The 2016
City of Onkaparinga ATP Challenger was a professional
tennis
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tournament played on
hard courts
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. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the
2016 ATP Challenger Tour
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. It took place in
Happy Valley, South Australia, Australia between 2–10 January 2016.
On 29 December 2015, Tennis South Australia Chief Executive Officer,
Steven Baldas
Steven Baldas (born 18 June 1974) is an Australian sports administrator and former professional tennis player.
Baldas, a native of Adelaide, attended Saint Ignatius' College.
In 1992, Baldas partnered with Scott Draper to win the Wimbledon jun ...
confirmed 15 players from inside the world's top 200 would compete, with Israel's Dudi Sela the highest ranked player in the field.
ATP entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of December 28, 2015.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Matthew Barton
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Alex Bolt
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Bradley Mousley
Bradley Mousley (born 3 January 1996) is an Australian tennis player. Mousley won the Australian Open boys' doubles title in both 2013 and 2014.
In August 2014, Mousley received a one-year ban, backdated to 30 May 2014, after testing positive ...
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Marc Polmans
Marc David Polmans (born 2 May 1997) is a South African-born Australian tennis player.
Polmans has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 116 achieved on 12 October 2020. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 68 a ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Maverick Banes
Maverick Banes (born 10 April 1992) is an inactive Australian 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 ...
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Dayne Kelly
Dayne Kelly (born 23 July 1990) is an Australian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tourna ...
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Peter Polansky
Peter Polansky ( ; born June 15, 1988) is a Canadian professional tennis player of Czech origin. He was Canada's top singles player from June 21, 2010, until January 17, 2011, in the ATP rankings. He was also Canada's No. 2 from August 4, 2008, ...
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Andrew Whittington
Champions
Singles
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Taylor Fritz
Taylor Harry Fritz (born October 28, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on October 10, 2022, and a doubles ranking of w ...
def.
Dudi Sela 7–6
(9–7), 6–2
Doubles
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Matteo Donati
Matteo Donati (; born 28 February 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. On 13 April 2015, he reached the final of the ATP Challenger Tour Napoli Cup to claim a career-high of no. 247 on the ATP World Tour Singles rankings.
Professiona ...
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Andrey Golubev def.
Denys Molchanov /
Aleksandr Nedovyesov 3–6, 7–6
(7–5),
0–1
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References
External links
Official Website
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