title: 2016 Tianjin Open
text: # 2016 Tianjin Open
  
  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
  
  ### 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 | $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 | — | — | — |
  
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  ## Singles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | 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
  
  The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  
  * Peng Shuai
  * Wang Yafan
  * Xu Yifan
  
  The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  
  * Chang Kai-chen
  * Andrea Hlaváčková
  * Lucie Hradecká
  * Liu Fangzhou
  * Shelby Rogers
  * Nina Stojanović
  
  ### Withdrawals
  
  **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**
  
  * Agnieszka Radwańska
  * Zhang Shuai
  
  ## Doubles main-draw entrants
  
  ### Seeds
  
  | Country | Player | Country | Player | $Rank^1$ | 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 |
  
  * $^1$ Rankings are as of October 3, 2016
  
  ### Other entrants
  
  The following pairs received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
  
  * Kang Jiaqi / Liu Fangzhou
  * Gao Xinyu / Zhang Ying
  
  ## Champions
  
  ### Singles
  
  * Peng Shuai def. Alison Riske, $7–6^{(7–3)},$ 6−2
  
  ### Doubles
  
  * Christina McHale / Peng Shuai def. Magda Linette / Xu Yifan, $7–6^{(10–8)},$ 6−0
  