1984 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
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Martina Navratilova and 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...

 were the defending champions and won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Kathy Jordan
Kathy Jordan
Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...

 and Anne Smith
Anne Smith
Anne Smith is a female former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was World No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 12 in 1982...

.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
  1.   Martina Navratilova /   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...

     (Champions)
  2.   Anne Hobbs
    Anne Hobbs
    Anne Hobbs is a British former professional tennis player.-Tennis career:Hobbs represented Great Britain in the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup from 1978 to 1989...

     /   Wendy Turnbull
    Wendy Turnbull
    Wendy Turnbull, MBE, is a retired Australian professional tennis player. During her career, she won 9 Grand Slam titles, 4 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles. She also was a 3-time Grand Slam singles runner-up and won 13 singles titles and 55 doubles titles.-Career:Turnbull...

     (Second Round)
  3.   Kathleen Horvath
    Kathleen Horvath
    Erica Kathleen "Kathy" Horvath is a former professional tennis player.-Career:Horvath was the youngest player to win the U.S. National 16s in 1979. She also is the only player to ever win all four age groups in the U.S...

     /   Virginia Ruzici
    Virginia Ruzici
    Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....

     
    (First Round)
  4.   Barbara Potter
    Barbara Potter
    Barbara Potter is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning five singles titles and eighteen doubles titles.-Career:...

     /   Sharon Walsh
    Sharon Walsh
    Sharon Walsh-Arnold is a former professional tennis player from the United States.Walsh enjoyed a long career by modern standards, playing her first Grand Slam singles event in 1969 and her last Grand Slam doubles match in 1990. She was a finalist at the 1979 Australian Open where she lost to...

     (Semifinals)
  5.   Rosalyn Fairbank
    Rosalyn Fairbank
    Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance coming as late as 1997...

     /   Candy Reynolds
    Candy Reynolds
    Candy Reynolds is a former professional tennis player from the United States.-Career:During her career, Reynolds won the women's doubles title at the French Open in 1983...

     
    (Quarterfinals)
  6.   Jo Durie
    Jo Durie
    Jo Durie is a former world number 5 professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles.-Singles career:...

     /   Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi
    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...

     (Semifinals)
  7.   Kathy Jordan
    Kathy Jordan
    Kathryn "Kathy" Jordan is a former American tennis player. During her career, she won 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 of them in women's doubles and 2 of them in mixed doubles...

     /   Anne Smith
    Anne Smith
    Anne Smith is a female former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was World No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 12 in 1982...

     
    (Final)
  8.   Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
    Claudia Kohde-Kilsch is a former German tennis player. During her career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won 10 singles titles and 26 doubles titles.-Career:...

     /   Hana Mandlíková
    Hana Mandlíková
    Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...

     (Quarterfinals)



  1.   Andrea Leand
    Andrea Leand
    Andrea Leand is a former professional tennis player.- Career :She played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1994. She won a singles title at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1984 and reached the 4th round of the U.S. Open on three occasions and of the French Open in 1982. She retired with an 87-106 singles...

     /   Mary Lou Piatek 
    (Second Round)
  2.   Christiane Jolissaint
    Christiane Jolissaint
    Christiane Jolissaint is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. She won five doubles titles, most often partnering with Marcella Mesker.-Doubles 7 :-References:*...

     /   Marcella Mesker
    Marcella Mesker
    Marcella Mesker is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.Mesker was active on the WTA tour from 1979 to 1988 and reached the final of the Australian Open Women's Doubles in 1979. She also reached the semi finals of the U.S. Open Women's Doubles in 1984...

     (Second Round)
  3.   Leslie Allen
    Leslie Allen (tennis)
    Leslie Allen is a retired American professional tennis player.Allen was a member of the University of Southern California national championship team and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications...

     /   Anne White
    Anne White
    Anne White is a former professional United States tennis player from Charleston, West Virginia. She is most famous for wearing a white body suit at Wimbledon in 1985.-Early life:White attended John Adams Junior High School...

     
    (Third Round)
  4.   Mima Jaušovec
    Mima Jaušovec
    Mima Jaušovec is a Slovenian female former tennis player. She was born on July 20, 1956, in Maribor, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia). In singles she reached a career high of No. 6 in 1982, in doubles she reached a career high of No. 211 in 1986....

     /   Virginia Wade
    Virginia Wade
    Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...

     (Third Round)
  5.   Barbara Jordan /   Elizabeth Sayers
    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....

     
    (Second Round)
  6.   Bettina Bunge
    Bettina Bunge
    Bettina Bunge is a retired German tennis player. She was born in Adliswil, Switzerland. She was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, and Eva Pfaff.-Career:With German nationality as the daughter of a...

     /   Eva Pfaff
    Eva Pfaff
    Eva Pfaff is a former German tennis player.During her career she won 5 doubles WTA titles. Her peak world rankings in the sport were 17th in singles and 16th in doubles ....

     (First Round)
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  8.   Zina Garrison
    Zina Garrison
    Zina Lynna Garrison is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During her career, she was a women's singles runner-up at Wimbledon in 1990, a three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champion, and a women's doubles gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games.-Career:An African-American...

     /   Lori McNeil
    Lori McNeil
    Lori McNeil is an African American tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the United States. McNeil was a childhood friend of fellow African American pro Zina Garrison...

     
    (Second Round)

    Finals

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