The 2016 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main draw commenced on 27 June 2016 and concluded on 10 July 2016.
2016 was the 130th edition of Wimbledon, the 49th in the Open Era and the third Grand Slam tournament of the year. It was played on grass courts and was part of the ATP World Tour, the WTA Tour, the ITF Junior tour and the NEC Tour. The tournament was organised by All England Lawn Tennis Club and International Tennis Federation.
For the first time in the Championships' history, singles events were held in the wheelchair competitions. Thus, all four majors now hold wheelchair singles events, making a complete Grand Slam in the discipline possible.
Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion in the gentlemen's singles, but lost in the third round to Sam Querrey, ending a 30-match winning streak at the majors and Djokovic's hopes of becoming the first man to achieve the Golden Slam. The gentlemen's singles title was won by Andy Murray. Serena Williams successfully defended her ladies' singles title and equaled Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22 major singles titles.
The gentlemen's doubles event consisted of 'best of three sets' matches for rounds 1 and 2 in order to help with 'catch-up' scheduling due to a rain-stricken first week. It was also the first time since 2004 that play took place on Middle Sunday, also known as the People's Sunday, because no tickets are sold in advance or through the ballot and all seats are made available on general sale the day before.
Tournament
The 2016 Wimbledon Championships was the 130th edition of the tournament and was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London.
The tournament was run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was included in the 2016 ATP World Tour and the 2016 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consisted of men's (singles and doubles), women's (singles and doubles), mixed doubles, boys (under 18 – singles and doubles) and girls (under 18 – singles and doubles), which is also a part of the Grade A category of tournaments for under 18, doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO Tour under the Grand Slam category and, for the first time in the tournament history this year, men's and women's singles events for wheelchair tennis players. The tournament was played only on grass courts; main draw matches were played at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon; qualifying matches were played at the Bank of England Sports Ground, Roehampton.
Point and prize money distribution
Point distribution Below are the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.
Senior points Event Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Men's singles20001200720360180904510251680Men's doubles0——013007804302401307010403020210—————
Wheelchair points Event Singles800500375100 Doubles800500100—
Junior points Event Round of 16 Round of 32Boys' singles375270180120753025200Girls' singles2701801207545————Girls' doubles
Prize money
The total prize money for this year's tournament was £28.10m, an increase of 5% from last year tournament. The winners of the men's singles and women's singles earned £2 million each, an increase of £120,000 from the previous year. The prize money for men's doubles, women's doubles and wheelchair players was also increased for this year's competition.
Event Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Singles£2,000,000£1,000,000£500,000£250,000£132,000£80,000£50,000£30,000£15,000£7,500£3,750 Doubles*£350,000£175,000£88,000£44,000£23,250£14,250£9,250———— Mixed doubles*£100,000£50,000£25,000£12,000£6,000£3,000£1,500———— Wheelchair singles£25,000£12,500£8,000£5,375——————— Wheelchair doubles*£12,000£6,000£3,500———————— Invitation doubles*£22,000£19,000—————— * per team
