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1998 US Open – Women's Doubles

Women's Doubles
1998 US Open
Champions Switzerland Martina Hingis
Czech Republic Jana Novotná
Runners-up United States Lindsay Davenport
Belarus Natasha Zvereva
Final score 6–3, 6–3
Details
Draw 64 (4Q / 4WC)
Seeds 16
Events
Singles men women boys girls
Doubles men women mixed boys girls
Legends men women mixed
WC Singles men women quad
WC Doubles men women quad
← 1997 · US Open · 1999 →

Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotná were the defending champions, but they did not play together this year. Davenport played with Natasha Zvereva as the second seed, and Novotná played with Martina Hingis as the first seed.

The two teams met in the final, where Hingis and Novotná won, 6–3, 6–3. With this win, Hingis became the third woman in the Open Era to complete a Calendar Year Grand Slam in doubles, after Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver. Additionally, Hingis and her partners defeated Davenport/Zvereva in all four grand slam finals in 1998.


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