2016 Wimbledon Championships
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 the championships, 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.
Novak Djokovic was the two-time defending champion in the Gentlemen's Singles, but he lost in the third round to Sam Querrey, ending a 30-match winning streak in Grand Slams and Djokovic's hopes of becoming the first man to achieve the golden calendar 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 due to the fact that no tickets are sold in advance or through the ballot and all seats are made available on general sale the day before. For the first time in the championships' history singles events were held in the wheelchair competitions.
Australian Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 Men's Singles champion, two-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1, played his last professional matches in Men's doubles before retirement.
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 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, women's, mixed doubles, boys and girls, 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 is the tables with the point distribution for each phase of the tournament.Senior points
Wheelchair points
Junior points
Prize money
The total prize money for this year tournament is of £28.10m, an increase of 5% from last year tournament. The players who will win the men's singles and women's singles will earn £2.00m, an increase of £120,000 from the previous year. The prize money for men's doubles, women's doubles and wheelchair players were also increased for this year 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
;2016 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Singles;2016 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Singles
Day-by-day summaries
Singles seeds
The seeds for the 2016 Wimbledon Championships were announced on Wednesday, 22 June 2016.Gentlemen's Singles">2016 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles">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.
- Add 75% points earned for best grass court tournament in the 12 months before that.
| Seed | Rank | Player | Points before | Points defending | Points won | Points after | Status |
| 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 |
| 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 Anderson | 1,505 | 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 |
| 24 | 28 | Alexander Zverev | 1,385 | 45 | 90 | 1,430 | Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych |
| 25 | 27 | 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 |
| 27 | 26 | 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 Dolgopolov | 1,215 | 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
Ladies' Singles">2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles">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.| Seed | Rank | Player | Points before | Points defending | Points won | Points after | Status |
| 1 | 1 | Serena Williams | 8,330 | 2,000 | 2,000 | 8,330 | Champion, defeated Angelique Kerber |
| 2 | 2 | Garbiñe Muguruza | 6,712 | 1,300 | 70 | 5,482 | Second round lost to Jana Čepelová |
| 3 | 3 |  Agnieszka Radwańska | 5,875 | 780 | 240 | 5,355 | Fourth round lost to Dominika Cibulková |
| 4 | 4 | Angelique Kerber | 5,330 | 130 | 1,300 | 6,500 | Runner-up, lost to Serena Williams |
| 5 | 5 |  Simona Halep | 4,372 | 10 | 430 | 4,792 | Quarterfinals lost to Angelique Kerber |
| 6 | 7 |  Roberta Vinci | 3,405 | 10 | 130 | 3,525 | Third round lost to Coco Vandeweghe |
