Alex O'Brien and Jared Palmer were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, O'Brien with Sébastien Lareau and Palmer with Byron Black.
Lareau and O'Brien lost in the second round to Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie.
Black and Palmer lost in the quarterfinals to Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge.
Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov won in the final 6–2, 7–5 against Björkman and Woodbridge.
Seeds
Draw
Final
Top half
Bottom half
Qualifying
Qualifying seeds
Qualifiers
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
Second qualifier
References
External links 2001 Indian Wells Masters Men's Doubles Draw Main draw (ATP) Qualifying draw (ATP) ITF tournament profile