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2003 DFS Classic | |
Champions | Els Callens Meilen Tu |
Runners-up | Alicia Molik Martina Navratilova |
Score | 7–5, 6–4 |
Shinobu Asagoe and Els Callens were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Asagoe with Nana Miyagi and Callens with Meilen Tu.
Asagoe and Miyagi lost in the quarterfinals to Rika Fujiwara and Roberta Vinci.
Callens and Tu won in the final 7–5, 6–4 against Alicia Molik and Martina Navratilova.
Text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
LL | C Dhenin S Jeyaseelan | 6 | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
WC | L Granville A Stevenson | 4 | 64 | LL | C Dhenin S Jeyaseelan | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
C Morariu R Stubbs | 61 | 77 | 3/r | E Callens M Tu | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
E Callens M Tu | 77 | 64 | 3 | E Callens M Tu | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | L Huber M Maleeva | 3 | 4 | Q | T Musgrave E Tatarkova | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
M Vento-Kabchi A Widjaja | 6 | 6 | M Vento-Kabchi A Widjaja | 2 | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
E Daniilidou N Pratt | 3 | 4 | Q | T Musgrave E Tatarkova | 6 | 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Q | T Musgrave E Tatarkova | 6 | 6 | Els Callens Meilen Tu | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
N Arendt T Perebiynis | 3 | 6 | 3 | WC | Alicia Molik Martina Navratilova | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
J Lee W Prakusya | 6 | 3 | 6 | J Lee W Prakusya | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WC | A Molik M Navratilova | 2 | 6 | 6 | WC | A Molik M Navratilova | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | N Dechy É Loit | 6 | 4 | 4 | WC | A Molik M Navratilova | 710 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
E Kulikovskaya S Reeves | 1 | 2 | R Fujiwara R Vinci | 68 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
S Asagoe N Miyagi | 6 | 6 | S Asagoe N Miyagi | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
R Fujiwara R Vinci | 65 | 6 | 6 | R Fujiwara R Vinci | 6 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | E Dementieva E Gagliardi | 77 | 1 | 2 |
First qualifying round | Final qualifying round | ||||||||||||
1 | T Musgrave E Tatarkova | ||||||||||||
WC | E Baltacha J Pullin | w/o | 1 | T Musgrave E Tatarkova | 8 | ||||||||
C Dhenin S Jeyaseelan | 8 | C Dhenin S Jeyaseelan | 1 | ||||||||||
2 | M Sequera A Spears | 6 |
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