2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
When announcing her campaign, Kerryn Phelps urged voters to "put the Liberals last". She later published how-to-vote cards giving the Liberals a preference above Labor. Phelps became a prominent candidate in the by-election, with it being suggested that her preferences would be able to get Sharma over the line.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
In response to Phelps directing her preferences to Liberal candidate Sharma, the ALP employed the strategy of "running dead" with the intent of seeing their candidate Tim Murray coming in third place which would result in ALP preferences being distributed to Phelps and helping her to win the seat.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, backed independent candidate Licia Heath, despite having worked with Phelps on the City of Sydney council.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
On 26 September 2018 Sharma's campaign team was accused by other candidates of removing their campaign posters and replacing them with Sharma's posters.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
On 7 October, The Sunday Telegraph reported allegations that Katter's Australian Party candidate Robert Callanan was a former director of a company associated with a brothel, leading Callanan to be disendorsed by the party.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
On 10 October, part of the Ruddock review into religious freedoms in Australia was leaked.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
Former Liberal Party leader and former MP for Wentworth John Hewson publicly said the seat is "ripe for protest vote", and urged constituents to vote against the Liberal Party, especially due to its lack of climate change policies.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
On 15 October, Scott Morrison announced a review of whether Australia's embassy in Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Morrison also announced funding of $2 million for a surf lifesaving club in the electorate, and $2.2 million for security at Jewish community venues and events.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Campaign
In the last week of the campaign, an email was sent to hundreds of Wentworth constituents which falsely reported that Phelps was withdrawing from the by-election due to being diagnosed with HIV. The email then encouraged the recipient to give their first preference vote to the Liberal candidate Sharma and to remove Phelps' campaign posters. An investigation into the email revealed that it was likely sent from one of 500,000 Dodo and iPrimus email addresses. Sharma and the Liberal Party condemned the email and denied any involvement.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Polling
The first public opinion poll of the by-election, conducted by ReachTEL during the evening of Monday 27 August 2018, produced a tied 50-50 two-party-preferred result between Liberal and Labor, which represented a massive 17.7% swing from Liberal to Labor since the previous election. Election analyst Antony Green partially attributed the size of the swing to the loss of Turnbull's significant personal vote. On 16 October, it was reported that the Liberal party's internal polling showed data that represented a 55% Phelps to 45% Sharma two-candidate-preferred vote result.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Results
At 7:18pm AEDT, just over an hour after the close of polls, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's psephologist Antony Green predicted independent candidate Kerryn Phelps to win the by-election, although the margin of victory for Phelps tightened as pre-poll and postal votes were counted.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Aftermath
It is the first time since the inaugural 1901 election that the seat has not been represented by the Liberals, its predecessors, or party defectors. The outcome saw the Liberal-National Coalition slip further into minority government, holding only 74 seats out of 150 in the House of Representatives, having lost majority government two months earlier when Nationals MP Kevin Hogan moved to the crossbench while continuing his confidence and supply support.


2018 Wentworth by-election, Aftermath
The by-election is credited with highlighting the health concerns for refugee children detained in Nauru to the Morrison Government's attention, and subsequently transporting some of them to Australia for medical treatment.


2018 West Alabama Tigers football team
The 2018 West Alabama Tigers football team represented University of West Alabama during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Brett Gilliland. The Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference.


2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Preseason, Gulf South Conference coaches poll
On August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Tigers predicted to finish in 1st place in the conference.


2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team
The Tigers had seven players at seven positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.


2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule
West Alabama 2018 football schedule consists of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Tigers will host GSC foes Delta State, Florida Tech, Valdosta State, and West Florida, and will travel to Mississippi College, North Greenville, Shorter, and West Georgia.


2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule
The Tigers will host two of the three non-conference games against Lenoir–Rhyne from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and Miles College from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and will travel to Limestone, which is an independent team.


2018 West Alabama Tigers football team, Schedule
Three of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2018 West Bengal by-elections
Two by-elections were held in West Bengal on 29 January 2018 following the death of the incumbents Member of Noapara (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Madhusudan Ghose of the Indian National Congress and Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) M.P Sultan Ahmed (politician) of All India Trinamool Congress).


2018 West Bengal by-elections, Winners
Both seats were won by the All India Trinamool Congress Candidates, Noapara (Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat won by Sunil Singh who is the brother-in-law of Arjun singh, and Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) seat won by Sajda Ahmed, the widow of Sultan Ahmed (politician).


2018 West Bengal local elections
Panchayat elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in May 2018. The polls were hit with widespread violence.


2018 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2018 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 24 through May 26, 2018 at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, California. The four team, double-elimination tournament winner will earn the league's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2018 West Coast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage. The teams will then play a double elimination tournament.


2018 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2017–18 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 2–6, 2018. Regular-season champion Gonzaga won the tournament and with it the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.


2018 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All ten teams in the West Coast Conference were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. The top six teams received a first-round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2018 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2017 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the West Coast Conference for the 2017–18 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in the Las Vegas-area community of Paradise, Nevada from March 2–6, 2018. Regular-season champion Gonzaga won the tournament and with it the WCC's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.


2018 West Coast Eagles season
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia. Their 2018 season was their 32nd season in the Australian Football League (AFL), their fifth season under coach Adam Simpson, and their fourth season with Shannon Hurn as captain. The West Coast Eagles finished the season with 16 wins and 6 losses, placing them second on the ladder, qualifying for the 2018 AFL finals series. They would go on to win the Grand Final by 5 points against Collingwood.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Background
The West Coast Eagles are an Australian rules football team based in Perth, Western Australia, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). They finished the 2017 home-and-away season eighth on the ladder. The were eliminated in the semi finals.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Background
Shannon Hurn was the team's captain in 2018 for a fourth consecutive year. Adam Simpson was the team's senior coach.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Background
West Coast had 80,290 members in 2018, a 23.40% increase on 2017 numbers.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
West Coast started the 2018 season by facing Sydney in the first AFL match at the newly opened Perth Stadium (known under sponsorship as Optus Stadium). The Eagles lost that match by 29 points. West Coast would then go on to win their next 10 matches, the most notable of which was against Richmond at Optus Stadium in round 9. Richmond were the reigning premiers, and ladder leaders at the time, having lost just one game, and were ahead of West Coast on the ladder by percentage only. The Eagles managed to win that game by 47 points, putting West Coast first on the ladder and in serious contention for the premiership.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
After their round 12 bye, West Coast lost the next three matches against Sydney, Essendon and Adelaide. West Coast broke their streak of bad games by beating Greater Western Sydney in round 16. This was followed by wins against Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, a loss against North Melbourne in Hobart, and a win against Fremantle in the season's second Western Derby. During the Derby, Eagles midfielder Andrew Gaff made an unprovoked and off-the-ball punch on Fremantle's Andrew Brayshaw, breaking his jaw. Gaff was criticised for this on social media and figures in the AFL world. Gaff received an eight match suspension for this punch.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
The following week after the Western Derby, West Coast beat Port Adelaide after Jeremy McGovern kicked a goal after the siren. West Coast did not have the lead at any point during the match, and came from four goals down to win the game. This was the second time in a year within a year that West Coast beat Port Adelaide with a goal after the siren, the first being an elimination final in 2017. West Coast would then lose the second last match of the season to Melbourne, and win the last match against Brisbane Lions. At the end of the season, West Coast were second on the ladder, only behind Richmond. This qualified West Coast to have two home finals.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
Their first final was a qualifying final against Collingwood. The Eagles came from 10 points down at three quarter time to win by 16 points. This sent West Coast into a preliminary final two weeks later against Melbourne. In the match, West Coast thrashed Melbourne by 66 points. In the first half, Melbourne scored no goals, the first time this happened in a final since 1927. This win sent West Coast into the 2018 AFL Grand Final against Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Season summary
In the first quarter of the grand final, West Coast trailed by as much as 29 points, as Collingwood kicked the opening five goals. From there, the Eagles clawed back the margin back to zero by three quarter time. In the final quarter, the Magpies kicked two early goals, leaving much of the rest of the quarter for the Eagles to be trailing. With two minutes remaining, and West Coast four points down, Dom Sheed kicked the winning goal from the boundary. The Grand Final finished with West Coast winning their fourth AFL premiership.


