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2016 French Open

Tennis tournament

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The 2016 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 115th edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 22 May to 5 June and consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players also took part in singles and doubles events.

Novak Djokovic won the men's singles in the 2016 edition. Stan Wawrinka was the defending champion in men's singles, but he lost to Andy Murray in the semifinals. Serena Williams was the defending champion in the women's singles, but she lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in the final. Roger Federer withdrew before the tournament to avoid "unnecessary [fitness] risk", making this tournament the first Grand Slam he missed since the 1999 US Open. Furthermore, nine-time champion Rafael Nadal withdrew during the tournament due to injury, for the first time in his French Open career.

Novak Djokovic's victory at this tournament in his 20th Grand Slam final completed his career Grand Slam of all four major tournaments, the eighth man to do so in singles and the fifth since the start of the Open Era (after Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal). Djokovic also achieved a non-calendar year Grand Slam, becoming the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four major titles at once. The victory by Garbiñe Muguruza was her first Grand Slam win in her second Grand Slam final.

01Tournament

The 2016 French Open was the 115th edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris.

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 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), and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO tour under the Grand Slam category. The tournament was played on clay courts and took place over a series of 22 courts, including the three main showcourts, Court Philippe Chatrier, Court Suzanne Lenglen and Court 1.

Court Philippe Chatrier, where the Finals of the French Open take place.
Court Philippe Chatrier, where the Finals of the French Open take place.

02Points and prize money

Points distribution

The ranking points awarded for each event are shown below.

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

Wheelchair points

Event W F SF/3rd QF/4th
Singles 800 500 375 100
Doubles 800 500 100 , N/a
Quad singles 800 500 100 , N/a
Quad doubles 800 100 , N/a , N/a

Junior points

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3
Boys' singles 375 270 180 120 75 30 25 20
Girls' singles
Boys' doubles 270 180 120 75 45 , N/a , N/a , N/a
Girls' doubles , N/a , N/a , N/a

Prize money

The total prize money for the tournament was €32,017,500, an increase of 14% compared to the previous edition. The winners of both the men's and women's singles title received €2,000,000, an increase of €200,000 compared to 2015.

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Round of 64 Round of 128 Q3 Q2 Q1
Singles €2,000,000 €1,000,000 €500,000 €294,000 €173,000 €102,000 €60,000 €30,000 €14,000 €7,000 €3,500
Doubles * €500,000 €250,000 €125,000 €68,000 €37,000 €19,000 €9,500 , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a
Mixed doubles * €116,000 €58,000 €28,500 €16,000 €8,500 €4,250 , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a
Wheelchair singles €35,000 €17,500 €8,500 €4,500 , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a
Wheelchair doubles * €10,000 €5,000 €3,000 , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a , N/a

