1996 Lipton Championships – Women's Singles


was the defending champion and won in the final 6-1, 6-3 against Chanda Rubin.

Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All thirty-two seeds received a bye to the second round.
  1. Steffi Graf
  2. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario '
  3. Anke Huber '
  4. Gabriela Sabatini '
  5. Kimiko Date '
  6. Chanda Rubin '
  7. Jana Novotná '
  8. Lindsay Davenport '
  9. Mary Joe Fernandez '
  10. Amanda Coetzer '
  11. Martina Hingis '
  12. Julie Halard-Decugis '
  13. Zina Garrison-Jackson '
  14. Nathalie Tauziat '
  15. Helena Suková '
  16. Irina Spîrlea '
  17. Barbara Paulus '
  18. Judith Wiesner '
  19. Lisa Raymond '
  20. Naoko Sawamatsu '
  21. Marianne Werdel-Witmeyer '
  22. Åsa Carlsson '
  23. Ai Sugiyama '
  24. Kristie Boogert '
  25. Petra Begerow '
  26. Florencia Labat '
  27. Yone Kamio '
  28. Silvia Farina '
  29. Elena Likhovtseva '
  30. Miriam Oremans '
  31. Sandrine Testud '
  32. Shi-Ting Wang

    Draw

Finals

Top Half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom Half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8