# 2016 Dubai Tennis Championships – Men's doubles

Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but chose not to compete together. Bopanna played alongside Florin Mergea, but lost in the first round to Nestor and Radek Štěpánek. Nestor and Štěpánek lost in the quarterfinals to Łukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski. Simone Bolelli and Andreas Seppi won the title, defeating Feliciano López and Marc López in the final, 6–2, 3–6, [14–12].

## Seeds

* Jean-Julien Rojer / Horia Tecău (quarterfinals)
* Rohan Bopanna / Florin Mergea (first round)
* Vasek Pospisil / Nenad Zimonjić (first round)
* Henri Kontinen / John Peers (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

### Draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | J-J Rojer H Tecău | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | G García-López V Troicki | 2 | 5 | | 1 | J-J Rojer H Tecău | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | D Inglot R Lindstedt | 6$^3$ | 3 | | | F López M López | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | F López M López | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | F López M López | 6 | 7$^8$ | | | | |
| 3 | V Pospisil N Zimonjić | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | Q | H Chung J Veselý | 4 | 6$^6$ | | | | |
| Q | H Chung J Veselý | 6 | 6 | | Q | H Chung J Veselý | 6$^2$ | 7$^8$ | [11] | | | | | | | | |
| | R Bautista Agut J Sousa | 2 | 6 | [10] | | R Bautista Agut J Sousa | 7$^7$ | 6$^6$ | [9] | | | | | | | | |
| WC | S Bubka S Stakhovsky | 6 | 2 | [8] | | | | | | | | | | F López M López | 2 | 6 | [12] |
| WC | M Bhupathi A-u-H Qureshi | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | S Bolelli A Seppi | 6 | 3 | [14] |
| | S Bolelli A Seppi | 6 | 6 | | | S Bolelli A Seppi | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Murray T Robredo | 2 | 6 | [10] | | J Murray T Robredo | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | H Kontinen J Peers | 6 | 4 | [8] | | | | | | | S Bolelli A Seppi | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | I Dodig M Draganja | 6 | 4 | [7] | | | | | | | Ł Kubot M Matkowski | 4 | 4 | | | | |
| | Ł Kubot M Matkowski | 4 | 6 | [10] | | Ł Kubot M Matkowski | 3 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | |
| | D Nestor R Štěpánek | 3 | 7$^8$ | [10] | | D Nestor R Štěpánek | 6 | 3 | [5] | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | R Bopanna F Mergea | 6 | 6$^6$ | [4] | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Qualifying
### Seeds

* Rameez Junaid / Jonathan Marray (first round)
* Leonardo Mayer / Lukáš Rosol (first round)

### Qualifiers

* Hyeon Chung / Jiří Veselý

### Qualifying draw

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition |
| 1 | Rameez Junaid Jonathan Marray | 4 | 6 | [7] | | | |
| | Hyeon Chung Jiří Veselý | 6 | 3 | [10] | | | |
| | Hyeon Chung Jiří Veselý | 6 | 3 | [10] | Hyeon Chung Jiří Veselý | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | Thomas Fabbiano Franko Škugor | 3 | 4 |
| | Thomas Fabbiano Franko Škugor | 6 | 2 | [10] | Thomas Fabbiano Franko Škugor | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Leonardo Mayer Lukáš Rosol | 4 | 6 | [7] | | | |