title: 2018 Cary Challenger
text: # 2018 Cary Challenger
  
  The 2018 Cary Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cary, North Carolina, United States between 10 and 16 September 2018.
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | CAN | Peter Polansky | 119 | 1 |
  | SWE | Elias Ymer | 132 | 2 |
  | ESA | Marcelo Arévalo | 146 | 3 |
  | USA | Reilly Opelka | 173 | 4 |
  | USA | Bjorn Fratangelo | 175 | 5 |
  | USA | Kevin King | 180 | 6 |
  | AUS | Alexei Popyrin | 195 | 7 |
  | AUS | Maverick Banes | 216 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of August 27, 2018.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * William Blumberg
  * Alexis Galarneau
  * Sebastian Korda
  * Nick Stachowiak
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Joris De Loore
  * James Duckworth
  * Evan Song
  * J. J. Wolf
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * James Duckworth def. Reilly Opelka $7–6^{(7–4)},$ 6–3.
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Evan King / Hunter Reese def. Fabrice Martin / Hugo Nys 6–4, $7–6^{(8–6)}.$
  