2002 Pacific Life Open – Women's doubles

Nicole Arendt and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Arendt with Liezel Huber and Sugiyama with Elena Tatarkova.

Sugiyama and Tatarkova lost in the second round to Elena Dementieva and Janette Husárová.

Arendt and Huber lost in the quarterfinals to Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez.

Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs won in the final 7–5, 6–0 against Dementieva and Husárová.

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

• # 🇺🇸 Lisa Raymond / 🇦🇺 Rennae Stubbs (champions)

• # Cara Black / 🇷🇺 Elena Likhovtseva (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Virginia Ruano Pascual / 🇦🇷 Paola Suárez (semifinals)

• # Martina Hingis / 🇷🇺 Anna Kournikova (withdrew due to an injury on Kournikova)

• # 🇸🇰 Daniela Hantuchová / 🇪🇸 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (semifinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Nicole Arendt / Liezel Huber (quarterfinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Ai Sugiyama / 🇺🇦 Elena Tatarkova (second round)

• # Tina Križan /  Katarina Srebotnik (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Kimberly Po-Messerli / 🇦🇺 Nicole Pratt (quarterfinals)

Qualifying seeds
• # 🇧🇬 Lubomira Bacheva / 🇧🇾 Tatiana Poutchek (qualifying competition, lucky losers)

• # 🇯🇵 Rika Hiraki / 🇯🇵 Nana Miyagi (qualified)

Qualifiers

 * 1) 🇯🇵 Rika Hiraki / 🇯🇵 Nana Miyagi

Lucky losers
• # 🇧🇬 Lubomira Bacheva / 🇧🇾 Tatiana Poutchek

• # Emmanuelle Gagliardi / 🇮🇹 Adriana Serra Zanetti