2015 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Doubles
# 2015 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Doubles

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Michał Przysiężny were the defending champions, but Prysiężny chose not to participate. Herbert played alongside Nicolas Mahut, but lost in the quarterfinals to Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Gilles Simon.

Raven Klaasen and Marcelo Melo won the title, defeating Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah in the final, $7–6^{(7–5)},$ 3–6, [10–7].

## Seeds

* Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan (first round)
* Pierre-Hugues Herbert / Nicolas Mahut (quarterfinals)
* Raven Klaasen / Marcelo Melo (champions)
* Alexander Peya / Bruno Soares (quarterfinals)

## 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 | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | B Bryan M Bryan | $6^8$ | 7 | [6] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | JS Cabal R Farah | $7^{10}$ | 5 | [10] | | JS Cabal R Farah | 6 | $6^5$ | [10] | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S González B Paire | $6^7$ | 0 | | | R Gasquet F Verdasco | 4 | $7^7$ | [5] | | | | | | | | | | |
| | R Gasquet F Verdasco | $7^9$ | 6 | | | | | | | | JS Cabal R Farah | 7 | 4 | [10] | | | | | |
| 4 | A Peya B Soares | $6^2$ | 6 | [10] | | | | | | Q | S Johnson S Querrey | 5 | 6 | [8] | | | | | |
| PR | R Ram R Štěpánek | $7^7$ | 4 | [4] | 4 | A Peya B Soares | $6^3$ | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | F López M Mirnyi | 4 | $6^3$ | | Q | S Johnson S Querrey | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Q | S Johnson S Querrey | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | | | | JS Cabal R Farah | $6^5$ | 6 | [7] |
| | T Huey H Kontinen | 5 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | R Klaasen M Melo | $7^7$ | 3 | [10] |
| LL | A Begemann A Sitak | 7 | 0 | [8] | | T Huey H Kontinen | 6 | $6^3$ | [7] | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Dolgopolov B Tomic | $6^3$ | $6^6$ | | 3 | R Klaasen M Melo | 2 | $7^7$ | [10] | | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | R Klaasen M Melo | $7^7$ | $7^8$ | | | | | | | 3 | R Klaasen M Melo | 6 | 6 | | | | | | |
| WC | T Matsui J Nieminen | $7^7$ | 3 | [6] | | | | | | | A-u-H Qureshi G Simon | 4 | 3 | | | | | | |
| | A-u-H Qureshi G Simon | $6^2$ | 6 | [10] | | A-u-H Qureshi G Simon | 4 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | A Krajicek Y Uchiyama | 4 | $6^4$ | | 2 | P-H Herbert N Mahut | 6 | 3 | [8] | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | P-H Herbert N Mahut | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Qualifying

### Seeds

* Andre Begemann / Artem Sitak (qualifying competition, lucky losers)
* Steve Johnson / Sam Querrey (qualified)

### Qualifiers

* Steve Johnson / Sam Querrey

### Lucky losers

* Andre Begemann / Artem Sitak

### Qualifying draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Andre Begemann Artem Sitak | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| WC | Hiroki Moriya Takao Suzuki | 0 | 1 | | | | | |
| WC | Hiroki Moriya Takao Suzuki | 0 | 1 | 1 | Andre Begemann Artem Sitak | 4 | 6 | [7] |
| | | | | 2 | Steve Johnson Sam Querrey | 6 | 3 | [10] |
| | Nicholas Monroe Donald Young | 5 | $6^2$ | 2 | Steve Johnson Sam Querrey | 6 | 3 | [10] |
| 2 | Steve Johnson Sam Querrey | 7 | 7 | | | | | |
