1996 Lipton Championships – Women's singles
Introduction Two-time defending champion Steffi Graf defeated Chanda Rubin in the final, 6–1, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1996 Miami Open.
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.# '''Steffi Graf (champion)'''# Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ''(second round)''# Anke Huber ''(quarterfinals)''# Gabriela Sabatini ''(quarterfinals)''# Kimiko Date ''(quarterfinals)''# Chanda Rubin ''(final)''# Jana Novotná ''(third round)''# Lindsay Davenport ''(semifinals)''# Mary Joe Fernández ''(fourth round)''# Amanda Coetzer ''(third round)''# Martina Hingis ''(second round)''# Julie Halard-Decugis ''(fourth round)''# Zina Garrison-Jackson ''(second round)''# Nathalie Tauziat ''(fourth round)''# Helena Suková ''(third round)''# Irina Spîrlea ''(quarterfinals)''# Barbara Paulus ''(third round)''# Judith Wiesner ''(fourth round)''# Lisa Raymond ''(third round)''# Naoko Sawamatsu ''(second round)''# Marianne Werdel-Witmeyer ''(third round)''# Åsa Carlsson ''(second round)''# Ai Sugiyama ''(fourth round)''# Kristie Boogert ''(third round)''# Petra Begerow ''(second round)''# Florencia Labat ''(third round)''# Yone Kamio ''(second round)''# Silvia Farina ''(fourth round)''# Elena Likhovtseva ''(second round)''# Miriam Oremans ''(third round)''# Sandrine Testud ''(third round)''# Shi-Ting Wang ''(third round)''
Draw ===Finals======Top half=======Section 1========Section 2========Section 3========Section 4=======Bottom half=======Section 5========Section 6========Section 7========Section 8====
References *  1996 Lipton Championships Draw