| Doubles | |
|---|---|
| 2003 Croatian Bol Ladies Open | |
| Champions |   |
| Runners-up |  |
| Final score | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Draw | 16 (1WC/1Q) |
| Seeds | 4 |
Tathiana Garbin and Angelique Widjaja were the defending champions, but Widjaja did not compete this year. Garbin teamed up with Caroline Schneider and lost in quarterfinals to tournament winners Petra Mandula and Patricia Wartusch.
Tathiana Garbin is an Italian retired tennis player. She is probably best known for her surprise defeat of the defending champion and the reigning world No. 1 Justine Henin, in the second round of the 2004 French Open. The winner of one singles and eleven doubles WTA Tour titles, she reached her highest singles ranking world No. 22 on 21 May 2007, and her highest doubles ranking No. 25 on 27 August 2001. Other high–ranked players she defeated include Jelena Dokić, Chanda Rubin, Flavia Pennetta, Agnieszka Radwańska, Nadia Petrova, Marion Bartoli, and Samantha Stosur.
Angelique Widjaja is a retired Chinese Indonesian tennis player. She won the junior championships at Wimbledon in 2001, defeating Dinara Safina. She reached a peak of No. 55 in the WTA singles rankings in March 2003, and a peak of No. 15 in the doubles rankings in February 2004. She retired from the professional circuit in 2008.
Caroline Schneider is a German professional tennis player. During her career, she won several titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
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Petra Mandula and Patricia Wartusch won the title by defeating Emmanuelle Gagliardi and Patty Schnyder 6–3, 6–2 in the final. [1]
Petra Mandula is a Hungarian former professional tennis player, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia; in singles she was eliminated in the first round by fourth seed Conchita Martínez of Spain, in doubles she reached the quarterfinals partnering Katalin Marosi. Four years later, when Athens, Greece hosted the Games, she once again was defeated in the first round, this time by Patty Schnyder of Switzerland.
Patricia Wartusch is a former professional tennis player from Austria. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 in 2000. She won in her career two singles and six doubles WTA titles.
Emmanuelle Gagliardi is a retired professional Swiss tennis player.
