2016 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy

2016 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy
2016 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy
Date	8–14 February
Edition	7th
Category	WTA Premier
Prize money	$753,000
Surface	Hard (indoor)
Location	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Venue	Sibur Arena
Champions
Singles
	Roberta Vinci
Doubles
	Martina Hingis / Sania Mirza

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.^[1]

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	470	305	185	100	55	1	25	18	13	1
Doubles	470	305	185	100	1	—	—	—	—	—

Prize money

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32¹	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	$128,450	$68,585	$36,635	$19,690	$10,560	$6,700	$3,010	$1,600	$890
Doubles*	$40,170	$21,465	$11,730	$5,965	$3,240	—	—	—	—

_{¹Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.}
_{*per team}

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
SUI	Belinda Bencic	11	1
ITA	Roberta Vinci	16	2
DEN	Caroline Wozniacki	18	3
SRB	Ana Ivanovic	20	4
RUS	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	26	5
~~SVK~~	~~Anna Karolína Schmiedlová~~	29	6
FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	30	7
~~FRA~~	~~Alizé Cornet~~	36	8
ROU	Monica Niculescu	37	9

¹ Rankings as of February 1, 2016.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as lucky losers:

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

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank¹	Seed
SUI	Martina Hingis	IND	Sania Mirza	2	1
CZE	Andrea Hlaváčková	CZE	Lucie Hradecká	22	2
ESP	Anabel Medina Garrigues	ESP	Arantxa Parra Santonja	59	3
ROU	Monica Niculescu	GER	Laura Siegemund	73	4