2001 RCA Championships – Doubles

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Doubles
2001 RCA Championships
Champions Flag of the Bahamas.svg Mark Knowles
Flag of the United States.svg Brian MacPhie
Runners-up Flag of India.svg Mahesh Bhupathi
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Sébastien Lareau
Final score7–6(7–5), 5–7, 6–4
Events
Singles Doubles
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Lleyton Hewitt and Sandon Stolle were the defending champions but only Stolle competed that year with Max Mirnyi.

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Mirnyi and Stolle lost in the quarterfinals to Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie.

Knowles and MacPhie won in the final 7–6(7–5), 5–7, 6–4 against Mahesh Bhupathi and Sébastien Lareau.

Seeds

The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

  1. Flag of Sweden.svg Jonas Björkman / Flag of Australia (converted).svg Todd Woodbridge (quarterfinals)
  2. Flag of Belarus.svg Max Mirnyi / Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sandon Stolle (quarterfinals)
  3. Flag of South Africa.svg Ellis Ferreira / Flag of the United States.svg Rick Leach (quarterfinals)
  4. Flag of Australia (converted).svg Joshua Eagle / Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew Florent (second round)
  5. Flag of the Bahamas.svg Mark Knowles / Flag of the United States.svg Brian MacPhie (champions)
  6. Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Leoš Friedl / Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Petr Pála (first round)
  7. Flag of South Africa.svg Chris Haggard / Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Tom Vanhoudt (semifinals)
  8. Flag of India.svg Mahesh Bhupathi / Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Sébastien Lareau (final)

Draw

Key

Finals

Semifinals Final
          
8 3 677
 64 65
8 6574
5 775 6
7 63 0
5 2 66

Top half

First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals
1 677 
 651   
1 65 
 
776 1 4 61
 3 4  8 63 6
  Flag of the United States.svg J Blake
Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg N Zimonjić
66   Flag of the United States.svg J Blake
Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg N Zimonjić
4 2  
WC
4 64 8 66 
8 62 68 3 677
 64 65
4 3 2  
 787  66 
 665   6  
 3 66 3 r  
 61 2  677 
 3 66 3 64 
6 64 2

Bottom half

First round Second round Quarterfinals Semifinals
7 3 66
 
64 0 7 66 
 66  1 3  
WC 4 1  7 776 
 66 3 633  
WC 1 3   4 2  
3 66 
7 63 0
5 66 5 2 66
 
1 4  5 64776
 6566 77643
WC 773 2 5 776 
WC 677 2 644  
WC 4 64 WC 6565 
2 7777 

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