The 2016
Heilbronner Neckarcup was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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s. It was the third edition of the tournament which was part of the
2016 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, in 2016 in tennis, 2016, was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2016 ATP Challenger Tour calendar contained 166 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $40,000 up to $125,000. It was th ...
. It took place in
Heilbronn
Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District.
From the late Middle Ages on, it developed into an important trading centre. At the begi ...
, Germany between 9 and 15 May 2016.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of May 2, 2016.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Yannick Maden
Yannick Maden (born 28 October 1989) is a retired German tennis player. He graduated from Clemson University, where he played on the tennis team before entering the professional tour.
Professional career
Maden made his ATP main draw debut as a ...
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Maximilian Marterer
Maximilian Marterer (born 15 June 1995) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 45, achieved in 13 August 2018.
Professional career
2015-2017: ATP and to ...
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Florian Mayer
Florian Mayer (; born 5 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player.
Mayer reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in June 2011. Also in 2011, Mayer won his first ATP Tour title after four previous defeats in AT ...
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Janko Tipsarević
Janko Tipsarević ( sr-Cyrl, Јанко Типсаревић, ; born 22 June 1984) is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. He is also a politician, serving as a member of the City Assembly of Belgrade since 21 June 2024. He is ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Andreas Beck
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Kevin Krawietz
Kevin Krawietz (born 24 January 1992) is a German professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 on 10 February 2025. Krawietz has won eleven doubles titles on the ATP Tour, inclu ...
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Henri Laaksonen
Henri Joona Julius Laaksonen (, Swiss Standard German: ; born 31 March 1992) is a Swiss inactive professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is world No. 84, which he achieved on 14 February 2022, and his highest doubles ranking is wo ...
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Peter Torebko
Peter Torebko (born 10 February 1988) is a German tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Men's Circuit. On 16 July 2012, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 182.
Torebko made his ATP World T ...
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
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Yannik Reuter
Yannik Reuter (born 6 March 1991) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. He was active on tour from 2008 to 2018 and reached a best singles world ranking of 195.
Biography
A Sankt Vith-native, Reuter is a member of Belgium's German spe ...
Champions
Singles
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Nikoloz Basilashvili
Nikoloz Basilashvili ( ka, ნიკოლოზ ბასილაშვილი, tr, ; born 23 February 1992) is a Georgian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 16 on 27 May 2019 making him the ...
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Jan-Lennard Struff
Jan-Lennard Struff (; born 25 April 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles and doubles rankings of world No. 21 on 19 June 2023 and on 22 October 2018 respectively. ...
, 6–4, 7–6
(7–3)
Doubles
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Sander Arends
Sander Arends (born 9 August 1991) is a Dutch professional tennis player who specializes in doubles.
He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 37, achieved on 26 May 2025. Arends has won four doubles ATP Tour titles, one with David P ...
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Tristan-Samuel Weissborn
Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (born 24 October 1991) is an Austrian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles.
Weissborn has been ATP rankings, ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 50 in doubles, w ...
def.
Nikola Mektić
Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2021 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles partnering compatriot Ma ...
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, 6–3, 6–4
External links
Official Website
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