2016 Australian Open

The 2016 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park between 18 and 31 January 2016.[1] It was the 104th edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments.

Further information on draws: Men's Singles draw and Women's Singles draw
2016 Australian Open
Date18–31 January
Edition104th
CategoryGrand Slam
Draw128S / 64D / 32X
Prize moneyA$44,000,000
SurfaceHard (Plexicushion)
LocationMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
VenueMelbourne Park
Attendance720,363
Champions
Men's Singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's Singles
Angelique Kerber
Men's Doubles
Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares
Women's Doubles
Martina Hingis / Sania Mirza
Mixed Doubles
Elena Vesnina / Bruno Soares
Boys' Singles
Oliver Anderson
Girls' Singles
Vera Lapko
Boys' Doubles
Alex De Minaur / Blake Ellis
Girls' Doubles
Anna Kalinskaya / Tereza Mihalíková
Men's Legends Doubles
Jonas Björkman / Thomas Johansson
Women's Legends Doubles
Lindsay Davenport / Martina Navratilova
Wheelchair Men's Singles
Gordon Reid
Wheelchair Women's Singles
Jiske Griffioen
Wheelchair Quad Singles
Dylan Alcott
Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer
Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Yui Kamiji / Marjolein Buis
Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Lucas Sithole / David Wagner

Novak Djokovic successfully defended the men's singles title and thus won a record-equaling sixth Australian Open title. Serena Williams was the defending champion in the women's singles but failed to defend her title, losing to Angelique Kerber in the final; by winning, Kerber became the first German player of any gender to win a Grand Slam title since Steffi Graf won her last such title at the 1999 French Open.[2]

As in previous years, this year's tournament's title sponsor was Kia. This edition set a new attendance record for the tournament of 720,363.[3]

Tournament
Rod Laver Arena where the Finals of the Australian Open take place

The 2016 Australian Open was the 104th edition of the tournament and was held at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2016 ATP World Tour and the 2016 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which was part of the Grade A category of tournaments, and also singles, doubles and quad events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the NEC tour under the Grand Slam category.

The tournament was played on hard courts and take place over a series of 25 courts, including the three main show courts: Rod Laver Arena, Hisense Arena and Margaret Court Arena.[4]

Broadcast

In Australia, selected key matches were broadcast live by the Seven Network. The majority of matches were shown on the network's primary channel Channel Seven, however during news programming nationwide and most night matches in Perth, coverage shifted to either 7Two or 7mate. Additionally, every match was also available to be streamed live through a free 7Tennis mobile app.[5]

Internationally, ESPN held the rights for America and Central America, broadcasting matches on ESPN2 and ESPN3 in the United States as well as regionally on ESPN International. ESPN also sub-licenses matches to Tennis Channel.[6][7] Other broadcasters included beIN Sports in the Middle East, SuperSport in Africa, Eurosport through Europe (plus NOS Netherlands and SRG SSR in Switzerland), CCTV, iQiyi and SMG in China, Fiji One in Fiji, Sony ESPN in India, both WOWOW and NHK in Japan, Sky in New Zealand and Fox Sports Asia in selected markets in the Asia Pacific region.[6] In Canada, TSN broadcast matches across multiple channels.[8]

Events

Spectator safety

Spectator safety became a major issue during the tournament, with up to four separate cases reported:

  • On Day 2, play was suspended during the fourth set of Bernard Tomic's first round match against Denis Istomin for 20 minutes after an elderly spectator collapsed due to heat stress; she was subsequently treated with an EpiPen and taken away from Hisense Arena.[9]
  • On Day 4, Ana Ivanovic's second round match against Anastasija Sevastova was interrupted in the first set when another elderly spectator fell down a set of stairs, delaying play by 25 minutes.[10]
  • On Day 6, in the most serious case, Ivanovic was again involved in a match that had to be suspended, after her coach Nigel Sears suffered a heart attack during the second set of her match against Madison Keys. Sears, who is the father-in-law of Andy Murray, had to be stretchered out of the stands and play on Rod Laver Arena was suspended for an hour. Having led by a set and a break at the time, Ivanovic proceeded to lose the match in three sets. Sears was later taken to hospital where he eventually made a full recovery.[11]
  • On Day 7, Sam Groth's mother fell down a set of stairs on Hisense Arena during the second set of her son and Lleyton Hewitt's doubles match against Jack Sock and Vasek Pospisil, causing play to be suspended by 20 minutes. She was later able to walk out of the court unassisted.[12]

