_(27698685691).jpg) Angelique Kerber finished the year as world No. 1 for the only 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. | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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]
- ^ "2016 WTA calendar" (PDF). wtatennis.com. WTA Tour, Inc. Retrieved 2015-06-11.