title: 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships
text: # 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships
  
  The 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 21st edition, for men, and 19th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $50,000, for both genders, in prize money. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 25–31 July 2016.
  
  ## Men's singles main draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | FRA | Adrian Mannarino | 55 | 1 |
  | TUN | Malek Jaziri | 63 | 2 |
  | GBR | Daniel Evans | 82 | 3 |
  | AUS | Jordan Thompson | 90 | 4 |
  | USA | Bjorn Fratangelo | 108 | 5 |
  | FRA | Quentin Halys | 140 | 6 |
  | USA | Frances Tiafoe | 156 | 7 |
  | USA | Stefan Kozlov | 163 | 8 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings as of 18 July 2016.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:
  
  * Brian Baker
  * Eric Quigley
  * Ryan Shane
  * William Bushamuka
  
  The following player entered as an alternate:
  
  * Juan Ignacio Londero
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Lloyd Glasspool
  * Alex Kuznetsov
  * Mackenzie McDonald
  * Jesse Witten
  
  ## Women's singles main draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | Seed |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | BEL | Alison Van Uytvanck | 116 | 1 |
  | CZE | Kristýna Plíšková | 119 | 2 |
  | ROU | Ana Bogdan | 135 | 3 |
  | USA | Taylor Townsend | 148 | 4 |
  | JPN | Hiroko Kuwata | 154 | 5 |
  | CHN | Zhu Lin | 151 | 6 |
  | USA | Grace Min | 158 | 7 |
  | JPN | Miyu Kato | 182 | 8 |
  | BEL | An-Sophie Mestach | 189 | 9 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings as of 18 July 2016.
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:
  
  * Francesca Di Lorenzo
  * Raveena Kingsley
  * Jamie Loeb
  * Melanie Oudin
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Alison Bai
  * Cristiana Ferrando
  * Greet Minnen
  * Olivia Rogowska
  
  The following players received entry as lucky losers:
  
  * Katy Dunne
  * Laura Robson
  * Emily Webley-Smith
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Men's singles
  
  * Ernesto Escobedo def. Frances Tiafoe, 6–2, $6–7^{(6–8)},$ $7–6^{(7–3)}$
  
  ### Women's singles
  
  * Michaëlla Krajicek def. Arina Rodionova, 6–0, 2–6, 6–2
  
  ### Men's doubles
  
  * Luke Saville / Jordan Thompson def. Nicolaas Scholtz / Tucker Vorster, 6–2, 7–5
  
  ### Women's doubles
  
  * Hiroko Kuwata / Zhu Lin def. Sophie Chang / Alexandra Mueller, 6–0, 7–5
  