![]() Steffi Graf finished the year as world No. 1 for the record-breaking eighth time in her career. She won seven tournaments during the season, including three majors at the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships, and the US Open, as well as the WTA Tour Championships. She also won three Tier I events. | |
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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) | |
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Most tournament finals | ![]() |
Prize money leader | ![]() (US$2,665,706) |
Points leader | ![]() |
Awards | |
Player of the year | ![]() |
Doubles team of the year | |
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Newcomer of the year | ![]() |
Comeback player of the year | ![]() |
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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 |
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21 Mar | Lipton Championships Key Biscayne, United States Tier I event Hard – $1,550,000 – 96S/48D Singles – Doubles |
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Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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8 Jul | Fed Cup Semifinals Nagoya, Japan, Carpet (i) Bayonne, France, Carpet (i) |
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15 Jul | Torneo Internazionali Femminili di Palermo Palermo, Italy Tier IV event Clay – $107,500 – 32S/16D Singles – Doubles |
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23 Jul | Summer Olympics Atlanta, United States Summer Olympics Hard – 64S/32D Singles – Doubles |
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Fourth Place |
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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 |
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S | D | X | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | X | ||
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1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
1 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
3 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
2 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
5 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
7 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||
4 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
4 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||
6 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
2 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
3 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
3 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
3 | ![]() |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
10 | ![]() |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
4 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||
6 | ![]() |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||
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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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