1989 Citizen Cup – Doubles

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Doubles
1989 Citizen Cup
1988 Champions
Final
Champions
Runners-up
Score Walkover
Details
Draw24
Seeds8
Events
Singles Doubles
  1988  · Hamburg European Open ·  1990  

Jana Novotná and Tine Scheuer-Larsen were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Novotná with Helena Suková and Scheuer-Larsen with Catarina Lindqvist.

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Lindqvist and Scheuer-Larsen lost in the semifinals to Isabelle Demongeot and Nathalie Tauziat.

Novotná and Suková lost the final on a walkover against Demongeot and Tauziat.

Seeds

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.

  1. Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jana Novotná / Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Helena Suková (final)
  2. Flag of France.svg Isabelle Demongeot / Flag of France.svg Nathalie Tauziat (champions)
  3. Flag of the Netherlands.svg Manon Bollegraf / Flag of Germany.svg Eva Pfaff (semifinals)
  4. Flag of Sweden.svg Catarina Lindqvist / Flag of Denmark.svg Tine Scheuer-Larsen (semifinals)
  5. Flag of Italy.svg Sandra Cecchini / Flag of Germany.svg Claudia Porwik (quarterfinals)
  6. Flag of Spain.svg Arantxa Sánchez / Flag of Argentina.svg Patricia Tarabini (quarterfinals)
  7. Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jo-Anne Faull / Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rachel McQuillan (quarterfinals)
  8. Flag of the Netherlands.svg Carin Bakkum / Flag of the Netherlands.svg Nicole Jagerman (second round)

Draw

Key

Final

Final
     
1    
2 w/o  

Top half

First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals
1 66 
 66  1 2  
 
3 1  1 66 
 64 66 4 1  
 2 64  3 4  
6 66 
1 66 
3 2 1  
3 4 66
 76  62 3
 5 3  3 3 66
 2 5   63 3
 67  1 66
8 64 3

Bottom half

First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals
5 67 
 76  1 5  
 5 3  5 1 63
 6 5  4 63 6
 77  1 63
4 64 6
4 5 0  
2 76 
7 66 
 6 6   0 2  
 77 7 4 4  
 66 2 66 
 3 1   72 1
2 5 66

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