Western & Southern Open 2016 / women

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Western & Southern Open 2016
Logo of the tournament "Western & Southern Open 2016"
date August 15, 2016 - August 21, 2016
Edition 85
navigation 2015  ◄  2016  ►  2017
WTA tour
venue Mason (Ohio) United States
United StatesUnited States 
Tournament number 1017
category WTA Premier 5
Tournament type Free place tournament
Game surface Hard court
draw 56E / 48Q / 28D
Prize money US $ 2,400,490 
Website Official website
Last year's winner (individual) United StatesUnited States Serena Williams
Last year's winner (double) Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei 
Winner (singles) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková
Winner (doubles) IndiaIndia Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
Tournament supervisor Melanie Tabb
Pam Whytcross
Last direct assumption UkraineUkraine Lesja Zurenko (41)
Player representatives SerbiaSerbia Ana Ivanović Anna-Lena Grönefeld
GermanyGermany 
As of August 18, 2016

The Western & Southern Open 2016 was a tennis tournament of the WTA Tour 2016 , which was held from August 15 to 21, 2016 in Mason near Cincinnati .

Last year's winner in singles was Serena Williams , defending champions in doubles were Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan .

The field of participants in the individual competition consisted of 48 players, that of the doubles competition consisted of 28 pairings. The 16 top seeded players in singles and the four top seeded pairings in doubles each received a bye for promotion to the second round.

Karolína Plíšková won the individual final against Angelique Kerber 6: 3 and 6: 1.

qualification

12 places were played out for the main field in singles.

The following players prevailed in the qualification:

Qualifiers Lucky Loser
RussiaRussia Varvara Swift FranceFrance Alizé Cornet JapanJapan Misaki Doi
CanadaCanada Eugenie Bouchard China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhang Shuai SwitzerlandSwitzerland Viktorija Golubic
HungaryHungary Tímea Babos China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zheng Saisai SwedenSweden Johanna Larsson
GermanyGermany Annika Beck UkraineUkraine Kateryna Bondarenko BulgariaBulgaria Tsvetana Pironkova
AustraliaAustralia Daria Gavrilova CroatiaCroatia Donna Vekic
United StatesUnited States Alison Riske JapanJapan Kurumi Nara

singles

Seeding list

No. Player Round reached

01. United StatesUnited States Serena Williams retreat
02. GermanyGermany Angelique Kerber final
03. RomaniaRomania Simona Halep Semifinals
04th SpainSpain Garbiñe Muguruza Semifinals

05. PolandPoland Agnieszka Radwańska Quarter finals

06th ItalyItaly Roberta Vinci Round of 16

07th RussiaRussia Svetlana Kuznetsova Quarter finals

08th. SlovakiaSlovakia Dominika Cibulková Round of 16

09. SpainSpain Carla Suarez Navarro Quarter finals
No. Player Round reached
10. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Johanna Konta Round of 16

11. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petra Kvitová retreat

12. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Timea Bacsinszky Round of 16

13. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Belinda Bencic 2nd round

14th AustraliaAustralia Samantha Stosur 2nd round

15th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková victory

16. RussiaRussia Anastassija Pavlyuchenkova Round of 16

17th UkraineUkraine Elina Switolina 2nd round

Explanation of symbols

  • r = retired
  • d = disqualification
  • where = walkover

Results

Semi-finals, finals

  Semifinals final
                         
15th  Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková 6th 6th      
4th  SpainSpain Garbiñe Muguruza 1 3  
15th  Czech RepublicCzech Republic Karolína Plíšková 6th 6th
  2  GermanyGermany Angelique Kerber 3 1
3  RomaniaRomania Simona Halep 3 4th
 
