2018 Italian Open (tennis)

Tennis tournament

2018 Italian Open

Date

14–20 May

Edition

75th

Draw

56S / 24D (men)
56S / 28D (women)

Prize money

€4,872,105 (men)
$3,351,720 (women)^[1]

Surface

Clay / outdoor

Location

Rome, Italy

Venue

Foro Italico

Champions

Men's singles

Rafael Nadal^[2]

Women's singles

Elina Svitolina^[3]

Men's doubles

Juan Sebastián Cabal /

Robert Farah

Women's doubles

Ashleigh Barty /

Demi Schuurs

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The 2018 Italian Open^[2] (also known as the 2018 Rome Masters and sponsored title 2018 Internazionali BNL d'Italia) was a professional tennis tournament played on |outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy from 14 to 20 May 2018. It was the 75th edition of the Italian Open and it is classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2018 WTA Tour.^[4]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q2	Q1
Men's singles^[5]	1000	600	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	0
Men's doubles^[6]	1000	600	360	180	90	10	—	—	—	—
Women's singles	900	585	350	190	105	60	1	30	20	1
Women's doubles	900	585	350	190	105	1	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q2	Q1
Men's singles	€935,385	€458,640	€230,830	€117,375	€60,945	€32,135	€17,350	€4,000	€2,040
Women's singles	€507,100	€253,425	€126,590	€58,313	€28,910	€14,840	€7,627	€4,245	€2,184
Men's doubles	€289,670	€141,820	€71,130	€35,510	€18,870	€9,960	—	—	—
Women's doubles	€145,167	€73,322	€36,293	€18,269	€9,227	€4,572	—	—	—

ATP singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of 7 May 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 14 May 2018.

Seed^[7]	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	2	Rafael Nadal	7,950	180	1000	8,770	Champion, defeated Alexander Zverev [2]
2	3	Alexander Zverev	6,015	1,000	600	5,615	Runner-up, lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
3	4	Grigor Dimitrov	4,870	10	10	4,870	Second round lost to Kei Nishikori
4	5	Marin Čilić	4,770	180	360	4,950	Semifinals lost to Alexander Zverev [2]
5	6	Juan Martín del Potro	4,540	180	90	4,450	Third round retired against David Goffin [9]
6	8	Dominic Thiem	3,545	360	10	3,195	Second round lost to Fabio Fognini
7	7	Kevin Anderson	3,660	35	10	3,635	Second round retired against Aljaž Bedene
8	9	John Isner	3,305	360	10	2,955	Second round lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas
9	10	David Goffin	2,930	90	180	3,020	Quarterfinals lost to Alexander Zverev
10	11	Pablo Carreño Busta	2,280	45	180	2,415	Quarterfinals lost to Marin Čilić [4]
11	18	Novak Djokovic	1,905	600	360	1,665	Semifinals lost to Rafael Nadal [1]
12	12	Sam Querrey	2,220	90	10	2,140	First round lost to Peter Gojowczyk
13	14	Jack Sock	2,155	90	45	2,110	Second round lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber
14	15	Diego Schwartzman	2,130	10	45	2,165	Second round lost to Benoît Paire
15	17	Tomáš Berdych	1,980	90	10	1,900	First round lost to Denis Shapovalov
16	16	Lucas Pouille	1,995	10	45	2,030	Second round lost to Kyle Edmund

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Reason
1	Roger Federer	9,670	0	8,670	Scheduling
13	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,210	10	2,120	Personal

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Roberto Bautista Agut → replaced by Steve Johnson
Hyeon Chung → replaced by Alexandr Dolgopolov
Roger Federer → replaced by Denis Shapovalov
Filip Krajinović → replaced by Aljaž Bedene
Nick Kyrgios → replaced by Ryan Harrison
Andy Murray → replaced by Leonardo Mayer
Milos Raonic → replaced by Peter Gojowczyk
Andrey Rublev → replaced by Daniil Medvedev
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga → replaced by Benoît Paire