# 1988 Ariadne Classic – Doubles

Hana Mandlíková and Wendy Turnbull were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Mandlíková with Jana Novotná and Turnbull with Elizabeth Smylie.
Mandlíková and Novotná lost in the quarterfinals to Jo Durie and Sharon Walsh-Pete.
Smylie and Turnbull lost in the semifinals to Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková.
Betsy Nagelsen and Pam Shriver won in the final 2–6, 7–5, 6–2 against Kohde-Kilsch and 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.
* Claudia Kohde-Kilsch / Helena Suková (final)
* Betsy Nagelsen / Pam Shriver (champions)
* Elizabeth Smylie / Wendy Turnbull (semifinals)
* Hana Mandlíková / Jana Novotná (quarterfinals)
* Rosalyn Fairbank / Candy Reynolds (first round)
* Jenny Byrne / Janine Tremelling (second round)
* Catherine Suire / Catherine Tanvier (quarterfinals)
* Jo Durie / Sharon Walsh-Pete (semifinals)

## 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 | Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Helena Suková | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Betsy Nagelsen Pam Shriver | 2 | 7 | 6 |

### Top half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | | 1 | C Kohde-Kilsch H Suková | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | N Jagerman J Kaplan | 4 | 2 | | M Jaggard A Minter | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Jaggard A Minter | 6 | 6 | | | | | 1 | C Kohde-Kilsch H Suková | 5 | 7 | 6 | | | | |
| | A Devries M Lindström | 1 | 0 | | | | | 7 | C Suire C Tanvier | 7 | 6 | 4 | | | | |
| | P Fendick J Hetherington | 6 | 6 | | P Fendick J Hetherington | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| | B Potter K Radford | 2 | 4 | 7 | C Suire C Tanvier | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | C Suire C Tanvier | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | 1 | C Kohde-Kilsch H Suková | 7 | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | E Smylie W Turnbull | 6 | r |
| | | | | 3 | E Smylie W Turnbull | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | K McDonald E Smith | 6 | 6 | | K McDonald E Smith | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| | E Krapl R Zrubáková | 2 | 1 | | | | | 3 | E Smylie W Turnbull | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | D Balestrat N Provis | 7 | 6 | | | | | | D Balestrat N Provis | 7 | 1 | 4 | | | | |
| | L O'Neill N Sato | 5 | 0 | | D Balestrat N Provis | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | C Bakkum H Witvoet | 6 | 6 | | C Bakkum H Witvoet | 5 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | R Fairbank C Reynolds | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### 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 |
| 8 | J Durie S Walsh-Pete | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | H Ludloff E Minter | 3 | 1 | | 8 | J Durie S Walsh-Pete | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Bollegraf C Jolissaint | 6 | 6 | | | M Bollegraf C Jolissaint | 6 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | C Porwik W Probst | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | 8 | J Durie S Walsh-Pete | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | P Hy E Inoue | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | 4 | H Mandlíková J Novotná | 6 | 0 | 3 | | | | |
| | D-A Hansel P Smith | 3 | 5 | | | P Hy E Inoue | 7 | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 | H Mandlíková J Novotná | 5 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | J Durie S Walsh-Pete | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | J Byrne J Tremelling | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | B Nagelsen P Shriver | 6 | 6 |
| | A M Fernandez L Field | 1 | 4 | | 6 | J Byrne J Tremelling | 6 | 2 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Halard P Paradis | 6 | 4 | 5 | | B Cordwell J Richardson | 2 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | B Cordwell J Richardson | 4 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | B Cordwell J Richardson | 2 | 4 | | | | | |
| | S Collins S Hanika | 6 | 6 | 1 | | | | | | 2 | B Nagelsen P Shriver | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | J Salmon M Yanagi | 4 | 7 | 6 | | J Salmon M Yanagi | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | B Nagelsen P Shriver | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |