2016 Shanghai Challenger

Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
AUS	Jordan Thompson	91	1
JPN	Tatsuma Ito	129	2
JPN	Go Soeda	147	3
SUI	Henri Laaksonen	161	4
ITA	Luca Vanni	164	5
TPE	Jason Jung	169	6
RUS	Alexander Kudryavtsev	170	7
CHN	Zhang Ze	174	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of August 29, 2016.^[1]

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

• Zhang Zhizhen
• Qiu Zhuoyang
• Gao Xin
• Sun Fajing

The following player received entry into the singles main draw with a protected ranking:

• Blaž Kavčič

The following player entered the singles main draw as an alternate"

• Norbert Gombos

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Yasutaka Uchiyama
• Matija Pecotić
• Xia Zihao
• Shuichi Sekiguchi

• Henri Laaksonen def. Jason Jung 6–3, 6–3.

• Hsieh Cheng-peng / Yi Chu-huan def. Gao Xin / Li Zhe 7–6^(8–6), 5–7, [10–0]