2002 Mercedes Cup – Doubles

Guillermo Cañas and Rainer Schüttler were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Cañas with Younes El Aynaoui and Schüttler with Mikhail Youzhny.

Doubles
2002 Mercedes Cup
2001 ChampionArgentina Guillermo Cañas
Germany Rainer Schüttler
Final
ChampionAustralia Joshua Eagle
Czech Republic David Rikl
Runner-upSouth Africa David Adams
Argentina Gastón Etlis
Score6–3, 6–4
Events
Singles Doubles
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Schüttler and Youzhny lost in the first round to Juan Ignacio Carrasco and Álex López Morón.

Cañas and El Aynaoui lost in the quarterfinals to Nicolás Lapentti and Jeff Tarango.

Joshua Eagle and David Rikl won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against David Adams and Gastón Etlis.

Seeds

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Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.

  1.   Joshua Eagle /   David Rikl (champions)
  2.   David Adams /   Gastón Etlis (final)
  3.   Petr Luxa /   Cyril Suk (quarterfinals)
  4.   Leoš Friedl /   Jiří Novák (first round)

Draw

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First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1   J Eagle
  D Rikl
6 63 6
    J Boutter
  O Stanoytchev
4 77 2 1   J Eagle
  D Rikl
6 6  
    B Ellwood
  A Kitinov
6 6       B Ellwood
  A Kitinov
3 4  
    M-K Goellner
  M Rodríguez
3 3   1   J Eagle
  D Rikl
4 6 6
4   L Friedl
  J Novák
4 6 64     N Lapentti
  J Tarango
6 1 2
    G Cañas
  Y El Aynaoui
6 1 77     G Cañas
  Y El Aynaoui
6 4 1
    K Braasch
  J Knippschild
5 4       N Lapentti
  J Tarango
1 6 6
    N Lapentti
  J Tarango
7 6   1   Joshua Eagle
  David Rikl
6 6  
    R Schüttler
  M Youzhny
4 2   2   David Adams
  Gastón Etlis
3 4  
    J I Carrasco
  Á López Morón
6 6       J I Carrasco
  Á López Morón
77 63 6
WC   P Petzschner
  S Stadler
60 2   3   P Luxa
  C Suk
65 77 3
3   P Luxa
  C Suk
77 6       J I Carrasco
  Á López Morón
64 3  
WC   M Bahrami
  A Pavel
4 6 6 2   D Adams
  G Etlis
77 6  
    H Arazi
  T Robredo
6 1 4 WC   M Bahrami
  A Pavel
65 3  
WC   L Burgsmüller
  D Hrbatý
3 6 1 2   D Adams
  G Etlis
77 6  
2   D Adams
  G Etlis
6 3 6
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