* per team

03Singles players

2016 French Open, Men's singles
Champion Runner-up
Novak Djokovic [1] Andy Murray [2]
Semifinals out
Dominic Thiem [13] Stan Wawrinka [3]
Quarterfinals out
Tomáš Berdych [7] David Goffin [12] Albert Ramos Viñolas Richard Gasquet [9]
4th round out
Roberto Bautista Agut [14] David Ferrer [11] Marcel Granollers Ernests Gulbis
Milos Raonic [8] Viktor Troicki [22] Kei Nishikori [5] John Isner [15]
3rd round out
Aljaž Bedene Borna Ćorić Feliciano López [21] Pablo Cuevas [25]
Rafael Nadal [4] Alexander Zverev Nicolás Almagro Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [6]
Andrej Martin (LL) Jack Sock [23] Gilles Simon [16] Jérémy Chardy [30]
Fernando Verdasco Nick Kyrgios [17] Teymuraz Gabashvili Ivo Karlović [27]
2nd round out
Steve Darcis (Q) Pablo Carreño Bernard Tomic [20] Paul-Henri Mathieu
Juan Mónaco Víctor Estrella Burgos Quentin Halys (WC) Malek Jaziri
Facundo Bagnis Nicolas Mahut Stéphane Robert (WC) Guillermo García López
Carlos Berlocq (Q) Jiří Veselý João Sousa [26] Marcos Baghdatis
Adrian Mannarino Lucas Pouille [29] Dustin Brown (Q) Marco Trungelliti (Q)
Guido Pella Dušan Lajović Adam Pavlásek (LL) Taro Daniel
Andrey Kuznetsov Ivan Dodig Igor Sijsling (LL) Bjorn Fratangelo (WC)
Kyle Edmund Benoît Paire [19] Jordan Thompson (WC) Mathias Bourgue (WC)
1st round out
Lu Yen-hsun Marsel İlhan (Q) Gerald Melzer (Q) Federico Delbonis [31]
Brian Baker (PR) Taylor Fritz Santiago Giraldo Dmitry Tursunov (PR)
Evgeny Donskoy Denis Istomin Illya Marchenko Thomas Fabbiano (LL)
Tobias Kamke (Q) Chung Hyeon Florian Mayer (PR) Vasek Pospisil
Sam Groth Kenny de Schepper (Q) Ričardas Berankis Fabio Fognini [32]
Kevin Anderson [18] Pierre-Hugues Herbert Thiemo de Bakker Íñigo Cervantes
Grégoire Barrère (WC) Paolo Lorenzi Rajeev Ram (Q) Philipp Kohlschreiber [24]
Damir Džumhur Andreas Seppi Gilles Müller Jan-Lennard Struff (Q)
Janko Tipsarević (PR) Mikhail Kukushkin Daniel Muñoz de la Nava Julien Benneteau (WC)
Robin Haase Dudi Sela Horacio Zeballos Marin Čilić [10]
Rogério Dutra Silva Diego Schwartzman Denis Kudla Grigor Dimitrov
Leonardo Mayer Roberto Carballés Baena (Q) Martin Kližan Lukáš Rosol
Simone Bolelli Benjamin Becker Mikhail Youzhny Steve Johnson [33]
Marco Cecchinato Adrian Ungur (Q) Sam Querrey Thomaz Bellucci
John Millman Nikoloz Basilashvili (Q) Donald Young Radu Albot (Q)
Albert Montañés Laslo Djere (Q) Jordi Samper Montaña (Q) Radek Štěpánek (Q)
2016 French Open, Women's singles
Champion Runner-up
Garbiñe Muguruza [4] Serena Williams [1]
Semifinals out
Kiki Bertens Samantha Stosur [21]
Quarterfinals out
Yulia Putintseva Timea Bacsinszky [8] Shelby Rogers Tsvetana Pironkova
4th round out
Elina Svitolina [18] Carla Suárez Navarro [12] Madison Keys [15] Venus Williams [9]
Irina-Camelia Begu [25] Svetlana Kuznetsova [13] Simona Halep [6] Agnieszka Radwańska [2]
3rd round out
Kristina Mladenovic [26] Ana Ivanovic [14] Dominika Cibulková [22] Karin Knapp
Daria Kasatkina [29] Monica Puig Alizé Cornet Pauline Parmentier
Annika Beck Petra Kvitová [10] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24] Yanina Wickmayer
Naomi Osaka Lucie Šafářová [11] Sloane Stephens [19] Barbora Strýcová [30]
2nd round out
Teliana Pereira Tímea Babos Taylor Townsend (WC) Kurumi Nara
Wang Qiang Ana Konjuh Andrea Petkovic [28] Anastasija Sevastova
Camila Giorgi Virginie Razzano (WC) Julia Görges Mariana Duque Mariño
Louisa Chirico (Q) Tatjana Maria Irina Falconi Eugenie Bouchard
Kateryna Bondarenko CoCo Vandeweghe Elena Vesnina Hsieh Su-wei
Heather Watson Çağla Büyükakçay (Q) Ekaterina Makarova [27] Myrtille Georges (WC)
Zarina Diyas Mirjana Lučić-Baroni Zhang Shuai Viktorija Golubic (Q)
Johanna Larsson Verónica Cepede Royg (Q) Polona Hercog Caroline Garcia
1st round out
Magdaléna Rybáriková Kristýna Plíšková Samantha Crawford Francesca Schiavone
Sorana Cîrstea (Q) Amandine Hesse (WC) Denisa Allertová Océane Dodin (WC)
Kateřina Siniaková (Q) Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (WC) Arina Rodionova (WC) Zheng Saisai
Laura Robson (PR) Aleksandra Wozniak (PR) Sachia Vickery (Q) Victoria Azarenka [5]
Angelique Kerber [3] Alizé Lim (WC) İpek Soylu (Q) Anna-Lena Friedsam
Johanna Konta [20] Olga Govortsova Daria Gavrilova Donna Vekić
Anett Kontaveit Lauren Davis Kirsten Flipkens Jelena Janković [23]
Monica Niculescu [31] Mona Barthel Laura Siegemund Sílvia Soler Espinosa (LL)
Roberta Vinci [7] Maryna Zanevska (Q) Naomi Broady Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Karolína Plíšková [17] Madison Brengle Lara Arruabarrena Danka Kovinić
Yaroslava Shvedova Nicole Gibbs Aliaksandra Sasnovich Sara Sorribes Tormo (Q)
Varvara Lepchenko Alexandra Dulgheru Christina McHale Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Nao Hibino Carina Witthöft Daniela Hantuchová (Q) Jeļena Ostapenko [32]
Misaki Doi Galina Voskoboeva (PR) Alison Riske Vitalia Diatchenko (PR)
Sara Errani [16] Magda Linette Sabine Lisicki Margarita Gasparyan
Lucie Hradecká (Q) Lourdes Domínguez Lino Lesia Tsurenko Bojana Jovanovski

