Английская Википедия:2016 Rafael Nadal tennis season

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The 2016 Rafael Nadal tennis season officially began on 4 January 2016 with the start of the 2016 Qatar Open.

Year in detail

Australian Open Series

Qatar Open

Nadal began his year at the Qatar Open. He faced compatriot Pablo Carreño Busta in the first round and managed a comeback by defeating him in three sets. He then defeated Robin Haase in straight sets but then required three sets to defeat Andrey Kuznetsov in the quarter-finals. Nadal then defeated Illya Marchenko in the semifinals in straight sets to advance to the final, where he faced Novak Djokovic for the title. Nadal was crushed, winning just three games in a straight sets defeat, and thus lost his lead in his head-to-head record against Djokovic for the first time.

Australian Open

Nadal suffered a shocking defeat in the first round of the 2016 Australian Open at the hands of his compatriot Fernando Verdasco in five gruelling sets. This marked only the second time in his entire professional career that he has lost in the first round of a grand slam singles tournament. The only other first round loss was to Steve Darcis at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships.

South American Clay Court Season

Argentina Open

After receiving a bye in the first round, Nadal reached the semifinals of the Argentina Open by defeating Juan Mónaco and Paolo Lorenzi respectively in straight sets. However, he lost to an in-form young-gun Dominic Thiem in the semifinals in three sets after squandering 2 match points.

Rio Open

Nadal opens his Rio Open campaign by defeating compatriots Pablo Carreño Busta and Nicolás Almagro respectively in straight sets to book his place in the quarterfinals. He got a walkthrough to the semifinals after Alexandr Dolgopolov withdrew due to a right-shoulder injury. He eventually lost to Pablo Cuevas in the semifinals.

March Masters

Indian Wells Masters

After receiving a bye in the first round, Nadal recorded his first win after changing back to his old racket against Gilles Müller in three tight sets and booked his place in the fourth round winning his rematch against Fernando Verdasco in straight sets. Nadal reaches the quarterfinals for the second straight year after saving a match point against rising star Alexander Zverev to beat him in three gruelling-sets. He defeated Kei Nishikori in straight sets for his first top 10 win of the season to advance to the semifinals. He lost to Novak Djokovic 7–6, 6–2 in the semifinal after squandering a set point on Djokovic's serve in the first set making their head-to-head record 25–23 in Djokovic's favor.

Miami Masters

After a bye in the first round, Nadal lost to Damir Džumhur in the second round, retiring in the third set of their match citing dizziness due to the extreme heat at the end of the first set.

European Clay Court Season

Monte-Carlo Masters

Шаблон:Wikinews After receiving a bye in the first round, Nadal defeated Aljaž Bedene in straight sets and faced a more stringent test in the third round against the in-form Dominic Thiem. After two hours on the court, Nadal came out victorious, beating Thiem in straight sets 7–5, 6–3. Nadal reached the semifinals of the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters for the 2nd straight year after a dominant straight sets win in the quarterfinals against 2015 French Open champion Stan Wawrinka. After dropping the first set in the semifinals 2–6 to world #2 Andy Murray, Nadal rallied to beat Murray 6–4, 6–2, upping his head-to-head record against Murray to 17–6. In the final, Nadal defeated an in-form Gaël Monfils in three tough sets, winning 7–5, 5–7, 6–0 to claim his 9th Monte Carlo masters trophy, ending a nearly 2-years Masters 1000 title drought since his last Masters title in Madrid 2014. After leading the Masters 1000 title tally for several years Nadal was surpassed by Novak Djokovic in Miami 2016 but the Monte Carlo win ensures that Nadal is again tied with Djokovic for a record of 28 masters titles.

Barcelona Open

After a first round bye, Nadal continued his dominant form by dispatching compatriots Marcel Granollers and Albert Montañés in straight sets to proceed to the Quarterfinals. Nadal faced Fabio Fognini who defeated him 3 times the previous year and managed to close out the match in the 2nd set tiebreak in straight sets. Nadal reaches his 101st final beating German Philipp Kohlschreiber in a one-sided contest, winning in straight sets. He defeated two-time defending champion Kei Nishikori in the final 6–4, 7–5, winning the tournament without dropping a single set and winning a record 9th Barcelona Open and equalling the record of most clay court titles won with Guillermo Vilas with 49 clay court titles.

Madrid Open

After receiving a first round bye, Nadal put on a superb display against Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, beating him in straight sets along with Sam Querrey, dispatching him in a hard-fought straight sets win, nearly going 1–5 down in the first set after fending off a break point in his own serve in the 5th game and then winning 5 straight games to clinch the first set and reach the quarterfinals. Nadal progresses to the semis beating an in-form João Sousa in three-sets despite winning the first set in a bagel. He lost to Andy Murray in the semifinal with a score of 7–5, 6–4.