2  GermanyGermany Angelique Kerber 6th 6th  

Upper half

Upper half 1
First round   Second round   Round of 16   Quarter finals
 
  LL  JapanJapan M. Doi 2 6th 6th  
Q  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China S. Zheng 2 2     WC  United StatesUnited States C. McHale 6th 3 4th  
WC  United StatesUnited States C. McHale 6th 6th       LL  JapanJapan M. Doi 5 3  
 LatviaLatvia J. Ostapenko 1 7th 7th       15th  Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ka. Plíšková 7th 6th  
 SlovakiaSlovakia AK Schmiedlová 6th 6 6 6 5      LatviaLatvia J. Ostapenko 4th 1  
  15th  Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ka. Plíšková 6th 6th  
      15th  Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ka. Plíšková 6th 4th 6th
      7th  RussiaRussia S. Kuznetsova 3 6th 2
  12  SwitzerlandSwitzerland T. Bacsinszky 6th 6th
Q  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China S. Zhang 3 3      UkraineUkraine L. Zurenko 3 0  
 UkraineUkraine L. Zurenko 6th 6th       12  SwitzerlandSwitzerland T. Bacsinszky 2 6th 2
Q  United StatesUnited States A. Riske 6th 7th       7th  RussiaRussia S. Kuznetsova 6th 3 6th  
Q  RussiaRussia W. Flink 4th 6 6     Q  United StatesUnited States A. Riske 6th 3 1
  7th  RussiaRussia S. Kuznetsova 3 6th 6th  
 
Upper half 2
First round   Second round   Round of 16   Quarter finals
 
  4th  SpainSpain G. Muguruza 7th 6th  
 ItalyItaly S. Errani 6th 3 4th      United StatesUnited States C. Vandeweghe 6 4 2  
 United StatesUnited States C. Vandeweghe 4th 6th 6th       4th  SpainSpain G. Muguruza 7th 6th  
LL  SwitzerlandSwitzerland V. Golubic 4th 6th 5       16  RussiaRussia A. Pavlyuchenkova 5 1  
Q  JapanJapan K. Nara 6th 4th 7th     Q  JapanJapan K. Nara 6 5 1  
  16  RussiaRussia A. Pavlyuchenkova 7th 6th  
      4th  SpainSpain G. Muguruza 6th 6th
      Q  HungaryHungary T. Babos 4th 3
  13  SwitzerlandSwitzerland B. Bencic 5 2
WC  United StatesUnited States L. Chirico 4th 4th     Q  HungaryHungary T. Babos 7th 6th  
Q  HungaryHungary T. Babos 6th 6th       Q  HungaryHungary T. Babos 4th 6th 6th
LL  SwedenSweden J. Larsson 6th 4th 6th       8th  SlovakiaSlovakia D. Cibulková 6th 3 1  
 RomaniaRomania I.-C. Begu 3 6th 3     LL  SwedenSweden J. Larsson 7th 4th 5
  8th  SlovakiaSlovakia D. Cibulková 6 5 6th 7th  
 

Bottom half

Lower half 1
First round   Second round   Round of 16   Quarter finals
 
  5  PolandPoland A. Radwańska 6th 6th  
 GermanyGermany A. Petković 6th 6 4 6th      GermanyGermany A. Petković 0 1  
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic L. Šafářová 4th 7th 2       5  PolandPoland A. Radwańska 6 1 6th 6th  
Q  CroatiaCroatia D. Vekic 6th 6th       10  United KingdomUnited Kingdom J. Konta 7th 4th 0  
 SerbiaSerbia A. Ivanović 4th 2     Q  CroatiaCroatia D. Vekic 2 3  
  10  United KingdomUnited Kingdom J. Konta 6th 6th  
      5  PolandPoland A. Radwańska 5 1
      3  RomaniaRomania S. Halep 7th 6th
  17th  UkraineUkraine E. Switolina 2 2
 FranceFrance C. Garcia 5 3     Q  AustraliaAustralia D. Gavrilova 6th 6th  
Q  AustraliaAustralia D. Gavrilova 7th 6th       Q  AustraliaAustralia D. Gavrilova 1 2
Q  GermanyGermany A. Beck 6th 6th       3  RomaniaRomania S. Halep 6th 6th  
 KazakhstanKazakhstan J. Putinseva 2 3     Q  GermanyGermany A. Beck 3 1
  3  RomaniaRomania S. Halep 6th 6th  
 
