The 2016 Engie Open de Biarritz Pays Basque was a professional women's

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

tournament played on outdoor

clay court A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis is played. Clay courts are built on a foundation of crushed stone, brick, shale, and other construction aggregate, aggregate, with a thin layer of fine clay particles ...

s. It was the 14th edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place in

Biarritz Biarritz ( , , , ; also spelled ; ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. It is a luxu ...

, France, on 12–18 September 2016.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 29 August 2016.

Other entrants

The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw: *

Sara Cakarevic Sara Cakarevic (; born 12 March 1997) is a French tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 284, achieved on 4 November 2024. Cakarevic also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 319, achieved on 30 October 2017. She ...

Chloé Paquet Chloé Paquet (; born 1 July 1994) is a French professional tennis player. She has achieved career-high WTA rankings of No. 96 in singles on 5 August 2024, and 247 in doubles on 12 June 2017. Career 2010–2013: Early career Paquet made her d ...

Jessika Ponchet Jessika Ponchet (born 26 September 1996) is a French professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 104 in singles, achieved on 9 September 2024, and No. 101 in doubles, reached on 28 November 2022. Career Ponchet did ...

Harmony Tan Harmony Tan (born 11 September 1997) is a French professional tennis player. Tan has career-high WTA rankings of 90 in singles and 302 in doubles. She has won ten singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. Personal life Harmony ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Varvara Flink Varvara Alexandrovna Flink (; born 13 December 1996) is an inactive Russian tennis player. Flink achieved a career-high WTA singles ranking of 122 on 15 July 2019, and a doubles ranking of 372 on 31 October 2022. She owns one doubles title on ...

Beatriz Haddad Maia Beatriz "Bia" Haddad Maia (; born 30 May 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high of world No. 10 in singles and in doubles, becoming the first Brazilian woman to enter the top 10 in singles in the history of t ...

Jasmine Paolini Jasmine Paolini (; born 4 January 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is ranked world No. 4 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), the joint-highest-ranked Italian woman in singles (alongside Francesca Schiavone). Sh ...

Martina Trevisan Martina Trevisan (; born 3 November 1993) is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 18 by the WTA, achieved in May 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 138. For Italy, she was finalist in the 2023 ...

The following player received entry by a protected ranking: *

Claire Feuerstein Claire Feuerstein (; ; born 28 February 1986) is a former tennis player from France. She made her debut in professional competition in 2002, aged 16, at an ITF tournament in Les Contamines, France. From 2002 to 2009, she played at many ITF ...

Champions

Singles

Rebecca Šramková Rebecca Šramková (; born 19 October 1996) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings, singles ranking of world No. 36, achieved on 31 March 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 209, reached on 9 June 2025. Sh ...

def.

, 6–3, 4–6, 6–1

Doubles

Irina Khromacheva Irina Pavlovna Khromacheva (; born 12 May 1995) is a Russian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 14 in doubles achieved on 3 March 2025 and No. 89 in singles, reached on 27 Febru ...

Maryna Zanevska Maryna Volodymyrivna Zanevska (; born 24 August 1993) is a Ukrainian-born Belgian former professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 62, achieved on 23 May 2022, and a WTA doubles ranking of 86, reached on 16 ...

def.

Cornelia Lister Cornelia Lister (born 26 May 1994) is a Swedish former tennis player and padel player. Lister won one singles title and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Cir ...

Nina Stojanović Nina Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Нина Стојановић, ; born 30 July 1996) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 2 March 2020, Stojanović reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 81. On 17 January 2022, she peake ...

, 4–6, 7–5, 0–8

External links

2016 Engie Open de Biarritz
at ITFtennis.com
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Engie Open de Biarritz, 2016 2016 ITF Women's Circuit 2016 in French tennis Open de Biarritz