2016 US Open (tennis)

2016 US Open
Date	August 29 – September 11
Edition	136th
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw	128S/64D/32X
Prize money	$46,300,000
Surface	Hard
Location	New York City, New York, United States
Venue	USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Champions
Men's Singles
Stan Wawrinka
Women's Singles
Angelique Kerber
Men's Doubles
Bruno Soares / Jamie Murray
Women's Doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová
Mixed Doubles
Laura Siegemund / Mate Pavić
Boys' Singles
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Girls' Singles
Kayla Day
Boys' Doubles
Juan Carlos Aguilar / Felipe Meligeni Alves
Girls' Doubles
Jada Hart / Ena Shibahara
Men's Champions Invitational
Pat Cash / Mark Philippoussis
Women's Champions Invitational
Lindsay Davenport / Mary Joe Fernández

The 2016 US Open was the 136th edition of tennis' US Open, the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It took place on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City.

In the men's singles competition, Stan Wawrinka defeated defending champion Novak Djokovic in the final. Angelique Kerber defeated Karolína Plíšková in the women's singles to become the first German player to win the tournament since Steffi Graf in 1996. 2015 women's singles champion Flavia Pennetta did not defend her title as she had retired at the end of the 2015 season.

Tournament

Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the Finals of US Open took place before the retractable roof was installed

The 2016 US Open was the 136th edition of the tournament and it was held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park of Queens in New York City, New York, United States.

The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and was part of the 2016 ATP World Tour and the 2016 WTA Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. The tournament consists of both men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event. There are also singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18), which is part of the Grade A category of tournaments.

In addition, the annual men's and women's Champions Invitational doubles events were held, with eight male and eight female former Grand Slam champions taking part. For the third year running, the American Collegiate Invitational competitions were organized, where top sixteen American collegiate players compete in men's and women's singles events. Exhibition matches also took place.

Due to the 2016 Summer Paralympics, no usual singles, doubles and quad events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO tour under the Grand Slam category will be played.

The tournament was played on hard courts and takes place over a series of 16 courts with DecoTurf surface, including the three main showcourts – Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium and the new Grandstand. It was the first US Open played on courts with operational roofs, on centre court and on the newly built Grandstand stadium. The Ashe roof was expected to be used only for rain, unlike the Australian Open, which also closes its roof in cases of extreme heat.^[1] It was also be the last tournament before the demolition of the Louis Armstrong Stadium and old Grandstand. Although Arthur Ashe Stadium and the new Grandstand will be the existing main stadiums for the 2017 edition.

For the second year running, the US Open is scheduled across 14 days, rather than the 15-day schedule of 2013 and 2014, which has impact on all senior events. Women's singles semifinals have been scheduled for September 8 evening session, while men's singles semifinal matches was played on Friday September 9. The men's doubles final was played before the women's singles final on Saturday September 10, and the men's singles final followed the women's doubles final on Sunday September 11.

Broadcast

In the United States, the 2016 US Open was the second under a new, 11-year, $825 million contract with ESPN, in which the broadcaster holds exclusive rights to the entire tournament and the US Open Series. This means that the tournament was not available on broadcast television. This also makes ESPN the exclusive U.S. broadcaster for three of the four tennis majors.^[2][3][4]

Live action from a total of twelve courts was available this year (Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium, Grandstand, Court 4, Court 5, Court 6, Court 9, Court 11, Court 12, Court 13, Court 17 and Court P6/Old Grandstand), an increase from eleven in 2015.

Point and prize money distribution

Point distribution

Below is a series of tables for each of the competitions showing the ranking points on offer for each event.

Senior

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q	Q3	Q2	Q1
Men's Singles	2000	1200	720	360	180	90	45	10	25	16	8	0
Men's Doubles							0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Women's Singles		1300	780	430	240	130	70	10	40	30	20	2
Women's Doubles							10	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Junior Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Boys' Singles 375 270 180 120 75 30 25 20 Girls' Singles Boys' Doubles 270 180 120 75 45 N/A N/A N/A Girls' Doubles N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