2018 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
West Coast had four players in the 2018 All-Australian team. They were Andrew Gaff, Shannon Hurn, Jeremy McGovern and Elliot Yeo.


2018 West Florida Argonauts football team
The 2018 West Florida Argonauts football team will represent the University of West Florida in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by third-year head coach Pete Shinnick. The Argonauts will play their home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference.


2018 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
West Florida 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Argonauts will host GSC foes Florida Tech, Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Georgia, and will travel to Delta State, Mississippi College, North Greenville, and West Alabama.


2018 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
The Argonauts will host one of the three non-conference games against Carson–Newman from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and  will travel to  Midwestern State from the Lone Star Conference and North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team.


2018 West Florida Argonauts football team, Schedule
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire
The 2018 West Footscray warehouse fire was a major industrial fire that occurred in West Footscray, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, beginning on 30 August 2018. The fire took the Metropolitan Fire Brigade several days to fully control and emitted a large plume of toxic black smoke, visible across Melbourne.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Background
The warehouse where the fire occurred is owned by Danbol Pty Ltd; the sole director and shareholder of which is Christopher James Baldwin, an accountant based in Shepparton.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Fire
Emergency services were first called to the factory at 420 Somerville Road, West Footscray around 5am on 30 August 2018, arriving six minutes after the first call. The 100m x 200m warehouse was fully alight. 80 firefighters and 20 fire-fighting appliances initially responded, with the number of firefighters eventually rising to more than 140. Firefighters' ability to reach the centre of the fire was hampered by walls of shipping containers and 44 gallon drums stacked up within the warehouse. A week after the fire started, hotspots remained.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Investigations
Initial investigations in the aftermath of the fire indicated the cause was suspicious. Detectives from the Victoria Police Arson and Explosive Squad assumed responsibility for the investigation into the exact cause of the fire.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Investigations
WorkSafe Victoria announced after the fire that the warehouse was not registered to store dangerous chemicals. As a result of community concern, Worksafe inspected other industrial properties within the area, and "found dozens ... that also failed to comply with the [Dangerous Goods] act". The Environment Protection Authority also investigated links between the owner of the site, the lessee, and other properties in the north of Melbourne, where industrial chemicals were found to be stored illegally.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Investigations
At the request of the firefighters' union and Metropolitan Fire Brigade, a coronial investigation was opened into the incident.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Health effects
In the hours after the fire began, authorities issued a "community advice warning" for Brooklyn, Kingsville, Tottenham, West Footscray, Altona North, Braybrook, Footscray, South Kingsville, Spotswood, Sunshine, and Yarraville, with residents being warned to close windows and doors. Residents were still reporting health issues three weeks after the fire. Firefighters were also concerned about the longterm effects of exposure to toxic chemicals.


2018 West Footscray warehouse fire, Environmental effects
Within hours of the fire, dead fish, eels, birds and other wildlife were washing up dead on the banks of Stony Creek. The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) warned people not to eat fish from Stony Creek or the lower Yarra River, and not to enter, put their hands into or allow dogs into the creek. As of March 2019, the EPA continues to monitor the water and sediment of Stony Creek for pollutants including phenol, BTEX, PFAS, acetone and butanone.


2018 West Georgia Wolves football team
The 2018 West Georgia Wolves football team will represent the University of West Georgia in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by second-year head coach David Dean. The Wolves will play their home games at University Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.


2018 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule
West Georgia 2018 football schedule consists of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Wolves will host GSC foes Florida Tech, West Alabama, Delta State, and North Greenville, and will travel to Mississippi College, and Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Florida.


2018 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule
The Wolves will host two of the three non-conference games against Catawba from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and Limestone also from SAC and will travel to Albany State from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.


2018 West Georgia Wolves football team, Schedule
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.


2018 West Java earthquake
On 23 January 2018, at 13:34:50 Western Indonesian Time (06:34:54 UTC), an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java near the regency of Lebak. The earthquake, measured 5.9 on the Mww, occurred approximately 40 kilometres south of the village of Binuangeun at a depth of 43.9 kilometres. The earthquake was categorized as a strong and shallow earthquake.


2018 West Java earthquake
Strong shaking were widely reported across Banten, Lampung, West Java, Central Java and Jakarta. The tremor in Jakarta was much harder than in other recent quakes. By the virtue of its distance from the Indo-Australian plate, the capital normally does not experience strong tremors. Two people were indirectly killed by the earthquake.


2018 West Java earthquake, Damage and casualties
Property damage was reported in West Java and Banten. In the Lebak and Sukabumi regencies, 2,760 and 3,669 buildings were damaged respectively. Two people died from heart attacks in Lebak and Sukabumi and 35 others were injured. The Depok city hall was damaged by the earthquake as well.


2018 West Java gubernatorial election
The 2018 West Java gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of West Java along with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.


2018 West Java gubernatorial election
Incumbent Ahmad Heryawan was barred from participating in the re-elections after having served two full terms. Candidates included the sitting vice governor Deddy Mizwar, mayor of Bandung Ridwan Kamil, People's Representative Council member Tubagus Hasanuddin and retired major general Sudrajat.


2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Timeline
On 10 September 2017, the KPU declared that there will be 32,809,057 eligible voters in the province, down about 200 thousand from in 2013.


2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Timeline
Registration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.


2018 West Java gubernatorial election, Candidates
Under regulations, candidates are required to secure the support of a political party or a coalition thereof comprising at least 20 seats in the regional house. Alternatively, independent candidates may run provided they are capable of securing support from 6.5 percent of the total voter population (2,132,470) in form of photocopied ID cards subject to verification by the local committee although no candidates expressing interest managed to do this.


2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election
The 2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of West Kalimantan alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.


2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election
With incumbent Cornelis M.H. barred after serving two full terms, the election was contested by three pairs of candidates: Pontianak mayor Sutarmidji, Landak regent Karolin Margret Natasa and former regent of Sintang Milton Crosby.


2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election
The election resulted in victory for Sutarmidji, who secured 51.5 percent of the votes. Karolin came in second with 41.8 percent while Milton won less than 7 percent of votes.


2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Timeline
Registration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. In April 2018, the provincial KPU set the number of voters at 3,436,127. The campaigning period would commence between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.


2018 West Kalimantan gubernatorial election, Candidates
In addition, an independent ticket also registered, but failed to submit a sufficient number of supporting ID cards.


2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election
The 2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election took place on 27 June 2018 as part of the simultaneous local elections. It was held to elect the governor of West Nusa Tenggara alongside with their deputy, whilst members of the provincial council (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah) will be re-elected in 2019.


2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election
With incumbent Muhammad Zainul Majdi meeting his term limits, People's Representative Council member Zulkieflimansyah came ahead in the four-candidate race, defeating regents of Central Lombok and East Lombok Mohammad Suhaili Fadhil Thahir and Ali Bin Dahlan, alongside Mataram mayor Ahyar Abduh, winning 31.8 percent of votes.


2018 West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial election, Timeline
Registration for party-backed candidates were opened between 8 and 10 January 2018, while independent candidates were required to register between 22 and 26 November 2017. The numerical order of the candidates were determined on 13 February through a lottery. The campaigning period commenced between 15 February and 24 June, with a three-day election silence before voting on 27 June.


2018 West Oxfordshire District Council election
The 2018 West Oxfordshire District Council election was held on 3 May 2018 to elect members of West Oxfordshire District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2018 West Oxfordshire District Council election
Elections were held for 17 of the 49 seats on the council. Five seats changed hands. The Conservative Party lost five seats, the Liberal Democrats gained three and the Labour Party gained two. The Conservatives remained in overall control of the council with a reduced total of 34 seats. The Liberal Democrats remained the largest opposition group with eight seats. The Labour Party remained the third largest party with six seats.


2018 West Tyrone by-election
A by-election was held in the UK Parliament constituency of West Tyrone on 3 May 2018, following the resignation of Barry McElduff, who had been the Member of Parliament (MP) since 2017. McElduff had become embroiled in a social media controversy which had resulted in his suspension from Sinn Féin on 8 January. He announced his resignation on 15 January 2018.


