See main article: 1999 Direct Line International Championships. The 1999 Direct Line International Championships doubles was the doubles event of the twenty-fifth edition of the Eastbourne International, a WTA Tier II tennis tournament held in Eastbourne, England and part of the European grass court season. The draw consisted of 16 teams of which four were seeded. Mariaan de Swardt and Jana Novotná were the defending doubles champions but each competed with different partners in 1999. De Swardt partnered Elena Tatarkova and reached the semifinals where they lost to Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova. Novotná teamed with Natasha Zvereva and they retired in the final to Hingis and Kournikova after losing the first set 4–6.
Jana Novotná / 
Natasha Zvereva (final)
Anna Kournikova (champions)
Alexandra Fusai / Nathalie Tauziat (first round) Elena Likhovtseva / 
Ai Sugiyama (quarterfinals)
Catherine Barclay / Kerry-Anne Guse (first round) Miho Saeki / Anne-Gaëlle Sidot (first round)