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1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles

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Final score
  
7–6, 6–7, 6–3

Doubles
  
men

Singles
  
men

1995 Champions
  
Miho Saeki Yuka Yoshida

Champions
  
Kimiko Date Ai Sugiyama

Runners-up
  
Amy Frazier Kimberly Po

The 1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships included this tournament in women's doubles. Miho Saeki and Yuka Yoshida were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Sung-Hee Park and Shi-Ting Wang.

Kimiko Date and Ai Sugiyama won in the final 7–6, 6–7, 6–3 against Amy Frazier and Kimberly Po.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.

  1. Sabine Appelmans / Kyoko Nagatsuka (Quarterfinals)
  2. Amy Frazier / Kimberly Po (Final)
  3. Laurence Courtois / Nancy Feber (First Round)
  4. Karin Kschwendt / Rene Simpson (Semifinals)

References

1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles Wikipedia