The 2016
Monterrey Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the
2016 ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, in 2016, was the secondary professional tennis circuit organized by the ATP. The 2016 ATP Challenger Tour calendar contained 166 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $40,000 up to $125,000. It was the 39th edition o ...
. It took place in
Monterrey, Mexico
Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...
from 10 to 15 of October 2016.
Singles main-draw entrants
Seeds
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1 Rankings are as of October 3, 2016.
Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
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Marco Trungelliti
Marco Trungelliti (; born 31 January 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles.
On 4 March 2019, Trungelliti achieved his best singles rankings o ...
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Lucas Gómez
Lucas Gómez (; born 11 August 1995) is a Mexican professional tennis player.
Gómez has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 463, achieved on 4 April 2016. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 526 achieved on ...
* Mauricio Astorga
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Daniel Garza
Daniel Garza (; born 8 April 1985) is a Mexican professional tennis player.
He participated in the Davis Cup representing Mexico eight times. His most important victory was during the 2008 Davis Cup tie against Uruguay which he won in four ...
The following players entered the main draw as alternates:
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Nicolaas Scholtz
Nicolaas Scholtz (born November 5, 1986) is a Namibian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. He represented the Namibian cricket team in five Youth One-Day Internationals during the Under-19s World Cup of 2006.
Scholtz ...
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Kaichi Uchida
is a Japanese professional tennis player.
Uchida has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 155 achieved on 3 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 202 also achieved on 19 September 2022.
Uchida has won 2 Chall ...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
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Juan Lizariturry
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Tucker Vorster
Tucker Vorster (born 3 September 1988) is a South African tennis player.
Vorster has a career high ATP singles ranking of 278 achieved on 14 September 2015. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 258 achieved on 15 August 2016.
Pl ...
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Ruben Gonzales
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Gonzalo Escobar
Gonzalo Escobar (; born 20 January 1989, in Manta) is an Ecuadorian tennis player. His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 38, achieved on 15 November 2021. He has won three doubles titles with Uruguayan partner Ariel Behar. Escobar has a c ...
Champions
Singles
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Ernesto Escobedo
Ernesto "Neto" Escobedo III ( ; , born July 4, 1996) is a Mexican-American professional tennis player who has won four ATP Challenger titles.
Personal life
Escobedo began playing tennis at the age of 4. His father Ernesto Jr. briefly played prof ...
def.
Denis Kudla
Denis Kudla ( ; born August 17, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. A product of the Junior Tennis Champions Center, he has won eight Challenger singles titles and nine Challenger doubles titles in his career. His career-high ATP ...
, 6–4, 6–4.
Doubles
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Evan King
Evan King (born March 25, 1992) is an American professional tennis player.
King has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 185, achieved in April 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 113, achieved in February 202 ...
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Denis Kudla
Denis Kudla ( ; born August 17, 1992) is an American professional tennis player. A product of the Junior Tennis Champions Center, he has won eight Challenger singles titles and nine Challenger doubles titles in his career. His career-high ATP ...
def. Jarryd Chaplin /
Ben McLachlan
Ben McLachlan ( ; マクラクラン 勉, ''Makurakuran Ben''; born 10 May 1992) is a Japanese professional tennis player who previously represented New Zealand.
He is a doubles specialist with a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 18, achiev ...
, 7–5 6–2.
External links
Official Website
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2016 in Mexican tennis
Monterrey Challenger