_(27698685691).jpg) Angelique Kerber finished the year as world No. 1 for the first time in her career. She won three singles tournaments during the season, including two majors at the Australian Open and the US Open. She also finished runner-up at another major, the Wimbledon Championships, and won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics. | |
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| Duration | 3 January – 6 November 2016 |
| Edition | 46th |
| Tournaments | 61 |
| Categories | Grand Slam (4) WTA Finals Summer Olympics WTA Premier Mandatory (4) WTA Premier 5 (5) WTA Premier (12) WTA International (33) WTA Elite Trophy |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |  Dominika Cibulková (4) |
| Most tournament finals |  Angelique Kerber (8) |
| Prize money leader | Angelique Kerber (US$10,136,615) |
| Points leader | Angelique Kerber (9,080) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year | Angelique Kerber |
| Doubles team of the year |  Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic |
| Most improved player of the year |  Johanna Konta |
| Newcomer of the year |  Naomi Osaka |
| Comeback player of the year | Dominika Cibulková |
← 2015 2017 → | |
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Angelique Kerber won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, thus becoming the first German to win a Grand Slam title since Steffi Graf at the 1999 French Open defeating World No. 1 Serena Williams in the final. Kerber would go on to win the 2016 US Open, defeating Karolína Plíšková in the final, thus would attain her World No. 1 ranking. Garbiñe Muguruza won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open, thus becoming the first Spaniard to win a Grand Slam title since Arantxa Sánchez Vicario at the 1998 French Open by defeating Williams in the final. Williams herself would go on to reach the season's third Grand Slam finals and defeat Kerber in the final at Wimbledon to claim her 22nd Grand Slam title, equaling Steffi Graf's record for most Grand Slam titles in the Open Era.
The 2016 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2016 tennis season. The 2016 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier), the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Elite Trophy). Also included in the 2016 calendar is the Summer Olympic Games and Hopman Cup, which were organized by the ITF and did not distribute ranking points.[1]
Schedule edit
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2016 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.
- Key
| Grand Slam tournaments |
| Summer Olympic Games |
| Year-end championships |
| WTA Premier Mandatory |
| WTA Premier 5 |
| WTA Premier |
| WTA International |
| Team events |
Note: In the Champions and Runners-up columns, a tournament's results in doubles are also included.
January edit
February edit
March edit
| Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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| 7 Mar 14 Mar | Indian Wells Open Indian Wells, United States WTA Premier Mandatory Hard – $6,844,139 – 96S/48Q/32D Singles – Doubles |  Victoria Azarenka6–4, 6–4 |  Serena Williams |  Agnieszka Radwańska  Karolína Plíšková |  Simona Halep Petra Kvitová Magdaléna Rybáriková Daria Kasatkina |
| Bethanie Mattek-Sands CoCo Vandeweghe 4–6, 6–4, [10–6] | Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková | ||||
| 21 Mar 28 Mar | Miami Open Key Biscayne, United States WTA Premier Mandatory Hard – $6,844,139 – 96S/48Q/32D Singles – Doubles | Victoria Azarenka 6–3, 6–2 | Svetlana Kuznetsova |  Timea Bacsinszky Angelique Kerber | Ekaterina Makarova Simona Halep Johanna Konta Madison Keys |
| Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová 6–3, 6–4 |
April edit
May edit
June edit
July edit
August edit
September edit
October edit
November edit
| Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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| 12–13 Nov | Fed Cup Final Strasbourg, France – hard (i) | Czech Republic 3–2 | France |
Statistical information edit
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 2016 WTA Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the tennis event at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympic Games, the year-end championships (the WTA Tour Championships and the Tournament of Champions), the WTA Premier tournaments (Premier Mandatory, Premier 5, and regular Premier), and the WTA International tournaments.[1] The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) cumulated importance of those titles (one Grand Slam win equalling two Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 wins, one year-end championships win equalling one-and-a-half Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 win, one Premier Mandatory/Premier 5 win equalling two Premier wins, one Olympic win equalling one-and-a-half Premier win, one Premier win equalling two International wins); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).
