Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Raymond with Lindsay Davenport and Stubbs with Jelena Dokić.
Dokić and Stubbs lost in the quarterfinals to Stéphanie Foretz and Antonella Serra Zanetti.
Davenport and Raymond won in the final 6–3, 6–2 against Jennifer Capriati and Magüi Serna.
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
Elena Likhovtseva / 
Ai Sugiyama (quarterfinals)
Lindsay Davenport / Lisa Raymond (champions)
Rennae Stubbs (quarterfinals)
Daniela Hantuchová / Chanda Rubin (semifinals)