The total prize-money compensation for the 2016 US Open will be $46.3 million, a 10% increase on the same total last year. Of that total, a record $3.5 million will go to both the men’s and women's singles champions. This would make the US Open the most lucrative and highest paying tennis grand slam in the world, leapfrogging Wimbledon in total prize money fund. Prize money for the US Open Qualifying Tournament is also up 10 percent, to $1.9 million.^[5][6]

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128	Q3	Q2	Q1
Singles	$3,500,000	$1,750,000	$875,000	$450,000	$235,000	$140,000	$77,188	$43,313	$16,350	$10,900	$5,606
Doubles [lower-alpha 1]	$625,000	$310,000	$150,000	$75,000	$40,000	$24,500	$15,141	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mixed Doubles [lower-alpha 1]	$150,000	$70,000	$30,000	$15,000	$10,000	$5,000	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

On top of listed above, $600,000 will contribute Champions Invitational events prize money, while $1,478,000 is estimated as players' per diem. A total of men's and women's singles prize money ($36,324,000) will account for more than 78% of total player compensation, while doubles ($5,463,000) and mixed doubles ($500,000) – for 12% and 1%, respectively.

Bonus prize money

The top three men’s and top three women’s finishers in the 2016 US Open Series also earn bonus prize money at the US Open, with the champions of the Series Bonus Challenge having the opportunity to win $1 million in addition to their tournament prize money.^[7]

2016 Emirates Airline US Open Series Finish	2016 US Open Finish								Awardees
	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 128
1st Place	$1,000,000	$500,000	$250,000	$125,000	$70,000	$40,000	$25,000	$15,000	Kei Nishikori	$250,000
									Agnieszka Radwańska	$70,000
2nd Place	$500,000	$250,000	$125,000	$62,500	$35,000	$20,000	$12,500	$7,500	Grigor Dimitrov	$35,000
									Johanna Konta	$35,000
3rd Place	$250,000	$125,000	$62,500	$31,250	$17,500	$10,000	$6,250	$3,750	Milos Raonic	$6,250
									Simona Halep	$31,250

Singles players

2016 US Open – Men's Singles

Champion		Runner-up
Stan Wawrinka [3]		Novak Djokovic [1]
Semifinals out
Gaël Monfils [10]		Kei Nishikori [6]
Quarterfinals out
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [9]	Lucas Pouille [24]	Juan Martín del Potro (WC)	Andy Murray [2]
4th Round out
Kyle Edmund	Jack Sock [26]	Rafael Nadal [4]	Marcos Baghdatis
Dominic Thiem [8]	Illya Marchenko	Ivo Karlović [21]	Grigor Dimitrov [22]
3rd Round out
Mikhail Youzhny	John Isner [20]	Kevin Anderson [23]	Marin Čilić [7]
Andrey Kuznetsov	Roberto Bautista Agut [15]	Nicolás Almagro	Ryan Harrison (Q)
Pablo Carreño Busta	David Ferrer [11]	Nick Kyrgios [14]	Daniel Evans
Nicolas Mahut	Jared Donaldson (Q)	João Sousa	Paolo Lorenzi
2nd Round out
Jiří Veselý	Guido Pella	Steve Darcis (Q)	Ernesto Escobedo (WC)
James Duckworth (WC)	Vasek Pospisil	Mischa Zverev (Q)	Sergiy Stakhovsky
Andreas Seppi	Albert Ramos-Viñolas [31]	Marco Chiudinelli (Q)	Federico Delbonis
Jan Šátral (Q)	Pablo Cuevas [18]	Benoît Paire [32]	Milos Raonic [5]
Ričardas Berankis	Janko Tipsarević (PR)	Steve Johnson [19]	Fabio Fognini
Horacio Zeballos	Damir Džumhur	Alexander Zverev [27]	Alessandro Giannessi (Q)
Karen Khachanov (Q)	Paul-Henri Mathieu	Donald Young	Viktor Troicki
Feliciano López [16]	Jérémy Chardy	Gilles Simon [30]	Marcel Granollers
1st Round out
Jerzy Janowicz (PR)	Saketh Myneni (Q)	Bjorn Fratangelo (WC)	Martin Kližan [28]
Frances Tiafoe (WC)	Jordan Thompson	Lukáš Lacko	Richard Gasquet [13]
Guido Andreozzi (Q)	Robin Haase	Jozef Kovalík (LL)	Yoshihito Nishioka
Taylor Fritz	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Gastão Elias	Rogério Dutra Silva
Denis Istomin	Stéphane Robert	Thomaz Bellucci	Julien Benneteau (PR)
Mikhail Kukushkin	Guilherme Clezar (Q)	Brian Baker (PR)	Guillermo García-López
Gilles Müller	Mackenzie McDonald (WC)	Márton Fucsovics (Q)	Dudi Sela
Dušan Lajović	Facundo Bagnis	Adrian Mannarino	Dustin Brown
John Millman	Malek Jaziri	Ilya Ivashka (Q)	Sam Querrey [29]
Evgeny Donskoy	Diego Schwartzman	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Alexandr Dolgopolov
Aljaž Bedene	Florian Mayer	Ivan Dodig	Bernard Tomic [17]
Daniel Brands (LL)	Rajeev Ram (WC)	Denis Kudla	Fernando Verdasco
Benjamin Becker	Thomas Fabbiano (Q)	Christian Harrison (Q)	Philipp Kohlschreiber [25]
Lu Yen-hsun	Jan-Lennard Struff	Radu Albot	David Goffin [12]
Borna Ćorić	Víctor Estrella Burgos	Michael Mmoh (Q)	Íñigo Cervantes
Radek Štěpánek (Q)	Carlos Berlocq	Juan Mónaco	Lukáš Rosol

