The 2016 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 120th edition of the French Open and the second Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the Stade Roland Garros from 22 May to 5 June and consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior and wheelchair players also took part in singles and doubles events.

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2016 French Open
Date	22 May – 5 June 2016
Edition	115
Category	86th Grand Slam (ITF)
Draw	128S/64D/32X
Prize money	€32,017,500
Surface	Clay
Location	Paris (XVIe), France
Venue	Roland Garros Stadium
Champions
Men's singles
Novak Djokovic
Women's singles
Garbiñe Muguruza
Men's doubles
Feliciano López / Marc López
Women's doubles
Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic
Mixed doubles
Martina Hingis / Leander Paes
Wheelchair men's singles
Gustavo Fernández
Wheelchair women's singles
Marjolein Buis
Wheelchair men's doubles
Shingo Kunieda / Gordon Reid
Wheelchair women's doubles
Yui Kamiji / Jordanne Whiley
Boys' singles
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Girls' singles
Rebeka Masarova
Boys' doubles
Yshai Oliel / Patrik Rikl
Girls' doubles
Paula Arias Manjón / Olga Danilović
Legends under 45 doubles
Juan Carlos Ferrero / Carlos Moyá
Women's legends doubles
Lindsay Davenport / Martina Navratilova
Legends over 45 doubles
Sergi Bruguera / Goran Ivanišević
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Novak Djokovic won the men's singles in the 2016 edition. Stan Wawrinka was the defending champion in men's singles, but he lost to Andy Murray in the semifinals. Serena Williams was the defending champion in the women's singles, but she lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in the final. Roger Federer withdrew before the tournament to avoid "unnecessary [fitness] risk",^[1] making this tournament the first Grand Slam he missed since the 1999 US Open. Furthermore, nine-time champion Rafael Nadal withdrew during the tournament due to injury, for the first time in his French Open career.

Novak Djokovic's victory at this tournament in his 20th Grand Slam final completed his career Grand Slam of all four major tournaments, the eighth man to do so in singles and the fifth since the start of the Open Era (after Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal). Djokovic also achieved a non-calendar year Grand Slam, becoming the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four major titles at once.^[2][3] The victory by Garbiñe Muguruza was her first Grand Slam win in her second Grand Slam final.

The 2016 French Open was the 115th edition of the French Open and was held at Stade Roland Garros in Paris.^[4]

The tournament was 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 consisted of men's and women's singles and doubles draws as well as a mixed doubles event.^[5]

There were singles and doubles events for both boys and girls (players under 18),^[6] and singles and doubles events for men's and women's wheelchair tennis players as part of the UNIQLO tour under the Grand Slam category.^[7] The tournament was played on clay courts and took place over a series of 22 courts, including the three main showcourts, Court Philippe Chatrier, Court Suzanne Lenglen and Court 1.^[5][8]

2016 French Open – Men's singles

More information Champion, Runner-up ...

