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1998 US Open – Women's Doubles

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Final score
  
6–3, 6–3

Seeds
  
16

Draw
  
64 (4Q / 4WC)

Singles
  
men

Champions
  
Martina Hingis Jana Novotná

Runners-up
  
Lindsay Davenport Natasha Zvereva

Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotná were the defending champions, but they did not play together this year. Davenport played with Natasha Zvereva as the second seed, and Novotná played with Martina Hingis as the first seed.

The two teams met in the final, where Hingis and Novotná won, 6–3, 6–3. With this win, Hingis became the third woman in the Open Era to complete a Calendar Year Grand Slam in doubles, after Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. Additionally, Hingis and her partners defeated Davenport/Zvereva in all four grand slam finals in 1998.

References

1998 US Open – Women's Doubles Wikipedia


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