1987 Virginia Slims Championships

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1987 Virginia Slims Championships
DateNovember 16 — 23
Edition17th
Draw16S / 8D
Surface Carpet (indoors)
Location New York City, U.S.
Venue Madison Square Garden
Champions
Singles
Flag of Germany.svg Steffi Graf
Doubles
Flag of the United States.svg Martina Navratilova / Flag of the United States.svg Pam Shriver
  1986  · Virginia Slims Championships ·  1988  

The 1987 Virginia Slims Championships were the seventeenth WTA Tour Championships, the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1987 WTA Tour. It was held from November 16 through November 23, 1987, in Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. Steffi Graf won the singles title.

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Champions

Singles

Flag of Germany.svg Steffi Graf defeated Flag of Argentina.svg Gabriela Sabatini, 4–6, 6–4, 6–0, 6–4

Doubles

Flag of the United States.svg Martina Navratilova / Flag of the United States.svg Pam Shriver defeated Flag of Germany.svg Claudia Kohde-Kilsch / Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Helena Suková, 6–1, 6–1

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