Martina Hingis and Helena Suková were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Hingis with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Suková with Larisa Savchenko.
Savchenko and Suková lost in the final 4 - 6, 6 - 4, 6 - 1 against Hingis and Sánchez Vicario.
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
Both seeds received a bye into the second round.