Maria Sharapova doping controversy

On 7 March 2016, five weeks after the conclusion of the tournament, world number seven Maria Sharapova announced at a press conference in Los Angeles that she had failed a drug test following her quarter-final defeat by Serena Williams on 26 January. Sharapova confessed to taking the substance meldonium, which was placed on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances on 1 January; she was later suspended for two years (later reduced to fifteen months on appeal), backdated to 26 January, and was subsequently docked the $A375,000 she earned for reaching the quarter-finals.[13][14][15]

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

Senior points
Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles 2000 1200 720 360 180 90 45 10 25 16 8 0
Men's Doubles 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles 1300 780 430 240 130 70 10 40 30 20 2
Women's Doubles 10 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

The Australian Open total prize money for 2016 was increased by four million Australian dollars to tournament record A$44,000,000.

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 1281 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles A$3,400,000 A$1,700,000 A$750,000 A$375,000 A$193,000 A$108,000 A$67,000 A$38,500 A$20,000 A$12,000 A$6,000
Doubles * A$635,000 A$315,000 A$157,500 A$78,500 A$43,000 A$25,500 A$16,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Mixed Doubles * A$157,000 A$78,500 A$39,250 A$18,000 A$9,000 A$4,500 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

1Qualifiers prize money was also the Round of 128 prize money.
*per team

Singles players

2016 Australian Open – Men's Singles

2016 Australian Open – Women's Singles

Day-by-day summaries
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Day-by-day summaries

Champions

Men's Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Men's Singles

Djokovic and Murray had faced one another 30 times prior to the final, with Djokovic victorious on 21 occasions. Murray had lost four Australian Open finals, three times to Djokovic, while the Serb had won the title five times. After an even first game, Djokovic broke Murray twice to lead 5–0, before Murray held. Djokovic took the winning game to secure the first set 6–1 in 30 minutes. The second set went with serve until Djokovic broke Murray to lead 4–3. The Scot broke back immediately and held his serve, but Djokovic broke in the eleventh game, then went on to hold serve, taking the second set 7–5. Djokovic broke the Murray serve in the first game of the third set, but Murray broke back to restore parity in the set at 3–3. The subsequent games went with serve and sent the set to a tie-break. Djokovic led 3–0 and 6–1 before finally securing the championship victory by three sets to love, with a 7–3 tie-break victory.[16]

Women's Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Women's Singles

Going into the final, Kerber and Williams had faced each other six times with Williams holding a 5–1 advantage. Kerber broke Williams in the third game of the first set with Williams breaking back to make it 3–3. Kerber immediately broke back and held serve to win the first set 6–4. Williams took advantage of the third of three break points in the fourth game of the second set, the remainder of the set going with serve, leveling the match at one set all. Kerber broke Williams in the second game of the final set, but Williams immediately broke back and held her own serve to level the deciding set at 2–2. Another break for Kerber saw her leading 5–2 but Williams broke back once again, taking the set to 5–4 to Kerber. A cross-court exchange described as "breathtaking" saw Williams hit the ball long, securing the title for Kerber.[17]

Men's Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Women's Doubles

Mixed Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles

Boys' Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Boys' Singles

Girls' Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Girls' Singles

Boys' Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Boys' Doubles

Girls' Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Girls' Doubles

Men's Legends Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Men's Legends Doubles

Wheelchair Men's Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Singles

Wheelchair Women's Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Singles

Wheelchair Quad Singles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Singles

Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair Men's Doubles

Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair Women's Doubles

Wheelchair Quad Doubles
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair Quad Doubles

Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seeding are arranged according to ATP and WTA rankings on 11 January 2016, while ranking and points before are as of 18 January 2016.

