The 2016 Kremlin Cup (also known as the 2016 VTB Kremlin Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 27th edition of the Kremlin Cup for the men and the 21st edition for the women. The tournament was part of the ATP World Tour 250 Series of the 2016 ATP World Tour, and of the Premier series of the 2016 WTA Tour. It was held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, from 17 October through 23 October 2016.
On 15 October, a record high of 4800 people visited the qualifying rounds; according to Tarpishchev, in no other tennis tournament was that number so high.[1]
| Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberto Bautista Agut | 19 | 1 | ||
| Albert Ramos Viñolas | 27 | 2 | ||
| Philipp Kohlschreiber | 30 | 3 | ||
| Viktor Troicki | 31 | 4 | ||
| Pablo Carreño Busta | 35 | 6 | ||
| Paolo Lorenzi | 37 | 7 | ||
| Andrey Kuznetsov | 42 | 8 | ||
| Marcel Granollers | 43 | 9 |
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 a lucky loser:
Bernard Tomic →replaced by 
Evgeny Donskoy
Jiří Veselý →replaced by Lukáš Rosol
Martin Kližan →replaced by 
Federico Gaio| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Spain | Pablo Carreño Busta | Spain | Marcel Granollers | 52 | 1 | |
| Juan Sebastián Cabal |  Colombia | Robert Farah | 60 | 2 | ||
 Argentina | Guillermo Durán |  Poland | Mariusz Fyrstenberg | 119 | 3 | |
| Wesley Koolhof | Matwé Middelkoop | 119 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following player entered as a lucky loser:
Sara Errani →replaced by Anastasija Sevastova Karolína Plíšková →replaced by 
Shelby Rogers
Danka Kovinić Dominika Cibulková →replaced by Ana Konjuh| Country | Player | Country | Player | Rank1 | Seed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russian Federation | Ekaterina Makarova | Russian Federation | Elena Vesnina | 15 | 1 | |
| Czech Republic | Andrea Hlaváčková | Czech Republic | Lucie Hradecká | 25 | 2 | |
| Czech Republic | Kateřina Siniaková | Katarina Srebotnik | 60 | 3 | ||
| Australia | Anastasia Rodionova |  Ukraine | Olga Savchuk | 100 | 4 |
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
See main article: 2016 Kremlin Cup – Men's singles.
Pablo Carreño Busta def. Fabio Fognini, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2See main article: 2016 Kremlin Cup – Women's singles.
Svetlana Kuznetsova def. Daria Gavrilova, 6–2, 6–1See main article: 2016 Kremlin Cup – Men's doubles.
Juan Sebastián Cabal / Robert Farah def. 
Julian Knowle / Jürgen Melzer, 7–5, 4–6, [10–5]See main article: 2016 Kremlin Cup – Women's doubles.
Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká def. Daria Gavrilova / Daria Kasatkina, 4–6, 6–0, [10–7]
Hungary