Singles players Gentlemen's singles Champion Runner-up Andy Murray Milos Raonic Semifinals out Roger Federer Tomáš Berdych Quarterfinals out Sam Querrey Marin Čilić Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Lucas Pouille 4th round out Nicolas Mahut David Goffin Steve Johnson Kei Nishikori Jiří Veselý Bernard Tomic Richard Gasquet Nick Kyrgios 3rd round out Novak Djokovic Pierre-Hugues Herbert Denis Istomin Jack Sock Daniel Evans Grigor Dimitrov Lukáš Lacko (Q) Andrey Kuznetsov João Sousa Alexander Zverev Roberto Bautista Agut Juan Martín del Potro (PR) Albert Ramos John Isner Feliciano López John Millman 2nd round out Adrian Mannarino Thomaz Bellucci Damir Džumhur David Ferrer Édouard Roger-Vasselin (Q) Nicolás Almagro Robin Haase Andreas Seppi Marcus Willis (Q) Alexandr Dolgopolov Jérémy Chardy Gilles Simon Sergiy Stakhovsky Ivo Karlović Gilles Müller Julien Benneteau (PR) Dominic Thiem Dennis Novikov (Q) Mikhail Youzhny Benjamin Becker Mikhail Kukushkin Radu Albot (Q) Donald Young Stan Wawrinka Marcel Granollers Viktor Troicki Matthew Barton (Q) Juan Mónaco Dustin Brown (WC) Fabio Fognini Benoît Paire Lu Yen-hsun (PR) 1st round out James Ward (WC) Kyle Edmund Ruben Bemelmans Lukáš Rosol Philipp Kohlschreiber Denis Kudla Brydan Klein (WC) Dudi Sela Alexander Ward (WC) Teymuraz Gabashvili Rogério Dutra Silva Kevin Anderson Ernests Gulbis Diego Schwartzman Guillermo García López Pablo Carreño Busta Guido Pella Ričardas Berankis Jan-Lennard Struff Evgeny Donskoy Gaël Monfils Malek Jaziri Bjorn Fratangelo (Q) Janko Tipsarević (PR) Brian Baker (PR) Yoshihito Nishioka (Q) Paolo Lorenzi Borna Ćorić Pablo Cuevas Santiago Giraldo Illya Marchenko Sam Groth Florian Mayer (PR) Igor Sijsling (Q) Luke Saville (Q) Dmitry Tursunov (PR) Paul-Henri Mathieu Horacio Zeballos Facundo Bagnis Ivan Dodig Jordan Thompson Martin Kližan Gastão Elias Fernando Verdasco Marius Copil (Q) Leonardo Mayer Stéphane Robert Taylor Fritz Aljaž Bedene Víctor Estrella Burgos Vasek Pospisil Tristan Lamasine (Q) Marcos Baghdatis Albano Olivetti (Q) Taro Daniel Íñigo Cervantes Radek Štěpánek (WC) Dušan Lajović Federico Delbonis Rajeev Ram Franko Škugor (Q) Albert Montañés Alexander Kudryavtsev (Q) Liam Broady (WC)
Ladies' singles Champion Runner-up Serena Williams Angelique Kerber Semifinals out Elena Vesnina Venus Williams Quarterfinals out Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Dominika Cibulková Simona Halep Yaroslava Shvedova 4th round out Svetlana Kuznetsova CoCo Vandeweghe Agnieszka Radwańska Ekaterina Makarova Madison Keys Misaki Doi Carla Suárez Navarro Lucie Šafářová 3rd round out Annika Beck Sloane Stephens Timea Bacsinszky Roberta Vinci Kateřina Siniaková Eugenie Bouchard Barbora Strýcová Julia Boserup (Q) Kiki Bertens Alizé Cornet Anna-Lena Friedsam Carina Witthöft Daria Kasatkina Marina Erakovic (Q) Sabine Lisicki Jana Čepelová (Q) 2nd round out Christina McHale Aliaksandra Sasnovich Mandy Minella (Q) Tara Moore (WC) Monica Niculescu Yulia Putintseva Tímea Babos Duan Yingying (LL) Ana Konjuh Caroline Garcia Daria Gavrilova Johanna Konta Petra Kvitová Evgeniya Rodina (WC) Andrea Petkovic Belinda Bencic Francesca Schiavone Mona Barthel Sara Errani Kirsten Flipkens Karolína Plíšková Ekaterina Alexandrova (Q) Kurumi Nara Varvara Lepchenko Maria Sakkari (Q) Lara Arruabarrena Jelena Janković Denisa Allertová Samantha Stosur Elina Svitolina Samantha Crawford Garbiñe Muguruza 1st round out Amra Sadiković (Q) Daniela Hantuchová (WC) Heather Watson Kristina Mladenovic Peng Shuai (PR) Anna Tatishvili Alison Van Uytvanck Caroline Wozniacki Luksika Kumkhum (Q) Aleksandra Krunić (Q) Marina Melnikova (WC) Hsieh Su-wei Kateryna Bondarenko Katie Swan (WC) Kristýna Plíšková Alison Riske Kateryna Kozlova Karin Knapp Pauline Parmentier Çağla Büyükakçay Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Wang Qiang Magdaléna Rybáriková Monica Puig Sorana Cîrstea Johanna Larsson Lesia Tsurenko Anett Kontaveit Nao Hibino Tamira Paszek (Q) Tatjana Maria (Q) Tsvetana Pironkova Anna Karolína Schmiedlová Anastasija Sevastova Danka Kovinić Jeļena Ostapenko Patricia Maria Țig Polona Hercog Nicole Gibbs Laura Siegemund Yanina Wickmayer Louisa Chirico Zarina Diyas Ana Ivanovic Irina-Camelia Begu Madison Brengle Teliana Pereira Laura Robson (WC) Donna Vekić Zheng Saisai Olga Govortsova Victoria Duval (PR) Stefanie Vögele Irina Falconi Margarita Gasparyan Zhang Shuai Magda Linette Shelby Rogers Julia Görges Naomi Broady Bethanie Mattek-Sands Paula Kania (Q) Mariana Duque Mariño Camila Giorgi
Day-by-day summaries
Singles seeds
The seeds for the 2016 Wimbledon Championships were announced on Wednesday, 22 June 2016.
