# 1998 WTA German Open – Doubles

Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotná were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Davenport with Natasha Zvereva and Novotná with Chanda Rubin.
Novotná and Rubin lost in the quarterfinals to Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs.
Davenport and Zvereva won in the final 6–3, 6–0 against Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat.

## 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 Davenport / Natasha Zvereva (champions)
* Alexandra Fusai / Nathalie Tauziat (final)
* Yayuk Basuki / Caroline Vis (quarterfinals)
* n/a
* Anna Kournikova / Larisa Neiland (semifinals)
* Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs (semifinals)
* Conchita Martínez / Patricia Tarabini (quarterfinals)
* Elena Likhovtseva / Ai Sugiyama (quarterfinals)

## 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 | Lindsay Davenport Natasha Zvereva | 6 | 6 | |
| 2 | Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat | 3 | 0 | |

### Top 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 |
| | | | | | 1 | L Davenport N Zvereva | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | K Habšudová O Lugina | 7 | 7 | | | K Habšudová O Lugina | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Lee M Paz | 6 | 5 | | | | | | 1 | L Davenport N Zvereva | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | C Cristea L Pleming | 3 | 2 | | | | | | 8 | E Likhovtseva A Sugiyama | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| | C Barclay K-A Guse | 6 | 6 | | | C Barclay K-A Guse | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | F Labat D Van Roost | 6 | 5 | 3 | 8 | E Likhovtseva A Sugiyama | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | E Likhovtseva A Sugiyama | 3 | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | 1 | L Davenport N Zvereva | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| | | | | | LL | A-G Sidot T Tanasugarn | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Novotná C Rubin | 3 | 7 | 6 | | J Novotná C Rubin | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | B Schett P Schnyder | 6 | 5 | 4 | | | | | | J Novotná C Rubin | | | | | | | |
| WC | S Schmidle M Weingärtner | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | 6 | L Raymond R Stubbs | w/o | | | | | | |
| | S Krivencheva Y Yoshida | 4 | 7 | 4 | WC | S Schmidle M Weingärtner | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | A Glass J Wöhr | 1 | 0 | | 6 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom 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 | Semifinals |
| 5 | A Kournikova L Neiland | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Farina L Montalvo | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | A Kournikova L Neiland | 4 | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Graham K Po | 1 | 1 | | | A Coetzer A Sánchez-Vicario | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Coetzer A Sánchez-Vicario | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 5 | A Kournikova L Neiland | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | N Kijimuta N Miyagi | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 3 | Y Basuki C Vis | 2 | 7 | 4 | | | | |
| | R Dragomir I Majoli | 3 | 1 | | | N Kijimuta N Miyagi | 6 | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | Y Basuki C Vis | 2 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | A Kournikova L Neiland | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | C Martínez P Tarabini | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | A Fusai N Tauziat | 6 | 6 |
| | S Appelmans M Oremans | 4 | 1 | | 7 | C Martínez P Tarabini | 6 | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Halard-Decugis S Testud | 6 | 6 | | | J Halard-Decugis S Testud | 4 | 6 | 1 | | | | | | | | | |
| | R Grande I Spîrlea | 4 | 1 | | | | | | | 7 | C Martínez P Tarabini | 6 | 4 | 5 | | | | |
| Q | A Mauresmo S Reeves | 5 | 6 | 3 | | | | | | 2 | A Fusai N Tauziat | 4 | 6 | 7 | | | | |
| | R McQuillan C Morariu | 7 | 4 | 2/r | Q | A Mauresmo S Reeves | 0 | r | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | A Fusai N Tauziat | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | |