2016 China Open – Men's doubles
# 2016 China Open – Men's doubles

Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock were the defending champions, but Pospisil chose to play in Tokyo instead. Sock played alongside Bernard Tomic but lost in the final to Pablo Carreño Busta and Rafael Nadal, who won $6−7^{(6−8)},$ 6−2, [10−8].

## Seeds

* Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan (semifinals)
* Łukasz Kubot / Marcelo Melo (semifinals)
* Rohan Bopanna / Daniel Nestor (first round)
* Treat Huey / Max Mirnyi (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

### Draw

| 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 Bryan M Bryan | 6 | 3 | [16] | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | R Bautista Agut D Ferrer | 1 | 6 | [14] | 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | w/o | | | | | | | | | | |
| | R Gasquet L Pouille | 4 | 6 | [10] | | R Gasquet L Pouille | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Pavić M Venus | 6 | 4 | [6] | | | | | | 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | 5 | 4 | | | | |
| 3 | R Bopanna D Nestor | $6^3$ | 4 | | | | | | | | P Carreño Busta R Nadal | 7 | 6 | | | | |
| | P Carreño Busta R Nadal | $7^7$ | 6 | | | P Carreño Busta R Nadal | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | M Gong Z Zhang | 3 | 6 | [10] | WC | M Gong Z Zhang | 5 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Johnson S Querrey | 6 | 3 | [4] | | | | | | | | | | P Carreño Busta R Nadal | $6^6$ | 6 | [10] |
| WC | A Begemann L Paes | 6 | 5 | [7] | | | | | | | | | | J Sock B Tomic | $7^8$ | 2 | [8] |
| | J Sock B Tomic | 3 | 7 | [10] | | J Sock B Tomic | 4 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | |
| Q | P Lorenzi G Pella | 3 | 6 | [10] | Q | P Lorenzi G Pella | 6 | 4 | [7] | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | T Huey M Mirnyi | 6 | 1 | [4] | | | | | | | J Sock B Tomic | 7 | 6 | | | | |
| | J Benneteau É Roger-Vasselin | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | 2 | Ł Kubot M Melo | 5 | 4 | | | | |
| | M Raonic N Zimonjić | 4 | 5 | | | J Benneteau É Roger-Vasselin | 7 | 3 | [8] | | | | | | | | |
| | P Cuevas V Troicki | $6^{10}$ | 3 | | 2 | Ł Kubot M Melo | 5 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | Ł Kubot M Melo | $7^{12}$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Qualifying

### Seeds

* Jonathan Erlich / Santiago González (first round)
* Andrey Kuznetsov / André Sá (first round)

### Qualifiers

* Paolo Lorenzi / Guido Pella

### Qualifying draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Jonathan Erlich Santiago González | $7^8$ | $6^5$ | [8] | | | | |
| | Paolo Lorenzi Guido Pella | $6^6$ | $7^7$ | [10] | | | | |
| | Paolo Lorenzi Guido Pella | $6^6$ | $7^7$ | [10] | | Paolo Lorenzi Guido Pella | 6 | $7^7$ |
| | | | | | WC | Florian Mayer Purav Raja | 1 | $6^5$ |
| WC | Florian Mayer Purav Raja | 2 | 7 | [10] | WC | Florian Mayer Purav Raja | 1 | $6^5$ |
| 2 | Andrey Kuznetsov André Sá | 6 | 5 | [6] | | | | |
