The 2016 Jinyuan Cup 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 outdoor

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s. It was the third 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

Zhengzhou Zhengzhou (; ), also spelt Zheng Zhou and alternatively romanized as Chengchow, is the capital and largest city of Henan Province in the central part of the People's Republic of China. Located in north-central Henan, it is one of the National ...

, China, on 16–22 May 2016.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 9 May 2016.

Other entrants

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

Kang Jiaqi Kang Jiaqi (; ; born 19 July 1997) is a female former tennis player from China. In her career, she won one singles title and two doubles titles in tournaments of the ITF Circuit. On 26 November 2018, she achieved her best doubles rankings o ...

Tang Haochen Tang Haochen (; ; born 21 February 1994) is a former tennis player from China. Tang has won two singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 15 December 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 371. On 15 July 2013, s ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Feng Shuo Feng Shuo (; ; born 15 January 1998) is a female Chinese professional tennis player. Career Feng has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 547, achieved on 1 April 2019. She also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 207, reached on 7 ...

Guo Shanshan Guo Shanshan (; ; born 9 August 1996) is an inactive Chinese tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 479, achieved on 6 March 2017. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 476, set on 3 July 2017. Guo made ...

Kim Na-ri Kim Na-ri (born 4 April 1990) is a South Korean nearly inactive tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 285 in singles, achieved on 7 June 2010, and 221 in doubles, set on 20 August 2018. Kim has won five singles and 16 doubles tit ...

* Wang Yan

Champions

Singles

Anastasia Pivovarova Anastasia Olegovna Pivovarova (russian: Анастасия Олеговна Пивоварова, born 16 June 1990) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached a career-high ranking of 93, in May 2011. During a successful j ...

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Lu Jingjing Lu Jingjing (; ; born 5 May 1989) is a Chinese tennis player. Jingjing has won one WTA doubles title, and four singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Women's Circuit. On 15 January 2018, she reached her best s ...

, 6–4, 6–4

Doubles

Xun Fangying Xun Fangying (; ; born 14 January 1995) is a Chinese tennis player. On 24 February 2020, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 167. On 8 April 2019, she peaked at No. 176 in the WTA doubles rankings. Xun made her WTA Tour ...

You Xiaodi You Xiaodi (; ; born 12 May 1996) is a Chinese tennis player. She has won one WTA Challenger doubles title, as well as six singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 March 2020, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 1 ...

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Akgul Amanmuradova Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova ( uz, Oqgul Omonmurodova; born June 23, 1984) is a professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. At 1.90 metres in height, she is one of the tallest female tennis players in history. Amanmuradova has won two d ...

Michaela Hončová Michaela Hončová (; born 22 December 1992) is an inactive Slovak tennis player. Hončová has won five singles titles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's C ...

, 1–6, 6–2, 0–7

External links

2016 Jinyuan Cup
at ITFtennis.com
Official website
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