The tournament was part of World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.
The doubles draw consisted of 16 teams and four of them were seeded.
David Adams and Andrei Olhovskiy were the defending champions but only Olhovskiy competed that year with Patrick Galbraith.
Galbraith and Olhovskiy lost in the first round to Neil Broad and Piet Norval.
The second-seeded team of Rick Leach and Scott Melville won the doubles title after defeating the unseeded team of Kent Kinnear and Dave Randall 6–1, 2–6, 6–1 in the final.