2016 Tianjin Open

2016 Tianjin Open
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

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.

Points and prize money edit

Point distribution edit

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	280	180	110	60	1	—	—	—	—

Prize money edit

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	—	—	—

_{¹ Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money}
_{* per team}

Singles main-draw entrants edit

Seeds edit

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 edit

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Withdrawals edit

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

Doubles main-draw entrants edit

Seeds edit

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