# 1996 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles

Tommy Ho and Brett Steven were the defending champions but only Steven competed that year with Sandon Stolle.
Steven and Stolle lost in the first round to Jonas Björkman and Stefan Edberg.
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won in the final 1–6, 6–2, 6–2 against Brian MacPhie and Michael Tebbutt.

## Seeds

The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
* Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde (champions)
* Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis (quarterfinals)
* Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (second round)
* Byron Black / Grant Connell (semifinals)
* Rick Leach / Scott Melville (first round)
* Guy Forget / Jakob Hlasek (second round)
* Brett Steven / Sandon Stolle (first round)
* Todd Martin / Jonathan Stark (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

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| 4 | Byron Black Grant Connell | 3 | 3 | | | | | |
| 4 | Byron Black Grant Connell | 3 | 3 | 1 | Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | Brian MacPhie Michael Tebbutt | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| | Brian MacPhie Michael Tebbutt | 7 | 6 | | Brian MacPhie Michael Tebbutt | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| | Trevor Kronemann David Macpherson | 6 | 4 | | | | | |

### 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 | Semifinals |
| | | | | | 1 | T Woodbridge M Woodforde | 7 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | T Nijssen G Van Emburgh | 6 | 5 | 2 | | W Ferreira G Muller | 5 | 6 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | W Ferreira G Muller | 4 | 7 | 6 | | | | | | 1 | T Woodbridge M Woodforde | 7 | 4 | 6 | | | | |
| | L Lobo J Sánchez | 2 | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | J Grabb R Reneberg | 6 | 6 | 3 | | | | |
| | J Grabb R Reneberg | 6 | 5 | 7 | | J Grabb R Reneberg | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | A Boetsch M Rosset | 4 | 7 | 6 | 8 | T Martin J Stark | 2 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | T Martin J Stark | 6 | 5 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | T Woodbridge M Woodforde | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | B Black G Connell | 3 | 3 |
| | | | | | 4 | B Black G Connell | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | T Budgen B Sceney | 2 | 3 | | | A Gaudenzi G Ivanišević | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Gaudenzi G Ivanišević | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 4 | B Black G Connell | 7 | 6 | | | | | |
| LL | K Flach K Jones | 6 | 1 | 4 | | | | | | Q | P Kilderry M Ondruska | 5 | 1 | | | | | |
| Q | P Kilderry M Ondruska | 1 | 6 | 6 | Q | P Kilderry M Ondruska | 6 | 1 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | J Courier A O'Brien | 6 | 6 | 7 | WC | J Courier A O'Brien | 3 | 6 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | R Leach S Melville | 0 | 7 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### 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 |
| 6 | G Forget J Hlasek | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Frana E Sánchez | 3 | 4 | | 6 | G Forget J Hlasek | 4 | 6 | 4 | | | | | | | | |
| WC | A Agassi P Galbraith | 3 | 7 | 5 | | B MacPhie M Tebbutt | 6 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | B MacPhie M Tebbutt | 6 | 5 | 7 | | | | | | | B MacPhie M Tebbutt | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | J-L de Jager E Ferreira | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | J-L de Jager E Ferreira | 3 | 4 | | | | |
| | K Kinnear D Randall | 1 | 3 | | | J-L de Jager E Ferreira | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | M Knowles D Nestor | 7 | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | B MacPhie M Tebbutt | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | B Steven S Stolle | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | T Kronemann D Macpherson | 6 | 4 |
| | J Björkman S Edberg | 6 | 7 | | | J Björkman S Edberg | 2 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| Q | J Belloli L Paes | 3 | 6 | 3 | | T Kronemann D Macpherson | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | T Kronemann D Macpherson | 6 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | T Kronemann D Macpherson | 1 | 6 | 6 | | | |
| | J Eagle A Florent | 6 | 2 | 7 | | | | | | 2 | J Eltingh P Haarhuis | 6 | 3 | 2 | | | |
| | L Jensen M Jensen | 3 | 6 | 6 | | J Eagle A Florent | 7 | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | J Eltingh P Haarhuis | 6 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | |