2001 RCA Championships – Doubles
# 2001 RCA Championships – Doubles

Lleyton Hewitt and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but only Stolle competed that year with Max Mirnyi.

Mirnyi and Stolle lost in the quarterfinals to Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie.

Knowles and MacPhie won in the final $7–6^{(7–5)},$ 5–7, 6–4 against Mahesh Bhupathi and Sébastien Lareau.

## Seeds

The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

* Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge (quarterfinals)
* Max Mirnyi / Sandon Stolle (quarterfinals)
* Ellis Ferreira / Rick Leach (quarterfinals)
* Joshua Eagle / Andrew Florent (second round)
* Mark Knowles / Brian MacPhie (champions)
* Leoš Friedl / Petr Pála (first round)
* Chris Haggard / Tom Vanhoudt (semifinals)
* Mahesh Bhupathi / Sébastien Lareau (final)

## 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

### Finals

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 8 | Mahesh Bhupathi Sébastien Lareau | 3 | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | |
| | John-Laffnie de Jager Robbie Koenig | 6 | 4 | $6^5$ | | | | | |
| | John-Laffnie de Jager Robbie Koenig | 6 | 4 | $6^5$ | 8 | Mahesh Bhupathi Sébastien Lareau | $6^5$ | 7 | 4 |
| | | | | | 5 | Mark Knowles Brian MacPhie | $7^7$ | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | Chris Haggard Tom Vanhoudt | 6 | 3 | 0 | 5 | Mark Knowles Brian MacPhie | $7^7$ | 5 | 6 |
| 5 | Mark Knowles Brian MacPhie | 2 | 6 | 6 | | | | | |

### Top half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | | | 1 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | B Coupe A Prieto | $6^5$ | 1 | | | K Kim G Weiner | 1 | $6^5$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | K Kim G Weiner | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | | 1 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | 4 | 6 | 1 | | | | | |
| | M Hilpert L Zovko | 3 | 4 | | | | | | 8 | M Bhupathi S Lareau | 6 | 3 | 6 | | | | | |
| | J Blake N Zimonjić | 6 | 6 | | | J Blake N Zimonjić | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | M Fish A Pavel | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | M Bhupathi S Lareau | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | M Bhupathi S Lareau | 6 | 2 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | 8 | M Bhupathi S Lareau | 3 | 6 | $7^7$ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | J-L de Jager R Koenig | 6 | 4 | $6^5$ |
| | | | | | 4 | J Eagle A Florent | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J-L de Jager R Koenig | $7^8$ | 7 | | | J-L de Jager R Koenig | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | G Ivanišević I Ljubičić | $6^6$ | 5 | | | | | | | J-L de Jager R Koenig | 6 | | | | | | | |
| | T Dent C Woodruff | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | T Dent C Woodruff | 3 | r | | | | | | |
| | A Kratzmann P Tramacchi | 6 | 1 | 2 | | T Dent C Woodruff | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | O Fukárek T Robredo | 3 | 6 | 6 | | O Fukárek T Robredo | 3 | $6^4$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | L Friedl P Pála | 6 | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | C Haggard T Vanhoudt | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Sá A Simoni | 6 | 4 | 0 | 7 | C Haggard T Vanhoudt | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Bowen A Fisher | 6 | 6 | | | D Bowen A Fisher | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | R Ginepri R Ram | 4 | 1 | | | | | | | 7 | C Haggard T Vanhoudt | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | |
| | P Luxa R Štěpánek | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 3 | E Ferreira R Leach | $6^3$ | 3 | | | | | |
| WC | A Ilie M Russell | 1 | 3 | | | P Luxa R Štěpánek | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | E Ferreira R Leach | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | C Haggard T Vanhoudt | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | M Knowles B MacPhie | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | M Knowles B MacPhie | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| | H Levy J Waite | 1 | 4 | | 5 | M Knowles B MacPhie | $6^4$ | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Clément N Escudé | $6^5$ | 6 | 6 | | A Clément N Escudé | $7^7$ | $6^4$ | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | H Arazi P-H Mathieu | $7^7$ | 3 | 2 | | | | | | 5 | M Knowles B MacPhie | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | |
| WC | E Taino D Wheaton | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | 2 | M Mirnyi S Stolle | $6^4$ | 4 | | | | | |
| WC | T Johansson C Pioline | 4 | $6^4$ | | WC | E Taino D Wheaton | $6^5$ | $6^5$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | M Mirnyi S Stolle | $7^7$ | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | |
