The 2016

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was a professional

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tournament played on

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. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, China between 5 and 12 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: *

Zhang Zhizhen Zhang Zhizhen (; ; born 16 October 1996) is a Chinese professional tennis player. He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 69 on 8 May 2023, and his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 211 in September 2017. He has won two ...

Qiu Zhuoyang Qiu Zhuoyang (born 23 June 1996) is a Chinese tennis player. Qiu has a career high ATP singles ranking of 1404 achieved on 24 October 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 767 achieved on 29 August 2016. Qiu made his ATP main d ...

* Gao Xin *

Sun Fajing Sun Fajing (; ; born 3 October 1996) is a Chinese tennis player. Sun has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 351 achieved on 10 February 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 223 achieved on 14 October 20 ...

The following player received entry into the singles main draw with a protected ranking: *

Blaž Kavčič Blaž Kavčič (born 5 March 1987) is a Slovenian former professional tennis player. He was the highest ranked Slovenian male player ever, achieving a career-high of World No. 68 in August 2012, until Aljaž Bedene began to play for Slovenia ...

The following player entered the singles main draw as an alternate" *

Norbert Gombos Norbert Gombos (, hu, Gombos Norbert; born 13 August 1990), occasionally spelled Norbert Gomboš, is a Slovak professional tennis player competing primarily on the ATP Challenger Tour and playing for the Slovakia Davis Cup team. He achieved a ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Yasutaka Uchiyama is a Japanese tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 78 on 04 November 2019 and doubles ranking of No. 102 on 20 August 2018. He has won eight ITF Futures singles titles and ...

* Matija Pecotić * Xia Zihao * Shuichi Sekiguchi

Champions

Singles

* Henri Laaksonen def.

Jason Jung Jason Jung (; ; born 15 June 1989) is an American-born professional tennis player who represents Taiwan. He is a University of Michigan alumnus who has cracked the Top 150 in the ATP rankings and also won four ATP Challenger events. Per ...

6–3, 6–3.

Doubles

Hsieh Cheng-peng Hsieh Cheng-peng (; born 22 September 1991) is an inactive tennis player from Taiwan. Alongside Yang Tsung-hua he won the 2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' doubles title. He won the 2009 US Open – Boys' doubles with Márton Fucso ...

/ Yi Chu-huan def. Gao Xin / Li Zhe 7–6^(8–6), 5–7, 0–0

References

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