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2016 WTA Elite Trophy

{{Infobox tennis tournament year|2016|WTA Elite Trophy|

| date=November 1 – 6

| edition=2nd

| draw=12S/6D

| surface=Hard / Outdoor / Covered Court

| location=Zhuhai, China

| venue=Hengqin International Tennis Center

| champs= {{flagicon|CZE}} Petra Kvitová

| champd= {{flagicon|TUR}} İpek Soylu / {{flagicon|CHN}} Xu Yifan

}}

The 2016 WTA Elite Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played at the Hengqin International Tennis Center in Zhuhai, China from 1 to 6 November 2016. It was the second edition of the singles event and doubles competition. The tournament was contested by twelve singles players and six doubles teams.

Tournament

=Qualifying=

WTA Elite Trophy is an invitation-only event.

==Singles qualifying==

The field will consist of the top eleven players not already qualified for the 2016 WTA Finals, plus either (a) the 12th-player not qualified for 2016 WTA Finals, or (b) a wild card. The final two alternates for the 2016 WTA Finals would have been eligible to play in WTA Elite Trophy even if they had participated in the WTA Finals. Johanna Konta was initially qualified for the Tour Finals, but her spot was lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova who had just won Moscow on the day before the finals.{{cite book |author= Women's Tennis Association |title=2015 WTA OFFICIAL RULEBOOK |url=http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/rules2015.pdf |chapter=IX.B.1.a}}

==Doubles qualifying==

Two teams composed of players that did not compete in the WTA Finals singles (except Finals Alternates) or doubles competitions, using the players’ combined doubles rankings as of the Monday after the final regular-season Tournament of the current Tour Year to determine the order of acceptance; and up to two teams composed of players that did not compete in the WTA Finals singles (except Finals Alternates) or doubles competitions and that include at least one Elite Trophy Singles Qualified Player or Elite Trophy Alternate, using the higher of the players’ combined singles or doubles rankings as of the Monday after the final regular-season Tournament of the current Tour Year to determine the order of acceptance.

Plus two wild cards. For each wild card not given out, the next highest pair of players shall become a participant.{{cite book |author= Women's Tennis Association |title=2016 WTA OFFICIAL RULEBOOK |url=http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/rules2016.pdf |chapter=IX.B.2.a}}

It was unclear how the selection was determined eventually as two teams were announced as participants despite not fulfilling these criteria.

=Format=

The singles event features twelve players in a round robin event, split into four groups of three. Over the first four days of competition, each player meets the other two players in her group, with the winner in each group advancing to the semifinal. The winners of each semifinal meet in the championship match. The six doubles teams will be split into two round robin groups, with the winner of each advancing to the final.

==Round robin tie-breaking methods==

The final standings of each group were determined by the first of the following methods that applied:

  1. Greatest number of wins.
  2. Greatest number of matches played.
  3. Head-to-head results
  4. In case of a 3-way tie:
  • Percentage of sets won
  • Percentage of games won

Prize money and points

The total prize money for the Huajin Securities 2016 WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai was US $2,210,000.{{cite web|url=http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Archive/AboutTheTour/rules2015.pdf|title=Match Notes}}

class=wikitable style=text-align:center
style="background:#d1e4fd;"

!rowspan=2|Stage!!colspan=2|Singles!!colspan=2|Doubles

Prize moneyPointsPrize moneyPoints
Champion

|RR1 + $450,000 || RR + 460 ||RR1 + $20,000 || {{n/a}}

Runner-up

|RR + $150,000 || RR + 200 ||RR1 + $10,000|| {{n/a}}

Semifinalist

|RR + $15,000 || RR ||{{n/a}} || {{n/a}}

Round Robin win per match

|$92,500 ||1202||$5,000||{{n/a}}

Round Robin loss per match

|$20,000 ||402||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}

Participation fee

|{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}||15,000||{{n/a}}

Alternates

|$10,000 ||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}||{{n/a}}

  • 1 RR means prize money or points won in the round robin.
  • 2 The wildcard entry will earn 80 points per win and 0 points per loss in the round robin.

