Chung Hyeon was the 2017 champion, but was ineligible to compete this year due to his age.

The 2018 Next Generation ATP Finals was a men's exhibition tennis tournament played in Milan, Italy, from 6 to 10 November 2018.

The eighth spot went to Italian wild card Liam Caruana, who won a national qualifying tournament.

Due to participation in the ATP Finals the following week, Alexander Zverev again withdrew from the tournament because of an injury,[2] as did Denis Shapovalov, citing exhaustion.

[3] Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, then percentage of games won, then head-to-head records; 5.