Lower half 2
First round   Second round   Round of 16   Quarter finals
 
  6th  ItalyItaly R. Vinci 7th 6th  
LL  BulgariaBulgaria Z. Pironkowa 6th 6th     LL  BulgariaBulgaria Z. Pironkowa 5 3  
 RussiaRussia D. Kassatkina 1 1       6th  ItalyItaly R. Vinci 1 5  
Q  FranceFrance A. Cornet 7th 6th       9  SpainSpain C. Suarez Navarro 6th 7th  
 NetherlandsNetherlands K. Bertens 6 1 3     Q  FranceFrance A. Cornet 2 0 r  
  9  SpainSpain C. Suarez Navarro 6th 1  
      9  SpainSpain C. Suarez Navarro 6th 3 0
      2  GermanyGermany A. Kerber 4th 6th 6th
  14th  AustraliaAustralia S. Stosur 6 11 3
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic B. Strýcová 6th 6th      Czech RepublicCzech Republic B. Strýcová 7th 6th  
Q  CanadaCanada E. Bouchard 4th 0        Czech RepublicCzech Republic B. Strýcová 6 5 4th
Q  UkraineUkraine K. Bondarenko 6 1 3       2  GermanyGermany A. Kerber 7th 6th  
 FranceFrance K. Mladenovic 7th 6th      FranceFrance K. Mladenovic 0 5
  2  GermanyGermany A. Kerber 6th 7th  
 

Double

Seeding list

No. pairing Round reached

01. FranceFrance Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic
FranceFrance  		Round of 16
02. Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan
Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei  		Semifinals
03. HungaryHungary Tímea Babos Jaroslawa Schwedowa
KazakhstanKazakhstan  		Quarter finals
04th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Martina Hingis Coco Vandeweghe
United StatesUnited States  		final
No. pairing Round reached
05. GermanyGermany Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		Semifinals

06th United StatesUnited States Raquel Atawo Abigail Spears
United StatesUnited States  		Quarter finals

07th IndiaIndia Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		victory

08th. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xu Yifan Zheng Saisai
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		Round of 16