Gentlemen's singles The seeds for gentlemen's singles are adjusted on a surface-based system to reflect more accurately the individual player's grass court achievement as per the following formula, which applies to the top 32 players according to the ATP rankings on 20 June 2016: Take Entry System Position points at 20 June 2016. Add 100% points earned for all grass court tournaments in the past 12 months (22 June 2015 – 19 June 2016). Add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that (16 June 2014 – 21 June 2015).
Rank and points before are as of 27 June 2016.
SeedRankPlayerPoints beforePoints defendingPoints wonPoints afterStatus 1 1 Novak Djokovic 16,950 2,000 90 15,040 Third round lost to Sam Querrey 2 2 Andy Murray 8,915 720 2,000 10,195 Champion, defeated Milos Raonic 3 3 Roger Federer 6,425 1,200 720 5,945 Semifinals lost to Milos Raonic 4 5 Stan Wawrinka 5,035 360 45 4,720 Second round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [PR] 5 6 Kei Nishikori 4,155 45 180 4,290 Fourth round retired against Marin Čilić 6 7 Milos Raonic 3,175 90 1,200 4,285 Runner-up, lost to Andy Murray 7 10 Richard Gasquet 2,905 720 180 2,365 Fourth round retired against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 8 8 Dominic Thiem 3,175 45 45 3,175 Second round lost to Jiří Veselý 9 13 Marin Čilić 2,695 360 360 2,695 Quarterfinals lost to Roger Federer 10 9 Tomáš Berdych 2,950 180 720 3,490 Semifinals lost to Andy Murray 11 11 David Goffin 2,780 180 180 2,780 Fourth round lost to Milos Raonic 12 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2,725 90 360 2,995 Quarterfinals lost to Andy Murray 13 14 David Ferrer 2,605 0 45 2,650 Second round lost to Nicolas Mahut 14 15 Roberto Bautista Agut 2,150 180 90 2,060 Third round lost to Bernard Tomic 15 18 Nick Kyrgios 1,855 180 180 1,855 Fourth round lost to Andy Murray 16 20 Gilles Simon 1,720 360 45 1,405 Second round lost to Grigor Dimitrov 17 16 Gaël Monfils 2,110 90 10 2,030 First round lost to Jérémy Chardy 18 17 John Isner 2,055 90 90 2,055 Third round lost Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 19 19 Bernard Tomic 1,760 90 180 1,850 Fourth round lost to Lucas Pouille 20 25 Kevin Anderson1,505 180 10 1,335 First round lost to Denis Istomin 21 22 Philipp Kohlschreiber 1,600 10 10 1,600 First round lost to Pierre-Hugues Herbert 22 21 Feliciano López 1,630 45 90 1,675 Third round lost to Nick Kyrgios 23 32 Ivo Karlović 1,270 180 45 1,135 Second round lost to Lukáš Lacko [Q] 24 28 Alexander Zverev 1,385 45 90 1,430 Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych 2527 Viktor Troicki 1,405 180 45 1,270 Second round lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas 26 23 Benoît Paire 1,596 45 45 1,596 Second round lost to John Millman 2726 Jack Sock 1,415 10 90 1,495 Third round lost to Milos Raonic 28 41 Sam Querrey 1,075 45 360 1,390 Quarterfinals lost to Milos Raonic 29 24 Pablo Cuevas 1,555 10 10 1,555 First round lost to Andrey Kuznetsov 30 33 Alexandr Dolgopolov1,215 45 45 1,215 Second round lost to Daniel Evans 31 31 João Sousa 1,275 10 90 1,355 Third round lost to Jiří Veselý 32 30 Lucas Pouille 1,311 10 360 1,661 Quarterfinals lost to Tomáš Berdych
Withdrawn players Rank Player Points before Points defending Points after Withdrawal reason 4 Rafael Nadal 5,335 45 5,290 Wrist injury
Ladies' singles The seeds for ladies' singles are based on the WTA rankings as of 20 June 2016. Rank and points before are as of 27 June 2016.