2003 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles
# 2003 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles

Shinobu Asagoe and Nana Miyagi were the defending champions, but lost in quarterfinals to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie.

Maria Sharapova and Tamarine Tanasugarn won the title by defeating Ansley Cargill and Ashley Harkleroad $7–6^{(7–1)},$ 6–0 in the final.

This tournament saw an unusual event, as all seeded pairs were eliminated in quarterfinals.

## Seeds

* Janet Lee / Angelique Widjaja (quarterfinals)
* Tina Križan / Katarina Srebotnik (quarterfinals)
* Shinobu Asagoe / Nana Miyagi (quarterfinals)
* Rika Fujiwara / Emmanuelle Gagliardi (quarterfinals, withdrew due to a wrist injury on Fujiwara)

## 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

### Draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | J Lee A Widjaja | $6^5$ | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Hisamatsu Y Yoshida | $7^7$ | 4 | 4 | 1 | J Lee A Widjaja | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
| | A Cargill A Harkleroad | 6 | 6 | | | A Cargill A Harkleroad | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | K Liggan A Parra Santonja | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | A Cargill A Harkleroad | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| 4 | R Fujiwara E Gagliardi | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | T Musgrave A Spears | 1 | 1 | | | | |
| | E Dominikovic M Kirilenko | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | R Fujiwara E Gagliardi | | | | | | | | | | |
| | T Musgrave A Spears | 7 | 6 | | | T Musgrave A Spears | w/o | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Morigami S Obata | 5 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | A Cargill A Harkleroad | $6^1$ | 0 |
| | Z Yan J Zheng | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn | $7^7$ | 6 |
| | J Craybas S Talaja | 4 | 3 | | | Z Yan J Zheng | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | |
| | T Li T Sun | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | S Asagoe N Miyagi | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | S Asagoe N Miyagi | 6 | 3 | 6 | | | | | | Z Yan J Zheng | 3 | 7 | $6^6$ | | | |
| Q | K-m Chang J-h Kim | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn | 6 | 5 | $7^8$ | | | |
| | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn | 6 | 6 | | | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn | $7^7$ | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | |
| | M-r Jeon An Serra Zanetti | 1 | 2 | | 2 | T Križan K Srebotnik | $6^5$ | 6 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 2 | T Križan K Srebotnik | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
