The tournament was the seventeenth consecutive women's singles Grand Slam event to feature a first-time semifinalist (Rybáriková). This streak ended months later at the 2017 US Open. read more
Kim Clijsters: "Venus is the only former Wimbledon winner left but also in the last 16 are Svetlana Kuznetsova, Garbine Muguruza and Angelique Kerber, who have all won Grand Slams before. "Svetlana knows what it is like to win a major tournament and that is something that is so important in the later rounds. read more