04Singles seeds

The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 16 May 2016. Rank and points before are as of 23 May 2016.
An * in pink signifies the player is out of the event.

Men's singles

Seed Rank Player Points before Points defending Points won Points after Status
1 1 Novak Djokovic 16,150 1,200 2,000 16,950 Champion, won against Andy Murray [2]
2 2 Andy Murray 8,435 720 1,200 8,915 Runner up, lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
3 4 Stan Wawrinka 6,315 2,000 720 5,035 Semifinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
4 5 Rafael Nadal 5,675 360 90 5,405 Third round withdrew due to a left wrist injury
5 6 Kei Nishikori 4,470 360 180 4,290 Fourth round lost to Richard Gasquet [9]
6 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 3,355 720 90 2,725 Third round retired against Ernests Gulbis
7 8 Tomáš Berdych 2,850 180 360 3,030 Quarterfinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
8 9 Milos Raonic 2,785 0 180 2,965 Fourth round lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas
9 12 Richard Gasquet 2,725 180 360 2,905 Quarterfinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
10 10 Marin Čilić 2,775 180 10 2,605 First round lost to Marco Trungelliti [Q]
11 11 David Ferrer 2,740 360 180 2,560 Fourth round lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
12 13 David Goffin 2,570 90 360 2,840 Quarterfinals lost to Dominic Thiem [13]
13 15 Dominic Thiem 2,430 45 720 3,105 Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
14 16 Roberto Bautista Agut 2,015 45 180 2,150 Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
15 17 John Isner 1,965 45 180 2,100 Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [2]
16 18 Gilles Simon 1,945 180 90 1,855 Third round lost to Viktor Troicki [22]
17 19 Nick Kyrgios 1,855 90 90 1,855 Third round lost to Richard Gasquet [9]
18 20 Kevin Anderson 1,840 90 10 1,760 First round lost to Stéphane Robert [WC]
19 21 Benoît Paire 1,641 90 45 1,596 Second round lost to Teymuraz Gabashvili
20 22 Bernard Tomic 1,625 45 45 1,625 Second round lost to Borna Ćorić
21 23 Feliciano López 1,550 10 90 1,630 Third round lost to David Ferrer [11]
22 24 Viktor Troicki 1,535 45 180 1,670 Fourth round lost to Stan Wawrinka [3]
23 25 Jack Sock 1,505 180 90 1,415 Third round lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas
24 26 Philipp Kohlschreiber 1,485 45 10 1,450 First round lost to Nicolás Almagro
25 27 Pablo Cuevas 1,450 90 90 1,450 Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
26 29 João Sousa 1,275 45 45 1,275 Second round lost to Ernests Gulbis
27 28 Ivo Karlović 1,280 10 90 1,360 Third round lost to Andy Murray [2]
28 30 Alexandr Dolgopolov 1,270 10 0 1,260 Withdrew due to a strained muscle
29 31 Lucas Pouille 1,266 0 45 1,311 Second round lost to Andrej Martin [LL]
30 32 Jérémy Chardy 1,265 180 90 1,175 Third round lost to Stan Wawrinka [3]
31 35 Federico Delbonis 1,165 10 10 1,165 First round lost to Pablo Carreño Busta
32 33 Fabio Fognini 1,205 45 10 1,170 First round lost to Marcel Granollers
33 34 Steve Johnson 1,190 90 10 1,110 First round lost to Fernando Verdasco