Men's Singles
Seed Rank Player Points Before Points defending Points won Points After Status
1 1 Novak Djokovic 16,790 2,000 2,000 16,790 Champion, defeated Andy Murray [2]
2 2 Andy Murray 8,945 1,200 1,200 8,945 Runner-up, lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
3 3 Roger Federer 8,165 90 720 8,795 Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
4 4 Stan Wawrinka 6,865 720 180 6,325 Fourth round lost to Milos Raonic [13]
5 5 Rafael Nadal 5,230 360 10 4,880 First round lost to Fernando Verdasco
6 6 Tomáš Berdych 4,560 720 360 4,200 Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer [3]
7 7 Kei Nishikori 4,235 360 360 4,235 Quarterfinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
8 8 David Ferrer 4,145 180 360 4,325 Quarterfinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
9 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2,725 0 180 2,905 Fourth round lost to Kei Nishikori [7]
10 11 John Isner 2,495 90 180 2,585 Fourth round lost to David Ferrer [8]
11 12 Kevin Anderson 2,475 180 10 2,305 First round retired vs. Rajeev Ram
12 13 Marin Čilić 2,405 0 90 2,495 Third round lost to Roberto Bautista Agut [24]
13 14 Milos Raonic 2,270 360 720 2,630 Semifinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
14 15 Gilles Simon 2,145 90 180 2,235 Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
15 16 David Goffin 1,835 45 180 1,970 Fourth round lost to Roger Federer [3]
16 17 Bernard Tomic 1,720 180 180 1,720 Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [2]
17 18 Benoît Paire 1,703 27 10 1,686 First round lost to Noah Rubin [WC]
18 19 Feliciano López 1,690 180 90 1,600 Third round lost to John Isner [10]
19 20 Dominic Thiem 1,645 10 90 1,725 Third round lost to David Goffin [15]
20 23 Fabio Fognini 1,515 10 10 1,515 First round lost to Gilles Müller
21 26 Viktor Troicki 1,475 90 90 1,475 Third round lost to Milos Raonic [13]
22 24 Ivo Karlović 1,485 45 10 1,450 First round retired vs. Federico Delbonis
23 25 Gaël Monfils 1,485 45 360 1,800 Quarterfinals lost to Milos Raonic [13]
24 21 Roberto Bautista Agut 1,640 45 180 1,775 Fourth round lost to Tomáš Berdych [6]
25 22 Jack Sock 1,525 0 45 1,570 Second round lost to Lukáš Rosol
26 27 Guillermo García-López 1,430 180 90 1,340 Third round lost to Kei Nishikori [7]
27 28 Grigor Dimitrov 1,420 180 90 1,330 Third round lost to Roger Federer [3]
28 29 Andreas Seppi 1,290 180 90 1,200 Third round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
29 30 Nick Kyrgios 1,260 360 90 990 Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [6]
30 31 Jérémy Chardy 1,255 45 45 1,255 Second round lost to Andrey Kuznetsov
31 32 Steve Johnson 1,240 90 90 1,240 Third round lost to David Ferrer [8]
32 33 João Sousa 1,191 90 90 1,191 Third round lost to Andy Murray [2]

The following player would have been seeded, but he withdrew from the event.

Rank Player Points Before Points defending Points After Withdrawal reason
9 Richard Gasquet 2,850 90 2,760 Back injury[18]

