The 2016 Brest Challenger was a professional

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament played on

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

2016 ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, in 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 the 39th edition o ...

. It took place in

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between 17 and 23 October 2016.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of October 10, 2016.

Other entrants

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

Evan Furness Evan Furness (born 13 August 1998) is a French professional tennis player. Furness has a career high ATP singles ranking of 197, achieved on 2 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 513, achieved on 27 May 2019. Furness ...

* Corentin Moutet *

Laurent Lokoli Laurent Lokoli (born 18 October 1994) is a French professional tennis player. Lokoli plays primarily ATP Challenger and ITF events. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 169 achieved on 30 January 2023. Career Lokoli received a wildca ...

The following players received entry using special exemptions: *

Stefanos Tsitsipas Stefanos Tsitsipas ( gr, Στέφανος Τσιτσιπάς, ; born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 9 ...

Maxime Janvier Maxime Janvier (; born 18 October 1996) is a French tennis player. Janvier has a career high ATP singles ranking of 170 achieved on 30 September 2019. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 297 achieved on 18 October 2021. Janvier has won ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Grégoire Jacq Grégoire Jacq (born 9 November 1992) is a French tennis player. Jacq has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 332 achieved on 29 October 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 210 achieved on 14 August 2017. ...

Romain Jouan Romain Jouan (born 16 July 1985) is a French professional tennis player. Career 2008 On September 29, Jouan qualified for the first ATP tournament of his career in Metz after beating Fabio Fognini, Prakash Amritraj and Tobias Kamke. Ranked #4 ...

* Yann Marti *

Maximilian Neuchrist Maximilian Neuchrist (born 22 July 1991) is an Austrian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour who competes on the ATP Challenger and ITF Futures tour level. Neuchrist has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 244 achieved ...

The following players entered as a lucky losers: *

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 ...

Sander Gillé Sander Gillé (born 15 January 1991) is a Belgian tennis player. Gillé has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 24 by the ATP, achieved on 8 November 2021. He also has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 574, reached on 24 Decembe ...

Champions

Singles

def.

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 spea ...

, 7–5, 6–2

Doubles

* Sander Arends / Mateusz Kowalczyk def. Marco Chiudinelli /

Luca Vanni Luca Vanni (born 4 June 1985) is an Italian former professional tennis player. He competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, no. 100 on 11 May 2015, and his ...

, 6–7^(2–7), 6–3, 0–5

References

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