| 7 | 13 | Belinda Bencic | 2,775 | 240 | 70 | 2,605 | Second round retired against Julia Boserup |
| 8 | 8 | Venus Williams | 3,116 | 240 | 780 | 3,656 | Semifinals lost to Angelique Kerber |
| 9 | 9 | Madison Keys | 3,061 | 430 | 240 | 2,871 | Fourth round lost to Simona Halep |
| 10 | 10 | Petra Kvitová | 2,876 | 130 | 70 | 2,816 | Second round lost to Ekaterina Makarova |
| 11 | 11 | Timea Bacsinszky | 2,800 | 430 | 130 | 2,500 | Third round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova |
| 12 | 12 | Carla Suárez Navarro | 2,780 | 10 | 240 | 3,010 | Fourth round lost to Venus Williams |
| 13 | 14 | Svetlana Kuznetsova | 2,730 | 70 | 240 | 2,900 | Fourth round lost to Serena Williams |
| 14 | 16 | Samantha Stosur | 2,700 | 130 | 70 | 2,640 | Second round lost to Sabine Lisicki |
| 15 | 17 | Karolína Plíšková | 2,540 | 70 | 70 | 2,540 | Second round lost to Misaki Doi |
| 16 | 19 | Johanna Konta | 2,330 | 10 | 70 | 2,390 | Second round lost to Eugenie Bouchard |
| 17 | 20 | Elina Svitolina | 2,226 | 70 | 70 | 2,226 | Second round lost to  Yaroslava Shvedova |
| 18 | 22 | Sloane Stephens | 1,995 | 130 | 130 | 1,995 | Third round lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova |
| 19 | 18 | Dominika Cibulková | 2,541 | 10 | 430 | 2,871 | Quarterfinals lost to Elena Vesnina |
| 20 | 21 | Sara Errani | 2,030 | 70 | 70 | 2,030 | Second round lost to Alizé Cornet |
| 21 | 23 | 1,960 | 70 | 430 | 2,320 | Quarterfinals lost to Serena Williams | |
| 22 | 24 | Jelena Janković | 1,940 | 240 | 70 | 1,770 | Second round lost to  Marina Erakovic |
| 23 | 25 | Ana Ivanovic | 1,915 | 70 | 10 | 1,855 | First round lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova |
| 24 | 26 | Barbora Strýcová | 1,885 | 10 | 130 | 2,005 | Third round lost to Ekaterina Makarova |
| 25 | 27 | Irina-Camelia Begu | 1,765 | 130 | 10 | 1,645 | First round lost to Carina Witthöft |
| 26 | 28 |  Kiki Bertens | 1,729 | 10 | 130 | 1,849 | Third round lost to Simona Halep |
| 27 | 30 | Coco Vandeweghe | 1,652 | 430 | 240 | 1,462 | Fourth round lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova |
| 28 | 29 | Lucie Šafářová | 1,673 | 240 | 240 | 1,673 | Fourth round lost to Yaroslava Shvedova |
| 29 | 33 | Daria Kasatkina | 1,586 | 130 | 1,703 | Third round lost to Venus Williams | |
| 30 | 31 | Caroline Garcia | 1,585 | 10 | 70 | 1,645 | Second round lost to Kateřina Siniaková |
| 31 | 32 | Kristina Mladenovic | 1,585 | 130 | 10 | 1,465 | First round lost to  Aliaksandra Sasnovich |
| 32 | 38 | Andrea Petkovic | 1,440 | 130 | 70 | 1,380 | Second round lost to Elena Vesnina |
Withdrawn players
Doubles seeds
Gentlemen's Doubles">2016 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles">Gentlemen's Doubles
- 1 Rankings are as of 20 June 2016.
Ladies' Doubles">2016 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles">Ladies' Doubles
- 1 Rankings are as of 20 June 2016.
Mixed Doubles">2016 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles">Mixed Doubles
- 1 Rankings are as of 27 June 2016.
Main draw wild card entries
Gentlemen's Singles
- Liam Broady
- Dustin Brown
- Brydan Klein
- Radek Štěpánek
- Alexander Ward
- James Ward
Ladies' Singles
- Daniela Hantuchová
- Marina Melnikova
- Tara Moore
- Laura Robson
- Evgeniya Rodina
- Katie Swan
Gentlemen's Doubles
- Kyle Edmund / James Ward
- Daniel Evans / Lloyd Glasspool
- Lleyton Hewitt / Jordan Thompson
- Brydan Klein / Alexander Ward
- Jonathan Marray / Adil Shamasdin
- Ken Skupski / Neal Skupski
Ladies' Doubles
- Ashleigh Barty / Laura Robson
- Daniela Hantuchová / Donna Vekić
- Tara Moore / Conny Perrin