Champion		Runner-up
Novak Djokovic [1]		Andy Murray [2]
Semifinals out
Dominic Thiem [13]		Stan Wawrinka [3]
Quarterfinals out
Tomáš Berdych [7]	David Goffin [12]	Albert Ramos Viñolas	Richard Gasquet [9]
4th round out
Roberto Bautista Agut [14]	David Ferrer [11]	Marcel Granollers	Ernests Gulbis
Milos Raonic [8]	Viktor Troicki [22]	Kei Nishikori [5]	John Isner [15]
3rd round out
Aljaž Bedene	Borna Ćorić	Feliciano López [21]	Pablo Cuevas [25]
Rafael Nadal [4]	Alexander Zverev	Nicolás Almagro	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga [6]
Andrej Martin (LL)	Jack Sock [23]	Gilles Simon [16]	Jérémy Chardy [30]
Fernando Verdasco	Nick Kyrgios [17]	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Ivo Karlović [27]
2nd round out
Steve Darcis (Q)	Pablo Carreño	Bernard Tomic [20]	Paul-Henri Mathieu
Juan Mónaco	Víctor Estrella Burgos	Quentin Halys (WC)	Malek Jaziri
Facundo Bagnis	Nicolas Mahut	Stéphane Robert (WC)	Guillermo García López
Carlos Berlocq (Q)	Jiří Veselý	João Sousa [26]	Marcos Baghdatis
Adrian Mannarino	Lucas Pouille [29]	Dustin Brown (Q)	Marco Trungelliti (Q)
Guido Pella	Dušan Lajović	Adam Pavlásek (LL)	Taro Daniel
Andrey Kuznetsov	Ivan Dodig	Igor Sijsling (LL)	Bjorn Fratangelo (WC)
Kyle Edmund	Benoît Paire [19]	Jordan Thompson (WC)	Mathias Bourgue (WC)
1st round out
Lu Yen-hsun	Marsel İlhan (Q)	Gerald Melzer (Q)	Federico Delbonis [31]
Brian Baker (PR)	Taylor Fritz	Santiago Giraldo	Dmitry Tursunov (PR)
Evgeny Donskoy	Denis Istomin	Illya Marchenko	Thomas Fabbiano (LL)
Tobias Kamke (Q)	Chung Hyeon	Florian Mayer (PR)	Vasek Pospisil
Sam Groth	Kenny de Schepper (Q)	Ričardas Berankis	Fabio Fognini [32]
Kevin Anderson [18]	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Thiemo de Bakker	Íñigo Cervantes
Grégoire Barrère (WC)	Paolo Lorenzi	Rajeev Ram (Q)	Philipp Kohlschreiber [24]
Damir Džumhur	Andreas Seppi	Gilles Müller	Jan-Lennard Struff (Q)
Janko Tipsarević (PR)	Mikhail Kukushkin	Daniel Muñoz de la Nava	Julien Benneteau (WC)
Robin Haase	Dudi Sela	Horacio Zeballos	Marin Čilić [10]
Rogério Dutra Silva	Diego Schwartzman	Denis Kudla	Grigor Dimitrov
Leonardo Mayer	Roberto Carballés Baena (Q)	Martin Kližan	Lukáš Rosol
Simone Bolelli	Benjamin Becker	Mikhail Youzhny	Steve Johnson [33]
Marco Cecchinato	Adrian Ungur (Q)	Sam Querrey	Thomaz Bellucci
John Millman	Nikoloz Basilashvili (Q)	Donald Young	Radu Albot (Q)
Albert Montañés	Laslo Djere (Q)	Jordi Samper Montaña (Q)	Radek Štěpánek (Q)

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2016 French Open – Women's singles

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Champion		Runner-up
Garbiñe Muguruza [4]		Serena Williams [1]
Semifinals out
Kiki Bertens		Samantha Stosur [21]
Quarterfinals out
Yulia Putintseva	Timea Bacsinszky [8]	Shelby Rogers	Tsvetana Pironkova
4th round out
Elina Svitolina [18]	Carla Suárez Navarro [12]	Madison Keys [15]	Venus Williams [9]
Irina-Camelia Begu [25]	Svetlana Kuznetsova [13]	Simona Halep [6]	Agnieszka Radwańska [2]
3rd round out
Kristina Mladenovic [26]	Ana Ivanovic [14]	Dominika Cibulková [22]	Karin Knapp
Daria Kasatkina [29]	Monica Puig	Alizé Cornet	Pauline Parmentier
Annika Beck	Petra Kvitová [10]	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova [24]	Yanina Wickmayer
Naomi Osaka	Lucie Šafářová [11]	Sloane Stephens [19]	Barbora Strýcová [30]
2nd round out
Teliana Pereira	Tímea Babos	Taylor Townsend (WC)	Kurumi Nara
Wang Qiang	Ana Konjuh	Andrea Petkovic [28]	Anastasija Sevastova
Camila Giorgi	Virginie Razzano (WC)	Julia Görges	Mariana Duque Mariño
Louisa Chirico (Q)	Tatjana Maria	Irina Falconi	Eugenie Bouchard
Kateryna Bondarenko	CoCo Vandeweghe	Elena Vesnina	Hsieh Su-wei
Heather Watson	Çağla Büyükakçay (Q)	Ekaterina Makarova [27]	Myrtille Georges (WC)
Zarina Diyas	Mirjana Lučić-Baroni	Zhang Shuai	Viktorija Golubic (Q)
Johanna Larsson	Verónica Cepede Royg (Q)	Polona Hercog	Caroline Garcia
1st round out
Magdaléna Rybáriková	Kristýna Plíšková	Samantha Crawford	Francesca Schiavone
Sorana Cîrstea (Q)	Amandine Hesse (WC)	Denisa Allertová	Océane Dodin (WC)
Kateřina Siniaková (Q)	Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (WC)	Arina Rodionova (WC)	Zheng Saisai
Laura Robson (PR)	Aleksandra Wozniak (PR)	Sachia Vickery (Q)	Victoria Azarenka [5]
Angelique Kerber [3]	Alizé Lim (WC)	İpek Soylu (Q)	Anna-Lena Friedsam
Johanna Konta [20]	Olga Govortsova	Daria Gavrilova	Donna Vekić
Anett Kontaveit	Lauren Davis	Kirsten Flipkens	Jelena Janković [23]
Monica Niculescu [31]	Mona Barthel	Laura Siegemund	Sílvia Soler Espinosa (LL)
Roberta Vinci [7]	Maryna Zanevska (Q)	Naomi Broady	Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Karolína Plíšková [17]	Madison Brengle	Lara Arruabarrena	Danka Kovinić
Yaroslava Shvedova	Nicole Gibbs	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	Sara Sorribes Tormo (Q)
Varvara Lepchenko	Alexandra Dulgheru	Christina McHale	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
Nao Hibino	Carina Witthöft	Daniela Hantuchová (Q)	Jeļena Ostapenko [32]
Misaki Doi	Galina Voskoboeva (PR)	Alison Riske	Vitalia Diatchenko (PR)
Sara Errani [16]	Magda Linette	Sabine Lisicki	Margarita Gasparyan
Lucie Hradecká (Q)	Lourdes Domínguez Lino	Lesia Tsurenko	Bojana Jovanovski