Key edit
| Grand Slam tournaments |
| Summer Olympic Games |
| Year-end championships |
| WTA Premier Mandatory |
| WTA Premier 5 |
| WTA Premier |
| WTA International |
Titles won by player edit
Titles won by nation edit
| Total | Nation | Grand Slam | Olympic Games | Year-end | Premier Mandatory | Premier 5 | Premier | International | Total | |||||||||||
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| S | D | X | S | D | X | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | X | ||
| 22 | United States (USA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 1 | ||||||
| 17 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
| 11 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 10 |  China (CHN) | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 9 |  Spain (ESP) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8 |  India (IND) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 4 |  Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4 |  Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 |  Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 |  Sweden (SWE) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 |  Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 |  Ukraine (UKR) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 |  Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 |  Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 |  Australia (AUS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 |  Thailand (THA) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Puerto Rico (PUR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Georgia (GEO) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Paraguay (PAR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Serbia (SRB) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Titles information edit
The following players won their first main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:
- Singles
Irina Falconi – Bogotá (draw)
Çağla Büyükakçay – İstanbul (draw)
Viktorija Golubic – Gstaad (draw)
Laura Siegemund – Båstad (draw)
Johanna Konta – Stanford (draw)
Duan Yingying – Nanchang (draw)- Christina McHale – Tokyo (draw)
Océane Dodin – Quebec City (draw)
Kristýna Plíšková – Tashkent (draw)- Peng Shuai – Tianjin (draw)
- Doubles
Elise Mertens – Auckland (draw)- Han Xinyun – Hobart (draw)
- Christina McHale – Hobart (draw)
Verónica Cepede Royg – Rio de Janeiro (draw)
Varatchaya Wongteanchai – Kuala Lumpur (draw)- Yang Zhaoxuan – Kuala Lumpur (draw)
- CoCo Vandeweghe – Indian Wells (draw)
Eri Hozumi – Katowice (draw)- Miyu Kato – Katowice (draw)
Andreea Mitu – İstanbul (draw)- İpek Soylu – İstanbul (draw)
- Xenia Knoll – Rabat (draw)
Jessica Moore – Bucharest (draw)- Lu Jingjing – Nanchang (draw)
- Makoto Ninomiya – Tokyo (draw)
- Kirsten Flipkens – Seoul (draw)
- Mixed doubles
Elena Vesnina – Australian Open (draw)- Heather Watson – Wimbledon (draw)
- Laura Siegemund – US Open (draw)
The following players defended a main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:
- Singles
- Angelique Kerber – Stuttgart (draw)
- Serena Williams – Wimbledon (draw)
- Svetlana Kuznetsova – Moscow (draw)
- Doubles
- Martina Hingis – Brisbane (draw)
Sania Mirza – Sydney (draw)
Top 10 entry edit
The following players entered the top 10 for the first time in their careers:
- Singles
- Belinda Bencic (enters at #9 on February 15)
Roberta Vinci (enters at #10 on February 22)- Madison Keys (enters at #10 on June 20)
- Johanna Konta (enters at #9 on October 10)
- Doubles
- Caroline Garcia (enters at #9 on May 9)
WTA rankings edit
These are the WTA rankings of the top 20 singles players, doubles players, and the top 10 doubles teams on the WTA Tour, of the 2016 season.[3][4]
Singles edit
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Number 1 ranking edit
| Holder | Date gained | Date forfeited |
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| Serena Williams (USA) | Year end 2015 | 11 September 2016 |
| Angelique Kerber (GER) | 12 September 2016 | Year end 2016 |
Doubles edit
Team has qualified for the 2016 WTA Finals |
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Number 1 ranking edit
| Holder | Date gained | Date forfeited |
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| Sania Mirza (IND) | Year end 2015 | 17 January 2016 |
| Martina Hingis (SUI) Sania Mirza (IND) | 18 January 2016 | 21 August 2016 |
| Sania Mirza (IND) | 22 August 2016 | Year end 2016 |
Prize money leaders edit
Angelique Kerber topped the 2016 money list and joined Serena Williams as the only two women to ever win over $10,000,000 in a single season. Additionally, Kerber became the 15th WTA player to win $20,000,000 in career earnings. The top-32 players earned over $1,000,000. Bethanie Mattek-Sands won $1,088,600 in doubles tournaments. It was the 3rd consecutive year that a player earned over $1,000,000 in doubles events.