Explanation of symbols

  • r = retired
  • d = disqualification
  • where = walkover

Results

First round   Round of 16   Quarter finals   Semifinals   final
             
  1  FranceFrance C. Garcia K. Mladenovic
 FranceFrance  		6th 2 [4]
   United StatesUnited States V. King M. Niculescu
 RomaniaRomania  		7th 6th          United StatesUnited States V. King M. Niculescu
 RomaniaRomania  		3 6th [10]  
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China C. Liang Y. Wang
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		6 4 3          United StatesUnited States V. King M. Niculescu
 RomaniaRomania  		4th 4th  
   GermanyGermany A.-L. Grönefeld K. Peschke
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6th 7th         5  GermanyGermany J. Görges Ka. Plíšková
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6th 6th    
   SloveniaSlovenia A. Klepač K. Srebotnik
 SloveniaSlovenia  		2 5          GermanyGermany A.-L. Grönefeld K. Peschke
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		7th 5 [8th]
   UkraineUkraine K. Bondarenko C.-j. Chuang
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei  		1 7th [10]     5  GermanyGermany J. Görges Ka. Plíšková
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6 9 7th [10]  
5  GermanyGermany J. Görges Ka. Plíšková
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6th 6 3 [12]     5  GermanyGermany J. Görges Ka. Plíšková
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		1 4th  
      4th  SwitzerlandSwitzerland M. Hingis C. Vandeweghe
 United StatesUnited States  		6th 6th    
  4th  SwitzerlandSwitzerland M. Hingis C. Vandeweghe
 United StatesUnited States  		w. O.  
WC  SwitzerlandSwitzerland B. Bencic K. Flipkens
 BelgiumBelgium  		4th 1          NetherlandsNetherlands Bertens, J. Larsson
 SwedenSweden  		       
   NetherlandsNetherlands Bertens, J. Larsson
 SwedenSweden  		6th 6th       4th  SwitzerlandSwitzerland M. Hingis C. Vandeweghe
 United StatesUnited States  		w. O.  
   ItalyItaly S. Errani C. Suárez Navarro
 SpainSpain  		6th 6th            ItalyItaly S. Errani C. Suárez Navarro
 SpainSpain  		       
   RomaniaRomania IR Olaru R. Voráčová
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		3 2          ItalyItaly S. Errani C. Suárez Navarro
 SpainSpain  		6th 6th  
   SpainSpain L. Arruabarrena Vecino O. Savchuk
 UkraineUkraine  		4th 2       8th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Y. Xu S. Zheng
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		4th 2    
8th  China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Y. Xu S. Zheng
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		6th 6th       4th  SwitzerlandSwitzerland M. Hingis C. Vandeweghe
 United StatesUnited States  		5 4th  
7th  IndiaIndia S. Mirza B. Strýcová
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6th 6th         7th  IndiaIndia S. Mirza B. Strýcová
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		7th 6th  
   CroatiaCroatia D. Jurak An. Rodionova
 AustraliaAustralia  		2 3       7th  IndiaIndia S. Mirza B. Strýcová
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6th 6th  
WC  United StatesUnited States L. Davis V. Lepchenko
 United StatesUnited States  		5 2          United StatesUnited States C. McHale, M. Sanchez
 United StatesUnited States  		4th 4th    
   United StatesUnited States C. McHale, M. Sanchez
 United StatesUnited States  		7th 6th       7th  IndiaIndia S. Mirza B. Strýcová
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		7th 6th  
   SpainSpain A. Medina Garrigues A. Parra Santonja
 SpainSpain  		2 6th [11]       3  HungaryHungary T. Babos J. Swedowa
 KazakhstanKazakhstan  		6 4 1    
   United StatesUnited States N. Melichar V. Wongteanchai
 ThailandThailand  		6th 4th [9]        SpainSpain A. Medina Garrigues A. Parra Santonja
 SpainSpain  		2 0  
  3  HungaryHungary T. Babos J. Swedowa
 KazakhstanKazakhstan  		6th 6th    
    7th  IndiaIndia S. Mirza B. Strýcová
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6th 7th  
6th  United StatesUnited States R. Atawo A. Spears
 United StatesUnited States  		6 4 6th [10]       2  Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei H.-c. Chan Y.-j. Chan
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei  		2 5    
   CanadaCanada G. Dabrowski, M.J. Martínez Sánchez
 SpainSpain  		7th 3 [7]     6th  United StatesUnited States R. Atawo A. Spears
 United StatesUnited States  		4th 6th [10]
WC  AustraliaAustralia D. Gavrilova D. Kassatkina
 RussiaRussia  		4th 6 2          JapanJapan E. Hozumi M. Kato
 JapanJapan  		6th 1 [6]  
   JapanJapan E. Hozumi M. Kato
 JapanJapan  		6th 7th       6th  United StatesUnited States R. Atawo A. Spears
 United StatesUnited States  		5 6th [8th]
   UkraineUkraine L. Kitschenok N. Kitschenok
 UkraineUkraine  		4th 6th [3]       2  Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei H.-c. Chan Y.-j. Chan
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei  		7th 2 [10]  
   ArgentinaArgentina M. Irigoyen O. Kalashnikova
 GeorgiaGeorgia  		6th 2 [10]        ArgentinaArgentina M. Irigoyen O. Kalashnikova
 GeorgiaGeorgia  		0 6th [7]
  2  Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei H.-c. Chan Y.-j. Chan
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei  		6th 1 [10]  
 

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