2016 Hong Kong Tennis Open
# 2016 Hong Kong Tennis Open

The 2016 Hong Kong Tennis Open (also known as the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament, and part of the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, from October 10 to 16.

## 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 | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 1 | — | — | — | — |

### Prize money

| Event | W | F | SF | QF | Round of 16 | Round of $32^1$ | Q2 | Q1 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Singles | $43,000 | $21,400 | $11,500 | $6,175 | $3,400 | $2,100 | $1,020 | $600 |
| Doubles * | $12,300 | $6,400 | $3,435 | $1,820 | $960 | — | — | — |

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## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| GER | Angelique Kerber | 1 | 1 |
| USA | Venus Williams | 13 | 2 |
| GBR | Johanna Konta | 14 | 3 |
| AUS | Samantha Stosur | 18 | 4 |
| DEN | Caroline Wozniacki | 22 | 5 |
| FRA | Caroline Garcia | 25 | 6 |
| SRB | Jelena Janković | 37 | 7 |
| AUS | Daria Gavrilova | 49 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of October 3, 2016

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Başak Eraydın
* Lee Ya-hsuan
* Zhang Ling

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Marina Erakovic
* Dalila Jakupović
* Aleksandra Krunić
* Luksika Kumkhum
* Tereza Martincová
* Zhu Lin

### Withdrawals

**Before the tournament**

* Mariana Duque Mariño → replaced by Risa Ozaki
* Kristína Kučová → replaced by Bethanie Mattek-Sands
* Yanina Wickmayer → replaced by Maria Sakkari

**During the tournament**

* Johanna Konta

## Doubles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TPE | Chan Hao-Ching | TPE | Chan Yung-jan | 18 | 1 |
| SLO | Andreja Klepač | SLO | Katarina Srebotnik | 54 | 2 |
| CHN | Liang Chen | CHN | Yang Zhaoxuan | 98 | 3 |
| JPN | Shuko Aoyama | JPN | Makoto Ninomiya | 114 | 4 |

$^1$ Rankings are as of October 3, 2016

### Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

* Ng Kwan-yau / Zheng Saisai
* Eudice Chong / Katherine Ip

## Champions

### Singles

* Caroline Wozniacki def. Kristina Mladenovic, 6−1, $6–7^{(4–7)},$ 6−2

### Doubles

* Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan def. Naomi Broady / Heather Watson, 6−3, 6–1