Italian Open

Nadal received an unfavorable draw and, after a bye in the first round, Nadal faced Philipp Kohlschreiber and beat him 6–3, 6–3. Nadal then faced Nick Kyrgios who famously beat Nadal at the 2014 Wimbledon and, despite Kyrgios winning the first set in a tiebreak, Nadal won the last 2 sets, breaking Kyrgios 3 times and winning in three sets to book his place in the quarterfinals, where he was beaten by Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

French Open

Шаблон:Wikinews Nadal gained a top 4 seeding for his French Open campaign after Federer withdrew with a back injury which guaranteed he won't be meeting Djokovic until the semifinals.Шаблон:Citation needed Nadal defeated Sam Groth in the first round 6-1 6-1 6–1. In the second round, Nadal defeated Facundo Bagnis. However, Nadal was forced to withdraw a day before his 3rd round match due to a wrist injury.

US Open Series

Rio Olympics

Having not played since May 28, Nadal took part in his first competitive match in the Rio Olympic Games. Nadal Faced Argentina's Federico Delbonis. Nadal was in no mood to mess around as he put in an excellent performance, winning 6–2 6–1. In the next round, he faced Andreas Seppi, but beat him in straight sets. Nadal faced Gilles Simon from France, and despite hitting 28 unforced errors in the first set, Nadal came through 7–6 6–3. Nadal then faced home favourite and fellow lefty Thomaz Bellucci. Nadal came through in 3 tough sets. He then faced a resurgent Juan Martín del Potro, the pair last met three years ago. Despite Nadal winning the first set, del Potro fought back to claim victory in an epic olympic semi-final. After the loss to del Potro, Rafa faced Kei Nishikori in the bronze medal match. A visibly exhausted Nadal lost the first set 6–2. He was then 5–2 down in the second, but Nishikori nerves were visible, Nadal levelling 7–6. But in the end, Nishikori was too good, prevailing 6–3 in the third.

Nadal saw more success in the doubles tournament playing alongside Marc López, winning the gold medal. Nadal was also set to play in the mixed doubles alongside Garbiñe Muguruza, but withdrew without playing a match, saying the medical staff advised that three tournaments could aggravate his wrist's recovery.

Cincinnati Masters

Nadal was defeated in the third round by Borna Ćorić 6–1, 6–3.

US Open

Entering the tournament as the fourth seed, Nadal advanced to the fourth round but was defeated by 24th seed Lucas Pouille in 5 sets.

Asian Swing

China Open

Nadal defeated Paolo Lorenzi and Adrian Mannarino in straight sets, then lost to Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets in the quarterfinals.

Shanghai Masters

Nadal was defeated in straight sets in his opening round match by Victor Troicki. This was Nadal's final match of the 2016 season.

All matches

Exhibition matches

Tournament	Match	Round	Opponents (Seed or Key)	Rank	Result	Score
Mubadala World Tennis Championship Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Singles exhibition Hard, outdoor 31 December 2015 – 2 January 2016

Tournament schedule

Singles schedule

Nadal's 2016 singles tournament schedule is as follows: (Bolded letter indicates better or same result at the tournament)

