2016 Sarasota Open
# 2016 Sarasota Open

The 2016 Sarasota Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 8th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Sarasota, Florida, United States between 11 and 17 April.

## Singles main-draw entrants

### Seeds

| Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
| - | - | - | - |
| USA | Denis Kudla | 59 | 1 |
| ARG | Diego Schwartzman | 88 | 2 |
| AUT | Gerald Melzer | 117 | 3 |
| GEO | Nikoloz Basilashvili | 121 | 4 |
| USA | Tim Smyczek | 125 | 5 |
| USA | Bjorn Fratangelo | 131 | 6 |
| ARG | Facundo Argüello | 139 | 7 |
| USA | Jared Donaldson | 142 | 8 |

* $^1$ Rankings are as of April 4, 2016

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

* Sekou Bangoura
* Ernesto Escobedo
* Connor Smith
* Dmitry Tursunov

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

* Emilio Gómez
* José Hernández
* Tomás Lipovšek Puches
* Péter Nagy

## Champions

### Singles

* Mischa Zverev def. Gerald Melzer, 6–4, $7–6^{(7–2)}$

### Doubles

* Facundo Argüello / Nicolás Kicker def. Marcelo Arévalo / Sergio Galdós, 4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
