1996 Acura Classic - Doubles
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Gigi Fernández
and Natasha Zvereva
were the defending champions but only Zvereva competed that year with Lindsay Davenport
.
Davenport and Zvereva won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against Amy Frazier
and Kimberly Po
.
Gigi Fernández
Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...
and Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...
were the defending champions but only Zvereva competed that year with Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...
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Davenport and Zvereva won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier is a now inactive professional female tennis player from the United States.She debuted in 1987 and was active player until the 2006 US Open in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance...
and Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po-Messerli is a former professional tennis player from the United States.During her career, Po won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000...
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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. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
Lindsay DavenportLindsay DavenportLindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...
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Natasha ZverevaNatasha ZverevaNatalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...
(Champions)
Larisa NeilandLarisa NeilandLarisa Savchenko Neiland is a former tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.-Career:Neiland turned professional in 1983...
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Nathalie TauziatNathalie TauziatNathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
(Second Round)
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....
/ Linda WildLinda WildLinda Harvey Wild is a retired professional tennis player from the United States.Wild turned pro in 1989. In the first round of her first tournament as a pro, in February, 1990 in her hometown of Chicago, she defeated then fifth-ranked Arantxa Sanchez Vicario...
(Second Round)
Amanda CoetzerAmanda CoetzerAmanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...
/ Lori McNeilLori McNeilLori 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)
Kristie BoogertKristie BoogertKristie Boogert was a professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29....
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Irina SpîrleaIrina SpîrleaIrina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world...
(Second Round)
Yayuk BasukiYayuk BasukiYayuk Basuki is a professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia, having reached #19 in the Women's Tennis Association singles rankings in October 1997...
/ Caroline VisCaroline VisCaroline Vis is a retired professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Vis turned pro in 1989. A doubles specialist, Vis won nine titles during her career on the WTA Tour. She reached the mixed doubles final at the 1991 French Open, playing with countryman Paul Haarhuis. Her career-high...
(Second Round)
- Katrina AdamsKatrina AdamsKatrina Adams is a former professional United States tennis player from Chicago. Her highest singles ranking was 67 on May 8, 1989.-Early life:Adams joined a tennis program in West Side, Chicago when she was six years old...
/ Zina Garrison-JacksonZina 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...
(Quarterfinals)
- Alexia Dechaume-BalleretAlexia Dechaume-BalleretAlexia Dechaume-Balleret is a former professional tennis player from France. She reached her career high singles ranking of No. 46 in the world on August 17, 1992....
/ Sandrine TestudSandrine TestudSandrine Testud is a former professional female tennis player from France.-Career:Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr, Mary Pierce and Nathalie Tauziat to break into singles top 10 rankings...
(Second Round)
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