1996 World Doubles Cup

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1996 World Doubles Cup
Date22–25 May
Edition21st
Champions
Doubles
Flag of the United States.svg Nicole Arendt / Flag of the Netherlands.svg Manon Bollegraf
  1995  · World Doubles Cup ·  1997  

The 1996 World Doubles Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Craiglockhart Tennis Centre in Edinburgh in Scotland that was part of the 1996 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 22 to 25 May 1996.

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Winners

Women's doubles

Flag of the United States.svg Nicole Arendt / Flag of the Netherlands.svg Manon Bollegraf defeated Flag of the United States.svg Gigi Fernández / Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva 63, 26, 76

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