2016 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold
The 2016 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold was the second grand prix's badminton tournament of the 2016 BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was the 8th edition of the Syed Modi International Badminton Championships. The tournament was held at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow, India on 26 – 31 January 2016 and had a total purse of $120,000.
Men's singles
Seeds
- Srikanth Kidambi
- Tommy Sugiarto '
- Son Wan-ho '
- Parupalli Kashyap '
- H. S. Prannoy '
- Ajay Jayaram '
- Lee Dong-keun '
- Sho Sasaki '
- Hsu Jen-hao '
- Jeon Hyeok-jin '
- Boonsak Ponsana '
- Ihsan Maulana Mustofa '
- Takuma Ueda '
- Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk '
- B. Sai Praneeth '
- Anthony Sinisuka Ginting ''''
Women's singles
Seeds
- Saina Nehwal '
- Sung Ji-hyun
- P. V. Sindhu '
- Bae Yeon-ju '
- Sayaka Sato '
- Yui Hashimoto '
- Busanan Ongbumrungpan '
- Kirsty Gilmour ''''
Men's doubles
Seeds
- Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen '
- Kim Sa-rang / Kim Gi-jung '
- Mads Conrad-Petersen / Mads Pieler Kolding '
- Ko Sung-hyun / Shin Baek-cheol '
- Angga Pratama / Ricky Karanda Suwardi '
- Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov '
- Li Junhui / Liu Yuchen
- Lee Sheng-mu / Tsai Chia-hsin ''''
Women's doubles
Seeds
- Chang Ye-na / Lee So-hee '
- Jung Kyung-eun / Shin Seung-chan
- Eefje Muskens / Selena Piek '
- Vivian Hoo Kah Mun / Woon Khe Wei '
- Shizuka Matsuo / Mami Naito '
- Jwala Gutta / Ashwini Ponnappa '
- Go Ah-ra / Yoo Hae-won '
- Stefani Stoeva / Gabriela Stoeva ''''