Doubles, Women
| Date | 6 – 14 August 2016 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Centro Olímpico de Tênis, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Participants | 64 from 23 countries | |
| Format | Single-elimination tournament. | |
For the doubles qualification, the world ranking list was used with a maximum of two pairs per nation. The 24 best players qualified for Rio with eight more places being awarded by the International Tennis Federation. No two players from the same country started within the same section of the draw, which consisted of four sections of eight pairs, thus making it impossible for them to meet until the semi-finals.
Sisters Serena and Venus Williams came to Rio having won 15 consecutive Olympic doubles matches playing together, but that came to a halt when they lost their first round match to the Czech pair Lucie Šafářová and Barbora Strýcová. The Russian duo Yekaterina Makarova and Yelena Vesnina won the gold medal, defeating Timea Bacsinszky and Martina Hingis from Switzerland in the final 6-4, 6-4. The loss meant Hingis failed to win her career Golden Slam.
POL
UKR
GER
BRA
KAZ
HUN
AUS
SRB
IND
FRARound One
| Date | 6 – 7 August 2016 |
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| Format | Winners advanced to round two. |
Round Two
| Date | 8 – 9 August 2016 |
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| Format | Winners advanced to quarter-finals. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match #1 | 09 Aug 14:24 | Court 4 | Šafářová / Strýcová |  CZE | 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-4 | Bouchard / Dabrowski |  CAN | |
| Match #2 | 09 Aug 17:09 | Court 4 | Errani / Vinci (8) |  ITA | 6-2, 6-3 | Xu / Zheng |  CHN | |
| Match #3 | 09 Aug 18:15 | Court 2 | Muguruza / Suárez (4) |  ESP | 7-5, 2-6, 6-2 | Flipkens / Wickmayer |  BEL | |
| Match #4 | 09 Aug 16:19 | Court 7 | Makarova / Vesnina (7) |  RUS | 6-1, 6-4 | Mitu / Olaru |  ROU | |
| Match #5 | 08 Aug 11:21 | Court 7 | Bacsinszky / Hingis (5) |  SUI | 6-4, 6-4 | Mattek-Sands / Vandeweghe |  USA | |
| Match #6 | 08 Aug 17:44 | Court 8 | Chan / Chan |  TPE | 3-6, 6-0, 6-4 | Konta / Watson |  GBR | |
| Match #7 | 09 Aug 13:08 | Court 7 | Hlaváčková / Hradecká (6) | CZE | 6-4, 6-4 | Peng / Zhang | CHN | |
| Match #8 | 08 Aug 18:01 | Court 9 | Kasatkina / Kuznetsova | RUS | 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 | Doi / Hozumi |  JPN |
Quarter-Finals
| Date | 11 August 2016 |
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| Format | Winners advanced to semi-finals. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match #1 | 11 Aug 12:08 | Court 8 | Šafářová / Strýcová | CZE | 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 | Errani / Vinci (8) | ITA | |
| Match #2 | 11 Aug 14:31 | Court 8 | Makarova / Vesnina (7) | RUS | 6-3, 6-4 | Muguruza / Suárez (4) | ESP | |
| Match #3 | 11 Aug 12:17 | Court 7 | Bacsinszky / Hingis (5) | SUI | 6-3, 6-0 | Chan / Chan (3) | TPE | |
| Match #4 | 11 Aug 13:54 | Court 7 | Hlaváčková / Hradecká (6) | CZE | 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 | Kasatkina / Kuznetsova | RUS |
Semi-Finals
| Date | 12 August 2016 |
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| Format | Winners advanced to final round. |
| Match | Date/Time | Location | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match #1 | 12 Aug 12:54 | Court 2 | Makarova / Vesnina (7) | RUS | 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 | Šafářová / Strýcová | CZE | |
| Match #2 | 12 Aug 19:34 | Court 2 | Bacsinszky / Hingis (5) | SUI | 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 | Hlaváčková / Hradecká (6) | CZE |
Final Round
| Date | 13 – 14 August 2016 |
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| Match | Date/Time | Location | Pair (Seed) | NOC | Result | Pair (Seed) | NOC | |
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| Match 1/2 | 14 Aug 12:12 | Centre Court | Makarova / Vesnina (7) | RUS | 6-4, 6-4 | Bacsinszky / Hingis (5) | SUI | |
| Match 3/4 | 13 Aug 14:38 | Court 1 | Šafářová / Strýcová | CZE | 7-5, 6-1 | Hlaváčková / Hradecká (6) | CZE |