2016 Apia International Sydney

Coordinates: 33°51′18″S 151°4′20″E / 33.85500°S 151.07222°E / -33.85500; 151.07222

2016 Apia International Sydney
Date 10 – 16 January 2016
Edition 124th
Category ATP World Tour 250 series / WTA Premier
Draw 32S / 16D
Prize money $461,330 (men)
$753,000 (women)
Surface Hard
Location Sydney, Australia
Venue NSW Tennis Centre
Champions
Men's Singles
Serbia Viktor Troicki
Women's Singles
Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova
Men's Doubles
United Kingdom Jamie Murray / Brazil Bruno Soares
Women's Doubles
Switzerland Martina Hingis / India Sania Mirza

The 2016 Apia International Sydney was a joint 2016 ATP World Tour and 2016 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts in Sydney, New South Wales. It was the 123rd edition of the tournament and took place at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney, Australia. It was held from 10 January through 16 January 2016 as part of the Australian Open Series in preparation for the first Grand Slam of the year.

Point distribution

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 32 Q Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles 250 150 90 45 20 0 12 6 0 0
Men's Doubles 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles 470 305 185 100 55 1 25 18 13 1
Women's Doubles 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Prize money

Event W F SF QF Round of 16 Round of 321 Q3 Q2 Q1
Men's Singles $72,000 $37,900 $20,545 $11,705 $6,900 $4,085 $1,840 $920 N/A
Men's Doubles* $21,850 $11,500 $6,230 $3,570 $2,090 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Women's Singles $128,800 $68,585 $36,600 $19,660 $10,540 $5,750 $3,010 $1,600 $885
Women's Doubles* $40,200 $21,465 $11,735 $5,970 $3,230 N/A N/A N/A N/A

1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money.
*per team

ATP singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 AUS Bernard Tomic 18 1
 AUT Dominic Thiem 20 2
 SRB Viktor Troicki 22 3
 BUL Grigor Dimitrov 28 4
 ITA Andreas Seppi 29 5
 FRA Jérémy Chardy 31 6
 ARG Leonardo Mayer 35 7
 UKR Alexandr Dolgopolov 36 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following player received entry as a lucky loser:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Retirements

ATP doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
 NED Jean-Julien Rojer  ROU Horia Tecău 5 1
 USA Bob Bryan  USA Mike Bryan 9 2
 BRA Marcelo Melo  CAN Daniel Nestor 19 3
 IND Rohan Bopanna  ROU Florin Mergea 20 4

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

The following pair received entry as alternates:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

WTA singles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Rank1 Seed
 ROU Simona Halep 2 1
 POL Agnieszka Radwańska 5 2
 CZE Petra Kvitová 6 3
 GER Angelique Kerber 10 4
 CZE Karolína Plíšková 11 5
  SUI Timea Bacsinszky 12 6
 ESP Carla Suárez Navarro 13 7
  SUI Belinda Bencic 14 8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

Withdrawals

Before the tournament
During the tournament

Retirements

WTA doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

Country Player Country Player Rank1 Seed
  SUI Martina Hingis  IND Sania Mirza 3 1
 TPE Chan Hao-ching  TPE Chan Yung-jan 19 2
 FRA Caroline Garcia  FRA Kristina Mladenovic 23 3
 HUN Tímea Babos  SLO Katarina Srebotnik 25 4

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

Champions

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Men's Doubles

Women's Doubles

Broadcast

Selected matches aired in Australia on 7Two, with live coverage of both day and night sessions. Every match was also available to be streamed live through a free 7Tennis mobile app.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Knox, David (17 December 2015). "Seven Tennis 2016: summer guide". TV Tonight. Retrieved 9 January 2016.

External links

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