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.
Betsy Nagelsen and Elizabeth Smylie were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Nagelsen with Lori McNeil and Smylie with Jana Novotná.
Svetlana Parkhomenko and Larisa Savchenko were the defending champions but only Parkhomenko competed that year with Natalia Medvedeva.
The 1988 Virginia Slims of Kansas was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Kansas in the United States and was part of the Category 2 tier of the 1988 WTA Tour. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and ran from February 29 through March 6, 1988. First-seeded Manuela Maleeva won the singles title.
Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Svetlana Parkhomenko and Larisa Savchenko were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Anne Minter was the defending champion but lost in the quarter-finals to Natalia Bykova.
Anna-Maria Fernandez and Julie Richardson were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Martina Navratilova and Gabriela Sabatini were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Jana Novotná and Catherine Suire were the defending champions but only Suire competed that year with Catherine Tanvier.
Svetlana Parkhomenko and Larisa Savchenko were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Parkhomenko with Leila Meskhi and Savchenko with Natasha Zvereva.
Natalia Bykova and Svetlana Parkhomenko were the defending champions of the doubles title at the 1989 Virginia Slims of Kansas tennis tournament but did not compete that year.
Jana Novotná and Catherine Suire were the defending champions but only Suire competed that year with Raffaella Reggi.
Iva Budařová and Sandra Wasserman were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Jana Novotná and Catherine Suire were the defending champions but only Suire competed that year with Helen Kelesi.
Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Garrison with Pam Shriver and McNeil with Betsy Nagelsen.
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions but only Navratilova competed that year with Iwona Kuczyńska.
Martina Navratilova and Emilio Sánchez were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Gigi Fernández and Robin White.
Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini defeated Larisa Savchenko and Natasha Zvereva in the final, 6–3, 1–6, 12–10 to win the ladies' doubles tennis title at the 1988 Wimbledon Championships. It was the first and only major doubles title for both.
Svetlana Parkhomenko 
Jana Novotná 
Catherine Suire 
