The 2016

Kobe Challenger The Kobe Challenger is a tennis tournament held near Kobe, Japan in Miki at the Beans Dome in Miki Disaster Management Park, since 2015. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ...

was a professional

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tournament played on indoor

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. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

, Japan between 7 and 13 November 2016.

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings are as of October 31, 2016.

Other entrants

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

Yosuke Watanuki is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of World No. 138 achieved on 9 January 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 374 achieved on 7 January 2019. He is currently the No. 3 Japanese player. Juniors On the junior tour, Wata ...

* Makoto Ochi * Ken Onishi *

Yusuke Takahashi is a Japanese tennis player. Takahashi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 238 achieved on 7 August 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 414 achieved on 20 November 2017. Takahashi made his ATP main draw debut at the ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Shintaro Imai * Kim Cheung-eui * Lee Kuan-yi *

Kaito Uesugi is a Japanese tennis player. Uesugi has a career high ATP singles ranking of 650 achieved on 27 August 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 306 achieved on 20 June 2022. Uesugi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Rakut ...

Champions

Singles

Chung Hyeon Chung Hyeon (; ; born 19 May 1996) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He is the 2017 Next Gen Finals champion. As an unseeded player, he became the first Korean player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open. ...

def. James Duckworth, 6–4, 7–6^(7–2).

Doubles

Daniel Masur Daniel Masur (born 6 November 1994 in Bückeburg) is a German professional tennis player. Masur has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 176, which he first achieved in March 2022 and in doubles of No. 149 achieved in September 2022. ...

Ante Pavić Ante Pavić (; born 7 March 1989) is an inactive Croatian professional tennis player. His highest singles ranking is No. 132 achieved on 13 October 2014. He qualified for the main draw in the 2014 French Open after saving a match point in the fina ...

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Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (born 20 October 1988) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of No. 64 achieved on 18 March 2019. He won the doubles title with Rohan Bopanna at the 2017 Chennai Open, in a historic final ...

Christopher Rungkat Christopher Benjamin Rungkat (born 14 January 1990) is an Indonesian tennis player. In 2008, he won the final stage of French Open 2008 Boys' Doubles Juniors category with Finnish tennis player Henri Kontinen.(11 June 2008French Open glory for ...

, 4–6, 6–3, 0–6

External links

Official Website
{{2016 ATP Challenger Tour

Kobe Challenger 2016 in Japanese tennis