1988 Player's Canadian Open – Women's Doubles

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

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.

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)
5. Eva Pfaff / Elizabeth Smylie (Quarterfinals)
6. Nicole Provis / Catherine Suire (First Round)
7. Natalia Bykova / Leila Meskhi (First Round)
8. Isabelle Demongeot / Nathalie Tauziat (Second Round)

Draw

Key

• Q = Qualifier
• WC = Wild Card
• LL = Lucky Loser
• Alt = Alternate
• SE = Special Exempt
• PR = Protected Ranking
• w/o = Walkover
• r = Retired
• d = Defaulted

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 Miró	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 Navratilova
							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 Navratilova	7	6
	S Collins   A Henricksson	1	2					A Scott   M Van Nostrand	4	0
	I Kuczyńska   M Navratilova	6	6					I Kuczyńska   M Navratilova	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

References

• 1988 Player's Canadian Open Doubles Draw