1996 tennis event results
Gabriela Sabatini and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Larisa Savchenko and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario .
Savchenko and Sánchez Vicario won in the final 7–6, 6–1 against Mary Joe Fernández and Helena Suková .
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
Grand Slam events Tier I tournaments Tier II tournaments Sydney (S , D ) Paris (S , D ) Essen (S , D ) Indian Wells (S , D ) Amelia Island (S , D ) Hamburg (S , D ) Madrid (S , D ) Eastbourne (S , D ) Manhattan Beach (S , D ) San Diego (S , D ) Tokyo (S , D ) Leipzig (S , D ) Filderstadt (S , D ) Chicago (S , D ) Oakland (S , D ) Philadelphia (S , D ) Tier III tournaments Oklahoma City (S , D ) Linz (S , D ) Jakarta (S , D ) Tokyo Outdoor (S , D ) Strasbourg (S , D ) Birmingham (S , D ) Rosmalen (S , D ) Warsaw (S , D ) Quebec City (S , D ) Luxembourg (S , D ) Moscow (S , D ) Tier IV tournaments Auckland (S , D ) Hobart (S , D ) Bol (S , D ) Budapest (S , D ) Cardiff (S , D ) Palermo (S , D ) Maria Lankowitz (S , D ) Karlovy Vary (S , D ) Surabaya (S , D ) Beijing (S , D ) Pattaya (S , D ) Team events