In the roster player portion of the draft, the Lasers made a trade with the expansion New York Empire, which was interested in selecting Christina McHale.
[5] On July 21, 2016, Daniel Nestor was selected to represent Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics, playing men's doubles in place of Milos Raonic, who withdrew citing concerns about the Zica virus.
[6][7][8] To fill the void created by Nestor's departure, the Lasers signed Jean Andersen and Eric Butorac as substitute players on July 26, 2016.
After starting the season with four straight losses, the Lasers faced the undefeated Philadelphia Freedoms on the road on August 4, 2016.
Jean Andersen and Benjamin Becker got the Lasers started by winning a tiebreaker in the opening set of men's doubles.
Becker and Krajicek sealed the match in mixed doubles by holding all their service games and breaking Broady once to win the set, 5–3, and give the Lasers a 24–19 victory.
In the fourth set of women's singles, Krajicek topped Samantha Crawford, 5–2, to give the Lasers a 19–13 lead.
[11] The Lasers were eliminated from postseason contention with a record of 2 wins and 7 losses on August 10, 2016, when they lost to the Orange County Breakers, 22–19, in extended play.
Marcus Willis won the men's singles set in a tiebreaker to send the match to extended play with the Lasers leading 21–18.
Reference:[4][6][7][26][27] Notes: Players are listed in order of their game-winning percentage provided they played in at least 40% of the Lasers' games in that event, which is the WTT minimum for qualification for league leaders in individual statistical categories.