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| 1987 WTA Argentine Open | |
| 1986 Champions |  Lori McNeil  Mercedes Paz |
| Champions | Mercedes Paz Gabriela Sabatini |
| Runners-up |  Jill Hetherington  Christiane Jolissaint |
| Final score | 6–2, 6–2 |
Lori McNeil and Mercedes Paz were the defending champions but only Paz competed that year with Gabriela Sabatini.
Paz and Sabatini won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Jill Hetherington and Christiane Jolissaint.
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes into the second round.
Mercedes Paz / Gabriela Sabatini (champions)
Andrea Betzner / Isabel Cueto (quarterfinals) Emilse Raponi-Longo / Patricia Tarabini (quarterfinals) Gabriela Mosca / Adriana Villagrán (second round) Jill Hetherington / Christiane Jolissaint (final) Lea Antonoplis / Andrea Tiezzi (semifinals)
Carin Bakkum / Simone Schilder (semifinals) Bettina Fulco / 
Gisele Miró (quarterfinals)| Final | ||||||
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Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions and won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Meredith McGrath and Larisa Neiland.
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Mercedes Paz and Eva Pfaff were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Paz with Mary Lou Daniels and Pfaff with Zina Garrison.
Martina Navratilova and Gabriela Sabatini were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Betsy Nagelsen and Elizabeth Smylie were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Ann Henricksson and Christiane Jolissaint were the defending champions but only Henricksson competed that year with Gretchen Magers.
Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini were the defending champions but only Sabatini competed that year with Betsy Nagelsen.
Isabelle Demongeot and Nathalie Tauziat were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Lise Gregory and Gretchen Magers.
Gabriela Sabatini was the defending champion and won in the final 6–0, 6–2 against Isabel Cueto.
Vicki Nelson-Dunbar was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Olga Tsarbopoulou.
Neige Dias and Patricia Medrado were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Dias with Bettina Fulco and Medrado with Cláudia Monteiro.
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Elise Burgin and Rosalyn Fairbank.
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions and won in the final 5–7, 6–4, 6–2 against Kathy Jordan and Elizabeth Smylie.
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Gigi Fernández and Robin White.
Gigi Fernández and Robin White were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini.
Pam Shriver and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Shriver with Martina Navratilova and Zvereva with Gigi Fernández.
Six-time defending champions Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver successfully defended their title, defeating Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 to win the women's doubles tennis title at the 1989 Australian Open.
Jana Novotná and Helena Suková successfully defended their title, defeating Kathy Jordan and Elizabeth Smylie in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the ladies' doubles tennis title at the 1990 Wimbledon Championships.
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Helena Suková were the defending champions but Suková did not participate this year. Sánchez Vicario paired up with Jana Novotná and successfully defended the title, defeating Robin White and Katerina Maleeva in the final, 6-3, 6-3. With their semifinal loss to Maleeva and White, Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva missed out on the Grand Slam in Women's Doubles for the 2nd straight year.
Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions, but none competed this year.
