title: 2018 Erste Bank Open
text: # 2018 Erste Bank Open
  
  The 2018 Erste Bank Open 500 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 44th edition of the event, and part of the ATP World Tour 500 Series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, from 22 October until 28 October 2018. Second-seeded Kevin Anderson won the singles title.
  
  ## Points and prize money
  
  ### Point distribution
  
  | Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Q | Q2 | Q1 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Singles | 500 | 300 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 0 |
  | Doubles | 500 | 300 | 180 | 90 | 0 | — | 45 | 25 | 0 |
  
  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | AUT | Dominic Thiem | 7 | 1 |
  | RSA | Kevin Anderson | 8 | 2 |
  | BUL | Grigor Dimitrov | 9 | 3 |
  | USA | John Isner | 10 | 4 |
  | JPN | Kei Nishikori | 11 | 5 |
  | CRO | Borna Ćorić | 13 | 6 |
  | ITA | Fabio Fognini | 14 | 7 |
  | GBR | Kyle Edmund | 15 | 8 |
  
  * Rankings are as of October 15, 2018
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Félix Auger-Aliassime
  * Jürgen Melzer
  * Dennis Novak
  
  The following player received entry as a special exempt:
  
  * Gaël Monfils
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Ruben Bemelmans
  * Pierre-Hugues Herbert
  * Denis Kudla
  * Mikhail Kukushkin
  
  The following players received entry as lucky losers:
  
  * Cameron Norrie
  * Andrey Rublev
  
  ### Withdrawals
  
  **Before the tournament**
  
  * Pablo Carreño Busta → replaced by Frances Tiafoe
  * Chung Hyeon → replaced by Andrey Rublev
  * Richard Gasquet → replaced by Cameron Norrie
  * Nick Kyrgios → replaced by Nikoloz Basilashvili
  
  **During the tournament**
  
  * Jürgen Melzer
  
  ### Retirements
  
  * Borna Ćorić
  * Gaël Monfils
  
  ## Doubles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | AUT | Oliver Marach | CRO | Mate Pavić | 5 | 1 |
  | POL | Łukasz Kubot | BRA | Marcelo Melo | 8 | 2 |
  | COL | Juan Sebastián Cabal | COL | Robert Farah | 15 | 3 |
  | GBR | Jamie Murray | BRA | Bruno Soares | 19 | 4 |
  
     * $^1$ Rankings are as of October 15, 2018
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
  
  * Jürgen Melzer / Philipp Oswald
  * Lucas Miedler / Dennis Novak
  
  The following pair received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Denys Molchanov / Igor Zelenay
  
  The following pairs received entry as lucky losers:
  
  * James Cerretani / Denis Kudla
  * Andreas Mies / Hans Podlipnik Castillo
  
  ### Withdrawals
  
  **Before the tournament**
  
  * John Isner
  * Jürgen Melzer
  
  ## Finals
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Kevin Anderson defeated Kei Nishikori, 6–3, $7–6^{(7–3)}$
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Joe Salisbury / Neal Skupski defeated Mike Bryan / Édouard Roger-Vasselin, $7–6^{(7–5)},$ 6–3
  