1996 WTA Tour


The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis circuit, organized by the Women's Tennis Association. 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 officially part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.

Schedule

The table below shows the 1996 WTA Tour schedule.
;Key
Grand Slam events
Summer Olympic Games
Year-end championships
Tier I events
Tier II events
Tier III events
Tier IV events
Team events

August

Statistical Information

These tables present the number of singles, doubles, and doubles (tennis)|mixed doubles] 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:
  1. total number of titles ;
  2. highest amount of highest category tournaments ;
  3. a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;
  4. alphabetical order.

Titles won by player

List of players and singles titles won, last name alphabetically:
The following players won their first title:

Rankings

Below are the 1996 WTA year-end rankings in both singles and doubles competition: