Naoko Kijimuta
Naoko Kijimuta ( Japanese: 雉子牟田 直子 ''Kijimuta Naoko'', born March 26, 1972) is a retired tennis player and winner of five professional doubles tournaments. She has been a representative of Japan in the Federation Cup.
Career
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Nana Miyagi
Nana Smith (born Nana Miyagi; 10 April 1971) is an American-born tennis player who played for Japan.
Career
Miyagi, a former top-15 player in doubles, played at all the Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles – the Australian Ope ...
were the defending champions but did not compete that year.
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (russian: Елена Александровна Лиховцева ; born 8 September 1975) is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16.
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Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles t ...
won in the final 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 against
Sung-Hee Park and
Shi-Ting Wang.
Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
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Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva (russian: Елена Александровна Лиховцева ; born 8 September 1975) is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16.
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Ai Sugiyama
is a Japanese former tennis player. She reached the world No. 1 ranking in women's doubles on the WTA Tour and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. In her career, she won six singles and 38 doubles t ...
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Kerry-Anne Guse
Kerry-Anne Guse (4 December 1972) is an Australian tennis player. Born in Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a ...
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Rachel McQuillan ''(first round)''
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Eva Melicharová
Eva Melicharová (born 2 February 1970) is a former Czech professional tennis player.
Melicharová has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 234, achieved on 21 June 1993. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 47, achieved on 26 Janua ...
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Helena Vildová
Helena Vildová (born 19 March 1972) is a retired Czech tennis player.
In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The sec ...
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Draw
External links
1998 Thalgo Australian Women's Hardcourts Doubles draw
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Doubles