title: 2018 Irving Tennis Classic
text: # 2018 Irving Tennis Classic
  
  The 2018 Irving Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Irving, Texas, United States between 13 and 18 March 2018.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | JPN | Yūichi Sugita | 40 | 1 |
  | USA | Jared Donaldson | 48 | 2 |
  | USA | Steve Johnson | 52 | 3 |
  | HUN | Márton Fucsovics | 65 | 4 |
  | FRA | Gilles Simon | 70 | 5 |
  | GER | Maximilian Marterer | 73 | 6 |
  | RUS | Evgeny Donskoy | 76 | 7 |
  | ITA | Thomas Fabbiano | 77 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings as of March 5, 2018.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Alex de Minaur
  * Thomas Fabbiano
  * Márton Fucsovics
  * Philipp Petzschner
  
  The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:
  
  * Matteo Berrettini
  * Sebastian Fanselow
  * Bjorn Fratangelo
  * Daniel Elahi Galán
  * Austin Krajicek
  * Peđa Krstin
  * Michael Mmoh
  * Tim Smyczek
  * Sergiy Stakhovsky
  * Elias Ymer
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Petros Chrysochos
  * Patrick Kypson
  * Or Ram-Harel
  * Arthur Rinderknech
  
  The following players received entry as lucky losers:
  
  * Tigre Hank
  * Jody Maginley
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Mikhail Kukushkin def. Matteo Berrettini 6–2, 3–6, 6–1.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Philipp Petzschner / Alexander Peya def. Radu Albot / Matthew Ebden 6–2, 6–4.
  