2016 Australian Open – Women's singles

Women's singles
2016 Australian Open
2015 Champion	Serena Williams

Main article: 2016 Australian Open

Serena Williams is the defending champion.

Seeds

01.   Serena Williams

02.   Simona Halep

03.   Garbiñe Muguruza

04.   Agnieszka Radwańska

05.   Maria Sharapova

06.   Petra Kvitová

07.   Angelique Kerber

08.   Venus Williams

09.   Karolína Plíšková

10.   Carla Suárez Navarro

11.   Timea Bacsinszky

12.   Belinda Bencic

13.   Roberta Vinci

14.   Victoria Azarenka

15.   Madison Keys

16.   Caroline Wozniacki

17.   Sara Errani

18.   Elina Svitolina

19.   Jelena Janković

20.   Ana Ivanovic

21.   Ekaterina Makarova

22.   Andrea Petkovic

23.   Svetlana Kuznetsova

24.   Sloane Stephens

25.   Samantha Stosur

26.   Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

27.   Anna Karolína Schmiedlová

28.   Kristina Mladenovic

29.   Irina-Camelia Begu

30.   Sabine Lisicki

31.   Lesia Tsurenko

32.   Caroline Garcia

Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.

Qualifying

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

Wildcards

Main article: 2016 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries

Draw

Key

• Q = Qualifier
• WC = Wild card
• LL = Lucky loser
• Alt = Alternate
• SE = Special exempt
• PR = Protected ranking
• ITF = ITF entry
• JE = Junior exempt
• w/o = Walkover
• r = Retired
• d = Defaulted
• SR = Special ranking

Finals

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Top half

Section 1

First Round

Second Round

Third round

Fourth round

1

S Williams

C Giorgi

S-w Hsieh

J Ostapenko

U Radwańska

A Konjuh

D Kasatkina

27

AK Schmiedlová

17

S Errani

M Gasparyan

K Nara

WC

O Dodin

M Duque Mariño

WC

X Han

Y Putintseva

16

C Wozniacki

Section 2

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

12

B Bencic

A Riske

H Watson

T Babos

A Tomljanović

K Bondarenko

D Hantuchová

23

S Kuznetsova

26

A Pavlyuchenkova

L Davis

M Rybáriková

Y Wickmayer

A Sasnovich

E Rodina

N Hibino

5

M Sharapova

Section 3

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

4

A Radwańska

C McHale

E Bouchard

A Krunić

M Linette

M Puig

Q

Kr Plíšková

25

S Stosur

24

S Stephens

Q

Q Wang

L Domínguez Lino

A-L Friedsam

A Tatishvili

I Falconi

Q

T Paszek

13

R Vinci

Section 4

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

10

C Suárez Navarro

Q

V Golubic

Q

M Sakkari

Q

Q

Y Wang

M Niculescu

T Pereira

E Kulichkova

22

A Petkovic

28

K Mladenovic

D Cibulková

Q

N Gibbs

K Koukalová

D Gavrilova

L Hradecká

Q

L Kumkhum

6

P Kvitová

Bottom half

Section 5

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

7

A Kerber

M Doi

WC

S Sanders

A Dulgheru

M Brengle

C Vandeweghe

J Larsson

29

I-C Begu

19

J Janković

P Hercog

L Siegemund

K Bertens

WC

P Hon

A Beck

K Siniaková

11

T Bacsinszky

Section 6

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

14

V Azarenka

A Van Uytvanck

WC

S Crawford

D Kovinić

Q

N Osaka

D Vekić

PR

V Duval

18

E Svitolina

32

C Garcia

B Strýcová

M Barthel

PR

V King

K Flipkens

M Lučić-Baroni

A Kontaveit

3

G Muguruza

Section 7

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

8

V Williams

J Konta

C Witthöft

S Zheng

B Mattek-Sands

D Allertová

PR

P Cetkovská

30

S Lisicki

21

E Makarova

WC

M Inglis

T Maria

O Govortsova

A Mitu

J Görges

WC

K Birrell

9

Ka Plíšková

Section 8

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Fourth Round

15

M Keys

Z Diyas

T Pironkova

Y Shvedova

Q

A Sevastova

J Wolfe

WC

T Patterson

20

A Ivanovic

31

L Tsurenko

V Lepchenko

L Arruabarrena

Q

M Zanevska

B Jovanovski

A Cornet

Q

S Zhang

2

S Halep

References

General

• Women drawsheet on ausopen.com

Specific