2016 US Open – Women's Singles

Champion		Runner-up
Angelique Kerber [2]		Karolína Plíšková [10]
Semifinals out
Serena Williams [1]		Caroline Wozniacki
Quarterfinals out
Simona Halep [5]	Ana Konjuh	Anastasija Sevastova	Roberta Vinci [7]
4th Round out
Yaroslava Shvedova	Carla Suárez Navarro [11]	Agnieszka Radwańska [4]	Venus Williams [6]
Madison Keys [8]	Johanna Konta [13]	Lesia Tsurenko	Petra Kvitová [14]
3rd Round out
Johanna Larsson	Zhang Shuai	Elena Vesnina [19]	Tímea Babos [31]
Caroline Garcia [25]	Varvara Lepchenko	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [17]	Laura Siegemund [26]
Naomi Osaka	Monica Niculescu	Belinda Bencic [24]	Kateryna Bondarenko
Carina Witthöft	Dominika Cibulková [12]	Elina Svitolina [22]	Catherine Bellis (Q)
2nd Round out
Vania King (WC)	Denisa Allertová	Wang Qiang	Samantha Stosur [16]
Jelena Janković	Annika Beck	Richèl Hogenkamp (Q)	Lucie Šafářová
Naomi Broady	Kateřina Siniaková	Kurumi Nara	Timea Bacsinszky [15]
Montserrat González (Q)	Kristina Mladenovic	Nicole Gibbs	Julia Görges
Kayla Day (WC)	Duan Yingying (Q)	Ana Bogdan (Q)	Svetlana Kuznetsova [9]
Tsvetana Pironkova	Andrea Petkovic	Zheng Saisai	Garbiñe Muguruza [3]
Christina McHale	Yulia Putintseva	Wang Yafan (Q)	Evgeniya Rodina
Çağla Büyükakçay	Lauren Davis (WC)	Shelby Rogers	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
1st Round out
Ekaterina Makarova	Antonia Lottner (Q)	Karin Knapp	Ana Ivanovic [29]
Daria Kasatkina [23]	Lara Arruabarrena	Ellen Perez (WC)	Camila Giorgi
Teliana Pereira	Mariana Duque Mariño	Nadia Podoroska (Q)	Anett Kontaveit
Barbara Haas (Q)	Heather Watson	Daria Gavrilova	Kirsten Flipkens
Jessica Pegula (Q)	Laura Robson (Q)	Eugenie Bouchard	Pauline Parmentier
Kiki Bertens [20]	Stefanie Vögele	Peng Shuai (PR)	Vitalia Diatchenko (PR)
Sofia Kenin (WC)	Danka Kovinić	Nao Hibino	Louisa Chirico
Patricia Maria Țig	Aleksandra Krunić (Q)	Yanina Wickmayer	Kateryna Kozlova
Alison Riske	Madison Brengle	Maria Sakkari	Coco Vandeweghe [28]
Barbora Strýcová [18]	Sorana Cîrstea (Q)	Taylor Townsend (Q)	Francesca Schiavone
Bethanie Mattek-Sands (WC)	Virginie Razzano (WC)	Kristína Kučová (Q)	Samantha Crawford
Monica Puig [32]	Hsieh Su-wei	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	Elise Mertens (Q)
Anna-Lena Friedsam	Mona Barthel	Sabine Lisicki	Misaki Doi [30]
Irina-Camelia Begu [21]	Alison Van Uytvanck (LL)	Danielle Collins (WC)	Magda Linette
Jeļena Ostapenko	Irina Falconi	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	Mandy Minella (Q)
Sara Errani [27]	Viktorija Golubic	Alizé Cornet	Polona Hercog

