Kathy Jordan and Elizabeth Smylie were the two-time defending champions, but Jordan did not compete this year. Smylie teamed up with Jenny Byrne and lost in the first round to Bettina Bunge and Laura Gildemeister.
Svetlana Parkhomenko and Larisa Savchenko won the title by defeating Chris Evert and Pam Shriver 6–0, 3–6, 6–2 in the final. [1]
The first four seeds received a bye to the second round.