Defending champions Henri Kontinen and John Peers will headline the Men’s Doubles event at the Australian Open.
The Finnish-Australian pair have been on a roll since pairing up in 2016, having won the Australian Open in January and have won the ATP World Tour Finals for two years in a row.
Other teams that will pose a threat to their title defence are teams such as Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, who are the current Wimbledon champions and number one team in the World.
Also teams like Murray/Soares, Lopez/Lopez, Herbert/Mahut and the Bryan Brothers will hope to work their way through the draw and lift another grand slam title.
There also some new teams that are looking to emerge such as Matkowski/Qureshi, Klaasen/Venus and Harrison/Pospisil.
Here is the 57 teams that have been given direct entry to the doubles tournament, which will start on Wednesday the 17th of January:
- Lukasz Kubot/Marcelo Melo
- Henri Kontinen/John Peers
- Jean-Julien Rojer/Horia Tecau
- Pierre-Hughes Herbert/Nicolas Mahut
- Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares
- Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan
- Oliver Marach/Mate Pavic
- Raven Klaasen/Michael Venus
- Ivan Dodig/Fernando Verdasco
- Fabio Fognini/Marcel Granollers
- Feliciano Lopez/Marc Lopez
- Rohan Bopanna/Edouard Roger-Vasselin
- Juan Sebastian Cabal/Robert Farah
- Santiago Gonzalez/Julio Peralta
- Steve Johnson/Sam Querrey
- Pablo Cuevas/Horacio Zeballos
- Rajeev Ram/Divji Sharan
- Marcin Matkowski/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi
- Paolo Lorenzi/Mischa Zverev
- Robin Haase/Matwe Middelkoop
- Pablo Carreno Busta/Guillermo Garcia-Lopez
- Nikola Mektic/Alexander Peya
- Florin Mergea/Nenad Zimonjic
- Marcus Daniell/Dominic Inglot
- Filip Krajinovic/Viktor Troicki
- Guido Pella/Diego Schwartzman
- Max Mirnyi/Philipp Oswald
- Nicholas Monroe/John-Patrick Smith
- Marcelo Demoliner/Treat Huey
- Wesley Koolhof/Artem Sitak
- Damir Dzumhur/Dusan Lajovic
- Leonardo Mayer/Joao Sousa
- Jeremy Chardy/Fabrice Martin
- Guillermo Duran/Andres Molteni
- Robert Lindstedt/Franko Skugor
- Nick Kyrgios/Matt Reid
- Hans Podlipnik-Castillo/Andrei Vasilevski
- Roman Jebavy/Jiri Vesely
- Nikoloz Basilashvili/Andreas Haider-Maurer
- Leander Paes/Purav Raja
- Ryan Harrison/Vasek Pospisil
- Ben McLachlan/Jan-Lennard Struff
- Julien Benneteau/Jonathan Eysseric
- Frances Tiafoe/Donald Young
- Pablo Andujar/Albert Ramos-Vinolas
- Adil Shamasdin/Neal Skupski
- Peter Gojowczyk/Florian Mayer
- Hugo Nys/Benoit Paire
- Jonathan Erlich/Daniel Nestor
- Mikhail Elgin/Andrey Rublev
- Evgeny Donskoy/Daniil Medvedev
- Denis Istomin/Mikhail Kukushkin
- Thomas Fabbiano/Dudi Sela
- Radu Albot/Hyeon Chung
- Marc Polmans/Andrew Whittington
- Scott Lipsky/David Marrero
- Federico Delbonis/Victor Estrella Burgos
