WTA Doubles Championships

WTA Doubles Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Created 1975
Ended 1997
Event name Bridgestone Doubles Championships (1975–87)
World Doubles Championships (1988, 1990)
VS International Doubles Championships (1989)
Light 'n' Lively Doubles Championships (1991–94)
World Doubles Cup (1995–97)
Tour WTA Tour (1975–97)
Surface Carpet (1975–81, 1983–90)
Clay (1982, 1991–97)

The WTA Doubles Championships is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1975 to 1997. It was held in Tokyo in Japan from 1975 to 1977, from 1979 to 1981, from 1983 to 1985, and from 1987 to 1989, in Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States in 1978, in Fort Worth, Texas in the United States in 1982, in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States in 1986, in Orlando, Florida in the United States in 1990, in Tarpon Springs, Florida in the United States in 1991, in Wesley Chapel, Florida in the United States from 1992 to 1994, and in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997. It was held on indoor carpet courts from 1975 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1990 and on outdoor clay courts in 1982 and from 1991 to 1997.

Results

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1975 Margaret Court / Virginia Wade Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King 6–7, 7–6, 6–2
1976 Not Held
1977 Martina Navrátilová / Betty Stöve Françoise Durr / Virginia Wade 7–5, 6–3
1978 Billie Jean King / Martina Navrátilová Françoise Durr / Virginia Wade 6–4, 6–4
1979 Françoise Durr / Betty Stöve Sue Barker / Ann Kiyomura 7–5, 7–6
1980 Billie Jean King / Martina Navrátilová Sue Barker / Ann Kiyomura 7–5, 6–3
1981 Sue Barker / Ann Kiyomura Barbara Potter / Sharon Walsh 7–5, 6–2
1982 Martina Navrátilová / Pam Shriver Kathy Jordan / Anne Smith 7–5, 6–3
1983 Billie Jean King / Sharon Walsh Kathy Jordan / Anne Smith 6–1, 6–1
1984 Ann Kiyomura / Pam Shriver Barbara Jordan / Elizabeth Sayers 6–3, 6–7, 6–3
1985 Kathy Jordan / Elizabeth Smylie Betsy Nagelsen / Anne White 4–6, 7–5, 6–2
1986 Barbara Potter / Sharon Walsh Kathy Jordan / Elizabeth Smylie 6–4, 6–3
1987 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch / Helena Suková Elise Burgin / Pam Shriver 6–1, 7–6
1988 Katrina Adams / Zina Garrison Gigi Fernández / Robin White 7–5, 7–5
1989 Gigi Fernández / Robin White Elizabeth Smylie / Wendy Turnbull 6–2, 6–2
1990 Larisa Savchenko / Natasha Zvereva Manon Bollegraf / Meredith McGrath 6–4, 6–1
1991 Gigi Fernández / Helena Suková Larisa Savchenko / Natasha Zvereva 4–6, 6–4, 7–6
1992 Jana Novotná / Larisa Savchenko Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Natasha Zvereva 6–4, 6–2
1993 Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Larisa Savchenko 7–5, 6–3
1994 Jana Novotná / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva 6–2, 7–5
1995 Meredith McGrath / Larisa Savchenko Manon Bollegraf / Rennae Stubbs 6–2, 7–6
1996 Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva 6–3, 2–6, 7–6
1997 Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf Rachel McQuillan / Nana Miyagi 6–1, 3–6, 7–5

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