# 2001 Family Circle Cup – Doubles

Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez were the defending champions but lost in the final 5–7, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, 6–3 against Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs.

## Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.
* Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs (champions)
* Virginia Ruano Pascual / Paola Suárez (final)
* Åsa Carlsson / Kimberly Po (second round)
* Elena Likhovtseva / Nicole Pratt (quarterfinals)
* Nicole Arendt / Caroline Vis (semifinals)
* Liezel Huber / Laura Montalvo (quarterfinals)
* Amanda Coetzer / Lori McNeil (quarterfinals)
* Conchita Martínez / Patricia Tarabini (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

### Final

| Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs | 5 | 7$^7$ | 6 |
| 2 | Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez | 7 | 6$^5$ | 3 |

### Top 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 |
| | | | | 1 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 7$^7$ | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | L Osterloh A Stevenson | 5 | 5 | | S Asagoe R Hiraki | 6$^5$ | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Asagoe R Hiraki | 7 | 7 | | | | | | 1 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 2 | 7$^8$ | 6 | | | | |
| | S Krivencheva M Maruska | 5 | 3 | | | | | | 6 | L Huber L Montalvo | 6 | 6$^6$ | 2 | | | | |
| | B Lamade P Schnyder | 7 | 6 | | B Lamade P Schnyder | 6 | 2 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| | E deLone G León García | 3 | 4 | 6 | L Huber L Montalvo | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | L Huber L Montalvo | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 6 | 7$^7$ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | J Capriati A Sánchez-Vicario | 3 | 6$^4$ |
| | | | | 3 | Å Carlsson K Po | 6$^4$ | 6$^5$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Capriati A Sánchez-Vicario | 7 | 6 | | J Capriati A Sánchez-Vicario | 7$^7$ | 7$^7$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Glass I Majoli | 5 | 0 | | | | | | | J Capriati A Sánchez-Vicario | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| Q | T Panova M-È Pelletier | 3 | 3 | | | | | | 7 | A Coetzer L McNeil | 3 | 0 | | | | | |
| | M de Swardt D Graham | 6 | 6 | | M de Swardt D Graham | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Frazier K Schlukebir | 4 | 2 | 7 | A Coetzer L McNeil | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | A Coetzer L McNeil | 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 | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| 5 | N Arendt C Vis | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Craybas S Taylor | 4 | 2 | | 5 | N Arendt C Vis | 7$^7$ | 7$^7$ | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | M Drake M Weingärtner | 0 | 4 | | | J Dokić C Morariu | 6$^4$ | 6$^3$ | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Dokić C Morariu | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 5 | N Arendt C Vis | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | K Brandi M Lučić | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | 4 | E Likhovtseva N Pratt | 4 | 2 | | | | |
| | S Jeyaseelan R McQuillan | 6 | 6 | | | S Jeyaseelan R McQuillan | 6 | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 | E Likhovtseva N Pratt | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | N Arendt C Vis | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | C Martínez P Tarabini | 2 | 6 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | V Ruano Pascual P Suárez | 6 | 7 |
| | R Kolbovic M Tu | 6 | 0 | 6 | | R Kolbovic M Tu | w/o | | | | | | | | | | |
| | N Dechy C Rubin | 7$^7$ | 4 | 6 | | N Dechy C Rubin | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Díaz Oliva M E Salerni | 6$^2$ | 6 | 4 | | | | | | | R Kolbovic M Tu | 0 | 1 | | | | |
| | R Dragomir Ilie S Farina Elia | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 2 | V Ruano Pascual P Suárez | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | S Reeves J Steck | 2 | 0 | | | R Dragomir Ilie S Farina Elia | 6$^2$ | 6 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | V Ruano Pascual P Suárez | 7$^7$ | 3 | 6 | | | | | | | | |