2003 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles
2003 tennis event results
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Shinobu Asagoe and Nana Miyagi were the defending champions, but lost in quarterfinals to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie.
Champions
Maria Sharapova
Tamarine Tanasugarn
Maria Sharapova
Tamarine TanasugarnRunners-up
Ansley Cargill
Ashley Harkleroad
Ansley Cargill Ashley HarkleroadScore7–6(7–1), 6–0
Draw16 (1Q)
| Women's doubles | |
|---|---|
| 2003 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships | |
| Champions | Maria Sharapova Tamarine Tanasugarn |
| Runners-up | Ansley Cargill Ashley Harkleroad |
| Score | 7–6(7–1), 6–0 |
| Draw | 16 (1Q) |
| Seeds | 4 |
Maria Sharapova and Tamarine Tanasugarn won the title by defeating Ansley Cargill and Ashley Harkleroad 7–6(7–1), 6–0 in the final.
This tournament saw an unusual event, as all seeded pairs were eliminated in quarterfinals.
Seeds
Janet Lee / 
Angelique Widjaja (quarterfinals)
Tina Križan / Katarina Srebotnik (quarterfinals)
Shinobu Asagoe / Nana Miyagi (quarterfinals)- Rika Fujiwara /
Emmanuelle Gagliardi (quarterfinals, withdrew due to a wrist injury on Fujiwara)
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
Draw
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 |  J Lee A Widjaja
| 65 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 S Hisamatsu Y Yoshida
| 77 | 4 | 4 | 1 | J Lee A Widjaja
| 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A Cargill A Harkleroad
| 6 | 6 | A Cargill A Harkleroad
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
 K Liggan A Parra Santonja
| 4 | 4 | A Cargill A Harkleroad
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | R Fujiwara E Gagliardi
| 3 | 6 | 6 |  T Musgrave A Spears
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| E Dominikovic M Kirilenko
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | R Fujiwara E Gagliardi
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| T Musgrave A Spears
| 7 | 6 | T Musgrave A Spears
| w/o | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Morigami S Obata
| 5 | 4 | A Cargill A Harkleroad
| 61 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
 Z Yan J Zheng
| 6 | 6 | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn
| 77 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
J Craybas S Talaja
| 4 | 3 | Z Yan J Zheng
| 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| T Li T Sun
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | S Asagoe N Miyagi
| 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | S Asagoe N Miyagi
| 6 | 3 | 6 | Z Yan J Zheng
| 3 | 7 | 66 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Q |  K-m Chang J-h Kim
| 3 | 2 | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn
| 6 | 5 | 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| M Sharapova T Tanasugarn
| 6 | 6 | M Sharapova T Tanasugarn
| 77 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
M-r Jeon An Serra Zanetti
| 1 | 2 | 2 |  T Križan K Srebotnik
| 65 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | T Križan K Srebotnik
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- Official Results Archive (ITF) Archived 2019-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Official Results Archive (WTA)