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. The tournament featured eight Asian players who facing eight PDC players and was held at the Pullman Hotel Shanghai South in

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, China from 25–26 June 2016.

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won the title, defeating James Wade 8–3 in the final.

Qualifiers

The four seeded PDC players were: # Gary Anderson ''(quarter-finals)'' #

(winner) #

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''(quarter-finals)'' # Phil Taylor ''(semi-finals)'' The next four seeded PDC players were (drawn at random into seeded side of the draw): :* James Wade ''(runner-up)'' :*

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''(semi-finals)'' :* Raymond van Barneveld ''(quarter-finals)'' :* Peter Wright ''(quarter-finals)'' The following players were invited: :* Paul Lim ''(first round)'' :* Scott MacKenzie ''(first round)'' :* Royden Lam ''(first round)'' :* Yunfei Jiang ''(first round)'' The Chinese qualifiers were: :*

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''(first round)'' :* Shiyan Lai ''(first round)'' :* Lihao Wen ''(first round)'' :* Jianhua Shen ''(first round)''

Draw

References

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