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

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s. It was the second edition of the tournament and part of the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in

Shenzhen Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...

, 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 a former professional Chinese tennis player. Liang has a career-high singles ranking of 342, achieved on 21 September 2009. Her career-high WTA doubles ranking of 35, she reached on 26 October 2015. Lia ...

Peng Shuai Peng Shuai (; ; born 8 January 1986) is a Chinese former professional tennis player. In February 2014, she was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1 doubles player by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA ...

* Zhang Yukun *

Zheng Wushuang Zheng Wushuang (; ; born 29 November 1998) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 241, achieved on 24 May 2025. On 7 April 2025, she peaked at No. 137 in the WTA doubles rankings. On the ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Hsu Chieh-yu Hsu Chieh-yu ( zh, t=許絜瑜, p=Xǔ Jié-yú; also known as Connie Hsu; born 14 January 1992) is a Taiwanese-American tennis player. Hsu has won six singles and twenty-seven doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 21 April 2014, she rea ...

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 five WTA Challenger doubles titles. She also has won eight singles and sixteen dou ...

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 professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. Aoyama turned professional after graduating from Waseda University. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 182, on 9 February 2015, and a doubles ranking of ...

The following player received entry by a protected ranking: *

Miharu Imanishi is a former 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. In her career, she won six singles and six doubles titles on the IT ...

The following player received entry by a junior exempt: *

Katie Swan Katie Swan (born 24 March 1999) is a British tennis player. She has won 13 International Tennis Federation, ITF singles titles and one in doubles. Her peak world ranking in singles is 118 and her highest in doubles is 293. When she made her deb ...

Champions

Singles

* Wang Qiang def.

Mayo Hibi is a Japanese former professional tennis player. Over her career, she won eight singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Women's Circuit The ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, previously known as the ITF Women's Circuit, is a series of pr ...

, 6–2, 6–0

Doubles

Makoto Ninomiya is a Japanese professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 20 on 22 October 2018, and peaked at No. 280 in singles on 22 February 2016. Partnered with Eri Hozumi, she reached the final of the 2018 French ...

def.

Wang Yafan Wang Yafan (; ; born 30 April 1994) is a Chinese professional tennis player. On 7 October 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 47. She peaked at No. 49 in the doubles rankings on 15 February 2016. In her career, she has won ...

, 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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