Player head-to-head

Below are the head-to-head records as they approached the tournament.

{{center|2016 WTA Elite Trophy – Singles}}

class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|#

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|Player

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Konta

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Suárez Navarro

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Kvitová

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Svitolina

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Vinci

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Bacsinszky

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Vesnina

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Stosur

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Strýcová

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Bertens

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Garcia

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"| Zhang

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|Overall

!style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|YTD

1style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Johanna Kontastyle="background-color:#DCDCDC"|1–01–20–11–00–01–10–00–01–11–14–110–744–21
2style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|ESP}} Carla Suárez Navarro0–1style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|5–52–26–14–32–03–46–12–00–12–032–1839–21
3style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|CZE}} Petra Kvitová2–15–5style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|5–13–30–21–07–16–11–02–11–133–1642–22
4style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|UKR}} Elina Svitolina1–02–21–5style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|1–20–11–20–12–00–01–01–010–1338–21
5style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|ITA}} Roberta Vinci0–11–63–32–1style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|1–13–51–24–21–20–12–018–2428–24
6style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|SUI}} Timea Bacsinszky0–03–42–01–01–1style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|2–11–10–41–22–10–113–1531–22
7style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|RUS}} Elena Vesnina1–10–20–12–15–31–2style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|2–30–30–02–00–013–1639–19
8style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|AUS}} Samantha Stosur0–04–31–71–02–11–13–2style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|1–21–00–01–215–1830–22
9style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|CZE}} Barbora Strýcová0–01–61–60–22–44–03–02–1style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|1–05–11–020–2037–23
10style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|NED}} Kiki Bertens1–10–20–10–02–12–10–00–10–1style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|2–02–09–849–20
11style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Caroline Garcia1–11–01–20–11–01–20–20–01–50–2style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|1–07–1533–24
12style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|CHN}} Zhang Shuai1–40–21–10–10–21–00–02–10–10–20–1style="background-color:#DCDCDC"|5–1537–21

Qualified players

The 2 tables below are part of the tables from Road to Singapore

=Singles=

Players in Gold have qualified for Zhuhai. Players in brown have withdrawn from the 2016 WTA Elite Trophy.

class=wikitable style=font-size:90%;text-align:center
rowspan=2| Rank

!rowspan=2| Player

!colspan=4| Grand Slam tournament

!colspan=4| Premier Mandatory

!colspan=2| Best Premier 5

!colspan="6" | Best other

!rowspan=2| Total points

!rowspan=2| Tours

!rowspan=2| Titles

bgcolor=#e5d1cb| AUS

|bgcolor=#e5d1cb| FRA

|bgcolor=#e5d1cb| WIM

|bgcolor=#e5d1cb| USO

|bgcolor=#dfe2e9| INW

|bgcolor=#dfe2e9| MIA

|bgcolor=#dfe2e9| MAD

|bgcolor=#dfe2e9| BEI

!width=30|1

!width=30|2

!width=30|1

!width=30|2

!width=30|3

!width=30|4

!width=30|5

!width=30|6

colspan=22|Qualified for Zhuhai
bgcolor=gold|10

|align=left| {{flagicon|GBR}} Johanna Konta

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
780

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
215

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=thistle|F
650

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=lime|W
470

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

! 3455

! 22

! 1

bgcolor=gold|11

|align=left| {{flagicon|ESP}} Carla Suárez Navarro

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
430

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|A
0

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=lime|W
900

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
110

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

! 3170

! 22

! 1

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|align=left | {{flagicon|BLR}} Victoria Azarenka

