The 2016 AON Open Challenger was a professional

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s. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, Italy between 5 and 11 September 2016.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of August 29, 2016.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Nicolás Almagro Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player of Latin American descent. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008 French Open – Men's singles, 2008, 201 ...

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Denis Istomin Denis Olegovich Istomin (born 7 September 1986) is an Uzbekistani professional tennis player. He won two singles titles (at the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham and 2017 Chengdu Open) and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 33 in Au ...

* Edoardo Eremin The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate: *

Lorenzo Sonego Lorenzo Sonego (; born 11 May 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. Sonego has won four singles titles on the ATP Tour, and two doubles titles. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking o ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Hubert Hurkacz Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singl ...

* Danilo Petrović *

Dino Marcan Dino Marcan (born 12 February 1991 in Rijeka, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian professional tennis player. Dino mostly competes on the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a ser ...

Gianluca Mager Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 62 achieved on 22 November 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019. Personal Info ...

Champions

Singles

Jerzy Janowicz Jerzy Filip Janowicz Jr. (; born 13 November 1990) is a Polish inactive professional tennis player and padel player. Janowicz is best known for becoming the first Polish man to reach a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major semifinal, at the 2013 ...

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Doubles

Julio Peralta Julio Leonardo Peralta Martínez (; born 9 September 1981) is an inactive professional tennis player from Chile. Peralta has found success in the late stage of his career, reaching no. 29 in the ATP rankings in doubles. He captured six doubles tit ...

Horacio Zeballos Horacio Zeballos Jr. (, ; born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the first Argentinian man to achieve the feat. He is a Grand Slam champion ...

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Aliaksandr Bury Aliaksandr Ivanavich Bury (; ; also spelt Alexander Bury), (born 14 September 1987) is a Belarusian inactive professional tennis player who competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has won one d ...

/ Andrei Vasilevski, 6–4, 6–3.

External links

* {{2016 ATP Challenger Tour AON Open Challenger AON Open Challenger 2016 in Italian tennis September 2016 sports events in Italy 21st century in Genoa