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Duration | January 1 – November 25, 1996 |
Edition | 26th |
Tournaments | 51 |
Categories | Grand Slam (4) WTA Championships Summer Olympics WTA Tier I (8) WTA Tier II (15) WTA Tier III (11) WTA Tier IV (11) |
Achievements (singles) | |
Most tournament titles | Steffi Graf (7) |
Most tournament finals | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (9) |
Prize money leader | Steffi Graf (US$2,665,706) |
Points leader | Steffi Graf (4,649) |
Awards | |
Player of the year | Steffi Graf |
Doubles team of the year | |
Most improved player of the year | Martina Hingis |
Newcomer of the year | Anna Kournikova |
Comeback player of the year | Jennifer Capriati |
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The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The 1996 WTA Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events. ITF tournaments are not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.
The table below shows the 1996 WTA Tour schedule.
Grand Slam events |
Summer Olympic Games |
Year-end championships |
Tier I events |
Tier II events |
Tier III events |
Tier IV events |
Team events |
Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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8 Mar | State Farm Evert Cup Indian Wells, United States Tier I event Hard – $550,000 – 56S/28D Singles – Doubles | Steffi Graf 7–6, 7–6 | Conchita Martínez | Lindsay Davenport Kimiko Date | Amanda Coetzer Chanda Rubin Nathalie Tauziat Lindsay Lee |
Chanda Rubin Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 6–1, 6–4 | Julie Halard-Decugis Nathalie Tauziat | ||||
21 Mar | Lipton Championships Key Biscayne, United States Tier I event Hard – $1,550,000 – 96S/48D Singles – Doubles | Steffi Graf 6–1, 6–3 | Chanda Rubin | Lindsay Davenport Karina Habšudová | Kimiko Date Anke Huber Gabriela Sabatini Irina Spîrlea |
Jana Novotná Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–4, 6–4 | Meredith McGrath Larisa Neiland |
Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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8 Jul | Fed Cup Semifinals Nagoya, Japan, Carpet (i) Bayonne, France, Carpet (i) | Semifinals winners United States 5–0Spain 3-2 | Semifinals losers Japan France | ||
15 Jul | Torneo Internazionali Femminili di Palermo Palermo, Italy Tier IV event Clay – $107,500 – 32S/16D Singles – Doubles | Barbara Schett 6–3, 6–3 | Sabine Hack | Jana Kandarr Silvia Farina | Stephanie Devillé Sandra Dopfer Sarah Pitkowski Henrieta Nagyová |
Janette Husárová Barbara Schett 6–1, 6–2 | Florencia Labat Barbara Rittner | ||||
23 Jul | Summer Olympics Atlanta, United States Summer Olympics Hard – 64S/32D Singles – Doubles | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth Place |
Lindsay Davenport 7–6(8), 6–2 | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | Jana Novotná 7–6(8), 6–4 | Mary Joe Fernández | ||
Gigi Fernández Mary Joe Fernández 7–6(6), 6–4 | Jana Novotná Helena Suková | Conchita Martínez Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–1, 6–3 | Manon Bollegraf Brenda Schultz-McCarthy |
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1996 WTA World Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the Year-end championships and the Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by:
Total titles | Player | Grand Slam tournaments | Year-end championships | Tier I tournaments | Tier II tournaments | Tier III tournaments | Tier IV tournaments | All titles | |||||||||
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S | D | X | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | X | ||
11 | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
1 | Sandra Cacic | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
1 | Els Callens | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
3 | Julie Halard-Decugis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
2 | Yayuk Basuki | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
5 | Monica Seles | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
7 | Lindsay Davenport | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||
4 | Mary Joe Fernández | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
4 | Chanda Rubin | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
6 | Larisa Neiland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
2 | Iva Majoli | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
1 | Kyōko Nagatsuka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
3 | Gigi Fernández | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
3 | Natasha Zvereva | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
3 | Kristie Boogert | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
10 | Jana Novotná | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
4 | Meredith McGrath | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
6 | Brenda Schultz-McCarthy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
1 | Sabine Appelmans | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
2 | Manon Bollegraf [a] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
7 | Steffi Graf | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
Irina Spîrlea | |||||||||||||||||
Linda Wild | |||||||||||||||||
Rika Hiraki | |||||||||||||||||
Naoko Kijimuta | |||||||||||||||||
Kimiko Date | |||||||||||||||||
Ai Sugiyama | |||||||||||||||||
Gloria Pizzichini | |||||||||||||||||
Laura Montalvo | |||||||||||||||||
Paola Suárez |
List of players and singles titles won, last name alphabetically:
The following players won their first title:
Below are the 1996 WTA year-end rankings in both singles and doubles competition:
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