Day-by-day summaries

Singles seeds

Seeds are based on the ATP and WTA rankings as of 22 August 2016. Rank and points before are as of 29 August 2016.

Men's Singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Novak Djokovic	14,840	2,000	1,200	14,040	Runner-up, lost to Stan Wawrinka [3]
2	2	Andy Murray	9,305	180	360	9,485	Quarterfinals lost to Kei Nishikori [6]
3	3	Stan Wawrinka	4,980	720	2,000	6,260	Champion, defeated Novak Djokovic [1]
4	5	Rafael Nadal	4,850	90	180	4,940	Fourth round lost to Lucas Pouille [24]
5	6	Milos Raonic	4,805	90	45	4,760	Second round lost to Ryan Harrison [Q]
6	7	Kei Nishikori	4,165	10	720	4,875	Semifinals lost to Stan Wawrinka [3]
7	9	Marin Čilić	3,515	720	90	2,885	Third round lost to Jack Sock [26]
8	10	Dominic Thiem	3,205	90	180	3,295	Fourth round retired vs. Juan Martín del Potro [WC]
9	11	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2,875	360	360	2,875	Quarterfinals retired vs. Novak Djokovic [1]
10	12	Gaël Monfils	2,835	10	720	3,545	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
11	13	David Ferrer	2,660	90	90	2,660	Third round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [WC]
12	14	David Goffin	2,565	90	10	2,485	First round lost to Jared Donaldson [Q]
13	15	Richard Gasquet	2,230	360	10	1,880	First round lost to Kyle Edmund
14	16	Nick Kyrgios	2,060	10	90	2,140	Third round retired vs. Illya Marchenko
15	17	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,040	180	90	1,950	Third round lost to Lucas Pouille [24]
16	18	Feliciano López	1,840	360	45	1,525	Second round lost to João Sousa
17	19	Bernard Tomic	1,780	90	10	1,700	First round lost to Damir Džumhur
18	20	Pablo Cuevas	1,745	45	45	1,745	Second round lost to Nicolás Almagro
19	22	Steve Johnson	1,635	10	45	1,670	Second round lost to Juan Martín del Potro [WC]
20	21	John Isner	1,645	180	90	1,555	Third round lost to Kyle Edmund
21	23	Ivo Karlović	1,570	45	180	1,705	Fourth round lost to Kei Nishikori [6]
22	24	Grigor Dimitrov	1,555	45	180	1,690	Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [2]
23	35	Kevin Anderson	1,275	360	90	1,005	Third round lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [9]
24	25	Lucas Pouille	1,481	10	360	1,831	Quarterfinals lost to Gaël Monfils [10]
25	26	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,475	90	10	1,395	First round retired vs. Nicolas Mahut
26	27	Jack Sock	1,450	45	180	1,585	Fourth round lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [9]
27	28	Alexander Zverev	1,415	35	45	1,425	Second round lost to Daniel Evans
28	29	Martin Kližan	1,405	45	10	1,370	First round lost to Mikhail Youzhny
29	30	Sam Querrey	1,400	10	10	1,400	First round lost to Janko Tipsarević [PR]
30	31	Gilles Simon	1,385	10	45	1,420	Second round lost to Paolo Lorenzi
31	33	Albert Ramos-Viñolas	1,330	10+45	45+20	1,340	Second round lost to Andrey Kuznetsov
32	34	Benoît Paire	1,305	180	45	1,170	Second round lost to Marcos Baghdatis

