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1988 New South Wales Open – Women's Doubles

Women's Doubles
1988 New South Wales Open
1987 Champions United States Betsy Nagelsen
Australia Elizabeth Smylie
Champions United States Ann Henricksson
Switzerland Christiane Jolissaint
Runners-up West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
Final score 7–6, 4–6, 6–3
Events
Singles men women
Doubles men women
← 1987 · New South Wales Open · 1989 →

Betsy Nagelsen and Elizabeth Smylie were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Nagelsen with Lori McNeil and Smylie with Jana Novotná.

McNeil and Nagelsen lost in the quarterfinals to Catherine Suire and Catherine Tanvier.

Novotná and Smylie lost in the semifinals to Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková.

Ann Henricksson and Christiane Jolissaint won in the final 7–6, 4–6, 6–3 against Kohde-Kilsch and Suková.

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.


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