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
430

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|A
0

|bgcolor=|A
0

|bgcolor=lime|W
1000

|bgcolor=lime|W
1000

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=|A
0

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
1

|

|bgcolor=lime|W
470

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
30

|

|

|

|

! 3061

! 9

! 3

bgcolor=gold|13

|align=left| {{flagicon|CZE}} Petra Kvitová

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
215

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
215

|bgcolor=lime|W
900

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor= thistle|F
180

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

|A
0

! 2840

! 20

! 1

bgcolor=gold|14

|align=left| {{flagicon|UKR}} Elina Svitolina

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
390

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

|bgcolor=thistle|F
305

|bgcolor=lime|W
280

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor= yellow |SF
185

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
1

! 2456

! 21

! 1

bgcolor=#cd7f32|15

|align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} Venus Williams

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
780

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|A
0

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=thistle|F
305

|bgcolor=lime|W
280

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
30

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
1

! 2241

! 15

! 1

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|align=left bgcolor=| {{flagicon|DEN}} Caroline Wozniacki

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|A
0

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
780

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|A
0

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=lime|W
470

|bgcolor=lime|W
280

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
110

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

! 2240

! 21

! 2

bgcolor=gold|17

|align=left| {{flagicon|ITA}} Roberta Vinci

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=ffebcd |QF
430

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=lime|W
470

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

! 2190

! 22

! 1

bgcolor=gold|18

|align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}} Timea Bacsinszky

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor= ffebcd|QF
430

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
390

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=lime|W
280

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
110

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
1

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
1

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
1

! 2188

! 19

! 1

bgcolor=gold|19

|align=left bgcolor=| {{flagicon|RUS}} Elena Vesnina

|Q1
2

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
780

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|Q1
2

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
95

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
95

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
220

|Q2
20

|bgcolor=thistle|F
330

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
25

! 2094

! 19

! 0

bgcolor=gold|20

|align=left| {{flagicon|AUS}} Samantha Stosur

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
780

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
390

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

|bgcolor=thistle|F
180

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
100

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

! 2090

! 20

! 0

bgcolor=gold|21

|align=left| {{flagicon|CZE}} Barbora Strýcová

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
240

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
35

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
190

|bgcolor=thistle|F
305

|bgcolor=thistle|F
305

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
105

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

! 2070

! 21

! 0

bgcolor=gold|22

|align=left | {{flagicon|NED}} Kiki Bertens

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor= yellow|SF
780

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
30

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
95

|A
0

|A
0

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
1

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
1

|bgcolor=lime|W
298

|bgcolor=thistle|F
180

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
110

|bgcolor= yellow |SF
110

|bgcolor=ffebcd|QF
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
18

! 1912

! 21

! 1

bgcolor=gold|23

|align=left bgcolor=| {{flagicon|FRA}} Caroline Garcia

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
70

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
130

|bgcolor=afeeee|R128
10

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
65

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
120

|bgcolor=afeeee|R32
60

|bgcolor=afeeee|R64
1

|bgcolor=lime|W
280

|bgcolor=lime|W
280

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
185

|bgcolor=lime|W
160

|bgcolor=yellow|SF
110

|bgcolor=afeeee|R16
55

! 1725

! 26

! 2

==Other entrants==

The following player received a wildcard into the singles draw:

=Doubles=

class="sortable wikitable"
width="70"| Country

! width="175"| Player

! width="70"| Country

! width="175"| Player

! Rank1

{{flag|SLO}}

|Andreja Klepač

|{{flag|ESP}}

|Arantxa Parra Santonja

|65

{{flag|TUR}}

|İpek Soylu

|{{flag|CHN}}

|Xu Yifan

|96

{{flag|AUS}}

|Anastasia Rodionova

|{{flag|UKR}}

|Olga Savchuk

|104

{{flag|GEO}}

|Oksana Kalashnikova

|{{flag|GER}}

|Tatjana Maria

|106

  • 1 Rankings as of 24 October 2016

==Other entrants==

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles draw:

Champions

=Singles=

{{main|2016 WTA Elite Trophy – Singles}}

=Doubles=

{{main|2016 WTA Elite Trophy – Doubles}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.wtaelitetrophy.com/ Official website]
  • [http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2016/1081/OP.pdf Order of Play]

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