1988 Player's Canadian Open – Women's Doubles

1988 Player's Canadian Open
1987 Champions   United States Zina Garrison
United States Lori McNeil
Champions   Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
Runners-up   United States Zina Garrison
United States Pam Shriver
Final score   76, 76
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 76, 76 against Jana Novotná and Helena Suková.

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. United States Zina Garrison / United States Pam Shriver (Final)
  2. Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná / Czechoslovakia Helena Suková (Champions)
  3. Soviet Union Larisa Savchenko / Soviet Union Natasha Zvereva (Quarterfinals)
  4. United States Lori McNeil / United States Betsy Nagelsen (Quarterfinals)
  5. West Germany Eva Pfaff / Australia Elizabeth Smylie (Quarterfinals)
  6. Australia Nicole Provis / France Catherine Suire (First Round)
  7. Soviet Union Natalia Bykova / Soviet Union Leila Meskhi (First Round)
  8. France Isabelle Demongeot / France Nathalie Tauziat (Second Round)

Draw

Key

Final

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

Top Half

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

Bottom Half

First Round   Second Round   Quarterfinals   Semifinals
7  Soviet Union N Bykova
 Soviet Union L Meskhi
0 3    
   United States P Fendick
 Canada J Hetherington
6 6          United States P Fendick
 Canada J Hetherington
7 6    
   United States E Alexander
 Canada C-L Cohen
2 1          United States B Bowes
 United States M Werdel
6 0    
   United States B Bowes
 United States M Werdel
6 6            United States P Fendick
 Canada J Hetherington
7 6    
   Canada C Delisle
 United States J Klitch
7 3 6       4  United States L McNeil
 United States B Nagelsen
5 2    
   Canada L Matthews
 Canada L Randmaa
5 6 4        Canada C Delisle
 United States J Klitch
3 4  
    4  United States L McNeil
 United States B Nagelsen
6 6    
         United States P Fendick
 Canada J Hetherington
1 6 2
5  West Germany E Pfaff
 Australia E Smylie
6 6         2  Czechoslovakia J Novotná
 Czechoslovakia H Suková
6 4 6
   United Kingdom S Gomer
 Australia C Thompson
3 2       5  West Germany E Pfaff
 Australia E Smylie
7 6    
   Japan A Kijimuta
 United States T Mochizuki
0 3          New Zealand B Cordwell
 New Zealand J Richardson
6 1    
   New Zealand B Cordwell
 New Zealand J Richardson
6 6         5  West Germany E Pfaff
 Australia E Smylie
2 5  
   Canada R Simpson
 Canada J Young
2 0         2  Czechoslovakia J Novotná
 Czechoslovakia H Suková
6 7    
   Switzerland E Krapl
 West Germany C Singer
6 6          Switzerland E Krapl
 West Germany C Singer
3 2  
    2  Czechoslovakia J Novotná
 Czechoslovakia H Suková
6 6    
 

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