Withdrawn players

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Withdrawal reason
4	Roger Federer	4,945	1,200	0	3,745	Knee injury[8]
8	Tomáš Berdych	3,570	180	0	3,390	Appendicitis[9]

Women's Singles

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Serena Williams	7,050	780	780	7,050	Semifinals lost to Karolína Plíšková [10]
2	2	Angelique Kerber	6,860	130	2,000	8,730	Champion, defeated Karolína Plíšková [10]
3	3	Garbiñe Muguruza	5,830	70	70	5,830	Second round lost to Anastasija Sevastova
4	4	Agnieszka Radwańska	5,705	130	240	5,815	Fourth round lost to Ana Konjuh
5	5	Simona Halep	5,151	780	430	4,801	Quarterfinals lost to Serena Williams [1]
6	6	Venus Williams	4,005	430	240	3,815	Fourth round lost to Karolína Plíšková [10]
7	8	Roberta Vinci	3,465	1,300	430	2,595	Quarterfinals lost to Angelique Kerber [2]
8	9	Madison Keys	3,286	240	240	3,286	Fourth round lost to Caroline Wozniacki
9	10	Svetlana Kuznetsova	3,190	10	70	3,250	Second round lost to Caroline Wozniacki
10	11	Karolína Plíšková	3,135	10	1,300	4,425	Runner-up, lost to Angelique Kerber [2]
11	12	Carla Suárez Navarro	3,100	10	240	3,330	Fourth round lost to Simona Halep [5]
12	13	Dominika Cibulková	3,100	130	130	3,100	Third round lost to Lesia Tsurenko
13	14	Johanna Konta	2,905	280	240	2,865	Fourth round lost to Anastasija Sevastova
14	16	Petra Kvitová	2,580	430	240	2,390	Fourth round lost to Angelique Kerber [2]
15	15	Timea Bacsinszky	2,713	10	70	2,773	Second round lost to Varvara Lepchenko
16	17	Samantha Stosur	2,370	240	70	2,200	Second round lost to Zhang Shuai
17	18	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	2,195	70	130	2,255	Third round lost to Karolína Plíšková [10]
18	21	Barbora Strýcová	2,050	130	10	1,930	First round lost to Monica Niculescu
19	20	Elena Vesnina	2,054	70	130	2,114	Third round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro [11]
20	22	Kiki Bertens	1,945	110	10	1,845	First round lost to Ana Konjuh
21	23	Irina-Camelia Begu	1,835	10	10	1,835	First round lost to Lesia Tsurenko
22	19	Elina Svitolina	2,101	130	130	2,101	Third round lost to Petra Kvitová [14]
23	24	Daria Kasatkina	1,773	130	10	1,653	First round lost to Wang Qiang
24	26	Belinda Bencic	1,602	130	130	1,602	Third round lost to Johanna Konta [13]
25	33	Caroline Garcia	1,555	10	130	1,675	Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [4]
26	27	Laura Siegemund	1,600	40+140	130+13	1,563	Third round lost to Venus Williams [6]
27	28	Sara Errani	1,590	130	10	1,470	First round lost to Shelby Rogers
28	30	Coco Vandeweghe	1,561	70	10	1,501	First round lost to Naomi Osaka
29	31	Ana Ivanovic	1,560	10	10	1,560	First round lost to Denisa Allertová
30	32	Misaki Doi	1,555	70	10	1,495	First round lost to Carina Witthöft
31	34	Tímea Babos	1,510	10	130	1,630	Third round lost to Simona Halep [5]
32	35	Monica Puig	1,500	10	10	1,500	First round lost to Zheng Saisai

Withdrawn players

Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Withdrawal reason
7	Victoria Azarenka	3,551	430	0	3,121	Pregnancy[10]
25	Sloane Stephens	1,612	10	0	1,602	Right foot injury[11]

Doubles seeds

Men's Doubles Team Rank^1 Seed Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut 3 1 Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo 10 2 Bob Bryan Mike Bryan 11 3 Jamie Murray Bruno Soares 12 4 Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău 20 5 Daniel Nestor Vasek Pospisil 26 6 Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram 30 7 Feliciano López Marc López 40 8 Treat Huey Max Mirnyi 40 9 Henri Kontinen John Peers 43 10 Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin 48 11 Łukasz Kubot Alexander Peya 49 12 Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah 56 13 Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers 69 14 Oliver Marach Fabrice Martin 70 15 Radek Štěpánek Nenad Zimonjić 71 16 ^1 Rankings are as of 22 August 2016

