Trevor Kronemann and David Macpherson were the defending champions but only Kronemann competed that year with

John-Laffnie de Jager John-Laffnie de Jager (born 17 March 1973) is a South African former tour professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, de Jager reached the semi-finals for three different grand slam tournaments three times in three different years part ...

. de Jager and Kronemann lost in the quarterfinals to Lan Bale and

Stephen Noteboom Stephen Noteboom (born 31 July 1969) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territorie ...

. Bale and Noteboom won in the final 4–6, 7–6, 6–4 against

Olivier Delaître Olivier Delaître (; born 1 June 1967) is a former professional tennis player from France. He was semifinalist at the Wimbledon Championships in 1999 in doubles (partnering Fabrice Santoro), and reached the fourth round of the 1994 French Open ...

and

Diego Nargiso Diego Nargiso (; born 15 March 1970) is a former tennis player from Italy. Having turned professional in 1987, Nargiso represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he was defeated in the second round by America's ev ...

Seeds

Tomás Carbonell Tomás Carbonell Lladó (born 7 August 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. Carbonell won 2 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ATP Tour in his career. He won the French Open in 2001 in mixed doubles with Virginia Ruano P ...

Francisco Roig Francisco "Francis" Roig Genís (born 1 April 1968) is a retired professional tennis player from Spain. He was primarily a doubles player, winning nine ATP World Tour titles and reaching 12 more finals. After his playing retirement, he acted a ...

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Stefan Edberg Jan Stefan Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in both men's singles and men's doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), one of two players in the ...

Petr Korda Petr Korda (born 23 January 1968) is a Czech former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in February 1998. Korda won ten singles titles, including the 1998 Austr ...

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Piet Norval Pieter ("Piet") Norval (born 7 April 1970) is a former tennis player from South Africa, who turned professional in 1988. His most notable achievement was winning the mixed doubles at the French Open in 1999. The right-hander represented his nat ...

/ Menno Oosting ''(first round)'' #

/ Trevor Kronemann ''(quarterfinals)''

Draw

References

External links

1996 BMW Open Doubles draw
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doubles 1996 BMW Open