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The following are the seeded players and notable players who withdrew from the event. Seedings are based on ATP and WTA rankings as of 16 May 2016. Rank and points before are as of 23 May 2016.
An * in pink signifies the player is out of the event.

Men's singles

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Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Novak Djokovic	16,150	1,200	2,000	16,950	Champion, won against Andy Murray [2]
2	2	Andy Murray	8,435	720	1,200	8,915	Runner up, lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
3	4	Stan Wawrinka	6,315	2,000	720	5,035	Semifinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
4	5	Rafael Nadal	5,675	360	90	5,405	Third round withdrew due to a left wrist injury[10]
5	6	Kei Nishikori	4,470	360	180	4,290	Fourth round lost to Richard Gasquet [9]
6	7	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3,355	720	90	2,725	Third round retired against Ernests Gulbis
7	8	Tomáš Berdych	2,850	180	360	3,030	Quarterfinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
8	9	Milos Raonic	2,785	0	180	2,965	Fourth round lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas
9	12	Richard Gasquet	2,725	180	360	2,905	Quarterfinals lost to Andy Murray [2]
10	10	Marin Čilić	2,775	180	10	2,605	First round lost to Marco Trungelliti [Q]
11	11	David Ferrer	2,740	360	180	2,560	Fourth round lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
12	13	David Goffin	2,570	90	360	2,840	Quarterfinals lost to Dominic Thiem [13]
13	15	Dominic Thiem	2,430	45	720	3,105	Semifinals lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
14	16	Roberto Bautista Agut	2,015	45	180	2,150	Fourth round lost to Novak Djokovic [1]
15	17	John Isner	1,965	45	180	2,100	Fourth round lost to Andy Murray [2]
16	18	Gilles Simon	1,945	180	90	1,855	Third round lost to Viktor Troicki [22]
17	19	Nick Kyrgios	1,855	90	90	1,855	Third round lost to Richard Gasquet [9]
18	20	Kevin Anderson	1,840	90	10	1,760	First round lost to Stéphane Robert [WC]
19	21	Benoît Paire	1,641	90	45	1,596	Second round lost to Teymuraz Gabashvili
20	22	Bernard Tomic	1,625	45	45	1,625	Second round lost to Borna Ćorić
21	23	Feliciano López	1,550	10	90	1,630	Third round lost to David Ferrer [11]
22	24	Viktor Troicki	1,535	45	180	1,670	Fourth round lost to Stan Wawrinka [3]
23	25	Jack Sock	1,505	180	90	1,415	Third round lost to Albert Ramos Viñolas
24	26	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1,485	45	10	1,450	First round lost to Nicolás Almagro
25	27	Pablo Cuevas	1,450	90	90	1,450	Third round lost to Tomáš Berdych [7]
26	29	João Sousa	1,275	45	45	1,275	Second round lost to Ernests Gulbis
27	28	Ivo Karlović	1,280	10	90	1,360	Third round lost to Andy Murray [2]
28	30	Alexandr Dolgopolov	1,270	10	0	1,260	Withdrew due to a strained muscle[11]
29	31	Lucas Pouille	1,266	0	45	1,311	Second round lost to Andrej Martin [LL]
30	32	Jérémy Chardy	1,265	180	90	1,175	Third round lost to Stan Wawrinka [3]
31	35	Federico Delbonis	1,165	10	10	1,165	First round lost to Pablo Carreño Busta
32	33	Fabio Fognini	1,205	45	10	1,170	First round lost to Marcel Granollers
33	34	Steve Johnson	1,190	90	10	1,110	First round lost to Fernando Verdasco

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Withdrawn players

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Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
3	Roger Federer	7,015	360	6,655	Back injury[12]
14	Gaël Monfils	2,470	180	2,290	Viral infection[13]

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Women's singles

More information Seed, Rank ...

