The 2016 BNP Paribas Open (also known as the 2016 Indian Wells Masters) was a professional tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2016. It was the 43rd edition of the men's event and 28th of the women's event, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2016 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2016 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, from March 9 through March 20, 2016, on outdoor hard courts.
Players with byes receive first-round points.
The following are the seeded players. Rankings and seedings are based on ATP rankings as of March 7, 2016.
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Juan Martín del Potro
Jared Donaldson
Taylor Fritz
Mackenzie McDonald
Frances Tiafoe
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Michael Berrer
Bjorn Fratangelo
Ryan Harrison
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Jozef Kovalík
Vincent Millot
Renzo Olivo
Peter Polansky
Noah Rubin
Alexander Sarkissian
Tim Smyczek
Marco Trungelliti
Before the tournament
Kevin Anderson →replaced by Rajeev Ram
Pablo Andújar →replaced by Mikhail Kukushkin
Marcos Baghdatis →replaced by Evgeny Donskoy
Simone Bolelli →replaced by Dmitry Tursunov
Roger Federer →replaced by Alexander Zverev
David Ferrer →replaced by John Millman
Fabio Fognini →replaced by Mikhail Youzhny
Andreas Haider-Maurer →replaced by Ernests Gulbis
Jerzy Janowicz →replaced by Diego Schwartzman
Ivo Karlović →replaced by Lucas Pouille
Paolo Lorenzi →replaced by Damir Džumhur
Tommy Robredo →replaced by Kyle Edmund
Sergiy Stakhovsky →replaced by Thiemo de Bakker
Janko Tipsarević →replaced by Marcel Granollers
During the tournament
Mikhail Youzhny
Martin Kližan
Bernard Tomic
1 Rankings as of March 7, 2016.
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Mahesh Bhupathi / Stan Wawrinka
Nick Kyrgios / Alexander Zverev
The following pairs received entry as alternates:
Jérémy Chardy / Fabrice Martin
Marek Michalička / Ivo Minář
Before the tournament
Mahesh Bhupathi (leg injury)
Nick Kyrgios (illness)
Robert Farah (neck injury)
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of February 29, 2016. Rankings and points before are as of March 7, 2016.
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
Samantha Crawford
Lauren Davis
Daniela Hantuchová
Jamie Loeb
Alison Riske
Shelby Rogers
Heather Watson
Zhang Shuai
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Kiki Bertens
Kateryna Bondarenko
Nicole Gibbs
Kurumi Nara
Risa Ozaki
Pauline Parmentier
Kristýna Plíšková
Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Laura Siegemund
Kateřina Siniaková
Taylor Townsend
Donna Vekić
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
Anna-Lena Friedsam
Before the tournament
Mona Barthel →replaced by Magdaléna Rybáriková
Alizé Cornet →replaced by Mariana Duque Mariño
Karin Knapp →replaced by Vania King
Varvara Lepchenko →replaced by Tsvetana Pironkova
Maria Sharapova (forearm injury and provisional suspension) →replaced by Yulia Putintseva
Carla Suárez Navarro →replaced by Anna-Lena Friedsam
Ajla Tomljanović →replaced by Irina Falconi
Pauline Parmentier
Barbora Strýcová
Roberta Vinci
1 Rankings as of February 29, 2016.
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
Denisa Allertová / Petra Kvitová
Kirsten Flipkens / Ana Ivanovic
Angelique Kerber / Andrea Petkovic
Svetlana Kuznetsova/ Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
The following pair received entry as alternates:
Kateryna Bondarenko / Olga Savchuk
Before the tournament
Caroline Garcia (back injury)
Novak Djokovic def. Milos Raonic, 6–2, 6–0
Victoria Azarenka def. Serena Williams, 6–4, 6–4
Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut def. Vasek Pospisil / Jack Sock, 6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Coco Vandeweghe def. Julia Görges / Karolína Plíšková, 4–6, 6–4, [10–6]