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
Sloane Stephens
Doubles
Caroline Garcia / 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 Premier level 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]

Points and prize money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

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

• ¹ Rankings as of March 21, 2016.

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the main draw:

• Frances Altick
• Louisa Chirico
• Shelby Rogers

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

• Peng Shuai

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Cindy Burger
• Çağla Büyükakçay
• Sesil Karatantcheva
• Lesley Kerkhove
• Aleksandra Krunić
• Kristína Kučová
• Naomi Osaka
• Elena Vesnina

The following players received entry as lucky losers:

• Jana Čepelová
• Patricia Maria Țig

Withdrawals

Before the tournament

• Mona Barthel → replaced by Tatjana Maria
• Petra Cetkovská (right thigh injury) → replaced by Jana Čepelová
• Mariana Duque Mariño → replaced by Anastasija Sevastova
• Jelena Janković (right shoulder injury) → replaced by Patricia Maria Țig
• Varvara Lepchenko → replaced by Alison Riske

Retirements

• Eugenie Bouchard
• Angelique Kerber

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

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

• ¹ Rankings as of March 21, 2016.

Other entrants

The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:

• Hadley Berg / Paige Cline
• Madison Keys / Sloane Stephens

Retirements

• Abigail Spears (right calf injury)

Champions

Singles

• Sloane Stephens def. Elena Vesnina 7–6^(7–4), 6–2

Doubles

• Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová, 6–2, 7–5