2018 West Tyrone by-election
This was the first by-election held during the 57th UK Parliament, which was elected in the 2017 general election. It was the first Parliamentary by-election held in Northern Ireland since the Mid Ulster by-election in 2013. Sinn Féin candidate Órfhlaith Begley held the seat with a slightly reduced majority, compared to the June 2017 snap election.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background
On 5 January 2018, sitting MP Barry McElduff tweeted a video of himself in a shop with a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head, asking where the shop kept its bread. As it coincided with the 42nd anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre—where republicans murdered ten Protestant civilians—unionists accused him of mocking the massacre and the video was widely criticised, including by nationalists. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said "mocking is depraved" and called the video "inhuman". McElduff deleted it and apologised, saying he was not alluding to the massacre and offering to meet the victims' families.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background
On 8 January, Sinn Féin apologised for McElduff's actions, condemned the video, and suspended him from Sinn Féin for three months. McElduff announced on 15 January that he was resigning his seat. He was appointed the Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern on 16 January 2018, a mechanism by which an MP's resignation is formalised.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background
The constituency of West Tyrone was created for the 1997 election and has been held by Sinn Féin since 2001. The seat is overwhelmingly nationalist, with nationalist parties consistently winning over 50% of the vote since the seat was created. Despite this, the nationalist vote has traditionally been split between the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Sinn Féin, whilst the unionist parties have been more willing to make pacts to increase their chances of victory.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background
Ordinarily, the writ of election for a vacant seat is moved by the party of the outgoing MP, but as Sinn Féin do not take their seats in the House of Commons they were unable to do so. In their absence, the writ was instead moved by the Government Chief Whip, Julian Smith. On 28 March, the writ of election was passed by the House of Commons. The election was scheduled for 3 May, coinciding with the scheduled local elections in England.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background, Unity candidate
After the election was called, these was discussion about the possibility of a non-partisan victims' candidate standing against Sinn Féin. As Sinn Féin won a majority of the vote at the last election, a unity candidate would be unlikely to win without support across both the nationalist and unionist communities. Potential candidates included Kevin Skelton and Sharon Gault, both of whom lost relatives in terrorist attacks during the Troubles. Ulster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann endorsed the proposal, calling for a "non-partisan candidate who will be a voice for victims to contest this seat against Sinn Féin".


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background, Unity candidate
Local Democratic Unionist Party MLA Tom Buchanan suggested that a cross-community candidate was unlikely, given that his party had not been approached about standing down. Further criticism of the idea was levelled by Alan McBride – a relative of two Shankill Road bombing victims – describing the idea of an agreed victims' candidate as "potentially toxic".


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Background, Unity candidate
By late March the chances of a unity candidate being nominated were described as 'remote'. Kevin Skelton – who had earlier expressed his willingness to stand as a unity candidate – noted that he had not been approached by any party to stand. The Ulster Unionists, who had originally called for a non-partisan candidate, were understood to have unsuccessfully approached a different person to ask them to be a 'victims candidate'. Omagh bomb campaigner Michael Gallagher also voiced his disappointment, and acknowledged that there had not been a positive response to the idea. Ultimately, no unity candidate was nominated and each of Northern Ireland's major parties fielded a candidate instead.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
Nominations to stand in the by-election closed on 10 April 2018.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
26-year-old local solicitor Órfhlaith Begley was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate at a party convention on 25 February. She is the daughter of Seán Begley, a long-serving Sinn Féin councillor on Omagh District Council.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
The DUP announced local MLA Thomas Buchanan was announced as the party's candidate on 9 April. He had previously contested the seat in the 2017 general election.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
The SDLP were understood to be preparing to contest the by-election. Former candidate and local MLA Daniel McCrossan released a statement in March condemning the fact that two months had passed from McElduff's resignation without a by-election date being fixed. McCrossan stated in early April that the selection process for the by-election was underway. He was announced as the SDLP candidate on 9 April.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
Ulster Unionist Party leader Robin Swann repeatedly expressed a preference for a unity candidate instead of a candidate from his own party. Despite this, it was acknowledged that the party would have to explore "other options" in the event that such a candidate was not agreed upon. They nominated Omagh councillor Chris Smyth as their candidate. He accepted the nomination with "mixed emotions", expressing disappointment at the lack of a non-partisan and cross-community candidate.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
The Alliance Party declined to support a 'victims candidate', with party leader Naomi Long giving her reasons to victims campaigner Kevin Skelton in a letter. Stephen Donnelly was subsequently announced as the Alliance candidate at the party conference on 24 March.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Candidates and result
Cannabis legalisation campaigner Barry Brown had initially announced his intention to contest the by-election as the Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance (CISTA) candidate, having previously stood in the 2015 and 2017 elections. He later decided not to stand, citing commitments by the SDLP and Alliance Party towards legalising medicinal cannabis.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Campaign
Early in the campaign Sinn Féin candidate Órfhlaith Begley raised concerns at the proposed changes to the Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies that formed part of the sixth periodic boundary review. In particular, she expressed her opposition to the proposed division of the town of Dungiven, which was to be split between the constituencies of West Tyrone, Mid Ulster and a newly created Causeway constituency. She argued that the new boundaries "blatantly advantages the DUP at the expense of the nationalist electorate." Sinn Féin furthermore claimed that a campaign of voter suppression had been taking place, and urged local residents to confirm their eligibility to vote.


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Campaign
In mid-April an SDLP party worker claimed to have been verbally abused and attacked whilst putting up election posters in the constituency. According to the police report, the three men who assaulted the SDLP worker yelled sectarian abuse and threw his poster and ladder into the River Strule. Sinn Féin also claimed to have had posters stolen and destroyed in Omagh town centre. SDLP candidate Daniel McCrossan described the incidents as "an attack on democracy".


2018 West Tyrone by-election, Previous result
Outgoing MP Barry McElduff was elected at the General Election in 2017, following the retirement of fellow Sinn Féin politician Pat Doherty. Sinn Féin won an absolute majority of the vote, their best ever result in the constituency. McElduff had previously served as an MLA for the equivalent constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers played their home games at the Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, in Morgantown, West Virginia, and compete in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by eighth-year head coach Dana Holgorsen.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Previous season
The Mountaineers finished the 2017 season 7–6, 5–4 in Big 12 play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place. They were invited to the Heart of Dallas Bowl where they lost to Utah.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Preseason, First team All-Americans
Quarterback Will Grier and wide receiver David Sills were named to numerous preseason All-America teams by various media outlets.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll
The Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Mountaineers predicted to finish in second place.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
West Virginia had originally planned to have a game the previous week against North Carolina State, but it was canceled due to Hurricane Florence. The team and coaches began preparations against Kansas State early. Mountaineer Coach Dana Holgorsen said, "Kansas State's a tough outfit that we've got to prepare for."


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Both teams started conference play with this game. Kansas State entered the game with a record of 2–1 where West Virginia had already secured victories against Tennessee (40–14) and Youngstown State (523–-17)." This game is the ninth meeting between the two teams with the Wildcats holding a 5-3 overall lead. The teams have split the four games played at West Virginia.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
West Virginia managed to take control of the game mid-way through the second quarter after Kansas State failed to convert on fourth down. West Virginia ended ahead at the half 21–0. Kansas State managed control the ball more on offense but it wasn't enough, as West Virginia achieved 464 total yards compared to Kansas State's 318. Although West Virginia had four turnovers to Kansas State's one, the Wildcats lost 69 yards on 8 penalties compared to the Mountaineer's 35 yards on 3 penalties. West Virginia was 8–12 on third down conversions compared to Kansas State's 3–14.


2018 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
In the second half of play, Kansas State was successful with two field goals and additional scores by the Mountaineers put the game to a conclusion of West Virginia's victory 35–6.


