Mark Knowles and Max Mirnyi were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Knowles with Daniel Nestor and Mirnyi with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Kafelnikov and Mirnyi lost in the quarterfinals to Juan Balcells and Andrei Olhovskiy.
Knowles and Nestor won in the final 6–3, 6–1 against Balcells and Olhovskiy.
Seeds
Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Max Mirnyi (quarterfinals) Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (champions) David Prinosil / Nenad Zimonjić (quarterfinals) Simon Aspelin / Cyril Suk (quarterfinals)
Draw
Qualifying
Seeds
Nicolas Coutelot / Andy Fahlke (first round) Igor Kunitcin / Uros Vico (first round)
Qualifiers Jean-François Bachelot / Dick Norman
Draw
External links 2001 Qatar Open Doubles draw 2001 Qatar Open Doubles Qualifying draw