1996 Kroger St. Jude International – Doubles

1996 Kroger St. Jude International
1995 Champions   United States Jared Palmer
United States Richey Reneberg
Champions   The Bahamas Mark Knowles
Canada Daniel Nestor
Runners-up   Australia Todd Woodbridge
Australia Mark Woodforde
Final score   76, 16, 64
Events
Singles   Doubles

Jared Palmer and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions but only Reneberg competed that year with Jim Grabb.

Grabb and Reneberg lost in the first round to Brian MacPhie and Mark Philippoussis.

Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor won in the final 76, 16, 64 against Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes to the second round.

  1. Australia Todd Woodbridge / Australia Mark Woodforde (Final)
  2. The Bahamas Mark Knowles / Canada Daniel Nestor (Champions)
  3. Zimbabwe Byron Black / Canada Grant Connell (Quarterfinals)
  4. United States Rick Leach / United States Scott Melville (Quarterfinals)
  5. Netherlands Paul Haarhuis / Spain Emilio Sánchez (Second Round)
  6. United States Todd Martin / United States Alex O'Brien (Semifinals)
  7. United States Mark Keil / United States Jeff Tarango (Second Round)
  8. Spain Tomás Carbonell / Spain Francisco Roig (Quarterfinals)

Draw

Key

Final

Final
         
1  Australia Todd Woodbridge
 Australia Mark Woodforde
6 6 4
2  The Bahamas Mark Knowles
 Canada Daniel Nestor
7 1 6

Top Half

First Round   Second Round   Quarterfinals   Semifinals
 
    1  Australia T Woodbridge
 Australia M Woodforde
6 6    
   United States K Kinnear
 United States D Randall
4 6 6        United States K Kinnear
 United States D Randall
3 3    
WC  India M Bhupathi
 Lebanon A Hamadeh
6 2 3       1  Australia T Woodbridge
 Australia M Woodforde
6 3 7  
   Spain J A Conde
 Portugal N Marques
4 7 1       WC  United States K Flach
 United States K Jones
3 6 5  
WC  United States K Flach
 United States K Jones
6 6 6     WC  United States K Flach
 United States K Jones
6 7  
    7  United States M Keil
 United States J Tarango
3 6    
      1  Australia T Woodbridge
 Australia M Woodforde
6 4 6
      WC  United States M Joyce
 United States D Pate
2 6 1
    4  United States R Leach
 United States S Melville
6 4 7  
   United States J Grabb
 United States R Reneberg
0 6 1        United States B MacPhie
 Australia M Philippoussis
3 6 5  
   United States B MacPhie
 Australia M Philippoussis
6 4 6       4  United States R Leach
 United States S Melville
2 3  
   Netherlands T Nijssen
 United States G Van Emburgh
2 4         WC  United States M Joyce
 United States D Pate
6 6    
WC  United States M Joyce
 United States D Pate
6 6       WC  United States M Joyce
 United States D Pate
6 7  
    5  Netherlands P Haarhuis
 Spain E Sánchez
3 5    
 

Bottom Half

First Round   Second Round   Quarterfinals   Semifinals
 
    6  United States T Martin
 United States A O'Brien
6 6    
   United States T Kronemann
 Australia D Macpherson
4 6          Czech Republic J Novák
 Czech Republic D Rikl
3 4    
   Czech Republic J Novák
 Czech Republic D Rikl
6 7         6  United States T Martin
 United States A O'Brien
3 7 6  
Q  United Kingdom G Rusedski
 Australia P Tramacchi
4 3         3  Zimbabwe B Black
 Canada G Connell
6 6 4  
   Venezuela N Pereira
 Australia M Tebbutt
6 6          Venezuela N Pereira
 Australia M Tebbutt
1 7 5
    3  Zimbabwe B Black
 Canada G Connell
6 5 7  
      6  United States T Martin
 United States A O'Brien
6 4  
      2  The Bahamas M Knowles
 Canada D Nestor
7 6  
    8  Spain T Carbonell
 Spain F Roig
7 1 6  
   United States L Jensen
 United States M Jensen
5 6 6        United States L Jensen
 United States M Jensen
6 6 4  
   Australia J Eagle
 Australia A Florent
7 4 3       8  Spain T Carbonell
 Spain F Roig
5 3  
WC  United States B Shelton
 United States K Thorne
7 1 4       2  The Bahamas M Knowles
 Canada D Nestor
7 6    
   United States M Lucena
 United States J Waite
6 6 6        United States M Lucena
 United States J Waite
6 3 2
    2  The Bahamas M Knowles
 Canada D Nestor
4 6 6  
 

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