2018 West Virginia Senate election
The 2018 West Virginia Senate elections were held on November 6, 2018, as part of the biennial United States elections. Seventeen of West Virginia's 34 state senators were up for election. West Virginia Senate districts each have two elected representatives. State senators serve staggered four-year terms in West Virginia, with one senator from each district up in even-numbered years corresponding to presidential election years (most recently held in 2016), and the other up in even-numbered years corresponding to presidential midterm years.


2018 West Virginia Senate election
Primary elections in the state were held on May 8. After the previous 2016 state elections, Republicans held a majority in the Senate, holding 22 seats to the Democrats' 12. The Republican Party had long been the minority party in the Mountain State, but the decline of the strength of coal worker unions, the Democratic Party's increasing focus on environmentalism, the unpopularity of President Barack Obama, and the increasing social conservatism of the Republican Party have helped the GOP solidify power in the state rapidly since 2000.


2018 West Virginia Senate election
Despite the high popularity of President Donald Trump within the state and his 42-point margin of victory there in 2016, the Democrats gained two seats in the West Virginia Senate in 2018. This can be attributed to the competitive U.S. Senate race at the top of the ticket (which was won by incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin), the increasing insulation of the West Virginia Democratic Party from the national Democratic Party (particularly on social issues, such as abortion), and a strong year for the Democratic Party nationally, in which they gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives.


2018 West Virginia Senate election
Following the state's 2018 Senate elections, Republicans maintained control of the Senate with 20 seats to the Democrats' 14.


2018 West Virginia Senate election, Retirements
No incumbents retired in 2018. All 17 incumbent Senators ran for re-election.


2018 West Virginia Senate election, Incumbents defeated, In primary elections
Three incumbents were defeated in the May primaries, one more than were defeated in the 2016 primaries.


2018 West Virginia Senate election, Results summary
All results are certified by the Secretary of State of West Virginia.


2018 West Virginia Senate election, Detailed results by State Senate District
All results are certified by the Secretary of State of West Virginia.


2018 West Virginia elections
West Virginia held elections on November 6, 2018. Elections for the United States House and Senate were held as well as two high-profile ballot measures. These elections were held concurrently with other elections nationwide. Primary elections were held on May 8, 2018.


2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives
In District 1, Republican incumbent David McKinley won reelection with 64.6% of the vote, defeating Democratic challenger Kendra Fershee, a West Virginia University law professor.


2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives
In District 2, Republican incumbent Alex Mooney won reelection with 53.9% of the vote, defeating Talley Sergent, a former U.S. State Department official.


2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, House of Representatives
In District 3, Republican incumbent Evan Jenkins resigned in September 2018. Democratic state Senator Richard Ojeda challenged Republican Majority Whip of the West Virginia House of Delegates Carol Miller. Miller won with 56.4% of the vote.


2018 West Virginia elections, Federal offices, Senate
Incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin was ranked by many outlets to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents up for election. His challenger was Attorney General of West Virginia Patrick Morrisey who  won a contentious Republican primary. Manchin won the election with 49.6% of the vote against Morrisey's 46.3% vote share. This was much lower than Manchin's previous performance of a vote share 60.6% in 2012.


2018 West Virginia elections, State Legislature, State Senate
17 of the 34 State Senate seats were up for election in 2018. Democrats won a net gain of 2 seats, but Republicans maintained their majority with 20 seats to Democrat's 14. A total of 5 Republican incumbents lost their election, 3 in their primaries and 2 in the general election.


2018 West Virginia elections, State Legislature, House of Delegates
All 100 seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates were up for election. The Republican majority sustained a net loss of 4 seats, decreasing the majority from 63 to 59. A total of 5 Democrats, 7 Republicans, and 1 Independent incumbents lost reelection in either their primaries or in the general election.


2018 West Virginia elections, Ballot Measures, Amendment 1
To amend the West Virginia Constitution to clarify that nothing in the Constitution of West Virginia secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion.


2018 West Virginia elections, Ballot Measures, Amendment 2
Amended the state constitution to authorize the legislature to reduce the budget of the state judiciary by up to 15 percent, among other things relating to the judiciary.


2018 West Virginia elections, Supreme Court of Appeals
Two special elections were held after the resignation of Justices Menis Ketchum and Robin Davis in July and August respectively. The resignations came after revelations and legislative investigations into a misuse of state funds and corruption of the state judiciary. Tim Armstead was appointed to Ketchum's seat and Evan Jenkins was appointed to Davis's seat by Governor Jim Justice.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike
The West Virginia teachers' and school personnel strike began on February 22, 2018 with a call from the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and the West Virginia School Service Personnel for school employees across West Virginia to strike. The strike, called in response to anger among teachers and other school employees over low pay and high health care costs, involved roughly 20,000 teachers and public school employees and shut down schools in all 55 West Virginia counties, affecting some 250,000 students. It lasted until March 7, 2018.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike
The strike inspired teachers in other states, including Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona, to take similar action. Teachers in other states, including North Carolina and Kentucky have also coordinated protests and walkouts on a smaller scale.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Salary demands
The strike was called in response to the low pay of West Virginia teachers, whose compensation ranks 48th in the United States. The strike also responded to a pay raise passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Jim Justice that provided only a 2% raise for 2019, and 1% raise for 2020 and a 1% raise for 2021 and a freeze on premiums for 16 months to benefits. The teachers' unions did not release vote totals for the strike. Every public school district in the state closed to avoid confrontations. It was the first such strike since 1990. According to some analysts, West Virginia teachers had a stronger negotiating position in the strike because many teaching positions remain unfilled. Teachers say that because of low pay in West Virginia, the state has difficulty attracting and retaining teachers.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Health insurance costs
One of the major issues involved funding for the Public Employees Insurance Agency, the state health insurance plan. The West Virginia Legislature had voted to boost state contributions to the plan by using a percentage of the annual state surplus, but the teachers' unions were demanding a more reliable financing plan. Health care costs have increased quickly enough that proposed teacher pay increases cannot match teacher payments for health care.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations
The work stoppage took place in defiance of both state law forbidding public employee strikes and union leadership. On February 21, the day before the walkout, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey warned that a strike "of any length on any ground is illegal” and said his office would support local districts attempting to enforce the state ban on public employee strikes. Nonetheless, on the same day, Governor Justice signed into law a bill offering teachers a 2% pay increase. "We need to keep our kids and teachers in the classroom," Gov. Justice said in signing the law. "We certainly recognize our teachers are underpaid and this is a step in the right direction to addressing their pay issue." Teachers said that the 2% pay raise, and subsequent raises of 1% slated for 2020 and 2021, would not keep up with inflation.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations
Teachers rejected the pay raise, walking out across the state on February 22. The same day, a crowd estimated at 5,000 demonstrated at the West Virginia State Capitol.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations
The strike continued on February 23, as all schools in the state were closed once again. Teachers and other workers rallied in front of the West Virginia State Capitol as well as picketed in front of individual schools. West Virginia teachers have a stronger negotiating position in the strike because many teaching positions remain unfilled.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations
A deal reached by union leaders and Governor Jim Justice was announced on February 27, and union leaders called on teachers and other education-related personnel to return to classrooms on Thursday March 1, after a "cooling off" period. However, during the late evening on February 28, every county announced school closures due to continuing work stoppages, and by this point the stoppage had become a wildcat strike. On March 3, the West Virginia Senate rejected a bill passed by the West Virginia House of Delegates approving the agreed upon 5% pay rise, instead proposing a 4% pay rise, extending the strike into an eighth work day.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations
A similar strike was proposed by teachers in Oklahoma, where teacher compensation is worse than in West Virginia, at 49th in the United States. On Sunday March 4, 1,400 West Virginia Frontier Communications workers went on strike in response to company restructuring, also citing rising health care costs, and the example of the Teacher's Strike.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Strike and negotiations
West Virginia school personnel returned to classrooms on Wednesday March 7 after the State Senate agreed to the House's position following conference committee negotiations. The strike, while achieving a 5% pay raise, did not provide guarantees to control rising health care costs.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions
Justice and other Republican lawmakers opposed the strike and asserted that the teachers' absence from the classroom were hurting school children. He also said there was not enough money to fund teachers' demands. “I’m telling you when we should do more is when we know we can do more," Justice said on February 23. "Today we think we can do more, but we don’t know. Our teachers need to be in the classroom. The Legislature has spoken and I’ve signed it into law.” Justice, a billionaire coal magnate, won election in 2016 as a Democrat with the endorsements of the AFT-WV and the WVEA, along with other unions in the state. He subsequently switched to the Republican Party.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions
Union officials sought backing from prominent state Democratic Party leaders, inviting them to speak at teachers' demonstrations during the strike.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions
The strike was noteworthy because it emerged from rank-and-file teachers, who began to demand statewide strike action. Pressure to strike was "coming from everywhere," Christine Campbell, AFT-WV president, said in early February. These demands coalesced into a series of rallies and demonstrations held throughout the state. Ultimately the strike became a wildcat when teachers refused back-to-work orders from the unions.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions
The World Socialist Web Site, daily publication of the Socialist Equality Party, which published many interviews with teachers, argued that the AFT-WV and WVEA would settle the strike on unfavorable terms to school employees. It called on teachers to form rank-and-file committees independent of the trade unions and to broaden the strike to include teachers in other states and other groups of workers in West Virginia.