| # | Player | Singles | Doubles | Mixed | Year-to-date | |
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| 1 | Angelique Kerber (GER) | $9,841,181 | $20,434 | $0 | $10,136,615 | |
| 2 | Serena Williams (USA) | $7,384,429 | $290,601 | $0 | $7,675,030 | |
| 3 | Simona Halep (ROU) | $3,590,480 | $40,428 | $2,345 | $4,333,253 | |
| 4 | Agnieszka Radwańska (POL) | $3,762,193 | $0 | $0 | $4,162,193 | |
| 5 | Karolína Plíšková (CZE) | $3,375,673 | $375,420 | $0 | $3,976,093 | |
| 6 | Dominika Cibulková (SVK) | $3,912,431 | $28,002 | $0 | $3,940,433 | |
| 7 | Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) | $3,287,124 | $16,264 | $0 | $3,903,388 | |
| 8 | Victoria Azarenka (BLR) | $2,651,080 | $0 | $0 | $2,651,080 | |
| 9 | Petra Kvitová (CZE) | $2,182,099 | $18,417 | $0 | $2,500,516 | |
| 10 | Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) | $2,260,009 | $136,470 | $0 | $2,396,479 | |
Statistics leaders edit
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Points distribution edit
| Category | W | F | SF | QF | R16 | R32 | R64 | R128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Grand Slam (S) | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 70 | 10 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 2 |
| Grand Slam (D) | 2000 | 1300 | 780 | 430 | 240 | 130 | 10 | – | 48 | – | – | – |
| WTA Finals (S) | 1500* | 1080* | 750* | (+125 per round robin match; +125 per round robin win) | ||||||||
| WTA Finals (D) | 1500 | 1080 | 750 | 375 | – | |||||||
| WTA Premier Mandatory (96S) | 1000 | 650 | 390 | 215 | 120 | 65 | 35 | 10 | 30 | – | 20 | 2 |
| WTA Premier Mandatory (64/60S) | 1000 | 650 | 390 | 215 | 120 | 65 | 10 | – | 30 | – | 20 | 2 |
| WTA Premier Mandatory (28/32D) | 1000 | 650 | 390 | 215 | 120 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| WTA Premier 5 (56S) | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 60 | 1 | – | 30 | 20 | 12 | 1 |
| WTA Premier 5 (28D) | 900 | 585 | 350 | 190 | 105 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| WTA Premier (56S) | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 30 | 1 | – | 12 | – | 8 | 1 |
| WTA Premier (32S) | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 55 | 1 | – | – | 25 | 16 | 10 | 1 |
| WTA Premier (16D) | 470 | 305 | 185 | 100 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| WTA Elite Trophy (S) | 700* | 440* | 240* | (+40 per round robin match; +80 per round robin win) | ||||||||
| WTA International (56S) | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 15 | 1 | – | 10 | – | 6 | 1 |
| WTA International (32S) | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 30 | 1 | – | – | 18 | 14 | 10 | 1 |
| WTA International (16D) | 280 | 180 | 110 | 60 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
* Assumes undefeated round robin match record.
