1984 Bridgestone Doubles Championships

The 1984 Bridgestone Doubles Championships was a tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Tokyo

Tokyo

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, Japan

Japan

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that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series

1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series

The 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the 12th season since the foundation of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced in January, 1984, and concluded in December, 1984 after events....

. The tournament was held from March 5 through March 11, 1984.

Final

Ann Kiyomura
Ann Kiyomura
Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi is a former professional tennis player.Kiyomura played on the WTA Tour from 1973 to 1984. She played in 11 US Opens, reaching the fourth round in 1978. In 1975, she won the Wimbledon women's doubles title, playing with Kazuko Sawamatsu...

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Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

defeated

Barbara Jordan

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Elizabeth Smylie

Elizabeth Smylie is an Australian former tennis player.She won the Western Australian Sports Star of the Year award in 1985.She won the Comeback Player of the Year award in 1990 and 1993....

, 6–3, 6–7, 6–3.

It was Kiyomura's 1st title of the year and the 25th of her career. It was Shriver's 5th title of the year and the 53rd of her career.

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