2001 Indian Wells Open – Men's doubles

Alex O'Brien and Jared Palmer were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, O'Brien with Sébastien Lareau and Palmer with Byron Black.

Lareau and O'Brien lost in the second round to Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie.

Black and Palmer lost in the quarterfinals to Jonas Björkman and Todd Woodbridge.

Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov won in the final 6–2, 7–5 against Björkman and Woodbridge.

Seeds
• # 🇸🇪 Jonas Björkman / 🇦🇺 Todd Woodbridge (final)

• # 🇨🇦 Daniel Nestor / 🇦🇺 Sandon Stolle (first round)

• # Wayne Ferreira / 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (champions)

• # 🇨🇿 Jiří Novák / 🇨🇿 David Rikl (first round)

• # Paul Haarhuis / 🇩🇪 David Prinosil (second round)

• # 🇨🇦 Sébastien Lareau / 🇺🇸 Alex O'Brien (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Donald Johnson / 🇺🇸 Rick Leach (first round)

• # Byron Black / 🇺🇸 Jared Palmer (quarterfinals)