The 2016
Uruguay Open
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is a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
clay court
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T ...
s. It is the twelfth edition of the tournament which is part of the
2016 ATP Challenger Tour
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. It takes place in
Montevideo
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,
Uruguay
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between November 14 and November 20, 2016.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of November 7, 2016.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008, 2010 and 2012 (losing each time to Rafael Nadal, the eventual ch ...
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Marcel Felder
Marcel Felder (; ; born 9 July 1984) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. His highest ranking in singles was No. 227 on 28 December 2009. His highest ranking in doubles was 82 on 11 June 2012. Felder won a gold medal in singles in m ...
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Santiago Maresca
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Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his bes ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Nicolás Jarry
Nicolás Jarry Fillol (; born 11 October 1995) is a professional tennis player from Chile. He has won one tournament in singles and two in doubles on the ATP Tour. He achieved his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 38 in July 2019, after c ...
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Michael Linzer
Michael Linzer (; born 2 November 1989) is an Austrian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour
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João Menezes
João Magalhães Hueb de Menezes (born 17 December 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player.
Menezes has a career-high ATP singles ranking of 172 achieved on 17 February 2020. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 488 achieved on 3 ...
*
Andrés Molteni
Andrés Molteni (; ; born 15 March 1988) is a professional tennis player from Argentina who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 31 on 21 March 2022 and his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 181 in May 2011. H ...
Champions
Singles
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Diego Schwartzman
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def.
Rogério Dutra Silva
Rogério Dutra da Silva (; born February 3, 1984) is a former Brazilian professional tennis player.
Dutra Silva had a career high ATP singles ranking of 63 achieved on July 24, 2017 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 84 achieved on Februa ...
, 6–4, 6–1.
Doubles
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Andrés Molteni
Andrés Molteni (; ; born 15 March 1988) is a professional tennis player from Argentina who specialises in doubles. He reached his highest ATP doubles ranking of No. 31 on 21 March 2022 and his highest ATP singles ranking of No. 181 in May 2011. H ...
/
Diego Schwartzman
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def.
Fabiano de Paula
Fabiano Batista de Paula (; born 28 November 1988 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian professional tennis player competing mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a ...
/
Cristian Garín
Cristian Ignacio Garín Medone (; born 30 May 1996) is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 17 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in singles, which he first achieved on 13 September 2021, ...
, walkover.
External links
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Uruguay Open
The Uruguay Open is a tennis tournament held in Montevideo, Uruguay since 2005. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour and is played on outdoor clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, ori ...
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