2018 West Virginia teachers' strike, Reactions
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) issued a press release, demanding that the strike continue unless a series of demands were met, including a tax on natural gas production to fund state education. A number of IWW members (Wobblies) were key contributors to the effort, including as building representatives.


2018 Western & Southern Open
The 2018 Western & Southern Open  was a men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts from August 13–19, 2018. It took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, a northern suburb of Cincinnati, in the United States. It was a Masters 1000 tournament on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a WTA Premier 5 tournament on the 2018 WTA Tour. The tournament was one of two headline events in the 2018 US Open Series. The 2018 tournament was the 117th men's edition and the 90th women's edition of the Cincinnati Masters.


2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of August 6, 2018. Rankings and points before are as of August 13, 2018.


2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.


2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals
† Fognini is entitled to use an exemption to skip the tournament and substitute his 18th best result (90 points) in its stead. Accordingly, his points after the tournament will remain unchanged.


2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2018 Western & Southern Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the main singles draw:


2018 Western & Southern Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2018 Western & Southern Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were the defending champions, but Herbert chose not to participate this year. Mahut played alongside Édouard Roger-Vasselin, but they lost in the second round to Philipp Kohlschreiber and Fernando Verdasco.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Doubles
Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares won the title, defeating Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah in the final, 4–6, 6–3, [10–6].


2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in the final, 6–4, 6–4, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2018 Cincinnati Masters. With the win, he became the first player to complete the career Golden Masters (winning all nine ATP Masters 1000 events over a career) in singles.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles
Grigor Dimitrov was the defending champion, but lost to Djokovic in the third round.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles
Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017 and Chan chose to prepare for the Asian Games instead.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles
Lucie Hradecká and Ekaterina Makarova won the title, defeating Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs in the final, 6–2, 7–5.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles
Tímea Babos will regain the WTA no. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament as Chan did not defend her title. Kateřina Siniaková was also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Garbiñe Muguruza was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Lesia Tsurenko.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles
Kiki Bertens, en route to her first hard court & Premier 5 level title, defeated the world no. 2 & no. 1 players, in the second round and final respectively. She became the first Dutch woman to win a title in Cincinnati by defeating Simona Halep in the final, 2–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–2.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye into the second round.


2018 Western & Southern Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2018 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2018 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament will take place beginning on May 23 and ending on May 26 or 27. The top six regular season finishers of the league's ten teams will meet in the double-elimination tournament to be held at Hohokam Stadium, spring training home of the Oakland Athletics in Mesa, Arizona. The winner will earn the Western Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2018 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top six finishers from the regular season will be seeded based on conference winning percentage.


2018 Western Athletic Conference Softball Tournament
The 2018 Western Athletic Conference Softball tournament will be held at New Mexico State Softball Complex on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico from May 9 through May 12, 2018. The winner will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. All games will be streamed online on the  with Adam Young and Mary Kay Mauro on the call.


2018 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season
The 2018 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season is the 23rd consecutive competition of men's college soccer in the Western Athletic Conference under the 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The season will feature twelve teams, where five are affiliate members of the conference. Air Force, San Jose State, and UNLV will compete from the Mountain West Conference, while Houston Baptist and Incarnate Word come from the Southland Conference. Colleges in the WAC will begin competition on August 24, 2018, and conclude on November 9, 2018 after the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship.


2018 Western Athletic Conference men's soccer season
Prior to the NCAA Division I Tournament Championship, there will be a postseason conference tournament held in Seattle, Washington at the Championship Field, where the winner is guaranteed to represent the WAC in the NCAA Division I Tournament. The California Baptist Lancers are ineligible for postseason as they are in transition to the NCAA Division I level. Chicago State and New Mexico State have defunct programs in this season.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London
The 2018 Western Balkans Summit in London, United Kingdom, was the fifth annual summit within the Berlin Process initiative for European integration of Western Balkans states. The summit took place on July 9-10. Previous summits took place in Berlin in 2014,  Vienna in 2015, Paris in 2016 and Trieste in 2017.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London
Heads of government, foreign ministers and the ministers of economy of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as EU member states from the region Croatia, Slovenia and EU member states such as the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Germany, Italy as well as representatives of the European Union and the International Financial Institutions attended the summit.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London
By hosting the summit in London, the United Kingdom demonstrated its continued interest and involvement in the stability of the region beyond its imminent exit from the EU.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, Proposed agenda
Andrew Page, the Summit's coordinator, stated that the priorities of the summit are to be economic stability, interconnectivity, infrastructure, employment opportunities, and digital transformation. The UK's government stated the three main objectives were increasing economic stability, strengthening regional security co-operation, and facilitating political cooperation.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, Issues addressed
According to a press release from the government of the United Kingdom, the summit focused on three areas.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, Issues addressed
The issues primarily discussed included increasing economic stability within the scope of improving the business environment, promoting entrepreneurship, curbing youth unemployment, and promoting regional inter-connectivity. Also on the table was strengthening regional security co-operation to help tackle common threats, including corruption, serious and organised crime, trafficking of people, drugs and firearms, and terrorism and violent extremism. The final topic was facilitating political cooperation to consolidate democracy in the region and resolve disputes from the breakup of Yugoslavia and Kosovo declaration of independence.


2018 Western Balkans Summit, London, 2019 Western Balkans Summit
Participants agreed on the Western Balkan's eventual path into the EU and agreed the next Berlin Process Summit would take place in Poland in 2019.


2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team
The 2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team represented Western Carolina University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They were led by seventh-year head coach Mark Speir and played their home games at Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium. They finished the season 3–8, 1–7 in SoCon play to finish in eighth place.


2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Previous season
The Catamounts finished the 2017 season 7–5, 5–3 in SoCon play to finish in fourth place.


2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
The SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Catamounts predicted to finish in fifth place. The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Catamounts predicted to finish in fourth place.


2018 Western Carolina Catamounts football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll, Preseason All-SoCon Teams
The Catamounts placed six players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.


2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team
The 2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team represented Western Illinois University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Jared Elliott and played their home games at Hanson Field. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC). They finished the season 5–6, 4–4 in MVFC play to finish in fifth place.


2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Previous season
The Leathernecks finished the 2017 season 8–4, 5–3 in MVFC play to finish in fourth place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost to Weber State in the first round.


2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Previous season
On December 22, head coach Charlie Fisher resigned to become the wide receivers coach at Arizona State. He finished at Western Illinois with a two-year record of 14–9.


2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Preseason, Preseason MVFC poll
The MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Leathernecks predicted to finish in seventh place.


2018 Western Illinois Leathernecks football team, Preseason, Preseason All-MVFC Teams
The Leathernecks placed five at six positions players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.


2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team (WKU) represented Western Kentucky University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hilltoppers played their home games at the Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by second-year head coach Mike Sanford Jr. They finished the season 3–9, 2–6 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division.


2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
On November 25, head coach Mike Sanford Jr. was fired after only two seasons. He finished at WKU with a record of 9–16.


