# 2009 China Open – Women's doubles

Anabel Medina Garrigues and Caroline Wozniacki were the defending champion, but Wozniacki chose not to participate this year. Medina Garrigues partnered with Virginia Ruano Pascual, but they lost in the second round against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Yanina Wickmayer. Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai won in the final 6–3, 6–1 against Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova.

## Seeds

The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.
* Cara Black / Liezel Huber (quarterfinals)
* Samantha Stosur / Rennae Stubbs (second round)
* Anabel Medina Garrigues / Virginia Ruano Pascual (second round)
* Nuria Llagostera Vives / María José Martínez Sánchez (quarterfinals)
* Hsieh Su-Wei / Peng Shuai (champions)
* Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Patty Schnyder (quarterfinals)
* Vania King / Nadia Petrova (first round)
* Chuang Chia-Jung / Lisa Raymond (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 |
| | Alisa Kleybanova Francesca Schiavone | 2 | 3 | | | | | |
| 5 | Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| 5 | Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai | 6 | 6 | | 5 | Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | | Alla Kudryavtseva Ekaterina Makarova | 3 | 1 |
| | Alla Kudryavtseva Ekaterina Makarova | 6 | 4 | [10] | | Alla Kudryavtseva Ekaterina Makarova | 3 | 1 |
| | Yan Zi Zheng Jie | 3 | 6 | [8] | | | | |

### 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 | C Black L Huber | 3 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Cîrstea S Mirza | 3 | 3 | | ALT | Á Szávay R Vinci | 6 | 0 | [3] | | | | | | | | | |
| ALT | Á Szávay R Vinci | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 1 | C Black L Huber | 6 | 6$^5$ | [9] | | | | |
| | V Azarenka V Zvonareva | 3 | 6 | [7] | | | | | | | A Kleybanova F Schiavone | 3 | 7 | [11] | | | | |
| | A Kleybanova F Schiavone | 6 | 4 | [10] | | A Kleybanova F Schiavone | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Bondarenko K Bondarenko | 6 | 5 | [10] | | A Bondarenko K Bondarenko | 6$^4$ | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | V King N Petrova | 3 | 7 | [8] | | | | | | | | | | | | A Kleybanova F Schiavone | 2 | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | S-W Hsieh S Peng | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | 3 | A Medina Garrigues V Ruano Pascual | 6 | 5 | [6] | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Pavlyuchenkova Y Wickmayer | 7 | 6$^3$ | [10] | | A Pavlyuchenkova Y Wickmayer | 2 | 7 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | V Dushevina A Rodionova | 5 | 7 | [2] | | | | | | | A Pavlyuchenkova Y Wickmayer | 3 | 1 | | | | | |
| | K Jans A Rosolska | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | 5 | S-W Hsieh S Peng | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | S Errani F Pennetta | 6 | 6 | | | S Errani F Pennetta | 2 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | İ Şenoğlu Y Shvedova | 2 | 2 | | 5 | S-W Hsieh S Peng | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 5 | S-W Hsieh S Peng | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### 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 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| 8 | C-J Chuang L Raymond | 7 | 3 | [6] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | X Han C Ji | 6$^5$ | 6 | [10] | WC | X Han C Ji | 6$^5$ | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | T Sun S Sun | 2 | 6$^4$ | | | A Kudryavtseva E Makarova | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Kudryavtseva E Makarova | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | A Kudryavtseva E Makarova | 2 | 7 | [10] | | | | |
| | N Grandin R Kops-Jones | 2 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | 4 | N Llagostera Vives MJ Martínez Sánchez | 6 | 6$^8$ | [7] | | | | |
| | I Benešová G Voskoboeva | 6 | 4 | [2] | | N Grandin R Kops-Jones | 6 | 5 | [6] | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 | N Llagostera Vives MJ Martínez Sánchez | 1 | 7 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A Kudryavtseva E Makarova | 6 | 4 | [10] |
| 6 | A-L Grönefeld P Schnyder | 4 | 7 | [10] | | | | | | | | | | | Z Yan J Zheng | 3 | 6 | [8] |
| | O Govortsova T Poutchek | 6 | 6$^3$ | [4] | 6 | A-L Grönefeld P Schnyder | w/o | | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | S Kuznetsova D Safina | 6 | 6 | | WC | S Kuznetsova D Safina | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Craybas A Glatch | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | 6 | A-L Grönefeld P Schnyder | 6 | 0 | [5] | | | | |
| | M Czink U Radwańska | 6$^0$ | 2 | | | | | | | | Z Yan J Zheng | 4 | 6 | [10] | | | | |
| | Z Yan J Zheng | 7 | 6 | | | Z Yan J Zheng | 7 | 1 | [11] | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | S Stosur R Stubbs | 6$^5$ | 6 | [9] | | | | | | | | | |