2016 German Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2016 German Open Grand Prix Gold was the fourth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the 2016 BWF Grand [Prix and Grand Prix Gold]. It was the 59th edition of the German [Open (badminton)|German Open]. The tournament was held at the RWE-Sporthalle in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany on 1–6 March 2016 and had a total purse of $120,000.
Men's singles
Seeds
- Jan Ø. Jørgensen '
- Lin Dan
- Viktor Axelsen '
- Chou Tien-chen '
- Tian Houwei '
- Srikanth Kidambi '
- Tommy Sugiarto '
- Son Wan-ho '
- Hu Yun '
- Wei Nan '
- Kashyap Parupalli '
- Ng Ka Long '
- Rajiv Ouseph '
- Marc Zwiebler '
- Lee Dong-keun '
- Sho Sasaki ''''
Women's singles
Seeds
- Carolina Marín '
- Li Xuerui
- Sung Ji-hyun '
- Wang Shixian '
- Nozomi Okuhara '
- Akane Yamaguchi '
- P. V. Sindhu '
- Sayaka Sato ''''
Men's doubles
Seeds
- Lee Yong-dae / Yoo Yeon-seong '
- Chai Biao / Hong Wei '
- Hiroyuki Endo / Kenichi Hayakawa '
- Kim Gi-jung / Kim Sa-rang '
- Mads Conrad-Petersen / Mads Pieler Kolding '
- Ko Sung-hyun / Shin Baek-cheol
- Liu Xiaolong / Qiu Zihan '
- Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov ''''
Women's doubles
Seeds
- Nitya Krishinda Maheswari / Greysia Polii '
- Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi '
- Christinna Pedersen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl '
- Jung Kyung-eun / Shin Seung-chan '
- Tang Yuanting / Yu Yang '
- Chang Ye-na / Lee So-hee '
- Eefje Muskens / Selena Piek
- Naoko Fukuman / Kurumi Yonao ''''
Mixed doubles
Seeds
- Ko Sung-hyun / Kim Ha-na
- Chris Adcock / Gabrielle Adcock '
- Lu Kai / Huang Yaqiong '
- Lee Chun Hei / Chau Hoi Wah '
- Shin Baek-cheol / Chae Yoo-jung '
- Choi Sol-gyu / Eom Hye-won '
- Chan Peng Soon / Goh Liu Ying '
- Jacco Arends / Selena Piek ''''