title: 2018 BNP Paribas de Nouvelle-Calédonie
text: # 2018 BNP Paribas de Nouvelle-Calédonie
  
  The 2018 BNP Paribas de Nouvelle-Calédonie was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Nouméa, New Caledonia between 1–6 January 2018.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | FRA | Julien Benneteau | 56 | 1 |
  | USA | Taylor Fritz | 104 | 2 |
  | GBR | Cameron Norrie | 114 | 3 |
  | NOR | Casper Ruud | 139 | 4 |
  | FRA | Corentin Moutet | 155 | 5 |
  | FRA | Gleb Sakharov | 156 | 6 |
  | FRA | Kenny de Schepper | 159 | 7 |
  | FRA | Mathias Bourgue | 161 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of 25 December 2017.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Geoffrey Blancaneaux
  * Julien Delaplane
  * Maxime Janvier
  * Loïc Perret
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Liam Caruana
  * Alejandro González
  * Zsombor Piros
  * Tim Pütz
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Noah Rubin def. Taylor Fritz 7–5, 6–4.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Hugo Nys / Tim Pütz def. Alejandro González / Jaume Munar 6–2, 6–2.
  