2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Previous season
The Hilltoppers finished the 2017 season 6–7, 4–4 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division. They received an invite to the Cure Bowl where they lost to Georgia State.


2018 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
Conference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Hilltoppers predicted to finish in fourth place in the East Division.


2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University (WMU) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Tim Lester and played their home games at Waldo Stadium as a member of the West Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 7–6, 5–3 in MAC play to finish in a three-way tie for second place in the West Division. They were invited to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl where they lost to BYU.


2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Previous season
The Broncos finished the 2017 season 6–6, 4–4 to finish in fourth place in the West Division. Despite being bowl eligible, the Broncos did not receive an invite to a bowl game.


2018 Western Michigan Broncos football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
The MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Broncos predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.


2018 Western Storm season
The 2018 season was Western Storm's third season, in which they competed in the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished second in the initial group stage, therefore progressing to the semi-final. However, they lost in the semi-final to the eventual winners Surrey Stars by 9 runs.


2018 Western Storm season
The side was captained by Heather Knight and coached by Trevor Griffin. They played three home matches at the County Ground, Taunton and one apiece at the County Ground, Bristol and College Ground, Cheltenham.


2018 Western Storm season, Squad
Western Storm announced their full 15-player squad for the season on 17 July 2018. Age given is at the start of Western Storm's first match of the season (22 July 2018).


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
The 2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship is the 114th edition of the Westmeath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Westmeath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Westmeath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a seeded group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
St. Loman's Mullingar were the defending champions for the third season running after defeating Tyrrellspass in the previous years final to complete a "3-in-a-row" of titles. However their reign as champions ended in this year's final.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
This was St. Mary's Rochfortbridge's return to the senior grade after an 11 year exodus since relegation in 2006 when claiming the 2017 Westmeath Intermediate Football Championship title.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
On 21 October 2018, Mullingar Shamrocks claimed their 12th S.F.C. title and dethroned their town rivals St. Loman's when defeating them by 2-12 to 1-11 in the final at Cusack Park. This was their first triumph since 2012.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship
Maryland were relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019 when finishing pointless at the bottom of Group B. This ended their 10 year stay in the top-flight of Westmeath club football.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The competition was split into two groups, based on their performance in the 2017 Group stages. Group A consists of teams who reached the Quarter-Finals last year or better. Group B consists of two bottom placed finishers in Group 1 last year as well as 3rd and 4th placed in Group 2 last year, the 2017 Relegation Playoff winners and the 2017 Intermediate champions.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Group stage
The top 2 teams in Group A go into the Semi-Finals, where they await the winners of the Quarter-Finals, which are composed of the 3rd and 4th placed teams in Group A along with the top 2 finishers in Group B. The bottom side in Group B will be relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019, however should 2 teams finish on level points at the bottom of Group 2, then a Relegation Playoff will be conducted involving those two teams.


2018 Westmeath Senior Football Championship, Relegation final
Should two teams finish bottom Group B and on level points then a Relegation Final will be conducted between the implicated clubs. Since this was not the case with St. Mary's Rochfortbridge and Maryland garnering 3 and 0 points throughout their group campaigns, Maryland were relegated.


2018 Westminster City Council election
The 2018 Westminster City Council elections were held on 3 May 2018, the same day as other London Boroughs. All 60 seats were up for election along with the 12 seats of Queen's Park Community Council, the parish council in the north west of the city. Despite initial expectations of Labour gains across the borough, the Conservative party were able to hold the council and only lost 3 seats. The Conservatives won the popular vote across the borough by a small margin of 923 votes (1.7%), but nonetheless won a decisive victory in terms of seats, winning 41 councillors to Labour's 19.


2018 Westminster City Council election
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all ran full slates of 60 candidates. There were also candidates from the Greens as well as three from the Campaign Against Pedestrianisation of Oxford Street.


2018 Westminster City Council election
The count took place in Lindley Hall and ran overnight.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results
The percentage of vote share and majority are based on the average for each party's votes in each ward. The raw majority number is the margin of votes between the lowest-placed winning party candidate and the opposition party's highest-placed losing candidate. Starred candidates are the incumbents.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Bryanston and Dorset Square
Results are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2015 by-election.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Church Street
Results are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2016 by-election.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Churchill
Murad Gassanly was elected in 2014 as a Labour Party candidate, before becoming an Independent and then joining the Conservative Party. The change in his share of the vote is shown from his result as a Labour candidate in 2014.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Harrow Road
Results are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2015 by-election.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Warwick
Results are compared with the 2014 council election, not the 2015 by-election.


2018 Westminster City Council election, Ward results, Queen's Park (Community Council)
Elections to Queen's Park Community Council were held alongside the City Council elections. Nine candidates were returned unopposed in three wards, with the fourth ward returning the votes shown below. The Community Council was counted at the same time as the other council seats.


2018 Westminster City Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Robert J. Davis.


2018 Westminster City Council election, 2018-2022 by-elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Andrea Mann.


2018 Westminster car attack
On 14 August 2018, three people were injured when a silver Ford Fiesta hit them near the Palace of Westminster. The car then went on to crash into the separation barrier of the pavement situated between St Margaret Street / Abingdon Street and Old Palace Yard. The London Metropolitan Police responded within seconds and arrested the driver, Salih Khater, without further incident. An ambulance immediately behind the Ford stopped and gave assistance to the injured. Khater was subsequently found guilty of two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison.


2018 Westminster car attack, Events
The incident occurred at 07:37 BST on 14 August 2018. A silver Ford Fiesta was captured on CCTV negotiating Parliament Square, before making a sharp left turn and going the wrong way along the empty northbound lane of St. Margaret Street and then crossing a pedestrian island onto the southbound lane, hitting cyclists and pedestrians in the process. The car then progressed into Abingdon Street and branched left into an access road for Old Palace Yard where it crashed into a closed barrier and came to a stop near the House of Lords. The incident lasted 15 seconds. Three people sustained injuries, with one having serious, but not life-threatening injuries.


2018 Westminster car attack, Events
The Metropolitan Police stated that the incident appeared to be a deliberate act. The Counterterrorism Chief of the Metropolitan Police reported that police did not believe the individual to be known to the Security Service (MI5) or to the counterterrorism policing unit. A witness told reporters that the car had accelerated after hitting the cyclists rather than slowing down.


2018 Westminster car attack, Events
A UK Government official described a 47-second video of road users including a white van apparently tailing the suspect prior to the incident as "classic security behaviour".


2018 Westminster car attack, Events
The Independent reported friends of the arrested man saying that the crash may have been accidental.


2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation
Salih Khater, a 29-year-old male British citizen from Birmingham who entered the UK in 2010 as a refugee from Sudan, was detained by police at the scene on suspicion of terror offences. He is known to police in his local area but not as a national security threat. The Assistant Commissioner leading the investigation said that Khater initially refused to cooperate with the police. The police searched three addresses in the Midlands on the evening of the incident, two in Birmingham and a residence in Nottingham.


2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation
On 15 August 2018, police announced that Khater was being held on suspicion of attempted murder as well as an 'act of terrorism'. On 18 August, Khater was charged with one count of attempted murder of members of the public and one count of attempted murder of police officers. On 20 August, at Westminster Magistrates' Court, he was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 31 August.


2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation
Khater was due to stand trial on 4 February 2019, but in January 2019, Mr Justice Sweeney pushed the date back to 24 June 2019. The defendant entered not guilty pleas to all charges, but did not provide any further comments. He was remanded in custody.


2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation
On 17 July 2019, Khater was found guilty at the Old Bailey of two counts of attempted murder. He was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 7 October.


2018 Westminster car attack, Investigation
On 14 October 2019, Khater was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 15 years. Sentencing, Mrs Justice McGowan said Khater had acted with  "terrorist motives".


2018 Westminster car attack, Reactions
Prime Minister Theresa May tweeted, "My thoughts are with those injured in the incident in Westminster and my thanks to the emergency services for their immediate and courageous response." London Mayor Sadiq Khan expressed similar sentiments, adding that "all Londoners, like me, utterly condemn all acts of terrorism on our city. The response of Londoners today shows that we will never be cowed, intimidated or divided by any terrorist attack." Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, "My thoughts are with those hurt and injured outside Parliament this morning in what is being treated as a terrorist incident. Our thanks go to our emergency services who responded immediately. Their bravery keeps us safe day in, day out."


