They have managed to avoid most of the specialist doubles players in the draw (apart from Beth and Lily who have a terrible draw). Doubles rankings can be a bit misleading in events like this thugh as the top singles players join in.
For anyone going in the second week, the Invitation Doubles has plenty of well-known names. Round-robin format, with a final on Sunday.
Group A
CLIJSTERS, Kim (BEL) and HINGIS, Martina (SUI)
DECHY, Nathalie (FRA) and SCHETT, Barbara (AUT)
GROENEFELD, Anna-Lena (GER) and SPREM, Karolina (CRO)
KING, Vania (USA) and SHVEDOVA, Yaroslava (KAZ)
Group B
DELLACQUA, Casey (AUS) and MOLIK, Alicia (AUS)
HANTUCHOVA, Daniela (SVK) and ROBSON, Laura (GBR)
JANKOVIC, Jelena (SRB) and RADWANSKA, Agnieszka (POL)
PENNETTA, Flavia (ITA) and SCHIAVONE, Francesca (ITA)
Always hard to predict women's doubles at slams since quite a few singles players take part, and that isn't reflected in the combined rankings (which are doubles only).
I would hope that Lissey and Liv, Harriet and Heather and Vivian and Sam all have a good chance, but the other matches are hard to guess.
Bet365 has everybody bar Harriet and Heather as underdogs although Sam is 11/10 and Lissey+Liv is 6/5
Naomi and Asia have been friends for some time, so I'm not at all surprised at the working relationship.