The 2016 ITF Women's Circuit – Shenzhen was a professional

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tournament played on outdoor

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s. It was the second edition of the tournament and part of the

2016 ITF Women's Circuit The 2016 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit is a second-tier tour for women's professional tennis. It is organized by the International Tennis Federation and is a tier below the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The ITF Wo ...

, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in

Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...

, China, on 11–17 April 2016.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 4 April 2016.

Other entrants

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

Liang Chen Liang Chen (; born 25 February 1989) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. Liang has a singles career-high ranking of No. 342, achieved on 21 September 2009. Her WTA doubles career-high ranking of No. 35, she reached on 26 October 2015. Liang ...

Peng Shuai Peng Shuai (; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese retired professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked world No. 1 doubles player by the WTA, becoming the first Chinese tennis player to achieve that ranking (in either single ...

* Zhang Yukun *

Zheng Wushuang Zheng Wushuang (; ; born 29 November 1998) is a Chinese former tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 430, achieved on 24 February 2020. On 9 September 2019, she peaked at No. 309 in the WTA doubles rankings. On the ITF ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Hsu Chieh-yu Hsu Chieh-yu (; also known as Connie Hsu; born 14 January 1992) is a Taiwanese tennis player. Hsu has won six singles and 25 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 April 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 224. On ...

Dalila Jakupović Dalila Jakupović (born 24 March 1991) is a Slovenian tennis player of Bosnian descent. Jakupović to date has won two doubles titles on the WTA Tour along with two WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won five singles and ten doubles ti ...

Jessica Pieri Jessica Pieri (born 24 April 1997) is an Italian tennis player. Pieri has a career-high singles ranking of 205 by the WTA, achieved on 28 May 2018. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 563, reached on 15 July 2019. She has won six ...

Sun Xuliu Sun Xuliu (; ; born 7 March 1994) is a former professional Chinese tennis player. On 14 May 2018, she achieved her career-high singles ranking of world No. 384. On 1 May 2017, she peaked at No. 268 in the doubles rankings. Sun made her WTA Tou ...

The following player received entry by a lucky loser: *

Shuko Aoyama is a Japanese tennis player. Aoyama became a professional tennis player after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 4, ...

The following player received entry by a protected ranking: *

Miharu Imanishi is a former professional tennis player from Japan. On 28 May 2018, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 187. On 9 September 2019, she peaked at No. 251 in the doubles rankings. Imanishi made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 201 ...

The following player received entry by a junior exempt: *

Katie Swan Katie Swan (born 24 March 1999) is a British tennis player. Personal life Swan was born in Bristol, to parents Nicki and Richard. Whilst on holiday in Portugal when she was seven, she took tennis lessons. Her teacher had once played for Portug ...

Champions

Singles

* Wang Qiang def.

Mayo Hibi is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She has won eight singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 3 February 2020, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 157. On 26 May 2014, she peaked at No. 378 ...

, 6–2, 6–0

Doubles

Makoto Ninomiya is a Japanese professional tennis player. During her career, she has won one singles title on the ITF Circuit, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of 280. In doubles, she has won six titles on the WTA Tour, one title on the WTA Challe ...

def.

Wang Yafan Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese tennis player. In her career, she has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as four doubles titles on WTA 125 tournaments, plus eleven singles and six doubles ...

, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4

External links

2016 ITF Women's Circuit – Shenzhen
at ITFtennis.com {{DEFAULTSORT:ITF Women's Circuit - Shenzhen, 2016

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