Date	Tournament	Location	Category	Surface1	Outcome 2015	Outcome 2016	Prev. Pts	New Pts2
04 – 10 Jan 2016	Qatar Open	Doha, Qatar	ATP World Tour 250	Hard	1R	F	0	150
18–31 Jan 2016	Australian Open	Melbourne, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	QF	1R	360	10
8–14 Feb 2016	Argentina Open	Buenos Aires, Argentina	ATP World Tour 250	Clay	W	SF	250	90
15–21 Feb 2016	Rio Open	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	ATP World Tour 500	Clay	SF	SF	180	180
10–20 Mar 2016	Indian Wells Masters	Indian Wells, United States	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Hard	QF	SF	180	360
24 Mar – 3 April 2016	Miami Masters	Miami, United States	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Hard	3R	2R	45	10
9–17 April 2016	Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters	Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Monaco	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Clay	SF	W	360	1000
16–24 April 2016	Barcelona Open	Barcelona, Spain	ATP World Tour 500	Clay	3R	W	45	500
29 April – 8 May 2016	Madrid Open	Madrid, Spain	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Clay	F	SF	600	360
9–15 May 2016	Italian Open	Rome, Italy	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Clay	QF	QF	180	180
16 May – 5 June 2016	French Open	Paris, France	Grand Slam	Clay	QF	3R	360	90
4–12 June 2016	Stuttgart Open	Stuttgart, Germany	ATP World Tour 250	Grass	W	DNP	250	0
13–19 June 2016	Queen's Club Championships	London, United Kingdom	ATP World Tour 500	Grass	1R	DNP	0	0
27 June – 10 July 2016	Wimbledon Championships	London, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	2R	DNP	45	0
9–17 July 2016	German Open	Hamburg, Germany	ATP World Tour 500	Clay	W	DNP	500	0
23–31 July 2016	Canadian Open	Montreal, Canada	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Hard	QF	DNP	180	0
4–14 Aug 2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Hard	N/A	SF-B	0	0
13–21 Aug 2016	Cincinnati Masters	Cincinnati, United States	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Hard	3R	3R	90	90
29 Aug – 11 Sep 2016	US Open	New York City, United States	Grand Slam	Hard	3R	4R	90	180
3–9 Oct 2016	China Open	Beijing, China	ATP World Tour 500	Hard	F	QF	300	90
8–16 Oct 2016	Shanghai Masters	Shanghai, China	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Hard	SF	2R	360	10
24–30 Oct 2016	Swiss Indoors	Basel, Switzerland	ATP World Tour 500	Hard (i)	F		300	0
31 Oct – 6 Nov 2016	Paris Masters	Paris, France	ATP World Tour Masters 1000	Hard (i)	QF		180	0
13–20 Nov 2016	ATP World Tour Finals	London, United Kingdom	ATP World Tour Finals	Hard (i)	SF		600	0
Total							5230	3300

¹ The symbol (i) = indoors means that the respective tournament will be held indoors.

² The ATP numbers between brackets = non-countable tournaments.

Yearly records

Head-to-head matchups

Rafael Nadal has a Шаблон:Tennis record match win–loss record in the 2016 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings was Шаблон:Tennis record. The following list is ordered by number of wins: (Bolded number marks a top 10 player at the time of match, Italic means top 30) Шаблон:Columns-list

Finals

Singles: 3 (2–1)

Category Grand Slam (0–0) Summer Olympic Games (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–0) ATP World Tour 500 (1–0) ATP World Tour 250 (0–1)

Titles by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–0)

Titles by conditions Outdoors (2–1) Indoors (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	10 January 2016	Qatar Open, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Шаблон:Flagicon Novak Djokovic	1–6, 2–6
Winner	17 April 2016	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Шаблон:Flagicon Gaël Monfils	7–5, 5–7, 6–0
Winner	24 April 2016	Barcelona Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Шаблон:Flagicon Kei Nishikori	6–4, 7–5

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Category Grand Slam (0–0) Summer Olympic Games (1–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 (1–0) ATP World Tour 250 (0–0)

Titles by surface Hard (2–0) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0)

Titles by conditions Outdoors (2–0) Indoors (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	Шаблон:Dts	Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Hard	Шаблон:Flagicon Marc López	Шаблон:Flagicon Florin Mergea Шаблон:Flagicon Horia Tecău	6–2, 3–6, 6–4
Winner	Шаблон:Dts	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Шаблон:Nowrap	Шаблон:Flagicon Jack Sock Шаблон:Flagicon Bernard Tomic	6–7(6–8), 6–2, [10–8]

Earnings

• Bold font denotes tournament win

#	Venue	Singles Prize Money	Year-to-date
1.	2016 Qatar ExxonMobil Open	$105,940	$105,940
2.	2016 Australian Open	A$38,500	$132,347
3.	2016 Argentina Open	$26,570	$158,917
4.	2016 Rio Open	$70,735	$229,652
5.	2016 Indian Wells Masters	$251,500	$481,152
6.	2016 Miami Masters	$19,530	$500,682
7.	2016 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters	€717,315	$1,317,919
8.	2016 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell	€460,000	$1,836,753
9.	2016 Mutua Madrid Open	€225,300	$2,094,586
10.	2016 Internazionali BNL d'Italia	€90,010	$2,197,224
11.	2016 French Open	€102,000	$2,311,066
12.	2016 Western & Southern Open	$54,390	$2,365,456
13.	2016 US Open	$235,000	$2,600,456
14.	2016 China Open	$77,375	$2,677,831
15.	2016 Shanghai Masters	$35,845	$2,714,278

See also

• 2016 ATP World Tour
• 2016 Novak Djokovic tennis season
• 2016 Roger Federer tennis season
• 2016 Andy Murray tennis season
• 2016 Stan Wawrinka tennis season

External links

• Шаблон:Official website Шаблон:In lang
• ATP tour profile