# 1996 Paris Open – Doubles

Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Connell with Byron Black and Galbraith with Jonathan Stark.
Galbraith and Stark lost in the first round to David Adams and Menno Oosting.
Black and Connell lost in the semifinals to Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Daniel Vacek.
Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis won in the final 6–4, 4–6, 7–6 against Kafelnikov and Vacek.

## Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes into the second round.
* Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde (semifinals)
* Byron Black / Grant Connell (semifinals)
* Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (quarterfinals)
* Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Daniel Vacek (final)
* Guy Forget / Jakob Hlasek (second round)
* Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis (champions)
* Ellis Ferreira / Jan Siemerink (second round)
* Sébastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien (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

### Final

| Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 6 | Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek | 4 | 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 | T Woodbridge M Woodforde | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Q | T Carbonell F Roig | 6 | 6 | 6 | Q | T Carbonell F Roig | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Stolle M Tebbutt | 7 | 4 | 4 | | | | | 1 | T Woodbridge M Woodforde | 6 | 7 | | | | | | |
| | P Korda C Suk | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | P Korda C Suk | 1 | 6 | | | | | | |
| | L Lobo J Sánchez | 3 | 4 | | | P Korda C Suk | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 8 | S Lareau A O'Brien | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | T Woodbridge M Woodforde | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | J Eltingh P Haarhuis | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| | | | | | 3 | M Knowles D Nestor | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | J Courier F Santoro | 6 | 6 | | WC | J Courier F Santoro | 6 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | A Boetsch O Delaître | 3 | 4 | | | | | | 3 | M Knowles D Nestor | 3 | 2 | r | | | | | |
| WC | J-P Fleurian G Raoux | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 6 | J Eltingh P Haarhuis | 6 | 5 | | | | | | |
| WC | A Agassi L Jensen | 3 | 3 | | WC | J-P Fleurian G Raoux | 5 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 6 | J Eltingh P Haarhuis | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| 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 | Semifinals |
| | | | | 5 | G Forget J Hlasek | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| D Adams M Oosting | 6 | 6 | 6 | | D Adams M Oosting | 4 | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| P Galbraith J Stark | 4 | 7 | 2 | | | | | | | D Adams M Oosting | 6 | 2 | 4 | | | | | |
| R Leach A Olhovskiy | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 4 | Y Kafelnikov D Vacek | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| J Grabb R Reneberg | 6 | 4 | 7 | | J Grabb R Reneberg | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 4 | Y Kafelnikov D Vacek | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Y Kafelnikov D Vacek | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | B Black G Connell | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| | | | | 7 | E Ferreira J Siemerink | 2 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| N Kulti M Philippoussis | 6 | 4 | 6 | | M Damm P Vízner | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| M Damm P Vízner | 4 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | M Damm P Vízner | 7 | 3 | 5 | | | | | |
| T Kronemann D Macpherson | 5 | 7 | 6 | | | | | | 2 | B Black G Connell | 6 | 6 | 7 | | | | | |
| L Pimek B Talbot | 7 | 6 | 4 | | T Kronemann D Macpherson | 6 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 2 | B Black G Connell | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | |