1988 Player's Canadian Open – Women's doubles

Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Garrison with Pam Shriver and McNeil with Betsy Nagelsen.

Women's doubles
1988 Player's Canadian Open
1987 Champions	Zina Garrison Lori McNeil
Champions	Jana Novotná Helena Suková
Runners-up	Zina Garrison Pam Shriver
Score	7–6(7–2), 7–6(8–6)

Further information: 1988 Player's Canadian Open

McNeil and Nagelsen lost in the quarterfinals to Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington.

Garrison and Shriver lost in the final 7–6^(7–2), 7–6^(8–6) against Jana Novotná and Helena Suková.^[1]

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.

1. Zina Garrison / Pam Shriver (final)
2. Jana Novotná / Helena Suková (champions)
3. Larisa Savchenko / Natasha Zvereva (quarterfinals)
4. Lori McNeil / Betsy Nagelsen (quarterfinals)
5. Eva Pfaff / Elizabeth Smylie (quarterfinals)
6. Nicole Provis / Catherine Suire (first round)
7. Natalia Bykova / Leila Meskhi (first round)
8. Isabelle Demongeot / Nathalie Tauziat (second round)

Draw

Key

• Q = Qualifier
• WC = Wild card
• LL = Lucky loser
• Alt = Alternate
• ITF = ITF entry
• PR = Protected ranking
• SR = Special ranking
• SE = Special exempt
• JE = Junior exempt
• JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
• CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
• NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
• w/o = Walkover
• r = Retired
• d = Defaulted

Final

	Final
	1	Zina Garrison  Pam Shriver	62	66
	2	Jana Novotná  Helena Suková	77	78

Top half

	First round							Second round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
								1	Z Garrison  P Shriver	6	6
		J Blackstad  M Yanagi	2	2					A Nishiya  E Okagawa	1	3
		A Nishiya  E Okagawa	6	6											1	Z Garrison  P Shriver	77	65	6
		H Kelesi  G Miró	0	1												J-A Faull  R McQuillan	64	77	3
		J-A Faull  R McQuillan	6	6					J-A Faull  R McQuillan	6	0	6
		C Lindqvist  A Minter	7	4	2			8	I Demongeot  N Tauziat	3	6	3
	8	I Demongeot  N Tauziat	5	6	6																	1	Z Garrison  P Shriver	w/o
																							I Kuczyńska  M Navratilova
								3	L Savchenko  N Zvereva	78	6
		C Bassett-Seguso  T Phelps	6	6					C Bassett-Seguso  T Phelps	66	2
		M Drake  J Ingram	2	0											3	L Savchenko  N Zvereva	66	4
		A Scott  M Van Nostrand	6	6												I Kuczyńska  M Navratilova	78	6
		S Collins  A Henricksson	1	2					A Scott  M Van Nostrand	4	0
		I Kuczyńska  M Navratilova	6	6					I Kuczyńska  M Navratilova	6	6
	6	N Provis  C Suire	3	3

Bottom half

	First round							Second round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
	7	N Bykova  L Meskhi	0	3
		P Fendick  J Hetherington	6	6					P Fendick  J Hetherington	77	6
		E Alexander  C-L Cohen	2	1					B Bowes  M Werdel	60	0
		B Bowes  M Werdel	6	6												P Fendick  J Hetherington	7	6
		C Delisle  J Klitch	7	3	6										4	L McNeil  B Nagelsen	5	2
		L Matthews  L Randmaa	5	6	4				C Delisle  J Klitch	3	4
								4	L McNeil  B Nagelsen	6	6
																							P Fendick  J Hetherington	1	6	2
	5	E Pfaff  E Smylie	6	6																		2	J Novotná  H Suková	6	4	6
		S Gomer  C Thompson	3	2				5	E Pfaff  E Smylie	77	6
		A Kijimuta  T Mochizuki	0	3					B Cordwell  J Richardson	62	1
		B Cordwell  J Richardson	6	6											5	E Pfaff  E Smylie	2	5
		R Simpson  J Young	2	0											2	J Novotná  H Suková	6	7
		E Krapl  C Singer	6	6					E Krapl  C Singer	3	2
								2	J Novotná  H Suková	6	6