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2016 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's singles
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May 2026
2016 Australian Open GBR Gordon Reid BEL Joachim Gérard 7–6(9–7), 6–4 Australian Open – Wheelchair men's singles
2016 Australian Open
Gordon Reid defeated Joachim Gérard in the final, 7–6(9–7), 6–4 to win the men's singles wheelchair tennis title at the 2016 Australian Open.
Shingo Kunieda was the three-time defending champion, but was defeated in the quarterfinals by Reid. This was the first time Kunieda lost a match at the Australian Open, going a perfect 26-0 in his first 8 Australian Opens.
Seeds
30em JPN Shingo Kunieda (quarterfinals)
FRA Stéphane Houdet (semifinals)
Draw
Quarterfinals Semifinals Final 175 1 JPN Shingo Kunieda 3 61 GBR Gordon Reid 6 77 ARG Gustavo Fernández 6 6 WC AUS Adam Kellerman 2 4 BEL Joachim Gérard 6 6 NED Maikel Scheffers 3 2 FRA Nicolas Peifer 4 3 2 FRA Stéphane Houdet 6 6 GBR Gordon Reid 6 66 9 ARG Gustavo Fernández 3 78 7 BEL Joachim Gérard 3 6 6 2 FRA Stéphane Houdet 6 1 3 GBR Gordon Reid 79 6 BEL Joachim Gérard 67 4
References
Tennis
General
Drawsheets on ausopen.com https://web.archive.org/web/20160229061245/http://www.ausopen.com/en_AU/scores/draws/cs/index.html 2016-02-29
Specific
Wheelchair Men's Singles
Wheelchair Men's Singles
2016 Men's Singles