- Jocelyn Rae / Anna Smith
Mixed Doubles
- Liam Broady / Naomi Broady
- Colin Fleming / Jocelyn Rae
- Dominic Inglot / Laura Robson
- Ken Skupski / Tara Moore
- Neal Skupski / Anna Smith
Main draw qualifiers
Gentlemen's Singles
Men's Singles Qualifiers- Matthew Barton
- Alexander Kudryavtsev
- Tristan Lamasine
- Marcus Willis
- Ruben Bemelmans
- Bjorn Fratangelo
- Luke Saville
- Marius Copil
- Igor Sijsling
- Albano Olivetti
- Lukáš Lacko
- Yoshihito Nishioka
- Franko Škugor
- Dennis Novikov
- Radu Albot
- Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Ladies' Singles
- Tatjana Maria
- Amra Sadiković
- Jana Čepelová
- Aleksandra Krunić
- Maria Sakkari
- Julia Boserup
- Tamira Paszek
- Luksika Kumkhum
- Mandy Minella
- Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Marina Erakovic
- Paula Kania
- Duan Yingying
Gentlemen's Doubles
- Quentin Halys / Tristan Lamasine
- Konstantin Kravchuk / Denys Molchanov
- Marcelo Arévalo / Roberto Maytín
- Dustin Brown / Jan-Lennard Struff
- Sanchai Ratiwatana / Sonchat Ratiwatana
Ladies' Doubles
- Demi Schuurs / Renata Voráčová
- Elise Mertens / An-Sophie Mestach
- Chan Chin-wei / Han Xinyun
- Shuko Aoyama / Makoto Ninomiya
Protected ranking
; Men's Singles
- Brian Baker
- Julien Benneteau
- Juan Martín del Potro
- Lu Yen-hsun
- Florian Mayer
- Janko Tipsarević
- Dmitry Tursunov
- Victoria Duval
- Peng Shuai
Champions
Seniors
Gentlemen's Singles
- Andy Murray def. Milos Raonic, 6–4, 7–6, 7–6
Ladies' Singles
- Serena Williams def. Angelique Kerber, 7–5, 6–3
Gentlemen's Doubles
- Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut def. Julien Benneteau / Édouard Roger-Vasselin, 6–4, 7–6, 6–3
Ladies' Doubles
- Serena Williams / Venus Williams def. Tímea Babos / Yaroslava Shvedova, 6–3, 6–4
Mixed Doubles
- Henri Kontinen / Heather Watson def. Robert Farah / Anna-Lena Grönefeld 7–6, 6–4
Juniors
Boys' Singles
- Denis Shapovalov def. Alex De Minaur, 4–6, 6–1, 6–3
Girls' Singles
- Anastasia Potapova def. Dayana Yastremska, 6–4, 6–3
Boys' Doubles
- Kenneth Raisma / Stefanos Tsitsipas def. Félix Auger-Aliassime / Denis Shapovalov, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Girls' Doubles
- Usue Maitane Arconada / Claire Liu def. Mariam Bolkvadze / Caty McNally, 6–2, 6–3
Invitation
Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
- Greg Rusedski / Fabrice Santoro def. Jonas Björkman / Thomas Johansson, 7–5, 6–1
Ladies' Invitation Doubles
- Martina Navratilova / Selima Sfar def. Lindsay Davenport / Mary Joe Fernández, 7–6, 0–0r
Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
- Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde def. Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis, 6–2, 7–5
Wheelchair events
Wheelchair Gentlemen's Singles
- Gordon Reid def. Stefan Olsson, 6–1, 6–4
Wheelchair Ladies' Singles
- Jiske Griffioen def. Aniek van Koot, 4–6, 6–0, 6–4
Wheelchair Gentlemen's Doubles
- Alfie Hewett / Gordon Reid def. Stéphane Houdet / Nicolas Peifer, 4–6, 6–1, 7–6
Wheelchair Ladies' Doubles
- Yui Kamiji / Jordanne Whiley def. Jiske Griffioen / Aniek van Koot, 6–2, 6–2
Withdrawals
;Before the tournament
; Men's Singles
- Thanasi Kokkinakis → replaced by Gastão Elias
- Rafael Nadal → replaced by Facundo Bagnis
- Tommy Robredo → replaced by Albert Montañés
- Victoria Azarenka → replaced by Duan Yingying
- Naomi Osaka → replaced by Anna Tatishvili
- Flavia Pennetta → replaced by Shelby Rogers
- Maria Sharapova → replaced by Kateřina Siniaková
;Men's Singles
- Mikhail Kukushkin
Retirements
- Richard Gasquet
- Kei Nishikori
- Belinda Bencic
- Margarita Gasparyan
- Anna Tatishvili