# 2017 Italian Open – Women's doubles

Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Mirza played alongside Yaroslava Shvedova, but lost in the semifinals to Chan Yung-jan and Hingis.
Chan and Hingis went on to win the title, defeating Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final, 7–5, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$.

## Seeds

The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.
* Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina (final)
* Chan Yung-jan / Martina Hingis (champions)
* Sania Mirza / Yaroslava Shvedova (semifinals)
* Tímea Babos / Andrea Hlaváčková (semifinals)
* Karolína Plíšková / Barbora Strýcová (first round)
* Abigail Spears / Katarina Srebotnik (quarterfinals)
* Gabriela Dabrowski / Xu Yifan (first round)
* Chan Hao-ching / Jeļena Ostapenko (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

### Finals

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina | 6 | 6$^4$ | [10] | | | | |
| 4 | Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková | 3 | 7$^7$ | [8] | | | | |
| 4 | Tímea Babos Andrea Hlaváčková | 3 | 7$^7$ | [8] | 1 | Ekaterina Makarova Elena Vesnina | 5 | 6$^4$ |
| | | | | | 2 | Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis | 7 | 7$^7$ |
| 3 | Sania Mirza Yaroslava Shvedova | 3 | 6$^7$ | | 2 | Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis | 7 | 7$^7$ |
| 2 | Chan Yung-jan Martina Hingis | 6 | 7$^9$ | | | | | |

### 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 | E Makarova E Vesnina | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Jurak An Rodionova | 6 | 3 | [12] | | D Jurak An Rodionova | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | K Bertens J Görges | 3 | 6 | [10] | | | | | 1 | E Makarova E Vesnina | 6 | 6 | | | | | | |
| | S Kuznetsova K Mladenovic | 6 | 1 | [8] | | | | | | B Krejčíková S Zheng | 3 | 2 | | | | | | |
| | A-L Grönefeld K Peschke | 2 | 6 | [10] | | A-L Grönefeld K Peschke | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | B Krejčíková S Zheng | 0 | 6 | [10] | | B Krejčíková S Zheng | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | Ka Plíšková B Strýcová | 6 | 4 | [8] | | | | | | | | | | 1 | E Makarova E Vesnina | 6 | 6$^4$ | [10] |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | T Babos A Hlaváčková | 3 | 7$^7$ | [8] |
| | | | | | 4 | T Babos A Hlaváčková | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Gavrilova A Pavlyuchenkova | 6 | 4 | [9] | | L Arruabarrena A Parra Santonja | 2 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | L Arruabarrena A Parra Santonja | 3 | 6 | [11] | | | | | 4 | T Babos A Hlaváčková | 3 | 6 | [10] | | | | | |
| WC | J Janković A Petkovic | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | K Bondarenko K Siniaková | 6 | 1 | [4] | | | | | |
| WC | D Chiesa S Rubini | 5 | 2 | | WC | J Janković A Petkovic | 5 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | K Bondarenko K Siniaková | 7$^8$ | 6 | | | K Bondarenko K Siniaková | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | G Dabrowski Y Xu | 6$^6$ | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### 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 |
| 8 | H-c Chan J Ostapenko | 6 | 2 | [6] | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Konta L Siegemund | 4 | 6 | [10] | | J Konta L Siegemund | 6 | 6$^5$ | [7] | | | | | | | | |
| WC | S Errani M Trevisan | 2 | 6 | [10] | WC | S Errani M Trevisan | 2 | 7$^7$ | [10] | | | | | | | | |
| | C McHale M Niculescu | 6 | 4 | [8] | | | | | | WC | S Errani M Trevisan | 4 | 1 | | | | |
| | S Aoyama C Liang | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | 3 | S Mirza Y Shvedova | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| Alt | O Savchuk E Svitolina | 6 | 6 | | Alt | O Savchuk E Svitolina | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | S Mirza Y Shvedova | w/o | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | S Mirza Y Shvedova | 3 | 6$^7$ |
| 6 | A Spears K Srebotnik | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | Y-j Chan M Hingis | 6 | 7$^9$ |
| | A Klepač MJ Martínez Sánchez | 3 | 4 | | 6 | A Spears K Srebotnik | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Stosur S Zhang | 2 | 4 | | | E Hozumi M Kato | 2 | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| | E Hozumi M Kato | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 6 | A Spears K Srebotnik | 2 | 4 | | | | |
| | N Hibino A Rosolska | 6 | 4 | [10] | | | | | | 2 | Y-j Chan M Hingis | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | M Keys B Mattek-Sands | 4 | 6 | [5] | | N Hibino A Rosolska | 6 | 5 | [9] | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | Y-j Chan M Hingis | 4 | 7 | [11] | | | | | | | | |