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.
Seeds
Shingo Kunieda (quarterfinals)
Stéphane Houdet (semifinals)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- SE = Special exempt
- PR = Protected ranking
- ITF = ITF entry
- JE = Junior exempt
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
- SR = Special ranking
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Shingo Kunieda
| 3 | 61 | |||||||||||||||||
 Gordon Reid
| 6 | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gordon Reid
| 6 | 66 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
 Gustavo Fernández
| 3 | 78 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Gustavo Fernández
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
| WC |  Adam Kellerman
| 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Gordon Reid
| 79 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Joachim Gérard
| 67 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Joachim Gérard
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Maikel Scheffers
| 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Joachim Gérard
| 3 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Stéphane Houdet
| 6 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nicolas Peifer
| 4 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Stéphane Houdet
| 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
References
- General
- Drawsheets on ausopen.com Archived 2016-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Specific