2001 Qatar Open – Doubles

Doubles
2001 Qatar Open
Champions Mark Knowles
Daniel Nestor
Runners-up Juan Balcells
Andrei Olhovskiy
Score6–3, 6–1
Draw16
Seeds4

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

  1. Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Max Mirnyi (quarterfinals)
  2. Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (champions)
  3. David Prinosil / Nenad Zimonjić (quarterfinals)
  4. Simon Aspelin / Cyril Suk (quarterfinals)

Draw

Key

First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1 Y Kafelnikov
M Mirnyi
7 7  
  L Burgsmüller
S Groen
5 5   1 Y Kafelnikov
M Mirnyi
4 6 3
  J Balcells
A Olhovskiy
7 6     J Balcells
A Olhovskiy
6 1 6
  P Pála
P Vízner
5 2     J Balcells
A Olhovskiy
6 77  
4 S Aspelin
C Suk
6 6     Á Calatrava
A Portas
3 63  
  G Ivanišević
R Schüttler
1 3   4 S Aspelin
C Suk
2 1r
  Á Calatrava
A Portas
6 6     Á Calatrava
A Portas
6 2  
WC N Al-Khulafi
S Khalfan
0 4     J Balcells
A Olhovskiy
3 1  
  K Alami
H Arazi
4 65   2 M Knowles
D Nestor
6 6  
  I Heuberger
A Waske
6 77     I Heuberger
A Waske
6 77  
  N Kiefer
S Schalken
2 2   3 D Prinosil
N Zimonjić
2 64  
3 D Prinosil
N Zimonjić
6 6     I Heuberger
A Waske
3 4  
  J Boutter
F Santoro
77 6   2 M Knowles
D Nestor
6 6  
  N Escudé
M Rosset
63 1     J Boutter
F Santoro
64 4  
Q J-F Bachelot
D Norman
2 64   2 M Knowles
D Nestor
77 6  
2 M Knowles
D Nestor
6 77  

Qualifying

Seeds

  1. Nicolas Coutelot / Andy Fahlke (first round)
  2. Igor Kunitcin / Uros Vico (first round)

Qualifiers

  1. Jean-François Bachelot / Dick Norman

Draw

First round Final Round
          
1 Nicolas Coutelot
Andy Fahlke
3 4  
  Kirill Ivanov-Smolensky
Alexander Peya
6 6  
  Kirill Ivanov-Smolensky
Alexander Peya
6 3 4
Alt Jean-François Bachelot
Dick Norman
4 6 6
Alt Jean-François Bachelot
Dick Norman
77 6  
2 Igor Kunitcin
Uros Vico
61 3