2016 ATP World Tour
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The 2016 ATP World Tour was the global elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2016 tennis season. The 2016 ATP World Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP World Tour Masters 1000s, the ATP World Tour 500 series, the ATP World Tour 250 series, the Davis Cup (organized by the ITF), and the ATP World Tour Finals. Also included in the 2016 calendar were the tennis events at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Hopman Cup, neither of which distributed ranking points.
_(29236489603).jpg) Andy Murray finished the year as world No. 1 for the first time in his career. He won nine tournaments during the season, including a major at the Wimbledon Championships, the gold medal at the Rio Olympics, and the ATP World Tour Finals. He also won three Masters 1000 titles and finished runner-up at two other majors, the Australian Open and the French Open. | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 3 January 2016 – 27 November 2016 |
| Edition | 47th |
| Tournaments | 67 |
| Categories | Grand Slam (4) ATP World Tour Finals Summer Olympic Games ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (9) ATP World Tour 500 (13) ATP World Tour 250 (39) |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |  Andy Murray (9) |
| Most tournament finals | Andy Murray (13) |
| Prize money leader | Andy Murray ($16,327,821) |
| Points leader | Andy Murray (12,410) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year | Andy Murray |
| Doubles team of the year | Jamie Murray  Bruno Soares |
| Most improved player of the year |  Lucas Pouille |
| Star of tomorrow |  Taylor Fritz |
| Comeback player of the year |  Juan Martín del Potro |
← 2015 2017 → | |
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2016 calendar, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage.
| Grand Slam |
| ATP World Tour Finals |
| Olympic Games |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 |
| ATP World Tour 500 |
| ATP World Tour 250 |
| Team Events |
| Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Mar 14 Mar | Indian Wells Masters Indian Wells, United States ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard – $7,037,595 – 96S/32D Singles – Doubles |  Novak Djokovic6–2, 6–0 |  Milos Raonic |  Rafael Nadal David Goffin | Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Kei Nishikori Marin Čilić Gaël Monfils |
| Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 6–3, 7–6(7–5) | Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock | ||||
| 21 Mar 28 Mar | Miami Open Key Biscayne, United States ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Hard – $7,037,595 – 96S/32D Singles – Doubles | Novak Djokovic 6–3, 6–3 | Kei Nishikori | David Goffin  Nick Kyrgios |  Tomáš Berdych Gilles Simon Milos Raonic Gaël Monfils |
| Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 5–7, 6–1, [10–7] |  Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram |
| Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov | No tournaments scheduled. | ||||
| 14 Nov | ATP World Tour Finals London, United Kingdom ATP World Tour Finals Hard (i) – $7,500,000 – 8S/8D (RR) Singles – Doubles | Andy Murray 6–3, 6–4 | Novak Djokovic | Milos Raonic Kei Nishikori | Round Robin  Stan Wawrinka Marin Čilić Dominic Thiem David Goffin Gaël Monfils |
 Henri Kontinen John Peers2–6, 6–1, [10–8] | Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram | ||||
| 21 Nov | Davis Cup Final Zagreb, Croatia – hard (i) | Argentina 3–2 | Croatia | ||
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 ATP World Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the tennis event at the Rio Summer Olympics, the ATP World Tour Finals, the ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the ATP World Tour 500 series, and the ATP World Tour 250 series. The players/nations are sorted by:
| Grand Slam |
| ATP World Tour Finals |
| Summer Olympics |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 |
| ATP World Tour 500 |
| ATP World Tour 250 |
| Total | Nation | Grand Slam | Olympic Games | ATP Finals | Masters 1000 | Tour 500 | Tour 250 | Total | ||||||||||
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| S | D | X | S | D | X | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | X | ||
| 20 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
| 15 | France (FRA) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||
| 14 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
| 12 | United States (USA) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||
| 11 | Croatia (CRO) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||
| 10 | Argentina (ARG) | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||