Withdrawn players

Rank Player Points before Points defending Points after Withdrawal reason
3 Roger Federer 7,015 360 6,655 Back injury
14 Gaël Monfils 2,470 180 2,290 Viral infection

Women's singles

Seed Rank Player Points before Points defending Points won Points after Status
1 1 Serena Williams 9,030 2,000 1,300 8,330 Runner-up, lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [4]
2 2 Agnieszka Radwańska 5,850 10 240 6,080 Fourth round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
3 3 Angelique Kerber 5,740 130 10 5,660 First round lost to Kiki Bertens
4 4 Garbiñe Muguruza 5,196 430 2,000 6,766 Champion, won against Serena Williams [1]
5 5 Victoria Azarenka 4,341 130 10 4,222 First round retired against Karin Knapp
6 6 Simona Halep 4,301 70 240 4,471 Fourth round lost to Samantha Stosur [21]
7 7 Roberta Vinci 3,405 10 10 3,405 First round lost to Kateryna Bondarenko
8 9 Timea Bacsinszky 3,150 780 430 2,800 Quarterfinals lost to Kiki Bertens
9 11 Venus Williams 2,886 10 240 3,116 Fourth round lost to Timea Bacsinszky [8]
10 12 Petra Kvitová 2,878 240 130 2,768 Third round lost to Shelby Rogers
11 13 Lucie Šafářová 2,843 1,300 130 1,673 Third round lost to Samantha Stosur [21]
12 14 Carla Suárez Navarro 2,585 130 240 2,695 Fourth round lost to Yulia Putintseva
13 15 Svetlana Kuznetsova 2,585 70 240 2,755 Fourth round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [4]
14 16 Ana Ivanovic 2,560 780 130 1,910 Third round lost to Elina Svitolina [18]
15 17 Madison Keys 2,482 130 240 2,592 Fourth round lost to Kiki Bertens
16 18 Sara Errani 2,450 430 10 2,030 First round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
17 19 Karolína Plíšková 2,420 70 10 2,360 First round lost to Shelby Rogers
18 20 Elina Svitolina 2,416 430 240 2,226 Fourth round lost to Serena Williams [1]
19 22 Sloane Stephens 2,260 240 130 2,150 Third round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
20 21 Johanna Konta 2,280 40 10 2,250 First round lost to Julia Görges
21 24 Samantha Stosur 2,050 130 780 2,700 Semifinals lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [4]
22 25 Dominika Cibulková 1,951 0 130 2,081 Third round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro [12]
23 26 Jelena Janković 1,940 10 10 1,940 First round lost to Tatjana Maria
24 27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1,840 10 130 1,960 Third round lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova [13]
25 28 Irina-Camelia Begu 1,655 130 240 1,765 Fourth round lost to Shelby Rogers
26 30 Kristina Mladenovic 1,550 130 130 1,550 Third round lost to Serena Williams [1]
27 29 Ekaterina Makarova 1,552 240 70 1,382 Second round lost to Yanina Wickmayer
28 31 Andrea Petkovic 1,545 130 70 1,485 Second round lost to Yulia Putintseva
29 32 Daria Kasatkina 1,538 (50)† 130 1,618 Third round lost to Kiki Bertens
30 33 Barbora Strýcová 1,520 10 130 1,640 Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [2]
31 35 Monica Niculescu 1,450 10+140 10+55 1,365 First round lost to Pauline Parmentier
32 36 Jeļena Ostapenko 1,365 (13)† 10 1,362 First round lost to Naomi Osaka

† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2015. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.

