The 2016

Challenger La Manche The Challenger La Manche is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It has been held annually at the Complexe Sportif Chantereyne in Ch ...

was a professional

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tournament played on indoor

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. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament which was part of the

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. It took place in

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, France between 22 and 28 February.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* Rankings are as of 15 February 2016.

Other entrants

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

Calvin Hemery Calvin Hemery (born 28 January 1995) is a French tennis player of Nigerian descent. Hemery has a career high ATP singles ranking of 116 achieved on 30 April 2018. Hemery has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 252 achieved on 24 December 2018. ...

* Albano Olivetti * Alexandre Sidorenko The following player received a special exemption into the singles main draw: *

Jan Hernych Jan Hernych (born 7 July 1979) is a retired professional male tennis player from Czech Republic. Born in Prague, he turned pro in 1998 and achieved his career-high singles ranking of World No. 59 in April 2009. He won one doubles title and w ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Maxime Authom Maxime Authom (born 29 March 1987) is a Belgian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. Career On 2 April 2012, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 184, after reaching his first ATP Challenger final in Rimouski, Canada. He ...

Sadio Doumbia Sadio Doumbia (born 12 September 1990) is a French tennis player. Doumbia has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 250 achieved on 7 November 2016. He also has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 52 achieved on 13 February 2023. Doumbia has ...

Frederik Nielsen Frederik Løchte Nielsen (born 27 August 1983) is a former professional tennis player. He was the top ranked player from Denmark in the ATP doubles world rankings. A former Wimbledon men's doubles champion, he peaked at no. 17 in the rankin ...

Maxime Teixeira Maxime Teixeira (born 18 January 1989) is a French professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures circuit, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 154 in Mar ...

Champions

Singles

* Jordan Thompson def.

Adam Pavlásek Adam Pavlásek (born 8 October 1994) is a tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour from the Czech Republic. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 72 in January 2017 and doubles ranking of World No. 94 in October 2022 ...

4–6, 6–4, 6–1

Doubles

* Ken Skupski /

Neal Skupski Neal Skupski (born 1 December 1989) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 14 November 2022. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles, havi ...

def. Yoshihito Nishioka /

Aldin Šetkić Aldin Šetkić (born 21 December 1987) is a Bosnian 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 us ...

4–6, 6–3, 0–6

External links

Official Website

Combined Main Draw
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