| 8 | Serbia (SRB) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 | Brazil (BRA) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| 6 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5 |  Italy (ITA) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5 |  New Zealand (NZL) | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 4 |  Colombia (COL) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 |  Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 |  Slovakia (SVK) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 |  Poland (POL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 |  Germany (GER) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 3 |  Chile (CHI) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2 |  India (IND) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 |  Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 |  Uruguay (URU) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 |  Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  Philippines (PHI) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  Dominican Republic (DOM) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  Russia (RUS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  Israel (ISR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1 |  Mexico (MEX) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
The following players won their first main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:
Nick Kyrgios – Marseille (draw) Diego Schwartzman – Istanbul (draw) Steve Johnson – Nottingham (draw) Albert Ramos Viñolas – Båstad (draw) Paolo Lorenzi – Kitzbühel (draw) Pablo Carreño Busta – Winston-Salem (draw) Lucas Pouille – Metz (draw) Alexander Zverev – St. Petersburg (draw) Karen Khachanov — Chengdu (draw) Fabrice Martin – Chennai (draw) Pablo Carreño Busta – Quito (draw) Guillermo Durán – Quito (draw) Wesley Koolhof – Sofia (draw) Matwé Middelkoop – Sofia (draw) Andreas Seppi – Dubai (draw) Julio Peralta – São Paulo (draw) Flavio Cipolla – Istanbul (draw) Dudi Sela – Istanbul (draw) Steve Johnson – Geneva (draw) Andrés Molteni – Atlanta (draw) Elias Ymer – Stockholm (draw) Mikael Ymer – Stockholm (draw) Henri Kontinen – Wimbledon (draw) Mate Pavić – US Open (draw)The following players defended a main circuit title in singles, doubles, or mixed doubles:
Stan Wawrinka – Chennai (draw) Viktor Troicki – Sydney (draw) Novak Djokovic – Australian Open (draw), Indian Wells (draw), Miami (draw) Richard Gasquet – Montpellier (draw) Víctor Estrella Burgos – Quito (draw) Kei Nishikori – Memphis (draw) Pablo Cuevas – São Paulo (draw) Dominic Thiem – Nice (draw) Nicolas Mahut – 's-Hertogenbosch (draw) Andy Murray – London (draw), Summer Olympics (draw) Tomáš Berdych — Shenzhen (draw) John Peers – Brisbane (draw), Hamburg (draw) Mariusz Fyrstenberg – Memphis (draw) Santiago González – Memphis (draw) Scott Lipsky – Estoril (draw) Pierre-Hugues Herbert – London (draw) Nicolas Mahut – London (draw) Henri Kontinen – St. Petersburg (draw) Łukasz Kubot – Vienna (draw) Marcelo Melo – Vienna (draw)The following players entered the top 10 for the first time in their careers:
Dominic Thiem (enters at #7 on June 6) Raven Klaasen (enters at #9 on July 11) Feliciano López (enters at #9 on November 7) Henri Kontinen (enters at #10 on November 7)These are the ATP rankings of the top 20 singles players, doubles players, and the top 10 doubles teams on the ATP Tour, at the current date of the 2016 season.[1][2][3]
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| Holder | Date gained | Date forfeited |
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| Novak Djokovic (SRB) |
Year end 2015 | 6 November 2016 |
| Andy Murray (GBR) |
7 November 2016 | Year end 2016 |
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| Holder | Date gained | Date forfeited |
|---|---|---|
| Marcelo Melo (BRA) |
Year end 2015 | 3 April 2016 |
| Jamie Murray (GBR) |
4 April 2016 | 8 May 2016 |
| Marcelo Melo (BRA) |
9 May 2016 | 5 June 2016 |
| Nicolas Mahut (FRA) |
6 June 2016 | 12 June 2016 |
| Jamie Murray (GBR) |
13 June 2016 | 10 July 2016 |
| Nicolas Mahut (FRA) |
11 July 2016 | Year end 2016 |
| Event | Round | Surface | Winner | Opponent | Result[6][7] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | US Open | R4 | Hard | Lucas Pouille | Rafael Nadal | 6–1, 2–6, 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(8–6) |
| 2. | Wimbledon | QF | Grass | Roger Federer | Marin Čilić | 6–7(4–7), 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(11–9), 6–3 |
| 3. | Australian Open | R1 | Hard | Fernando Verdasco | Rafael Nadal | 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 3–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–2 |
| 4. | French Open | F | Clay | Novak Djokovic | Andy Murray | 3–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–4 |
