{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{main|WTA Finals}} {{TennisEventInfo|1987|Virginia Slims Championships| | date= November 16–23 | edition=17th | draw=16S / 8D | prize_money=$1,000,000 | surface=[[Carpet court|Carpet]] (indoors) | location=[[New York City]], New York | venue=[[Madison Square Garden]] | champs= {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Steffi Graf]] | champd={{flagicon|USA}} [[Martina Navratilova]] / {{flagicon|USA}} [[Pam Shriver]] | before_name=Virginia Slims Championships (November) }}
The '''1987 Virginia Slims Championships''' were the seventeenth [[WTA Tour Championships]], the annual [[tennis]] tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the [[1987 WTA Tour]]. It was held from November 16 through November 23, 1987 and played on indoor [[carpet court]]s, in [[Madison Square Garden]] in [[New York City]], New York. First-seeded [[Steffi Graf]] won the singles title and earned $125,000 first-prize money.<ref name="wot1988">{{cite book|title=The International Tennis Federation : World of Tennis 1988|year=1988|publisher=Willow Books|location=London|isbn=9780002182690|pages=223–227|editor=[[John Barrett (tennis)|John Barrett]]}}</ref>
==Finals==
===Singles=== {{main|1987 Virginia Slims Championships – Singles}} {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Steffi Graf]] defeated {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Gabriela Sabatini]], 4–6, 6–4, 6–0, 6–4 * It was Graf's 11th singles title of the year and the 19th of her [[Steffi Graf career statistics|career]].
===Doubles=== {{main|1987 Virginia Slims Championships – Doubles}} {{flagicon|USA}} [[Martina Navratilova]] / {{flagicon|USA}} [[Pam Shriver]] defeated {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Claudia Kohde-Kilsch]] / {{flagicon|TCH}} [[Helena Suková]], 6–1, 6–1
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.wtafinals.com}} * [https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/virginia-slims-championships/usa/1987/w-wt-usa-26a-1987/draws-and-results/ ITF tournament edition details] * [https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/1987/808.pdf WTA tournament draws]
{{WTA Tour Championships}} {{1987 WTA Tour}}
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