Seed	Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points won	Points after	Status
1	1	Serena Williams	9,030	2,000	1,300	8,330	Runner-up, lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [4]
2	2	Agnieszka Radwańska	5,850	10	240	6,080	Fourth round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
3	3	Angelique Kerber	5,740	130	10	5,660	First round lost to Kiki Bertens
4	4	Garbiñe Muguruza	5,196	430	2,000	6,766	Champion, won against Serena Williams [1]
5	5	Victoria Azarenka	4,341	130	10	4,222	First round retired against Karin Knapp
6	6	Simona Halep	4,301	70	240	4,471	Fourth round lost to Samantha Stosur [21]
7	7	Roberta Vinci	3,405	10	10	3,405	First round lost to Kateryna Bondarenko
8	9	Timea Bacsinszky	3,150	780	430	2,800	Quarterfinals lost to Kiki Bertens
9	11	Venus Williams	2,886	10	240	3,116	Fourth round lost to Timea Bacsinszky [8]
10	12	Petra Kvitová	2,878	240	130	2,768	Third round lost to Shelby Rogers
11	13	Lucie Šafářová	2,843	1,300	130	1,673	Third round lost to Samantha Stosur [21]
12	14	Carla Suárez Navarro	2,585	130	240	2,695	Fourth round lost to Yulia Putintseva
13	15	Svetlana Kuznetsova	2,585	70	240	2,755	Fourth round lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [4]
14	16	Ana Ivanovic	2,560	780	130	1,910	Third round lost to Elina Svitolina [18]
15	17	Madison Keys	2,482	130	240	2,592	Fourth round lost to Kiki Bertens
16	18	Sara Errani	2,450	430	10	2,030	First round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
17	19	Karolína Plíšková	2,420	70	10	2,360	First round lost to Shelby Rogers
18	20	Elina Svitolina	2,416	430	240	2,226	Fourth round lost to Serena Williams [1]
19	22	Sloane Stephens	2,260	240	130	2,150	Third round lost to Tsvetana Pironkova
20	21	Johanna Konta	2,280	40	10	2,250	First round lost to Julia Görges
21	24	Samantha Stosur	2,050	130	780	2,700	Semifinals lost to Garbiñe Muguruza [4]
22	25	Dominika Cibulková	1,951	0	130	2,081	Third round lost to Carla Suárez Navarro [12]
23	26	Jelena Janković	1,940	10	10	1,940	First round lost to Tatjana Maria
24	27	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	1,840	10	130	1,960	Third round lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova [13]
25	28	Irina-Camelia Begu	1,655	130	240	1,765	Fourth round lost to Shelby Rogers
26	30	Kristina Mladenovic	1,550	130	130	1,550	Third round lost to Serena Williams [1]
27	29	Ekaterina Makarova	1,552	240	70	1,382	Second round lost to Yanina Wickmayer
28	31	Andrea Petkovic	1,545	130	70	1,485	Second round lost to Yulia Putintseva
29	32	Daria Kasatkina	1,538	(50)†	130	1,618	Third round lost to Kiki Bertens
30	33	Barbora Strýcová	1,520	10	130	1,640	Third round lost to Agnieszka Radwańska [2]
31	35	Monica Niculescu	1,450	10+140	10+55	1,365	First round lost to Pauline Parmentier
32	36	Jeļena Ostapenko	1,365	(13)†	10	1,362	First round lost to Naomi Osaka

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† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2015. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead.

Withdrawn players

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Rank	Player	Points before	Points defending	Points after	Withdrawal reason
8	Belinda Bencic	3,330	70	3,260	Lower back injury[14]
10	Flavia Pennetta	2,963	240	2,723	Retirement[15]
23	Maria Sharapova	2,141	240	1,901	Provisional suspension[16]
34	Caroline Wozniacki	1,456	70	1,386	Right ankle injury[14]

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The following players were given wildcards to the main draw based on internal selection and recent performances.^[17]

The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:

This section does not cite any sources. (May 2016)

The following players were accepted directly into the main tournament, but withdrew with injuries, suspensions or personal reasons.