title: 2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open
text: # 2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open
  
  The 2018 JC Ferrero Challenger Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Alicante, Spain between 2 and 7 April 2018.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | ESP | Roberto Carballés Baena | 78 | 1 |
  | ITA | Marco Cecchinato | 97 | 2 |
  | ITA | Stefano Travaglia | 123 | 3 |
  | AUS | Alex de Minaur | 130 | 4 |
  | ESP | Marcel Granollers | 131 | 5 |
  | RUS | Alexey Vatutin | 157 | 6 |
  | ITA | Alessandro Giannessi | 161 | 7 |
  | FRA | Kenny de Schepper | 173 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of 19 March 2018.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Pablo Andújar
  * Carlos Boluda-Purkiss
  * Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
  * Bernabé Zapata Miralles
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Ivan Gakhov
  * Daniel Gimeno Traver
  * Gian Marco Moroni
  * Mario Vilella Martínez
  
  The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
  
  * Federico Gaio
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Pablo Andújar def. Alex de Minaur $7–6^{(7–5)},$ 6–1.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Wesley Koolhof / Artem Sitak def. Guido Andreozzi / Ariel Behar 6–3, 6–2.
  