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2016 Taiwan Open

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Date
  
8-14 January

Category
  
International

Prize money
  
$500,000

Edition
  
1st

Draw
  
32S / 16D

Surface
  
Hard

The 2016 Taiwan Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the event and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place at the Yangming Tennis Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 8 through 14 February 2016.

Contents

Prize money

1 Points per the WTA.
2 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
* per team

Seeds

  • 1 Rankings as of February 1, 2016.

    • Other entrants

    The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

  • Hsu Ching-wen
  • Lee Pei-chi
  • Lee Ya-hsuan

    • The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

  • Miyu Kato
  • Lyudmyla Kichenok
  • Ayaka Okuno
  • Laura Pous Tió
  • Sherazad Reix
  • Zhang Yuxuan

    • The following players received entry as lucky losers:

  • Hiroko Kuwata
  • Marina Melnikova

    • Withdrawals

    Before the tournament
  • Jana Čepelová (abdominal strain) →replaced by Marina Melnikova
  • Luksika Kumkhum →replaced by Mandy Minella
  • Romina Oprandi →replaced by Kristína Kučová
  • Pauline Parmentier →replaced by Hiroko Kuwata
  • Ajla Tomljanović →replaced by Naomi Osaka
    • During the tournament
  • Kurumi Nara (Left thigh injury)

    • Retirements

  • Stefanie Vögele (Dizziness)

    • Seeds

  • 1 Rankings as of February 1, 2016.

    • Other entrants

    The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

  • Chien Pei-ju / Lee Pei-chi
  • Cho I-hsuan / Shih Hsin-yuan

    • Singles

  • Venus Williams def. Misaki Doi 6–4, 6–2

    • Doubles

  • Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan def. Eri Hozumi / Miyu Kato 6–4, 6–3

    • References

    2016 Taiwan Open Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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