WTA fan polls edit
Player of the month edit
| Month | Winner | Other candidates |
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| January | Angelique Kerber (GER) (41%) | Serena Williams (28%) Agnieszka Radwańska (21%) Victoria Azarenka (10%) |
| February | Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) (44%) | Roberta Vinci (40%) Sara Errani (16%) |
| March | Victoria Azarenka (BLR) (70%) | Svetlana Kuznetsova (17%) Serena Williams (13%) |
| April | Angelique Kerber (GER) (54%) | Laura Siegemund (27%) Sloane Stephens (19%) |
| May | Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) (70%) | Simona Halep (20%) Serena Williams (10%) |
| June | Serena Williams (USA) (62%) | Dominika Cibulková (21%) Angelique Kerber (14%) Madison Keys (3%) |
| July | Simona Halep (ROU) (84%) | Venus Williams (9%) Johanna Konta (5%) Madison Keys (2%) |
| August | Monica Puig (PUR) (97%) | Angelique Kerber (2%) Karolína Plíšková (1%) |
| September | Petra Kvitová (CZE) (55%) | Caroline Wozniacki (34%) Naomi Osaka (1%) |
| October | Dominika Cibulková (SVK) (55%) | Agnieszka Radwańska (33%) Angelique Kerber (12%) |
Breakthrough of the month edit
| Month | Winner | Other candidates |
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| January | Zhang Shuai (CHN) (44%) | Johanna Konta (31%) Daria Gavrilova (17%) Daria Kasatkina (6%) Samantha Crawford (2%) |
| February |  Jeļena Ostapenko (LAT) (50%) | Daria Kasatkina (23%) Caroline Garcia (15%) Zheng Saisai (12%) |
| March | Nicole Gibbs (USA) (64%) |  Tímea Babos (16%) Daria Kasatkina (15%) Naomi Osaka (4%) |
| April | Çağla Büyükakçay (TUR) (92%) | Laura Siegemund (5%) Irina Falconi (3%) |
| May | Kiki Bertens (NED) (69%) | Shelby Rogers (16%) Yulia Putintseva (12%) Louisa Chirico (3%) |
| June | Elena Vesnina (RUS) (62%) | Madison Keys (31%) Anastasija Sevastova (7%) |
| July | Kristína Kučová (SVK) (49%) | Johanna Konta (34%) Laura Siegemund (12%) Viktorija Golubic (5%) |
| August | Karolína Plíšková (CZE) (64%) | Anastasija Sevastova (18%) Ana Konjuh (18%) |
| September | Naomi Osaka (JPN) (45%) | Kristýna Plíšková (40%) Océane Dodin (9%) Christina McHale (6%) |
| October | Peng Shuai (CHN) (70%) | Johanna Konta (23%) Daria Gavrilova (8%) |
Shot of the month edit
Retirements edit
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the WTA rankings top 100 (singles) or (doubles) for at least one week) who announced their retirement from professional tennis, became inactive (after not playing for more than 52 weeks), or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2016 season:
Sofia Arvidsson (born 16 February 1984, in Halmstad, Sweden) – She decided to retire in January 2016 at the age of 31.[21]- Gabriela Chmelinová (born 2 June 1976 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) – Chmelinová announced her retirement from professional tennis in 2016.
Lourdes Domínguez Lino (born 31 March 1981 in Pontevedra, Spain) – She decided to retire in November 2016 at the age of 35.[22]
Maureen Drake (born 21 March 1971 in Toronto, Canada) – She announced her second and permanent retirement from professional tennis in August 2016.
Janette Husárová (born 4 June 1974 in Bratislava, Slovakia) – In February 2016 Husárová announced her retirement from professional tennis.[23]
Ana Ivanovic (born 6 November 1987 in Belgrade, Serbia) – The former world number 1 announced her retirement from professional tennis December 2016.
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (born 24 September 1984 in Gdynia, Poland) – She announced her retirement from professional tennis in August 2016.[24]- Mathilde Johansson (born 28 April 1985, in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) – Johansson played her final match in the singles 2016 French Open qualifications.[25]
Sandra Klemenschits (born 13 November 1982 in Salzburg, Austria) – She announced her retirement from professional tennis in October 2016.- Maria Kondratieva (born 17 January 1982 in Moscow, Russia) – Kondratieva announced her retirement from professional tennis in 2016.
- Klára Koukalová (born 24 February 1982 in Prague, Czech Republic) – She announced her retirement from professional tennis in September 2016.[26]
Petra Rampre (born 20 January 1980 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) – Rampre announced her retirement from professional tennis in 2016.- Tamarine Tanasugarn (born 24 May 1977, in Los Angeles, United States) – She announced her retirement from professional tennis in June 2016.[27]
- Vladimíra Uhlířová (born 4 May 1978 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) – She announced her retirement from professional tennis in January 2016.
- Nicole Vaidišová (born 23 April 1989 in Nuremberg, West Germany) – She announced her second and permanent retirement from professional tennis in July 2016.[28]
Stephanie Vogt (born 15 February 1990 in Vaduz, Liechtenstein) – She announced her retirement from professional tennis in August 2016.[29]
Yan Zi (born 12 November 1984 in Sichuan, China) – Yan Zi announced her retirement from professional tennis in 2016.
See also edit
- 2016 ATP World Tour
- 2016 WTA 125K series
- 2016 ITF Women's Circuit
- Women's Tennis Association
- International Tennis Federation
References edit
External links edit
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