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Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual US Open.
Seeds
Jean-Philippe Fleurian / 
Paul Rosner (first round)
Petr Luxa / 
Oleg Ogorodov (first round)
Dinu Pescariu / 
Davide Sanguinetti (qualified)
Rikard Bergh / 
Maurice Ruah (first round)
Patrick Baur / Tomas Nydahl (qualifying competition)
Óscar Ortiz / 
André Sá (qualified)
Georg Blumauer / Gabriel Trifu (qualifying competition)- Chris Haggard /
Jamie Holmes (qualifying competition)
Qualifiers
Roger Smith / Peter Tramacchi- John-Laffnie de Jager / Robbie Koenig
- Dinu Pescariu / Davide Sanguinetti
- Óscar Ortiz / André Sá
Draw
First qualifier
| First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Jean-Philippe Fleurian Paul Rosner
| 6 | 6 | 4 | |||||||||
| Roger Smith Peter Tramacchi
| 2 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Roger Smith Peter Tramacchi
| 4 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Chris Haggard Jamie Holmes
| 6 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| WC |  David Caldwell Adam Peterson
| 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Chris Haggard Jamie Holmes
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
Second qualifier
| First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Petr Luxa Oleg Ogorodov
| 7 | 6 | 3 | |||||||||
| John-Laffnie de Jager Robbie Koenig
| 5 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||||
| John-Laffnie de Jager Robbie Koenig
| 6 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Georg Blumauer Gabriel Trifu
| 2 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Marcus Hilpert Myles Wakefield
| 4 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Georg Blumauer Gabriel Trifu
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
Third qualifier
| First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Dinu Pescariu Davide Sanguinetti
| 7 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||
| WC | James Blake Thomas Blake
| 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| 3 | Dinu Pescariu Davide Sanguinetti
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Patrick Baur Tomas Nydahl
| 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Doug Flach Tommy Ho
| 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Patrick Baur Tomas Nydahl
| 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
Fourth qualifier
| First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Rikard Bergh Maurice Ruah
| 3 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||
 Tamer El-Sawy Nenad Zimonjić
| 6 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Tamer El-Sawy Nenad Zimonjić
| 6 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Óscar Ortiz André Sá
| 7 | 6 | ||||||||||
| WC | Brady Blain Brook Blain
| 3 | 7 | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | Óscar Ortiz André Sá
| 6 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||