Bruno Soares

Bruno Soares

Bruno Soares is a professional tennis player from Brazil.Soares's highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour is World No. 221, which he reached in March 2004. Primarily a doubles specialist, his career-high doubles ranking is World No. 14, reached on May 4, 2009...

 and Kevin Ullyett

Kevin Ullyett

Kevin Ullyett is a former professional tennis player from Zimbabwe. His primary success on the tour has been in men's doubles. He has won 24 doubles titles, including the 2001 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open, both with Wayne Black...

 were the defending champions. Ullyett retired from professional tennis in 2009.

As a result, Soares partnered up with his compatriot Marcelo Melo

Marcelo Melo

Marcelo Melo is a Brazilian tennis player, currently ranked 22nd in the world in doubles. Alongside regular teammate André Sá, he has reached the Mens Doubles semifinal at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and the quarterfinal at the 2007 US Open...

, but they lost in semifinals against Eric Butorac

Eric Butorac

Eric "Booty" Butorac is an American tennis player. He is a doubles specialist, and has achieved some success in partnership with Britain's Jamie Murray, a fellow left-hander known as "Stretch". He was nicknamed 'Booty' by partner Murray...

 and Jean-Julien Rojer

Jean-Julien Rojer

Jean-Julien Rojer is a professional Curaçao tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 218th, which he reached on August 15, 2005. A doubles specialist, his career high in doubles is 18th, which he reached on July 4, 2011. His current doubles partner is Eric Butorac.-Doubles: 13...

.

Butorac and Rojer won their second doubles title in this year (last win in Tokyo

2010 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships – Doubles

Julian Knowle and Jürgen Melzer were the defending champions, but they lost to Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the quarterfinal.Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer won in the final 6–3, 6–2, against Andreas Seppi and Dmitry Tursunov.-Seeds:...

). They defeated Johan Brunström

Johan Brunström

Johan Brunström is a professional Swedish tennis player. His highest ATP doubles ranking is 31st, which he reached on March 22, 2010. His career high in singles is 377th, which he reached on September 24, 2007.-Doubles: 10 :...

 and Jarkko Nieminen

Jarkko Nieminen

Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...

 6–3, 6–4 in the final.

Seeds

1.   Łukasz Kubot /   Oliver Marach
   Oliver Marach
   Oliver Marach is a professional Austrian tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 82nd, which he reached on August 7, 2005. His career high in doubles is 8th, set at October 18, 2010.-Doubles: 14 :...
   
    (First Round)
2.   Wesley Moodie
   Wesley Moodie
   Wesley Moodie is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Wesley is now retired.-Early life and college career:...
   
    /   Dick Norman
   Dick Norman
   Dick Norman is a professional tennis player. He has achieved a degree of folk popularity among tennis fans due to his height , his left-handed power game and, in the last few years, his age .Turning professional in 1991, Norman notched up only his 14th Grand Slam...
   
    (Semifinals)

3.   Robert Lindstedt
   Robert Lindstedt
   Robert Lindstedt is a Swedish professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1998, and is a doubles specialist...
   
    /   Horia Tecău
   Horia Tecau
   Horia Tecău is a Romanian tennis player who turned pro in 2003, and is a doubles specialist. Tecău is currently ranked 9th in ATP's doubles ranking, being also his highest doubles ranking achieved on August 8, 2011....
   
    (First Round)
   
4.   Simon Aspelin
   Simon Aspelin
   Simon Aspelin is a former professional tennis doubles player from Sweden who turned professional in 1998...
   
    /   Paul Hanley
   Paul Hanley (tennis)
   Paul Jason Hanley is a professional male tennis player from Australia, specialising in doubles. His parents, Jay and Judy, co-own a tennis centre, one of the main reasons Hanley pursued a career in the sport.He lost the 2005 Wimbledon finals in mixed doubles, playing with Tatiana Perebiynis...
   
    (First Round)
   

Draw