| 5. | US Open | QF | Hard | Kei Nishikori | Andy Murray | 1–6, 6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 7–5 |
| Event | Round | Surface | Winner | Opponent | Result[8][9] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ATP Finals | SF | Hard (i) | Andy Murray | Milos Raonic | 5–7, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(11–9) |
| 2. | ATP Finals | RR | Hard (i) | Andy Murray | Kei Nishikori | 6–7(9–11), 6–4, 6–4 |
| 3. | Rio Open | SF | Clay | Pablo Cuevas | Rafael Nadal | 6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–3), 6–4 |
| 4. | Italian Open | QF | Clay | Novak Djokovic | Rafael Nadal | 7–5, 7–6(7–4) |
| 5. | Monte-Carlo Masters | F | Clay | Rafael Nadal | Gaël Monfils | 7–5, 5–7, 6–0 |
| # | Player | Year-to-date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Murray (GBR) | $16,349,701 | |||
| 2 | Novak Djokovic (SRB) | $14,138,824 | |||
| 3 | Stan Wawrinka (SUI) | $6,856,954 | |||
| 4 | Milos Raonic (CAN) | $5,588,492 | |||
| 5 | Kei Nishikori (JPN) | $4,806,748 | |||
| 6 | Marin Čilić (CRO) | $3,475,205 | |||
| 7 | Gaël Monfils (FRA) | $3,372,418 | |||
| 8 | Dominic Thiem (AUT) | $3,152,363 | |||
| 9 | Rafael Nadal (ESP) | $2,836,500 | |||
| 10 | Tomáš Berdych (CZE) | $2,612,055 | |||
| as of December 26, 2016[update][10] | |||||
| Category | W | F | SF | QF | R16 | R32 | R64 | R128 | Q | Q3 | Q2 | Q1 |
| Grand Slam (128S) | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
| Grand Slam (64D) | 2000 | 1200 | 720 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | – | 25 | – | 0 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour Finals (8S/8D) | 1500 (max) 1100 (min) | 1000 (max) 600 (min) | 600 (max) 200 (min) | 200 for each round robin match win, +400 for a semifinal win, +500 for the final win. | ||||||||
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (96S) | 1000 | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 25 | 10 | 16 | – | 8 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (56S/48S) | 1000 | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 10 | – | 25 | – | 16 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (32D/24D) | 1000 | 600 | 360 | 180 | 90 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Summer Olympics (64S) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ATP World Tour 500 (48S) | 500 | 300 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 20 | 0 | – | 10 | – | 4 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour 500 (32S) | 500 | 300 | 180 | 90 | 45 | 0 | – | – | 20 | – | 10 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour 500 (16D) | 500 | 300 | 180 | 90 | 0 | – | – | – | 45 | – | 25 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour 250 (48S) | 250 | 150 | 90 | 45 | 20 | 10 | 0 | – | 5 | – | 3 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour 250 (32S/28S) | 250 | 150 | 90 | 45 | 20 | 0 | – | – | 12 | – | 6 | 0 |
| ATP World Tour 250 (16D) | 250 | 150 | 90 | 45 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the ATP rankings top 100 (singles) or top 50 (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:
Andreas Beck (born 5 February 1986 in Weingarten, Germany), career-high singles ranking of no. 33, announced his retirement in October 2016.[11] Michael Berrer (born 1 July 1980 in Stuttgart, Germany), career-high singles ranking of no. 42, announced his retirement on 10 December 2016.[12] Eric Butorac (born 22 May 1981 in Rochester, Massachusetts, United States), career-high doubles ranking of no. 17. He won 18 ATP doubles titles. He announced the 2016 US Open would be his last tournament.[13] Lleyton Hewitt (born 24 February 1981 in Adelaide, Australia), joined the pro tour in 1998, reached a career-high singles ranking of no. 1 on 19 November 2001. He won two Grand Slam singles titles in 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon. On 29 January 2015, he announced the 2016 Australian Open would be his last tournament,[14] although he did come out of retirement to play for Australia for the First Round of Davis Cup World Group at Kooyong in doubles match in March 2016, and he played in the men's doubles at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships. Jesse Huta Galung (born 6 October 1985 in Hillegom, Netherlands), career-high singles ranking of no. 91.[15]
Rui Machado (born 10 April 1984 in Faro, Portugal), career-high singles ranking of no. 59, announced his retirement on 9 June 2016.[16] Julian Reister (born 2 April 1986 in Reinbek, Germany), career-high singles ranking of no. 83.[17] Thomas Schoorel (born 8 April 1989 in Amsterdam, Netherlands), career-high singles ranking of no. 94, announced his retirement on 29 June 2016.[18] Victor Hănescu (born 21 July 1981 in Bucharest, Romania), career-high singles ranking of no. 26.Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
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