Withdrawn players

Rank Player Points before Points defending Points after Withdrawal reason
8 Belinda Bencic 3,330 70 3,260 Lower back injury
10 Flavia Pennetta 2,963 240 2,723 Retirement
23 Maria Sharapova 2,141 240 1,901 Provisional suspension
34 Caroline Wozniacki 1,456 70 1,386 Right ankle injury

05Doubles seeds

Men's doubles

Team Rank1 Seed
Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 8 1
Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău 9 2
Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo 10 3
Jamie Murray Bruno Soares 13 4
Bob Bryan Mike Bryan 15 5
Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea 24 6
Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock 35 7
Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram 44 8
Łukasz Kubot Alexander Peya 44 9
Treat Huey Max Mirnyi 46 10
Henri Kontinen John Peers 47 11
Radek Štěpánek Nenad Zimonjić 49 12
Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah 50 13
Daniel Nestor Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 66 14
Feliciano López Marc López 70 15
Marcin Matkowski Leander Paes 70 16
  • 1 Rankings are as of 16 May 2016.

Women's doubles

Team Rank Seed
Martina Hingis Sania Mirza 2 1
Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová 10 2
Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan 11 3
Tímea Babos Yaroslava Shvedova 18 4
Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic 19 5
Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká 22 6
Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina 24 7
Raquel Atawo Abigail Spears 40 8
Xu Yifan Zheng Saisai 42 9
Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková 47 10
Andreja Klepač Katarina Srebotnik 53 11
Lara Arruabarrena Sara Errani 57 12
Anabel Medina Garrigues Arantxa Parra Santonja 59 13
Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu 63 14
Vania King Alla Kudryavtseva 64 15
Chuang Chia-jung Hsieh Su-wei 74 16
  • 1 Rankings are as of 16 May 2016.

Mixed doubles

Team Rank1 Seed
Chan Hao-ching Jamie Murray 9 1
Sania Mirza Ivan Dodig 10 2
Kristina Mladenovic Pierre-Hugues Herbert 17 3
Yaroslava Shvedova Florin Mergea 17 4
Elena Vesnina Bruno Soares 19 5
Andrea Hlaváčková Édouard Roger-Vasselin 27 6
Chan Yung-jan Max Mirnyi 27 7
CoCo Vandeweghe Bob Bryan 29 8
  • 1 Rankings are as of 16 May 2016.

06Main draw wildcard entries

The following players were given wildcards to the main draw based on internal selection and recent performances.

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

07Main draw qualifiers

Men's singles

Men's singles qualifiers

  1. Tobias Kamke
  2. Radek Štěpánek
  3. Steve Darcis
  4. Jan-Lennard Struff
  5. Marco Trungelliti
  6. Carlos Berlocq
  7. Roberto Carballés Baena
  8. Dustin Brown
  9. Adrian Ungur
  10. Marsel İlhan
  11. Gerald Melzer
  12. Jordi Samper Montaña
  13. Kenny de Schepper
  14. Nikoloz Basilashvili
  15. Laslo Djere
  16. Radu Albot

Lucky losers

  1. Igor Sijsling
  2. Adam Pavlásek
  3. Andrej Martin
  4. Thomas Fabbiano

Women's singles

Women's singles qualifiers

  1. Louisa Chirico
  2. Çağla Büyükakçay
  3. Sorana Cîrstea
  4. Sachia Vickery
  5. Verónica Cepede Royg
  6. Kateřina Siniaková
  7. Daniela Hantuchová
  8. İpek Soylu
  9. Viktorija Golubic
  10. Sara Sorribes Tormo
  11. Lucie Hradecká
  12. Maryna Zanevska

Lucky loser

  1. Sílvia Soler Espinosa

08Protected ranking

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

Men's singles
Women's singles

09Champions

Seniors

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Juniors

Boys' singles

Girls' singles

Boys' doubles

Girls' doubles

Wheelchair events

Wheelchair men's singles

Wheelchair women's singles

Wheelchair men's doubles

Wheelchair women's doubles

Other events

Legends under 45 doubles

Legends over 45 doubles

Women's legends doubles

10Withdrawals

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

Before the tournament
Men's singles
Women's singles

†, not included on entry list
‡, withdrew from entry list before qualifying began
@, withdrew from entry list after qualifying began
§, withdrew from main draw

During the tournament
Men's singles

11Retirements

Men's singles
Women's singles
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