See main article: 1988 Player's Canadian Open.
Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Garrison with Pam Shriver and McNeil with Betsy Nagelsen.
McNeil and Nagelsen lost in the quarterfinals to Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington.
Garrison and Shriver lost in the final 7–6(7–2), 7–6(8–6) against Jana Novotná and Helena Suková.[1]
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.