Mike Bryan and Jack Sock were the defending champions, but Sock could not participate due to injury. Mike Bryan played alongside his brotherBob, but lost in the third round to Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah won the title and jointly attained the ATP number one doubles ranking, defeating Mahut and Roger-Vasselin in the final, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 7–6(8–6), 6–7(5–7), 6–3. Mike Bryan, Łukasz Kubot and Bruno Soares were also in contention for the top ranking at the start of the tournament. Cabal and Farah had saved five match points earlier in the tournament against Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău in the quarterfinals.
This was the first Wimbledon where a final set tie break rule was introduced. Upon reaching 12–12 in the fifth set, a classic tie break would be played. Henri Kontinen and John Peers won the first final set tie break played in any match in Wimbledon history, defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the third round.
This was the sixth consecutive Grand Slam where the men's doubles event was won by a pair of players from the same nation.[1]