Women's Singles
Seed Rank Player Points Before Points defending Points won Points After Status
1 1 Serena Williams 9,945 2,000 1,300 9,245 Runner-up, lost to Angelique Kerber [7]
2 2 Simona Halep 5,965 430 10 5,545 First round lost to Zhang Shuai [Q]
3 3 Garbiñe Muguruza 5,101 240 130 4,991 Third round lost to Barbora Strýcová
4 4 Agnieszka Radwańska 4,670 240 780 5,210 Semifinals lost to Serena Williams [1]
5 5 Maria Sharapova 4,542 1,300 430 3,672 Quarterfinals lost to Serena Williams [1]
6 7 Petra Kvitová 3,642 130 70 3,582 Second round lost to Daria Gavrilova
7 6 Angelique Kerber 3,710 10 2,000 5,700 Champion, defeated Serena Williams [1]
8 10 Venus Williams 3,511 430 10 3,091 First round lost to Johanna Konta
9 12 Karolína Plíšková 3,090 130 130 3,090 Third round lost to Ekaterina Makarova [21]
10 11 Carla Suárez Navarro 3,175 10 430 3,595 Quarterfinals lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [4]
11 14 Timea Bacsinszky 2,954 130 70 2,894 Second round lost to Annika Beck
12 13 Belinda Bencic 3,030 10 240 3,260 Fourth round lost vs. Maria Sharapova [5]
13 15 Roberta Vinci 2,825 70 130 2,885 Third round lost to Anna-Lena Friedsam
14 16 Victoria Azarenka 2,745 240 430 2,935 Quarterfinals lost to Angelique Kerber [7]
15 17 Madison Keys 2,600 780 240 2,060 Fourth round lost to Zhang Shuai [Q]
16 18 Caroline Wozniacki 2,571 70 10 2,511 First round lost to Yulia Putintseva
17 19 Sara Errani 2,525 130 10 2,405 First round lost to Margarita Gasparyan
18 21 Elina Svitolina 2,465 130 70 2,405 Second round lost to Naomi Osaka [Q]
19 22 Jelena Janković 2,445 10 70 2,505 Second round lost to Laura Siegemund
20 23 Ana Ivanovic 2,341 10 130 2,461 Third round lost to Madison Keys [15]
21 24 Ekaterina Makarova 2,300 780 240 1,760 Fourth round lost to Johanna Konta
22 25 Andrea Petkovic 2,230 10 10 2,230 First round lost to Elizaveta Kulichkova
23 20 Svetlana Kuznetsova 2,475 10 70 2,535 Second round lost to Kateryna Bondarenko
24 26 Sloane Stephens 1,965 10 10 1,965 First round lost to Wang Qiang [Q]
25 27 Samantha Stosur 1,935 70 10 1,875 First round lost to Kristýna Plíšková [Q]
26 28 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1,880 10 10 1,880 First round lost to Lauren Davis
27 29 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 1,875 70 10 1,815 First round lost to Daria Kasatkina
28 30 Kristina Mladenovic 1,725 70 130 1,785 Third round lost to Daria Gavrilova
29 31 Irina-Camelia Begu 1,630 240 10 1,400 First round lost to Johanna Larsson
30 32 Sabine Lisicki 1,622 10 70 1,682 Second round lost to Denisa Allertová
31 35 Lesia Tsurenko 1,398 10 10 1,398 First round lost to Varvara Lepchenko
32 34 Caroline Garcia 1,420 130 10 1,300 First round lost to Barbora Strýcová

The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew or not entered from the event.

Rank Player Points Before Points defending Points After Withdrawal reason
8 Flavia Pennetta 3,621 10 3,611 Retirement from tennis
9 Lucie Šafářová 3,590 10 3,580 Bacterial infection[19]

Doubles seeds

Mixed Doubles
Team Rank1 Seed
Sania Mirza Ivan Dodig 7 1
Bethanie Mattek-Sands Bob Bryan 7 2
Chan Yung-jan Rohan Bopanna 16 3
Katarina Srebotnik Jamie Murray 23 4
Elena Vesnina Bruno Soares 30 5
Lucie Hradecká Marcin Matkowski 33 6
Raquel Atawo Raven Klaasen 39 7
Chan Hao-ching Max Mirnyi 41 8
  • 1 Rankings were as of 18 January 2016.

Main draw wildcard entries
Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries

Main draw qualifier entries

The qualifying competition took place in Melbourne Park on 13 – 16 January 2016.

Protected ranking

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

Withdrawals

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries and personal reasons.

Before the tournament

Retirements

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