1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles

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

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

External links[]

• 1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships Women's Doubles Draw