Complex sentence: Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.
Split into simpler sentences: Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual are the defending champions. However, they lost in the semifinals to Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova.