Jared Palmer and Richey Reneberg were the defending champions but only Reneberg competed that year with Jim Grabb.
Grabb and Reneberg lost in the first round to Brian MacPhie and Mark Philippoussis.
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor won in the final 7–6, 1–6, 6–4 against Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde.[1]
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes to the second round.