombos
• Yannick Maden
• Carlos Taberner

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Tomáš Berdych →replaced by Dustin Brown
• Steve Darcis →replaced by Nicolas Mahut
• Peter Gojowczyk →replaced by Ruben Bemelmans

Retirements

• Dustin Brown
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

ATP doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
	Ivan Dodig		Rajeev Ram	30	1
New Zealand	Marcus Daniell	United Kingdom	Dominic Inglot	80	2
Czech Republic	Roman Jebavý	Belarus	Andrei Vasilevski	107	3
Japan	Ben McLachlan	France	Hugo Nys	112	4

• ¹ Rankings as of January 29, 2018.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Benjamin Bonzi / Hugo Gaston
• Calvin Hemery / Vincent Millot

Withdrawals

During the tournament

• Dustin Brown / Benoît Paire

Finals

Singles

See main article: 2018 Open Sud de France – Singles.

• Lucas Pouille defeated Richard Gasquet, 7–6^(7–2), 6–4

Doubles

See main article: 2018 Open Sud de France – Doubles.

• Ken Skupski / Neal Skupski defeated Ben McLachlan / Hugo Nys, 7–6^(7–2), 6–4