2016 Volvo Car Open
Date	April 4–10
Edition	44th
Category	WTA Premier
Draw	56S / 16D
Prize money	$753,000
Surface	Clay / outdoor
Location	Charleston, United States
Venue	Family Circle Tennis Center
Champions
Singles
👁 United States Sloane Stephens
Doubles
👁 France Caroline Garcia / 👁 France Kristina Mladenovic
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The 2016 Volvo Car Open was a women's tennis event on the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place between April 4 – 10, 2016. It was the 44th edition of the Charleston Open tournament and a WTA Premier tournaments tournament. The event was hosted at the Family Circle Tennis Center, on Daniel Island, Charleston, United States. It was the only event of the clay court season played on green clay.

Sloane Stephens won the singles event while Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic captured the doubles crown.^[1]

👁 United States
Sloane Stephens defeated 👁 Russia
Elena Vesnina 7–6^(7–4), 6–2

• It was Stephens' 3rd and last singles title of the year and the 4th of her career.

👁 France
Caroline Garcia / 👁 France
Kristina Mladenovic defeated 👁 United States
Bethanie Mattek-Sands / 👁 Czech Republic
Lucie Šafářová, 6–2, 7–5

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q	Q2	Q1
Singles	470	305	185	100	55	30	1	25	13	1
Doubles					1	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a

Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Q2	Q1
Singles	$128,100	$68,180	$33,600	$17,280	$8,955	$4,585	$2,355	$1,070	$640
Doubles	$40,300	$21,340	$11,740	$5,975	$3,245	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a

Country	Player	Ranking1	Seed
👁 Image GER	Angelique Kerber	3	1
👁 Image  SUI	Belinda Bencic	10	2
👁 Image USA	Venus Williams	14	3
👁 Image CZE	Lucie Šafářová	15	4
👁 Image ITA	Sara Errani	18	5
👁 Image GER	Andrea Petkovic	21	6
👁 Image USA	Sloane Stephens	22	7
👁 Image USA	Madison Keys	24	8
👁 Image SRB	Jelena Janković	26	9
👁 Image AUS	Samantha Stosur	27	10
👁 Image FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	29	11
👁 Image AUS	Daria Gavrilova	34	12
👁 Image ROU	Irina-Camelia Begu	35	13
👁 Image RUS	Daria Kasatkina	36	14
👁 Image GER	Sabine Lisicki	37	15
👁 Image JPN	Misaki Doi	44	16
👁 Image CAN	Eugenie Bouchard	45	17

• ¹ Rankings as of March 21, 2016.

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

• 👁 United States
  Frances Altick
• 👁 United States
  Louisa Chirico
• 👁 United States
  Shelby Rogers

The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:

• 👁 China
  Peng Shuai

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• 👁 Netherlands
  Cindy Burger
• 👁 Turkey
  Çağla Büyükakçay
• 👁 Bulgaria
  Sesil Karatantcheva
• 👁 Netherlands
  Lesley Kerkhove
• 👁 Serbia
  Aleksandra Krunić
• 👁 Slovakia
  Kristína Kučová
• 👁 Japan
  Naomi Osaka
• 👁 Russia
  Elena Vesnina

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

• 👁 Slovakia
  Jana Čepelová
• 👁 Romania
  Patricia Maria Țig

Before the tournament

• 👁 Germany
  Mona Barthel → replaced by 👁 Germany
  Tatjana Maria
• 👁 Czech Republic
  Petra Cetkovská (right thigh injury) → replaced by 👁 Slovakia
  Jana Čepelová
• 👁 Colombia
  Mariana Duque Mariño → replaced by 👁 Latvia
  Anastasija Sevastova
• 👁 Serbia
  Jelena Janković (right shoulder injury) → replaced by 👁 Romania
  Patricia Maria Țig
• 👁 United States
  Varvara Lepchenko → replaced by 👁 United States
  Alison Riske

• 👁 Canada
  Eugenie Bouchard
• 👁 Germany
  Angelique Kerber

Country	Player	Country	Player	Rank1	Seed
👁 Image USA	Bethanie Mattek-Sands	👁 Image CZE	Lucie Šafářová	11	1
👁 Image CZE	Andrea Hlaváčková	👁 Image CZE	Lucie Hradecká	21	2
👁 Image FRA	Caroline Garcia	👁 Image FRA	Kristina Mladenovic	26	3
👁 Image USA	Raquel Atawo	👁 Image USA	Abigail Spears	41	4

• ¹ Rankings as of March 21, 2016.

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• 👁 United States
  Hadley Berg / 👁 United States
  Paige Cline
• 👁 United States
  Madison Keys / 👁 United States
  Sloane Stephens

• 👁 United States
  Abigail Spears (right calf injury)

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