2012 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Doubles
2012 tennis event results
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Andy Murray and Jamie Murray were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to first seeded Leander Paes and Radek Štěpánek.
Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares won the title, defeating Paes and Štěpánek 6–3, 7–6(7–5) in the final.
Champions
Alexander Peya
Bruno Soares
Alexander Peya 
Bruno SoaresRunners-up
Leander Paes
Radek Štěpánek
Leander Paes 
Radek ŠtěpánekScore6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Draw16 (2WC)
| Doubles | |
|---|---|
| 2012 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships | |
| Champions | Alexander Peya Bruno Soares |
| Runners-up | Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek |
| Score | 6–3, 7–6(7–5) |
| Draw | 16 (2WC) |
| Seeds | 4 |
Seeds
- Leander Paes / Radek Štěpánek (final)
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi / 
Jean-Julien Rojer (first round)
Santiago González / 
Scott Lipsky (first round)- Alexander Peya / Bruno Soares (champions)
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 | L Paes R Štěpánek
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
J Knowle F Polášek
| 4 | 4 | 1 | L Paes R Štěpánek
| 6 | 3 | [10] | ||||||||||||||||||||
 E Butorac J Nieminen
| 7 | 3 | [4] |  A Murray J Murray
| 4 | 6 | [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A Murray J Murray
| 5 | 6 | [10] | 1 | L Paes R Štěpánek
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 |  S González S Lipsky
| 61 | 3 |  D Bracciali F Čermák
| 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 J Mónaco K Nishikori
| 77 | 6 | J Mónaco K Nishikori
| 1 | 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| WC | Y Sugita Y Uchiyama
| 2 | 64 | D Bracciali F Čermák
| 6 | 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| D Bracciali F Čermák
| 6 | 77 | 1 | L Paes R Štěpánek
| 3 | 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WC | H Moriya T Suzuki
| 3 | 4 | 4 | A Peya B Soares
| 6 | 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 J Chardy M Melo
| 6 | 6 | J Chardy M Melo
| 77 | 3 | [8] | |||||||||||||||||||||
B Paire S Wawrinka
| 5 | 2 | 4 | A Peya B Soares
| 64 | 6 | [10] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | A Peya B Soares
| 7 | 6 | 4 | A Peya B Soares
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 TC Huey J Marray
| 64 | 5 | T Berdych N Zimonjić
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
 P Petzschner J Tipsarević
| 77 | 7 | P Petzschner J Tipsarević
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T Berdych N Zimonjić
| 77 | 6 | T Berdych N Zimonjić
| w/o | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 |  A-u-H Qureshi J-J Rojer
| 65 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||