Women's Doubles Team Rank^1 Seed Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic 7 1 Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan 14 2 Tímea Babos Yaroslava Shvedova 16 3 Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká 19 4 Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina 20 5 Martina Hingis Coco Vandeweghe 21 6 Sania Mirza Barbora Strýcová 22 7 Julia Görges Karolína Plíšková 25 8 Raquel Atawo Abigail Spears 34 9 Vania King Monica Niculescu 43 10 Xu Yifan Zheng Saisai 46 11 Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová 58 12 Andreja Klepač Katarina Srebotnik 58 13 Darija Jurak Anastasia Rodionova 68 14 Kiki Bertens Johanna Larsson 80 15 Barbora Krejčiková Kateřina Siniaková 86 16 ^1 Rankings are as of 22 August 2016

Mixed Doubles

Team		Rank^1	Seed
Sania Mirza	Ivan Dodig	8	1
Yaroslava Shvedova	Bruno Soares	13	2
Bethanie Mattek-Sands	Horia Tecău	25	3
Raquel Atawo	Jean-Julien Rojer	28	4
Chan Hao-ching	Max Mirnyi	29	5
Andrea Hlaváčková	Łukasz Kubot	33	6
Coco Vandeweghe	Rajeev Ram	39	7
Lucie Hradecká	Marcin Matkowski	44	8

• ¹ Rankings are as of 22 August 2016

Wild Card entries

The following players were given wildcards to the main draw based on internal selection and recent performances.

Men's Singles Juan Martín del Potro James Duckworth Ernesto Escobedo Bjorn Fratangelo Mackenzie McDonald[lower-alpha 2] Michael Mmoh Rajeev Ram Frances Tiafoe

Women's Singles Danielle Collins[lower-alpha 3] Kayla Day Lauren Davis Sofia Kenin Vania King Bethanie Mattek-Sands Ellen Perez Virginie Razzano

Men's Doubles Taylor Fritz / Tommy Paul Ryan Harrison / Austin Krajicek Denis Kudla / Dennis Novikov Mackenzie McDonald / Martin Redlicki[lower-alpha 4] John McNally / Jeffrey John Wolf Nicolas Meister / Eric Quigley Daniel Nguyen / Noah Rubin

Women's Doubles Brooke Austin / Kourtney Keegan[lower-alpha 5] Catherine Bellis / Julia Boserup Jacqueline Cako / Danielle Lao Samantha Crawford / Jessica Pegula Jada Hart / Ena Shibahara Asia Muhammad / Taylor Townsend Ashley Weinhold / Caitlin Whoriskey

Mixed Doubles

• Emina Bektas / Evan King
• Nicole Gibbs / Dennis Novikov
• Martina Hingis / Leander Paes
• Jamie Loeb / Noah Rubin
• Christina McHale / Ryan Harrison
• Melanie Oudin / Mitchell Krueger
• Taylor Townsend / Donald Young
• Sachia Vickery / Frances Tiafoe

Qualifier entries

The qualifying competitions took place at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on 23 – 26 August 2016.

Men's Singles Alessandro Giannessi Christian Harrison Karen Khachanov Guido Andreozzi Jan Šátral Steve Darcis Márton Fucsovics Thomas Fabbiano Radek Štěpánek Guilherme Clezar Ryan Harrison Ilya Ivashka Saketh Myneni Jared Donaldson Marco Chiudinelli Mischa Zverev Lucky Losers Jozef Kovalík Daniel Brands

Women's Singles Kristína Kučová Duan Yingying Montserrat González Nadia Podoroska Elise Mertens Mandy Minella Catherine Bellis Wang Yafan Taylor Townsend Jessica Pegula Ana Bogdan Barbara Haas Richèl Hogenkamp Antonia Lottner Laura Robson Aleksandra Krunić Lucky Loser Alison Van Uytvanck

Withdrawals

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament but withdrew.

