2002 RCA Championships – Doubles
# 2002 RCA Championships – Doubles

Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Knowles with Daniel Nestor and MacPhie with Nenad Zimonjić.

MacPhie and Zimonjić lost in the semifinals to Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi.

Knowles and Nestor won in the final $7–6^{(7–4)},$ $6–7^{(5–7)},$ 6–4 against Bhupathi and Mirnyi.

## Seeds

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

* Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (champions)
* Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge (quarterfinals)
* Mahesh Bhupathi / Max Mirnyi (final)
* Joshua Eagle / Sandon Stolle (semifinals)
* Ellis Ferreira / Jeff Tarango (second round)
* Robbie Koenig / David Prinosil (quarterfinals)
* Brian MacPhie / Nenad Zimonjić (semifinals)
* Radek Štěpánek / Pavel Vízner (second 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

### Finals

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor | 6 | $7^9$ | | | | | | |
| 4 | Joshua Eagle Sandon Stolle | 4 | $6^7$ | | | | | | |
| 4 | Joshua Eagle Sandon Stolle | 4 | $6^7$ | | 1 | Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor | $7^7$ | $6^5$ | 6 |
| | | | | | 3 | Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi | $6^4$ | $7^7$ | 4 |
| 3 | Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi | $6^4$ | $7^7$ | 4 |
| 7 | Brian MacPhie Nenad Zimonjić | 6 | 5 | 3 | | | | | |

### Top 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 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | | | 1 | M Knowles D Nestor | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | S Draper L Hewitt | 7 | 5 | 6 | WC | S Draper L Hewitt | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Kratochvil A Martín | 5 | 7 | 3 | | | | | | 1 | M Knowles D Nestor | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | N Kiefer A Pavel | 3 | 7 | 4 | | | | | | | W Arthurs A Kratzmann | 4 | 4 | | | | | |
| | W Arthurs A Kratzmann | 6 | 5 | 6 | | W Arthurs A Kratzmann | $6^4$ | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | L Jensen M Jensen | 2 | 4 | | 5 | E Ferreira J Tarango | $7^7$ | 4 | 1 | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | E Ferreira J Tarango | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | M Knowles D Nestor | 6 | $7^9$ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | J Eagle S Stolle | 4 | $6^7$ |
| | | | | | 4 | J Eagle S Stolle | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | F Čermák P Luxa | $7^7$ | $6^7$ | 6 | | F Čermák P Luxa | 6 | 2 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | B Ellwood P Hanley | $6^3$ | $7^9$ | 4 | | | | | | 4 | J Eagle S Stolle | 6 | 3 | 6 | | | | |
| | T Crichton T Perry | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | 6 | R Koenig D Prinosil | 3 | 6 | 3 | | | | |
| | A Florent D Macpherson | 6 | 6 | | | A Florent D Macpherson | 3 | $6^2$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | W Ferreira R Leach | $6^5$ | 6 | $6^5$ | 6 | R Koenig D Prinosil | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | R Koenig D Prinosil | $7^7$ | 3 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 8 | R Štěpánek P Vízner | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| ALT | M Norman S Sargsian | 2 | 3 | | 8 | R Štěpánek P Vízner | 1 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Llodra F Santoro | 6 | $6^5$ | 4 | | J Morrison G Weiner | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Morrison G Weiner | 3 | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | | J Morrison G Weiner | 6 | $6^3$ | 4 | | | | | |
| WC | P Amritraj S Amritraj | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 3 | M Bhupathi M Mirnyi | 4 | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | |
| | S Koubek R Schüttler | 4 | 4 | | WC | P Amritraj S Amritraj | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | M Bhupathi M Mirnyi | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | M Bhupathi M Mirnyi | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | B MacPhie N Zimonjić | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | B MacPhie N Zimonjić | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| | A Clément S Grosjean | 3 | $6^3$ | | 7 | B MacPhie N Zimonjić | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Bowen A Fisher | 2 | 6 | $7^7$ | | D Bowen A Fisher | $6^3$ | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | O Fukárek P Rosner | 6 | 3 | $6^3$ | | | | | 7 | B MacPhie N Zimonjić | 7 | 6 | | | | | | |
| | L Friedl T Vanhoudt | 4 | 4 | | | | | | 2 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | 5 | 3 | | | | | | |
| | Y El Aynaoui I Ljubičić | 6 | 6 | | | Y El Aynaoui I Ljubičić | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | w/o | | | | | | | | | | | |
