Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova were the defending champions, but competed this year with different partners. Hingis partnered with Mary Pierce and finished the tournament as runners-up, while Kournikova teamed up with Barbara Schett and lost in semifinals to Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs.
Raymond and Stubbs won the title, defeating Hingis and Pierce 6–4, 5–7, 6–4 in the final. It was the 1st Grand Slam doubles title and 15th title overall for Raymond, and the 1st Grand Slam doubles title and 21st title overall for Stubbs, in their respective careers.
Seeds
Draw
Key
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
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Grand Slam events | |
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Tier I tournaments | |
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Tier II tournaments |
- Sydney (S, D)
- Paris (S, D)
- Hannover (S, D)
- Scottsdale (S, D)
- Amelia Island (S, D)
- Hamburg (S, D)
- Eastbourne (S, D)
- Stanford (S, D)
- San Diego (S, D)
- Los Angeles (S, D)
- New Haven (S, D)
- Filderstadt (S, D)
- Tokyo (S, D)
- Linz (S, D)
- Leipzig (S, D)
- Philadelphia (S, D)
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Tier III tournaments |
- Gold Coast (S, D)
- Oklahoma City (S, D)
- Bol (S, D)
- Madrid (S, D)
- Strasbourg (S, D)
- Birmingham (S, D)
- 's-Hertogenbosch (S, D)
- Klagenfurt (S, D)
- Sopot (S, D)
- Luxembourg (S, D)
- Tokyo (S, D)
- Quebec City (S, D)
- Kuala Lumpur (S, D)
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Tier IV tournaments |
- Auckland (S, D)
- Hobart (S, D)
- Bogota (S, D)
- Sao Paulo (S, D)
- Estoril (S, D)
- Budapest (S, D)
- Warsaw (S, D)
- Antwerp (S, D)
- Tashkent (S, D)
- Palermo (S, D)
- Knokke-Heist (S, D)
- Shanghai (S, D)
- Bratislava (S, D)
- Pattaya (S, D)
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