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.

Prize money
1 Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money
 * per team

Seeds

 * 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

Seeds

 * 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

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