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
Final score6–4, 6–2
Draw16
Seeds4

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
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  
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