2016 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger
# 2016 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger

The 2016 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on green clay courts. It was the 17th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Tallahassee, Florida, United States between 25 April and 1 May 2016.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| USA | Donald Young | 84 | 1 |
| AUT | Gerald Melzer | 112 | 2 |
| USA | Tim Smyczek | 119 | 3 |
| USA | Bjorn Fratangelo | 126 | 4 |
| GEO | Nikoloz Basilashvili | 130 | 5 |
| ARG | Facundo Argüello | 143 | 6 |
| USA | Jared Donaldson | 147 | 7 |
| USA | Dennis Novikov | 148 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings as of April 18, 2016

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Benjamin Lock
* Brian Baker
* Eric Quigley
* Tennys Sandgren

The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:

* Ernesto Escobedo
* Nicolás Jarry

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Sekou Bangoura
* Emilio Gómez
* James McGee
* Stefan Kozlov

## Champions

### Singles

* Quentin Halys def. Frances Tiafoe, $6–7^{(6–8)},$ 6–4, 6–2

### Doubles

* Dennis Novikov / Julio Peralta def. Peter Luczak / Marc Polmans, 3–6, 6–4, [12–10]
