# 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.
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.

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

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Final

| Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Zina Garrison Pam Shriver | 6$^2$ | 6$^6$ | |
| 2 | Jana Novotná Helena Suková | 7$^7$ | 7$^8$ | |

### Top half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | 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 | 7$^7$ | 6$^5$ | 6 | | | |
| | H Kelesi G Miró | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | J-A Faull R McQuillan | 6$^4$ | 7$^7$ | 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 | 7$^8$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | C Bassett-Seguso T Phelps | 6 | 6 | | | C Bassett-Seguso T Phelps | 6$^6$ | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Drake J Ingram | 2 | 0 | | | | | | | 3 | L Savchenko N Zvereva | 6$^6$ | 4 | | | | |
| | A Scott M Van Nostrand | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | I Kuczyńska M Navratilova | 7$^8$ | 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 | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| 7 | N Bykova L Meskhi | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | P Fendick J Hetherington | 6 | 6 | | | P Fendick J Hetherington | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | E Alexander C-L Cohen | 2 | 1 | | | B Bowes M Werdel | 6$^0$ | 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 | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Kijimuta T Mochizuki | 0 | 3 | | | B Cordwell J Richardson | 6$^2$ | 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 | | | | | | | | | |