2016 Aegon International Eastbourne Explained

The 2016 Aegon International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 42nd edition of the tournament, and a WTA Premier tournament on the 2016 WTA Tour. The event took place at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, United Kingdom from 19 June through 25 June 2016.

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	width=85	Q	width=85	Q2	width=85	Q1
Singles	470	305	185	100	55	30	1	25	13	1
Doubles					1

Prize money

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style=background:#f4f4f4	Singles	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$
style=background:#f4f4f4	Doubles	$	$	$	$	$

Singles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
Poland	Agnieszka Radwańska	3	1
Italy	Roberta Vinci	7	2
	Belinda Bencic	8	3
	Timea Bacsinszky	10	4
Czech Republic	Petra Kvitová	11	5
Russian Federation	Svetlana Kuznetsova	12	6
Australia	Samantha Stosur	14	7
Spain	Carla Suárez Navarro	15	8
	Madison Keys	16	9
Czech Republic	Karolína Plíšková	17	10
United Kingdom	Johanna Konta	19	11
Slovakia	Dominika Cibulková	21	12
Italy	Sara Errani	22	13
Russian Federation	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	23	14
Romania	Irina-Camelia Begu	26	15
Czech Republic	Lucie Šafářová	28	16

• ¹ Rankings are as of 13 June 2016.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

• Naomi Broady
• Tara Moore

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Kateryna Bondarenko
• Madison Brengle
• Polona Hercog
• Ana Konjuh
• Varvara Lepchenko
• Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
• Monica Puig
• Alison Van Uytvanck

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

• Denisa Allertová
• Anett Kontaveit
• Zhang Shuai
• Zheng Saisai

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Annika Beck → replaced by Tímea Babos
• Madison Keys → replaced by Anett Kontaveit
• Monica Niculescu → replaced by Anna-Lena Friedsam
• Laura Siegemund → replaced by Zhang Shuai
• Sloane Stephens → replaced by Alizé Cornet
• Barbora Strýcová → replaced by Denisa Allertová
• CoCo Vandeweghe → replaced by Zheng Saisai

Doubles main-draw entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank^1	Seed
	Martina Hingis	India	Sania Mirza	2	1
	Chan Hao-ching		Chan Yung-jan	11	2
Russian Federation	Ekaterina Makarova	Russian Federation	Elena Vesnina	19	3
Hungary	Tímea Babos	Kazakhstan	Yaroslava Shvedova	21	4

• ¹ Rankings are as of 13 June 2016.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Naomi Broady / Heather Watson
• Svetlana Kuznetsova / Roberta Vinci
• Lucie Šafářová / Samantha Stosur

Finals

Singles

See main article: 2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Singles.

• Dominika Cibulková defeated Karolína Plíšková 7–5, 6–3

Doubles

See main article: 2016 Aegon International Eastbourne – Doubles.

• Darija Jurak / Anastasia Rodionova defeated Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan 5–7, 7–6^(7–4), [10–6]

External links

• Website