1996 State Farm Evert Cup – Doubles
1996 tennis event results
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Lindsay Davenport and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Davenport with Mary Joe Fernández and Raymond with Rennae Stubbs.
Champions
Chanda Rubin
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Chanda Rubin 
Brenda Schultz-McCarthyRunners-up
Julie Halard-Decugis
Nathalie Tauziat
Julie Halard-Decugis Nathalie TauziatScore6–1, 6–4
Draw28
| Doubles | |
|---|---|
| 1996 State Farm Evert Cup | |
| Champions | Chanda Rubin Brenda Schultz-McCarthy |
| Runners-up | Julie Halard-Decugis Nathalie Tauziat |
| Score | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Draw | 28 |
| Seeds | 8 |
Davenport and Fernandez lost in the quarterfinals to Elizabeth Smylie and Linda Wild.
Raymond and Stubbs lost in the semifinals to Julie Halard-Decugis and Nathalie Tauziat.
Chanda Rubin and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against Halard-Decugis and Tauziat.[1]
Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
- Lindsay Davenport / Mary Joe Fernández (quarterfinals)
- Lori McNeil /
Larisa Neiland (quarterfinals) - Chanda Rubin / Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (champions)
- Lisa Raymond /
Rennae Stubbs (semifinals) 
Conchita Martínez / 
Patricia Tarabini (second round)- Julie Halard-Decugis / Nathalie Tauziat (final)
- Katrina Adams /
Mariaan de Swardt (first round) - Amanda Coetzer / Inés Gorrochategui (quarterfinals)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- ITF = ITF entry
- PR = Protected ranking
- SR = Special ranking
- SE = Special exempt
- JE = Junior exempt
- JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
- CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
- NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
Final
| Final | ||||||
| 3 | Chanda Rubin Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
| 6 | 6 | |||
| 6 | Julie Halard-Decugis Nathalie Tauziat
| 1 | 4 | |||
Top half
| First round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | L Davenport M J Fernández
| 6 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 A Huber C Singer
| 6 | 2 | 78 | A Huber C Singer
| 2 | 6 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 R Dragomir M Paz
| 3 | 6 | 66 | 1 | L Davenport M J Fernández
| 77 | 1 | 69 | |||||||||||||||||||
C Cristea L Pleming
| 0 | 2 | E Smylie L Wild
| 65 | 6 | 711 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| A Dechaume-Balleret S Testud
| 6 | 6 | A Dechaume-Balleret S Testud
| 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| E Smylie L Wild
| 6 | 7 | E Smylie L Wild
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | K Adams M de Swardt
| 4 | 5 | E Smylie L Wild
| 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | C Rubin B Schultz-McCarthy
| 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | C Rubin B Schultz-McCarthy
| 78 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 N Feber A Sugiyama
| 6 | 6 | N Feber A Sugiyama
| 66 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| R McQuillan S Stafford
| 2 | 2 | 3 | C Rubin B Schultz-McCarthy
| 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Q | A Ellwood R Nideffer
| 3 | 6 | 2 | M Werdel-Witmeyer T Whitlinger-Jones
| 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M Werdel-Witmeyer T Whitlinger-Jones
| 6 | 3 | 6 | M Werdel-Witmeyer T Whitlinger-Jones
| 4 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 J Husárová N Kijimuta
| 1 | 3 | 5 |  C Martínez P Tarabini
| 6 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | C Martínez P Tarabini
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bottom half
| First round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | A Coetzer I Gorrochategui
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 M Murić S Reece
| 3 | 3 | 8 | A Coetzer I Gorrochategui
| 6 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 E Likhovtseva D Scott
| 6 | 2 | 2 |  J Hetherington I Spîrlea
| 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| J Hetherington I Spîrlea
| 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | A Coetzer I Gorrochategui
| 2 | 77 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| WC | J Lee L Lee
| 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | L Raymond R Stubbs
| 6 | 64 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
N Bradtke S Farina
| 6 | 4 | 3 | WC | J Lee L Lee
| 6 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | L Raymond R Stubbs
| 4 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | L Raymond R Stubbs
| 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | J Halard-Decugis N Tauziat
| 65 | 6 | 6 | 6 | J Halard-Decugis N Tauziat
| 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| A Frazier K Po
| 77 | 1 | 1 | 6 | J Halard-Decugis N Tauziat
| 6 | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Z Garrison-Jackson K Rinaldi-Stunkel
| 6 | 6 | Z Garrison-Jackson K Rinaldi-Stunkel
| 1 | 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| WC | T Singian A Stevenson
| 0 | 1 | 6 | J Halard-Decugis N Tauziat
| 710 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| D Graham C Vis
| 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | L McNeil L Neiland
| 68 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| G Helgeson-Nielsen R Zrubáková
| 6 | 2 | 4 | D Graham C Vis
| 2 | 77 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | L McNeil L Neiland
| 6 | 64 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||