The 1988 Open Clarins was a women's

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...

tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Paris, France, and was part of the Category 1 tier of the

1988 WTA Tour The 1988 WTA Tour was the elite tour for professional women's tennis of the Women's International Tennis Association (WITA) for the 1988 season. The 1988 WTA Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WITA Tour Championships and the W ...

. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 19 September until 25 September 1988. Qualifier

Petra Langrová Petra Píchalová Langrová (born 27 June 1970) is a retired tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Czech Republic. Langrová gained professional status in 1986. She won one singles title and five double titles in her career on the WTA Tour ...

won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

defeated

Sandra Wasserman Sandra Wasserman (born 10 March 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Antwerp, Belgium. Fed Cup Wasserman became Belgium's youngest Fed Cup player when she lost to Csilla Bartos of Hungary in October 1985 in Japan. She also lost th ...

7–6^(7–0), 6–2 * It was Langrová's only title of the year and the 1st of her career.

Doubles

Alexia Dechaume Alexia Dechaume-Balleret (born 3 May 1970) is a former professional tennis player from France. In her career, she reached three finals on the WTA Tour: at Taranto in 1990, she lost to Raffaella Reggi, and in New York in 1991, she lost to Brend ...

Emmanuelle Derly Emmanuelle Derly (born 30 April 1970) is a French former professional tennis player. In 1988, she was French Open girls’ doubles champion with Alexia Dechaume and was the runner-up in Wimbledon in the girls’ singles final, losing to Brenda ...

defeated

Louise Field Louise Field (born 25 February 1967) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The ...

Nathalie Herreman Nathalie Herreman (born 28 March 1966) is a former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour from 1983 to 1995 and won a singles title in 1986 in Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in centra ...

6–0, 6–2 * It was Dechaume's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Derly's only title of the year and the 1st of her career.

References

External links

ITF tournament edition details

Tournament draws
{{1988 WTA Tour Open Clarins Clarins Open 1988 in Paris 1988 in French tennis