The 2016

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tournament played on outdoor

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s. It was the 11th edition, for men, and 8th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the

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and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $75,000, for men, and $25,000, for women, in prize money. It took place in

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, Kazakhstan, on 25–31 July 2016.

Men's singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 18 July 2016.

Other entrants

The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw: *

Alexander Bublik Alexander Stanislavovich Bublik (; born 17 June 1997) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, achieved on 6 May 2024 and a doubles ...

* Alexey Kedryuk * Timur Khabibulin * Denis Yevseyev The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: *

Mikhail Elgin Mikhail Nikolayevich Elgin ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Елгин, Mikhail Nikolayevich Yelgin, mʲɪxɐˈil jɪlˈɡʲin; born 14 October 1981) is a Russian professional tennis player. Elgin became famous when he advanced to the q ...

* Sanjar Fayziev *

Jason Jung Jason Jung ( zh, c=莊吉生, p=Zhuāng Jíshēng, poj=Chng Kit-seng; ; born 15 June 1989) is an American-born Taiwanese inactive professional tennis player representing team Chinese Taipei. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. ...

* Anton Zaitcev

Women's singles main draw entrants

Seeds

* ¹ Rankings as of 18 July 2016.

Other entrants

The following player received a wildcard into the singles main draw: * Alexandra Grinchishina * Shakhnoza Khatamova * Arina Taluyenko *

Katarina Zavatska Katarina Vitaliivna Zavatska (; born 5 February 2000) is a Ukrainian tennis player. Zavatska has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 103, achieved February 2020, and a best doubles ranking of 337, reached on 14 June 2021. She has won nine ...

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: * Lusine Avanesyan * Anastasia Frolova *

Angelina Gabueva Angelina Alexandrovna Gabueva (; born 7 December 1988) is an inactive Russian tennis player. Gabueva has won two singles and 17 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 17 June 2013, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 423. On 26 Sept ...

* Anzhelika Isaeva *

Olga Puchkova Olga Alekseyevna Puchkova (also Poutchkova; ; ; born 27 September 1987) is a Russian former professional tennis player. As a junior, she played for Belarus,

* Valeria Savinykh * Anastassiya Sharapova * Alina Silich

Champions

Men's singles

Evgeny Donskoy Evgeny Evgenyevich Donskoy ( rus, Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Донско́й, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj dɐnˈskoj; born 9 May 1990) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 65, achieved o ...

def. Konstantin Kravchuk, 6–3, 6–3

Women's singles

Alyona Sotnikova Alyona Ihorivna Sotnikova (; born 5 May 1992) is a Ukrainian former tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of tw ...

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Veronika Kudermetova Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova (born 24 April 1997) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a best WTA doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 6 June 2022. In ...

, 6–2, 6–3

Men's doubles

* Yaraslav Shyla / Andrei Vasilevski def.

/ Alexander Kudryavtsev, 6–4, 6–4

Women's doubles

Natela Dzalamidze Natela Georgiyevna Dzalamidze (, , ; born 27 February 1993) is a Russian-born Georgian inactive tennis player. On 16 May 2022, she reached her career-high doubles ranking of world No. 43. Dzalamidze has won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. S ...

def. Polina Monova /

Yana Sizikova Yana Dmitriyevna Sizikova ( rus, Яна Дмитриевна Сизикова, , ˈjanə ˈsʲizʲɪkəvə; born 12 November 1994) is a Russian tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has a career-high doubles ranking by the Women's Tennis ...

, 6–2, 6–3

External links

2016 President's Cup (tennis)
at ITFtennis.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:President's Cup (tennis), 2016 2016 ITF Women's Circuit 2016 ATP Challenger Tour 2016 in Kazakhstani sport Tennis tournaments in Kazakhstan