2016 Qatar Total Open – Doubles
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Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Gabriela Dabrowski and María José Martínez Sánchez. Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan won the title, defeating Sara Errani and Carla Suárez Navarro in the final, 6–3, 6–3.
Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.
- Switzerland Martina Hingis / India Sania Mirza (quarterfinals)
- United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova (quarterfinals)
- France Caroline Garcia / France Kristina Mladenovic (second round)
- Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-ching / Chinese Taipei Chan Yung-jan (champions)
- Czech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková / Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká (first round)
- Hungary Tímea Babos / Germany Julia Görges (quarterfinals)
- United States Raquel Atawo / United States Abigail Spears (second round)
- Slovenia Andreja Klepač / Slovenia Katarina Srebotnik (second round)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- ITF = ITF entry
- PR = Protected ranking
- SR = Special ranking
- SE = Special exempt
- JE = Junior exempt
- JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
- CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
- NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted