1988 Player's Canadian Open – Women's Doubles

1988 Player's Canadian Open
1987 champions   Zina Garrison
Lori McNeil
Champions   Jana Novotná
Helena Suková
Runners-up   Zina Garrison
Pam Shriver
Final score   7–6, 7–6
Events
Singles   Doubles

Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Garrison with Pam Shriver and McNeil with Betsy Nagelsen.

McNeil and Nagelsen lost in the quarterfinals to Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington.

Garrison and Shriver lost in the final 7–6, 7–6 against Jana Novotná and Helena Suková.

Contents

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

  1. Zina Garrison / Pam Shriver (Final)
  2. Jana Novotná / Helena Suková (Champions)
  3. Larisa Savchenko / Natasha Zvereva (Quarterfinals)
  4. Lori McNeil / Betsy Nagelsen (Quarterfinals)
  1. Eva Pfaff / Elizabeth Smylie (Quarterfinals)
  2. Nicole Provis / Catherine Suire (First Round)
  3. Natalia Bykova / Leila Meskhi (First Round)
  4. Isabelle Demongeot / Nathalie Tauziat (Second Round)

Draw

Key

Final

Final
         
1   Zina Garrison
  Pam Shriver
6 6  
2   Jana Novotná
  Helena Suková
7 7  

Top Half

First Round   Second Round   Quarterfinals   Semifinals
 
    1   Z Garrison
  P Shriver
6 6    
    J Blackstad
  M Yanagi
2 2           A Nishiya
  E Okagawa
1 3    
    A Nishiya
  E Okagawa
6 6         1   Z Garrison
  P Shriver
7 6 6  
    H Kelesi
  G Miro
0 1             J-A Faull
  R McQuillan
6 7 3  
    J-A Faull
  R McQuillan
6 6           J-A Faull
  R McQuillan
6 0 6
    C Lindqvist
  A Minter
7 4 2     8   I Demongeot
  N Tauziat
3 6 3  
8   I Demongeot
  N Tauziat
5 6 6       1   Z Garrison
  P Shriver
w/o    
          I Kuczyńska
  M Navrátilová
     
    3   L Savchenko
  N Zvereva
7 6    
    C Bassett-Seguso
  T Phelps
6 6           C Bassett-Seguso
  T Phelps
6 2    
    M Drake
  J Ingram
2 0         3   L Savchenko
  N Zvereva
6 4  
    A Scott
  M Van Nostrand
6 6             I Kuczyńska
  M Navrátilová
7 6    
    S Collins
  A Henricksson
1 2           A Scott
  M Van Nostrand
4 0  
    I Kuczyńska
  M Navrátilová
6 6           I Kuczyńska
  M Navrátilová
6 6    
6   N Provis
  C Suire
3 3    

Bottom Half

First Round   Second Round   Quarterfinals   Semifinals
7   N Bykova
  L Meskhi
0 3    
    P Fendick
  J Hetherington
6 6           P Fendick
  J Hetherington
7 6    
    E Alexander
  C-L Cohen
2 1           B Bowes
  M Werdel
6 0    
    B Bowes
  M Werdel
6 6             P Fendick
  J Hetherington
7 6    
    C Delisle
  J Klitch
7 3 6       4   L McNeil
  B Nagelsen
5 2    
    L Matthews
  L Randmaa
5 6 4         C Delisle
  J Klitch
3 4  
    4   L McNeil
  B Nagelsen
6 6    
          P Fendick
  J Hetherington
1 6 2
5   E Pfaff
  E Smylie
6 6         2   J Novotná
  H Suková
6 4 6
    S Gomer
  C Thompson
3 2       5   E Pfaff
  E Smylie
7 6    
    A Kijimuta
  T Mochizuki
0 3           B Cordwell
  J Richardson
6 1    
    B Cordwell
  J Richardson
6 6         5   E Pfaff
  E Smylie
2 5  
    R Simpson
  J Young
2 0         2   J Novotná
  H Suková
6 7    
    E Krapl
  C Singer
6 6           E Krapl
  C Singer
3 2  
    2   J Novotná
  H Suková
6 6    
 

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