title: 2002 BNP Paribas Masters – Doubles
text: # 2002 BNP Paribas Masters – Doubles
  
  Ellis Ferreira and Rick Leach were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Ferreira with Pavel Vízner and Leach with Brian MacPhie.
  
  Ferreira and Vízner lost in the quarterfinals to Leach and MacPhie.
  
  Leach and MacPhie lost in the semifinals to Nicolas Escudé and Fabrice Santoro.
  
  Escudé and Santoro won in the final 6–3, $7–6^{(8–6)}$ against Gustavo Kuerten and Cédric Pioline.
  
  ## Seeds
  
  Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes to the second round.
  
  * Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor (quarterfinals)
  * Mahesh Bhupathi / Max Mirnyi (second round)
  * Jonas Björkman / Todd Woodbridge (semifinals)
  * Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan (second round)
  * Yevgeny Kafelnikov / Jared Palmer (second round)
  * Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett (second round)
  * Martin Damm / Cyril Suk (second round)
  * Joshua Eagle / Sandon Stolle (second round)
  
  ## Draw
  
  ### Key
  
  * Q = Qualifier
  * WC = Wild card
  * LL = Lucky loser
  * Alt = Alternate
  * SE = Special exempt
  * PR = Protected ranking
  * ITF = ITF entry
  * JE = Junior exempt
  * w/o = Walkover
  * r = Retired
  * d = Defaulted
  * SR = Special ranking
  
  ### Final
  
  | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | WC | Gustavo Kuerten Cédric Pioline | 3 | $6^6$ | |
  | WC | Nicolas Escudé Fabrice Santoro | 6 | $7^8$ | |
  
  ### Top half
  
  | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | | | 1 | M Knowles D Nestor | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | | |
  | | G Oliver N Zimonjić | $6^4$ | 3 | | D Adams R Koenig | 2 | $6^2$ | | | | | | | | | |
  | | D Adams R Koenig | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | 1 | M Knowles D Nestor | 4 | $6^3$ | | | | | |
  | | N Lapentti D Nalbandian | 5 | 4 | | | | | WC | G Kuerten C Pioline | 6 | $7^7$ | | | | | |
  | WC | G Kuerten C Pioline | 7 | 6 | WC | G Kuerten C Pioline | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | | | | 7 | M Damm C Suk | 5 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | WC | G Kuerten C Pioline | $6^8$ | 6 | 6 |
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | $7^{10}$ | 4 | 3 |
  | | | | | 3 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | L Arnold G Etlis | 4 | 5 | | M Hill L Paes | 2 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | M Hill L Paes | 6 | 7 | | | | | 3 | J Björkman T Woodbridge | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
  | | J Nieminen A Pavel | $7^7$ | 6 | | | | | | J Nieminen A Pavel | 4 | 1 | | | | | |
  | | S Schalken R Schüttler | $6^3$ | 2 | | J Nieminen A Pavel | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | | | | 8 | J Eagle S Stolle | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
  
  ### Bottom half
  
  | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | | | 6 | W Black K Ullyett | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | T Cibulec R Štěpánek | 1 | 4 | | A Clément M Llodra | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | A Clément M Llodra | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | A Clément M Llodra | 4 | 4 | | | | |
  | WC | N Escudé F Santoro | 6 | 6 | | | | | | WC | N Escudé F Santoro | 6 | 6 | | | | |
  | ALT | J Coetzee C Haggard | 1 | 0 | WC | N Escudé F Santoro | 6 | $7^8$ | | | | | | | | | |
  | | | | | 4 | B Bryan M Bryan | 2 | $6^6$ | | | | | | | | | |
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | WC | N Escudé F Santoro | 4 |
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | R Leach B MacPhie | $5^r$ |
  | | | | | 5 | Y Kafelnikov J Palmer | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | E Ferreira P Vízner | 7 | 6 | | E Ferreira P Vízner | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
  | | P Pála D Rikl | 5 | 2 | | | | | | | E Ferreira P Vízner | 6 | $6^{11}$ | $6^2$ | | | |
  | | R Leach B MacPhie | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | R Leach B MacPhie | 3 | $7^{13}$ | $7^7$ | | | |
  | | F González A Roddick | 3 | 4 | | R Leach B MacPhie | $7^7$ | $6^5$ | $7^7$ | | | | | | | | |
  | | | | | 2 | M Bhupathi M Mirnyi | $6^3$ | $7^7$ | $6^2$ | | | | | | | | |
  