2016 Tianjin Open

The 2016 Tianjin Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was 3rd edition of the tournament, and part of the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Tianjin, China between 10 and 16 October 2016.

2016 Tianjin Open
Date	October 10–16
Edition	3rd
Category	WTA International
Draw	32S / 16D
Prize money	$500,000
Surface	Hard
Location	Tianjin, China
Champions
Singles
Peng Shuai
Doubles
Christina McHale / Peng Shuai

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	280	180	110	60	30	1	18	12	1
Doubles					1	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 321	Q2	Q1
Singles	$111,164	$55,324	$29,730	$8,898	$4,899	$3,026	$1,470	$865
Doubles *	$17,724	$9,222	$4,951	$2,623	$1,383	—	—	—

<sub>¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team</sub>

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
POL	Agnieszka Radwańska	3	1
RUS	Svetlana Kuznetsova	7	2
RUS	Elena Vesnina	20	3
HUN	Tímea Babos	26	4
PUR	Monica Puig	28	5
KAZ	Yulia Putintseva	33	6
CHN	Zhang Shuai	36	7
KAZ	Yaroslava Shvedova	39	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of October 3, 2016

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Peng Shuai
• Wang Yafan
• Xu Yifan

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Chang Kai-chen
• Andrea Hlaváčková
• Lucie Hradecká
• Liu Fangzhou
• Shelby Rogers
• Nina Stojanović

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Timea Bacsinszky → replaced by Han Xinyun
• Irina-Camelia Begu → replaced by Evgeniya Rodina
• Hsieh Su-wei → replaced by Duan Yingying
• Mirjana Lučić-Baroni → replaced by Zhang Kailin

During the tournament

• Agnieszka Radwańska
• Zhang Shuai

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
ESP	Arantxa Parra Santonja	AUS	Anastasia Rodionova	67	1
ESP	Lara Arruabarrena	GEO	Oksana Kalashnikova	114	2
ARG	María Irigoyen	GER	Tatjana Maria	114	3
USA	Christina McHale	CHN	Peng Shuai	116	4

• ¹ Rankings are as of October 3, 2016

Other entrants

The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:

• Kang Jiaqi / Liu Fangzhou
• Gao Xinyu / Zhang Ying

Champions

Singles

Main article: 2016 Tianjin Open – Singles

• Peng Shuai def. Alison Riske, 7–6^(7–3), 6−2^[1]

Doubles

Main article: 2016 Tianjin Open – Doubles

• Christina McHale / Peng Shuai def. Magda Linette / Xu Yifan, 7–6^(10–8), 6−0