1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles

Women's doubles
Women's doubles
1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships
Final
Champions	Alexia Dechaume-Balleret ; Rika Hiraki
Runners-up	Kerry-Anne Guse ; Corina Morariu
Score	6–4, 6–2
Details
Draw	16
Seeds	4
Events

Kimiko Date and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions but only Sugiyama competed that year with Shinobu Asagoe.

Asagoe and Sugiyama lost in the semifinals to Kerry-Anne Guse and Corina Morariu.

Alexia Dechaume-Balleret and Rika Hiraki won in the final 6–4, 6–2 against Guse and Morariu.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.

First round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final

1	N Kijimuta N Miyagi	6	6
	H Mochizuki K Takuma	3	1		1	N Kijimuta N Miyagi	6	6
	R Grande G Helgeson-Nielsen	6	6	6		R Grande G Helgeson-Nielsen	4	3
	S-H Park T Tanasugarn	2	7	3						1	N Kijimuta N Miyagi	6	1	3
3	A Dechaume-Balleret R Hiraki	6	6							3	A Dechaume-Balleret R Hiraki	3	6	6
	T Hotta Y Yamagishi	1	2		3	A Dechaume-Balleret R Hiraki	6	6
	M Saeki Y Yoshida	6	6			M Saeki Y Yoshida	2	1
Q	H Inoue M Inoue	1	3												3	Alexia Dechaume-Balleret Rika Hiraki	6	6
	S Asagoe A Sugiyama	7	6													Kerry-Anne Guse Corina Morariu	4	2
	S Haas E Tatarkova	5	1			S Asagoe A Sugiyama	6	6
	A Ellwood K Kschwendt	2	3		4	J Lee S-T Wang	3	3
4	J Lee S-T Wang	6	6								S Asagoe A Sugiyama	4	3
	K-A Guse C Morariu	6	6								K-A Guse C Morariu	6	6
	M Tu N Vaidyanathan	1	3			K-A Guse C Morariu	4	6	6
	Y Hosoki K Nagatomi	5	3		2	A Frazier K Po	6	2	2
2	A Frazier K Po	7	6