Women's doubles | |
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2008 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships | |
Champions | Jill Craybas Marina Erakovic |
Runners-up | Ayumi Morita Aiko Nakamura |
Final score | 4–6, 7–5, [10–6] |
Sun Tiantian and Yan Zi were the defending champions, but Yan chose not to participate, and only Sun competed that year.
Sun partnered with Vania King, but lost in the semifinals to Aiko Nakamura and Ayumi Morita.
Jill Craybas and Marina Erakovic won in the final 4–6, 7–5, [10–6], against Aiko Nakamura and Ayumi Morita.
First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | I Benešová S Pe'er | 1 | 6 | [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
J Namigata A Yonemura | 6 | 4 | [10] | J Namigata A Yonemura | 6 | 65 | [9] | ||||||||||||||||||||
J Craybas M Erakovic | 6 | 6 | J Craybas M Erakovic | 4 | 7 | [11] | |||||||||||||||||||||
S Dubois C Fusano | 4 | 2 | J Craybas M Erakovic | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | G Dulko M Kirilenko | A Pavlyuchenkova Y Wickmayer | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
A Pavlyuchenkova Y Wickmayer | w/o | A Pavlyuchenkova Y Wickmayer | 64 | 6 | [15] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Y-j Chan M Santangelo | 6 | 7 | Y-j Chan M Santangelo | 7 | 3 | [13] | |||||||||||||||||||||
M Kondratieva S Lefèvre | 1 | 64 | J Craybas M Erakovic | 4 | 7 | [10] | |||||||||||||||||||||
WC | K Date-Krumm R Fujiwara | 6 | 64 | [10] | A Morita A Nakamura | 6 | 5 | [6] | |||||||||||||||||||
P Cetkovská L Šafářová | 4 | 7 | [7] | WC | K Date-Krumm R Fujiwara | 2 | 6 | [5] | |||||||||||||||||||
A Morita A Nakamura | 4 | 6 | [10] | A Morita A Nakamura | 6 | 1 | [10] | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | C-j Chuang S-w Hsieh | 6 | 4 | [6] | A Morita A Nakamura | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
S Uberoi M Washington | 6 | 6 | 2 | V King T Sun | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
M Domachowska K Zakopalová | 4 | 4 | S Uberoi M Washington | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
C-w Chan N Grandin | 2 | 5 | 2 | V King T Sun | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2 | V King T Sun | 6 | 7 |
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