Martina Hingis and Jana Novotná were the defending champions, but none of them competed this year. Novotná also retired at the end of the 1999 season.
Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama won the title by defeating Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf 4–6, 7–5, 6–4 in the final. It was the 9th title for Halard-Decugis and the 12th title for Sugiyama in their respective careers. It was also the 2nd title for the pair during the season, after their win in Sydney.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All sixteen seeds received a bye to the second round.
Draw
Key
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
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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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Team events | |
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