1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles

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

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

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.

1. Naoko Kijimuta / Nana Miyagi (semifinals)
2. Amy Frazier / Kimberly Po (quarterfinals)
3. Alexia Dechaume-Balleret / Rika Hiraki (champions)
4. Janet Lee / Shi-Ting Wang (quarterfinals)

Draw

Key

• Q = Qualifier
• WC = Wild card
• LL = Lucky loser
• Alt = Alternate
• SE = Special exempt
• PR = Protected ranking
• ITF = ITF entry
• JE = Junior exempt
• w/o = Walkover
• r = Retired
• d = Defaulted
• SR = Special ranking

	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

External links

• 1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships Women's Doubles Draw