# 2016 China Open – Women's doubles

Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Hingis played alongside CoCo Vandeweghe, but lost in the second round to Julia Görges and Karolína Plíšková. Mirza teamed up with Barbora Strýcová, but lost in the second round to Gabriela Dabrowski and María José Martínez Sánchez.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová won the title, defeating Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 6−4, 6−4.

## Seeds

The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.
* Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic (final)
* Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina (second round)
* Chan Hao-ching / Chan Yung-jan (semifinals)
* Sania Mirza / Barbora Strýcová (second round)
* Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Lucie Šafářová (champions)
* Andrea Hlaváčková / Lucie Hradecká (first round)
* Martina Hingis / CoCo Vandeweghe (second round)
* Tímea Babos / Yaroslava Shvedova (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 |
| 1 | Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic | 0 | 6 | [10] | | | | |
| 3 | Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan | 6 | 1 | [6] | | | | |
| 3 | Chan Hao-ching Chan Yung-jan | 6 | 1 | [6] | 1 | Caroline Garcia Kristina Mladenovic | 4 | 4 |
| | | | | | 5 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová | 6 | 6 |
| | Gabriela Dabrowski María José Martínez Sánchez | 6 | 1 | [12] | 5 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová | 6 | 6 |
| 5 | Bethanie Mattek-Sands Lucie Šafářová | 4 | 6 | [14] | | | | |

### 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 | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | | | 1 | C Garcia K Mladenovic | 6 | 2 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | C Liang Z Yang | 3 | 3 | | | A Krunić K Siniaková | 0 | 6 | [7] | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Krunić K Siniaková | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 1 | C Garcia K Mladenovic | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| WC | T Bacsinszky J Ostapenko | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | WC | T Bacsinszky J Ostapenko | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| WC | X You L Zhu | 4 | 2 | | WC | T Bacsinszky J Ostapenko | 7$^7$ | 0 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | O Savchuk Y Wang | 3 | 1 | | 8 | T Babos Y Shvedova | 6$^3$ | 6 | [5] | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | T Babos Y Shvedova | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | C Garcia K Mladenovic | 0 | 6 | [10] |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | H-c Chan Y-j Chan | 6 | 1 | [6] |
| | | | | | 3 | H-c Chan Y-j Chan | 7$^8$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | V King M Niculescu | 7 | 6 | | | V King M Niculescu | 6$^6$ | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Y Xu S Zheng | 5 | 2 | | | | | | | 3 | H-c Chan Y-j Chan | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | A Klepač K Srebotnik | 4 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | L Arruabarrena O Kalashnikova | 2 | 0 | | | | | |
| | R Atawo A Spears | 6 | 2 | [4] | | A Klepač K Srebotnik | 7 | 5 | [4] | | | | | | | | | |
| | L Arruabarrena O Kalashnikova | 4 | 6 | [10] | | L Arruabarrena O Kalashnikova | 5 | 7 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | A Hlaváčková L Hradecká | 6 | 4 | [8] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| 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 | M Hingis C Vandeweghe | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Irigoyen T Maria | 1 | 1 | 7 | M Hingis C Vandeweghe | 4 | 6 | [8] | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Görges Ka Plíšková | 6 | 6 | | J Görges Ka Plíšková | 6 | 3 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Aoyama M Ninomiya | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | J Görges Ka Plíšková | 4 | 4 | | | | | |
| | D Kasatkina A Rosolska | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | G Dabrowski MJ Martínez Sánchez | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | G Dabrowski MJ Martínez Sánchez | 6 | 6 | | G Dabrowski MJ Martínez Sánchez | 4 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 4 | S Mirza B Strýcová | 6 | 1 | [4] | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | G Dabrowski MJ Martínez Sánchez | 6 | 1 | [12] |
| 5 | B Mattek-Sands L Šafářová | 7 | 7$^7$ | | | | | | | | | | 5 | B Mattek-Sands L Šafářová | 4 | 6 | [14] |
| | A-L Grönefeld K Peschke | 5 | 6$^5$ | 5 | B Mattek-Sands L Šafářová | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Parra Santonja An Rodionova | 3 | 1 | | K Bondarenko C-j Chuang | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | K Bondarenko C-j Chuang | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 5 | B Mattek-Sands L Šafářová | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| WC | C McHale S Peng | 6 | 6 | | | | | | WC | C McHale S Peng | 4 | 2 | | | | | |
| WC | L Siegemund E Svitolina | 4 | 2 | WC | C McHale S Peng | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 2 | E Makarova E Vesnina | 3 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |