2009 China Open – Women's doubles

Anabel Medina Garrigues and Caroline Wozniacki were the defending champion, but Wozniacki chose not to participate this year. Medina Garrigues partnered with Virginia Ruano Pascual, but they lost in the second round against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Yanina Wickmayer. Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai won in the final 6–3, 6–1 against Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova.

Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.

• # Cara Black / 🇺🇸 Liezel Huber (quarterfinals)

• # 🇦🇺 Samantha Stosur / 🇦🇺 Rennae Stubbs (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Anabel Medina Garrigues / 🇪🇸 Virginia Ruano Pascual (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Nuria Llagostera Vives / 🇪🇸 María José Martínez Sánchez (quarterfinals)

• # Hsieh Su-Wei / 🇨🇳 Peng Shuai (champions)

• # 🇩🇪 Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Patty Schnyder (quarterfinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Vania King / 🇷🇺 Nadia Petrova (first round)

• # Chuang Chia-Jung / 🇺🇸 Lisa Raymond (first round)