Olympic champions from 2012 were Serena and Venus Williams , who could not defend their title. Olympic champions were Jekaterina Makarowa and Jelena Wesnina from Russia. A total of 32 double pairs took part in this tournament.
At the second match point in the tie-break of the second set in the semifinals, Andrea Hlaváčková was hit in the face by Martina Hingis and suffered a bone splintering in the eye area as well as a fracture of the eye arch and nose.