1996 Dubai Tennis Championships – Doubles
# 1996 Dubai Tennis Championships – Doubles

Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith were the defending champions but only Connell competed that year with Byron Black.

Black and Connell won in the final 6–0, 6–1 against Karel Nováček and Jiří Novák.

## Seeds

* Byron Black / Grant Connell (champions)
* Patrick McEnroe / Sandon Stolle (quarterfinals)
* Luis Lobo / Javier Sánchez (first round)
* Stefan Edberg / Petr Korda (first round)

## Draw

### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | B Black G Connell | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | N Broad P Norval | 2 | 5 | | 1 | B Black G Connell | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | L Bale W Ferreira | 2 | 1 | | | D Adams E Ferreira | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Adams E Ferreira | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 1 | B Black G Connell | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| 3 | L Lobo J Sánchez | 6 | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | W Arthurs A Kratzmann | 2 | 1 | | | | |
| | J-L de Jager G Muller | 4 | 6 | 6 | | J-L de Jager G Muller | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | W Arthurs A Kratzmann | 3 | 6 | 6 | | W Arthurs A Kratzmann | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Eagle A Florent | 6 | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | 1 | B Black G Connell | 6 | 6 |
| | K Nováček J Novák | 7 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | K Nováček J Novák | 0 | 1 |
| Q | T Krupa P Vízner | 5 | 6 | 2 | | K Nováček J Novák | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | A Gaudenzi G Ivanišević | 6 | 6 | | WC | A Gaudenzi G Ivanišević | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | S Edberg P Korda | 7 | 4 | r | | | | | | | K Nováček J Novák | w/o | | | | | |
| WC | J Courier T Enqvist | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | WC | J Courier T Enqvist | | | | | | |
| | H J Davids D Prinosil | 6 | 4 | | WC | J Courier T Enqvist | 6 | 5 | 7 | | | | | | | | |
| WC | M Gustafsson A Medvedev | 4 | 1 | | 2 | P McEnroe S Stolle | 4 | 7 | 5 | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | P McEnroe S Stolle | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
