2016 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy

The 2016 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. This was the seventh edition of the tournament and the first as a WTA Premier tournament. It was part of the 2016 WTA Tour and was held between 8 February and 14 February 2016.

Prize money
1Qualifiers 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:
 * 🇷🇺 Elena Vesnina
 * 🇷🇺 Natalia Vikhlyantseva
 * Caroline Wozniacki

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
 * 🇨🇿 Klára Koukalová
 * 🇺🇦 Kateryna Kozlova
 * 🇦🇹 Tamira Paszek
 * 🇨🇿 Kateřina Siniaková

The following player received entry as lucky losers:
 * 🇩🇪 Laura Siegemund
 * 🇷🇴 Patricia Maria Țig

Withdrawals

 * 🇩🇪 Mona Barthel → replaced by 🇭🇺 Tímea Babos
 * 🇷🇴 Irina-Camelia Begu → replaced by Jeļena Ostapenko
 * 🇨🇿 Petra Cetkovská → replaced by 🇷🇺 Daria Kasatkina
 * 🇫🇷 Alizé Cornet (low back injury) → replaced by 🇷🇴 Patricia Maria Țig
 * 🇷🇴 Alexandra Dulgheru → replaced by 🇧🇪 Kirsten Flipkens
 * 🇮🇹 Karin Knapp → replaced by 🇷🇸 Bojana Jovanovski
 * 🇸🇰 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (ankle sprain) → replaced by 🇩🇪 Laura Siegemund

Seeds

 * 1 Rankings as of February 8, 2016.

Other entrants
The following pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw:
 * 🇷🇺 Anastasia Bukhanko / 🇸🇰 Dominika Cibulková

Retirements

 * 🇷🇴 Monica Niculescu (abdominal injury)

Singles

 * 🇮🇹 Roberta Vinci defeated Belinda Bencic 6–4, 6–3

Doubles

 * Martina Hingis / 🇮🇳 Sania Mirza defeated 🇷🇺 Vera Dushevina / 🇨🇿 Barbora Krejčíková 6–3, 6–1