1988 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
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Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver
were the defending champions and won in the final 6–0, 7–5 against Chris Evert
and Wendy Turnbull
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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 6–0, 7–5 against Chris Evert
Chris Evert
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...
and 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...
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Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
Martina Navratilova / Pam ShriverPam ShriverPamela 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...
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Steffi GrafSteffi GrafSteffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
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Elizabeth SmylieElizabeth SmylieElizabeth 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....
(Semifinals)- Zina GarrisonZina GarrisonZina 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...
/ Barbara PotterBarbara PotterBarbara 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:...
(Semifinals) - Hana MandlíkováHana MandlíkováHana 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...
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Jana NovotnáJana NovotnáJana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...
(Quarterfinals) - Chris EvertChris EvertChristine Marie "Chris" Evert is a former world number 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open. She was the year-ending World No...
/ Wendy TurnbullWendy TurnbullWendy 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...
(Final) 
Rosalyn FairbankRosalyn FairbankRosalyn 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 ReynoldsCandy ReynoldsCandy 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...
(First Round)
- Jenny ByrneJenny ByrneJenny Byrne is a former professional tennis player from Australia who turned professional in 1987 and retired from the tour in 1997. Her career-high world rankings were World No. 45 in singles and World No. 27 in doubles...
/ Janine Tremelling (Third Round)
Catarina LindqvistCatarina LindqvistAnna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.-Career:Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of #10 in April 1985. She also won 6 WTA Tour singles titles and 1 doubles...
/ Robin WhiteRobin White (tennis)Robin White is a former professional tennis player from the United States.White played on the WTA tour from 1983 to 1995. She won two singles titles, in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1985 and in Auckland in 1992 but the highlight of her career was her victory with Gigi Fernández in the US Open doubles...
(Third Round)
Catherine SuireCatherine SuireCatherine Suire is a former tennis player from France, who competed as a lucky loser for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won eight doubles titles in her professional career, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on May 14, 1984, when she became the...
/ Catherine TanvierCatherine TanvierCatherine Tanvier is a former tennis player from France, who emerged in the mid-1980s as one of the brightest young talents in the game...
(Third Round)
Jo DurieJo DurieJo 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:...
/ Sharon Walsh-PeteSharon WalshSharon 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...
(First Round)
Patricia HyPatricia Hy-BoulaisPatricia Hy-Boulais is a former tennis player. Representing Hong Kong early in her career, Hy-Boulais became a citizen of Canada in 1991...
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Etsuko InoueEtsuko InoueEtsuko Inoue is a retired female tennis player from Japan.Inoue twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1984 and 1988 . In 1982 she became the first winner of the women's tennis competition at the Asian Games.-External links:...
(Third Round)
- Michelle JaggardMichelle Jaggard-LaiMichelle Jaggard-Lai is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. Jaggard-Lai turned pro in 1984. She won 3 doubles titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the quarterfinals in doubles of the 1992 Australian Open, partnering Kimiko Date. In singles, she reached the 3rd...
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Marcella MeskerMarcella MeskerMarcella 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...
(Third Round)
- Ann HenrickssonAnn HenrickssonAnn Henricksson was an American professional tennis player from 1981 to 1994.She played two fourth-round Grand Slam matches: in 1985, in the Australian Open and in 1990, at Wimbledon .Ann Henricksson won three WTA doubles tournaments.-Runner up in Singles:-Doubles titles:-Runner up in doubles...
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Christiane JolissaintChristiane JolissaintChristiane Jolissaint is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. She won five doubles titles, most often partnering with Marcella Mesker.-Doubles 7 :-References:*...
(Third Round)
Belinda CordwellBelinda CordwellBelinda Jane Cordwell is a retired female tennis player from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she lost in the first round of the women's singles competition to Great Britain's Sara Gomer...
/ Julie RichardsonJulie RichardsonJulie Richardson is a former professional tennis player. She won six doubles titles in her career.-External links:...
(Second Round)
Finals
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