2018 Westminster car attack, Reactions
Sadiq Khan and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said that Parliament Square could be pedestrianised, stating that vehicle attacks had become the terrorist's "weapon of choice" in Europe and the western world.


2018 Westminster car attack, Reactions
United States President Donald Trump tweeted that "these animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength".


2018 Wests Tigers season
The 2018 Wests Tigers season was the 19th in the Wests Tigers's history. They completed the NRL's 2018 Telstra Premiership season in ninth place and did not qualify for the  finals.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship
The 2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship is the 120th edition of the Wexford GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wexford, Ireland. The tournament consists of 12 teams, with the winner going on to represent Wexford in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship
Starlights were the defending champions after they defeated St. Martin's in the previous years final.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship
This was Kilanerin–Ballyfad's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Wexford I.F.C. title. This was their first year back in the top-flight of Wexford club football in 3 years since relegation at the end of the 2014 season.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship
On 20 October 2018, Shelmaliers claimed their first ever Wexford S.F.C. crown when defeating newly promoted Kilanerin-Ballyfad by 4-14 to 1-7 in the final after a replay at Wexford Park.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship
Taghmon-Camross were relegated to the 2019 I.F.C. after losing their Relegation Final to Sarsfields. This ended their two year stay in the senior ranks.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship
The draws for the 2018 Wexford S.F.C. were made on 3 February 2018.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Group stage
There are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top 4 in each group qualify for the Quarter Finals. The bottom finisher in each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Relegation Final
The bottom finisher from both groups qualify for the Relegation final. The loser will be relegated to the 2019 Intermediate Championship.


2018 Wexford Senior Football Championship, Finals
The top 4 teams from each group qualify for the Quarter-Finals with 1st -vs- 4th and 2nd -vs- 3rd in each case.


2018 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
The 2018 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship was the 116th staging of the Wexford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Wexford County Board in 1889. The championship began on 20 April 2018 and ended on 21 October 2018.


2018 Wexford Senior Hurling Championship
On 21 October 2018, Naomh Éanna won the title following a 2-11 to 0-13 defeat of St. Martin's in the final at Innovate Wexford Park. It was their first ever championship title.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
The 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg, Germany, from 16 to 26 August 2018. Both men's and women's tournaments were held, with 12 women's and 16 men's teams competing, representing 19 different nations. Each team selected 12 players for the tournament. The men's competition was won by Great Britain, with the United States winning silver and Australia winning bronze. The women's competition was won by the Netherlands, with Great Britain winning silver and the host nation winning bronze.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Medallists
This was the best ever performance at a wheelchair basketball world championship by both the British men's and women's teams. The former had never won an official championship before (they had claimed the 1973 unofficial title), and the latter had never made the finals.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Squads
Each of the 16 men's and 12 women's teams (from 19 different nations) selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament. Athletes are given an eight-level-score specific to wheelchair basketball, ranging from 0.5 to 4.5. Lower scores represent a higher degree of disability. The sum score of all players on the court cannot exceed 14.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Controversy
During the women's game between China and Algeria, a Chinese coach struck one of his players. When the incident was reported to the Tournament Technical Committee (TTC), it immediately issued a one-match suspension. This was the maximum penalty that it could impose. However, the TTC felt that this penalty was inadequate, and referred the matter to the Secretary General of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, Maureen Orchard, who suspended the coach from the tournament.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads
The following is the list of squads for the teams competing in the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Rollstuhlbasketball Weltmeisterschaft 2018), held in Hamburg, Germany, between 16 and 26 August 2018. Each team selected a squad of 12 players for the tournament.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads
Athletes are given an eight-level-score specific to wheelchair basketball, ranging from 0.5 to 4.5. Lower scores represent a higher degree of disability. The sum score of all players on the court cannot exceed 14.


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Women, Pool A, Australia
Head coach: David GouldAssistant coaches: Stephen Charlton and Craig Campbell


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Women, Pool A, Canada
Head coach: Marc-Anotine DucharmeAssistant coaches: Jason Eng and Simon Cass


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Women, Pool B, United States
Head coach: Trooper JohnsonAssistant coaches: Adam Kramer and Amy Spangler


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool B, United States
Head coach: Trooper JohnsonAssistant coaches: Adam Kramer and Amy Spangler


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool C, Brazil
Head coach: Tago Joel FrankCoaches: Tiago Costa Baptista and Sileno Santos


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool C, Italy
Head coach: Carlo di GiustoAssistant Coaches: Roberto Ceriscioli and Fabio Castellucci


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool D, Argentina
Head coach: Mauro VarelaAssistant coaches: Juna Dominguez, Lucas Barolin and Eduardo Gomez


2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship squads, Men, Pool D, Spain
Head coach: Oscar Trigo DiezAssistant coaches: Javier Opez Martinez, Miguel Aquero Maestre and Javier Alvajal Pichel


2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters
The 2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters (also known as the 2018 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters for sponsorship reasons) was a wheelchair tennis tournament played at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida, United States, from 28 November to 2 December 2018. It is the season-ending event for the highest-ranked wheelchair tennis singles players on the 2018 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.


2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Tournament
The 2018 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters took place from 28 November to 2 December at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida, United States. It was the 25th edition of the tournament (15th for quad players). The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2018 ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The event took place on indoor hard courts. It served as the season-ending championship for singles players on the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour.


2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Tournament
The eight players who qualified for the men's and women's events, and six players who qualified for the quad event, were split into two groups of three or four. During this stage, players competed in a round-robin format (meaning players played against all the other players in their group). The two players with the best results in each group progressed to the semifinals, where the winners of a group faced the runners-up of the other group. This stage, however, was a knock-out stage.


2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Tournament, Format
The Wheelchair Tennis Masters has a round-robin format, with six/eight players divided into two groups of three/four. The six/eight seeds are determined by the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Rankings as they stood on 15 October 2018. All matches are the best of three tie-break sets, including the final.


2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, Qualified players
The following players qualified for the 2018 Wheelchair Tennis Masters, based upon rankings as at 16 October 2017. Players whose names are struck out qualified but did not participate and were replaced by the next highest ranking player.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
The 2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship was the 118th edition of the Wicklow GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Wicklow, Ireland. The tournament consisted of 12 teams with the winner going on to represent Wicklow in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship consisted of a group stage before progressing onto a knock-out stage.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
Rathnew were the defending champions after they defeated Blessington in the previous years final.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
Hollywood made the straight bounce back to the top flight after claiming the previous season's I.F.C. title.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
Tomacork (an amalgamation of Intermediate club Carnew Emmets and Junior 'A' side Coolboy) were originally included in the S.F.C. draw on 19 January, however later made the decision to withdraw themselves from the competition before its commencement.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship
St. Patrick's claimed their 13th S.F.C. title and first in 6 seasons when defeating Rathnew in the final.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Group Stage
There are two groups of six teams called Group A and B. The top finishers enter the Semi-Finals while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams in both groups enter a Quarter-Final. The bottom finishers of each group will qualify for the Relegation Final.


2018 Wicklow Senior Football Championship, Keating Trophy
The bottom two teams in each group enter the relegation process known as the Keating Trophy. 5th place from both groups play 6th place in the semi-finals. The winners proceed to the Keating Trophy final while the losers will face-off in the Relegation Final, with the ultimate loser being relegated to the I.F.C. for 2019.


2018 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2018 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2018 Wigan Warriors season
The Wigan Warriors play Rugby League in Wigan, England. Their 2018 season results in the Super League XXIII and 2018 Challenge Cup are shown below.


2018 Wigan Warriors season, Super League
Wigan generally kept to consistent good form throughout the 2018 league season. They won all seven Super 8s games and sixteen out of twenty-three in regular season. The Warriors went on to finish the season second.