Before the tournament

Men's Singles Tomáš Berdych →replaced by Lukáš Lacko Roger Federer →replaced by Dustin Brown Ernests Gulbis →replaced by Denis Kudla Thanasi Kokkinakis →replaced by Jozef Kovalík Tommy Robredo →replaced by Teymuraz Gabashvili Dmitry Tursunov →replaced by Daniel Brands

Women's Singles Victoria Azarenka →replaced by Aliaksandra Sasnovich Margarita Gasparyan →replaced by Evgeniya Rodina Sloane Stephens →replaced by Alison Van Uytvanck Galina Voskoboeva →replaced by Stefanie Vögele

During the tournament

Men's Singles

• Jiří Veselý

Retirements

Men's Singles Facundo Bagnis Alexandr Dolgopolov Philipp Kohlschreiber Nick Kyrgios Lukáš Lacko Dominic Thiem Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Mikhail Youzhny

Women's Singles Madison Brengle Polona Hercog

Champions

Seniors

Men's Singles

• Stan Wawrinka def. Novak Djokovic, 6–7^(1–7), 6–4, 7–5, 6–3

The two players had met 23 times prior, with Djokovic winning on 19 occasions.^[12] This was Wawrinka's first appearance in the final of the tournament. Defending champion Djokovic started well, taking Wawrinka's first service game. An opportunity for Djokovic to serve out the first set was lost and the set went into a tie break. There Wawrinka won the third point but lost another seven and Djokovic took the first set. In the second set, Wawrinka broke first to lead 3–1. Djokovic broke back and held serve to draw at 4–4, but lost his subsequent serve to allow Wawrinka to take the second set 6–4. Djokovic soon trailed 3–0 at the beginning of the third set but levelled it at 5–5. Wawrinka again broke serve in the final game to take the third set 7–5. Wawrinka started the fourth set like the last two, breaking Djokovic's first service game to lead 3–0.^[13] Djokovic received two medical timeouts midway through but was unable to prevent Wawrinka from winning the set 6–3 and his first US Open title.^[14]

Women's Singles

• Angelique Kerber def. Karolína Plíšková, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4

Kerber started the match as favorite to win, having assured the No. 1 women's ranking on 12 September. Plíšková reached her first grand slam final, having never previously made it past the third round, by beating home favorite Serena Williams in the semi-finals.^[15] Kerber started strongly, breaking Plíšková's first service game and won the first set 6–3 with another break in serve. Plíšková fought back, breaking midway into the second set to take it into a deciding set. In the third set, Plíšková broke Kerber's second service game to lead, before Kerber levelled the set at 3–3. With the match at 5–4, Plíšková served to stay in the match but Kerber won it in a love game to secure her first US Open title.^[16]

Men's Doubles

• Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares def. Pablo Carreño Busta / Guillermo García-López, 6–2, 6–3

Women's Doubles

• Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová def. Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic, 2–6, 7–6^(7–5), 6–4

Mixed Doubles

• Laura Siegemund / Mate Pavić def. Coco Vandeweghe / Rajeev Ram, 6–4, 6–4

Juniors

Boys' Singles

• Félix Auger-Aliassime def. Miomir Kecmanović, 6–3, 6–0

Girls' Singles

• Kayla Day def. Viktória Kužmová, 6–3, 6–2

Boys' Doubles

• Juan Carlos Aguilar / Felipe Meligeni Alves def. Félix Auger-Aliassime / Benjamin Sigouin, 6–3, 7–6^(7–4)

Girls' Doubles

• Jada Hart / Ena Shibahara def. Kayla Day / Caroline Dolehide, 4–6, 6–2, [13–11]

Invitation

Men's Champions Doubles

• Pat Cash / Mark Philippoussis def. John McEnroe / Patrick McEnroe, 6–3, 6–4

Women's Champions Doubles

• Lindsay Davenport / Mary Joe Fernández def. Martina Navratilova / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 6–4, 6–2

See also

• US Open (tennis)

Notes

1. Prize money listed per team
2. Winner of the men's singles tournament in the 2016 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
3. Winner of the women's singles tournament in the 2016 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
4. Winner of the men's doubles tournament in the 2016 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
5. Winner of the women's doubles tournament in the 2016 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships

References

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External links

• Official website