2018 Wigan Warriors season, Super League, Grand Final Playoffs
Wigan finished second in the league, qualifying them for the Grand Final Play offs. Wigan beat Castleford Tigers in the semi-finals before beating Warrington Wolves, who had knocked them out of the Challenge Cup in the summer, to claim their fifth Grand Final championship.


2018 Wigan Warriors season, Challenge Cup
As a 2017 Super League Super 8s team, Wigan Warriors entered the 2018 Challenge Cup in the sixth round and were drawn against Hull KR. Wigan beat Hull KR and progress to the quarter finals where they were knocked out by Warrington Wolves.


2018 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships
The 2018 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships was the 35th edition of the global wildwater canoeing competition, Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, organised by the International Canoe Federation.


2018 William & Mary Tribe football team
The 2018 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tribe, led by 39th-year head coach Jimmye Laycock, played their home games at Zable Stadium. They finished the season 4–6 overall and 3–4 in CAA play to place eighth.


2018 William & Mary Tribe football team
On August 5, 2018, Laycock announced that he would be retiring after the conclusion of the 2018 season. He finished at William & Mary with a 39-year record of 249–194–2.


2018 William & Mary Tribe football team, Previous season
The Tribe finished the 2017 season 2–9, 0–8 in CAA play to finish in last place. It was the first time since the 1956 season that the Tribe failed to win a single conference game.


2018 William & Mary Tribe football team, Preseason, CAA Poll
In the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Tribe were predicted to finish in eleventh place. They did not have any players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.


2018 William Jones Cup
The 2018 William Jones Cup was the 40th staging of William Jones Cup, an international basketball tournament held in New Taipei City, Taiwan.


2018 William Jones Cup
The men's tournament was held from 14–22 July 2018 with 11 teams participating. The women's tournament was held from 25–29 July 2018 and was contested by six teams. Both tournaments were held at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium in New Taipei City and followed a single round robin format.


2018 Wimbledon Championships
The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main tournament began on Monday, 2 July 2018 and finished on Sunday, 15 July 2018. Novak Djokovic won the Gentlemen's Singles title and Angelique Kerber won the Ladies' Singles title.


2018 Wimbledon Championships
The 2018 tournament was the 132nd edition of The Championships, the 125th staging of the Ladies' Singles Championship event, the 51st in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior tour and the NEC Tour. The tournament was organised by All England Lawn Tennis Club and International Tennis Federation.


2018 Wimbledon Championships
Roger Federer and Garbiñe Muguruza were both unsuccessful in defending their 2017 titles. Federer lost in the quarterfinals to eventual finalist Kevin Anderson, while Muguruza lost in the second round to Alison Van Uytvanck.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The 2018 Wimbledon Championships was the 132nd edition of the tournament and was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and included in the 2018 ATP World Tour and the 2018 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys' (under 18 – singles and doubles) and girls' (under 18 – singles and doubles), which was also a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Tournament
The tournament was played only on grass courts; the main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon. Qualifying matches were played, from Monday 25 June to Thursday 28 June 2018, at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton. The Tennis sub-committee met to decide wild card entries on 19 June.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Point distribution
Below is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Prize money
The Wimbledon total prize money for 2018 had increased to £34,000,000, up by 7.6% on 2017. The winners of the men's and women's singles titles will earn £2.25m. Prize money for the men's and women's doubles and wheelchair players were also increased for the 2018 competition.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Point and prize money distribution, Prize money
A new rule in 2018 was that any first round singles player who is unfit to play and withdraws on-site after 12pm on Thursday before the start of the Main Draw will now receive half of the First Round prize money, the other half to be awarded to the replacement Lucky Loser. Any player who competes in the First Round Main Draw singles and retires or performs below professional standards, may now be subject to a fine of up to First Round prize money, to deter players from appearing only to claim prize money.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
The seeds for men's singles are adjusted on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula, which applies to the top 32 players according to the ATP Rankings on 25 June 2018:


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
Rank and points before are as of 2 July 2018.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Gentlemen's Singles
† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017 but is defending points from the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour instead.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles
The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 25 June 2018, with an exception for Serena Williams (details are given below). Rank and points before are as of 2 July 2018.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Singles seeds, Ladies' Singles
† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th-best result are deducted instead. ‡ Serena Williams was ranked outside the top 150 on the day when seeds were announced, because she missed most of the last 12-month period due to her pregnancy. Nevertheless, she was deemed a special case and seeded 25th by the organisers.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Main draw wild card entries
The following players received wild cards into the main draw senior events.


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:


2018 Wimbledon Championships, Withdrawals
The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew with injuries, suspensions, or personal reasons:


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Axel Geller and Hsu Yu-hsiou were the defending champions, but both players were ineligible to participate in junior events.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Yankı Erel and Otto Virtanen won the title, defeating Nicolás Mejía and Ondřej Štyler in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–4.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina was the defending champion, but is no longer eligible to participate in junior events.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Tseng Chun-hsin won the title, defeating Jack Draper in the final, 6–1, 6–7(2–7), 6–4.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries
The 2018 Wimbledon Championships are described below in detail, in the form of day-by-day summaries.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Day-by-day summaries, Middle Sunday (8 July)
Following tradition, Middle Sunday is a day of rest and no matches are played.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis were the defending champions, but Hewitt accepted a wildcard to compete in the men's doubles main draw instead. Philippoussis played alongside Tommy Haas, and successfully defended his title, defeating Colin Fleming and Xavier Malisse in the final, 7–6(7–4), 6–4.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Olga Danilović and Kaja Juvan were the defending champions, but both players chose not to participate.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Wang Xinyu and Wang Xiyu won the title, defeating Caty McNally and Whitney Osuigwe in the final, 6–2, 6–1.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Claire Liu was the defending champion, but chose to compete in the ladies' singles as a qualifier, she lost to eventual champion Angelique Kerber in the second round.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Iga Świątek won the title, defeating Leonie Küng in the final, 6–4, 6–2.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
This tournament featured a second round match between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez; the pair would later face off in the women's final of the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won this encounter before losing to eventual champion Świątek in the quarter-finals.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Invitation Doubles
Kim Clijsters and Rennae Stubbs won the title, defeating defending champions Cara Black and Martina Navratilova in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but they were defeated in the second round by Jonathan Erlich and Marcin Matkowski.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Mike Bryan and Jack Sock won the title, defeating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final, 6–3, 6–7(7–9), 6–3, 5–7, 7–5. It was Bryan's 17th Grand Slam men's doubles title (a new Open Era record), and his first with a partner other than his brother Bob.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Bryan regained the ATP No. 1 doubles ranking at the end of the tournament, becoming the oldest no. 1 player in the history of the ATP rankings. Mate Pavić, John Peers and Nicolas Mahut were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Kevin Anderson in the final, 6–2, 6–2, 7–6(7–3) to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. It was his fourth Wimbledon title and 13th major title overall, passing Roy Emerson to outright fourth place on the all time men's singles major wins list. The win was also Djokovic's first title in over 12 months, his previous win having been at Eastbourne on July 1, 2017, and returned him to the top 10 in rankings. The Men's Singles competition was contested by all but one of the top 20 male players in the ATP as of 25 June 2018.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Roger Federer was the defending champion and top seed, but lost in the quarterfinals to Anderson despite leading by two sets to love and having a match point in the third set. Rafael Nadal and Federer were in contention for the world No. 1 ranking; Nadal retained the top ranking by reaching the fourth round.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Progress of the competition
Roger Federer was the defending champion and top seed. Federer and Rafael Nadal were in contention for the ATP No. 1 ranking at the start of the tournament. Former champion and local favourite Andy Murray announced on the day before the tournament began that he was pulling out because he was not fully recovered from hip surgery. His place was taken by "lucky loser" Jason Jung.


2018 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Progress of the competition
2017 finalist and no. 3 seed Marin Čilić went out in the second round of the tournament, defeated by Guido Pella of Argentina. Čilić had been two sets up when rain stopped play, but had difficulty coping with the conditions after play was resumed, and complained to the umpire about the state of the grass. The following morning, when they returned to continue the match, Pella won in five sets.