Kimiko Date and Ai Sugiyama were the defending champions but only Sugiyama competed that year with Shinobu Asagoe.
Women's doubles | |
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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
editChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
- Naoko Kijimuta / Nana Miyagi (semifinals)
- Amy Frazier / Kimberly Po (quarterfinals)
- Alexia Dechaume-Balleret / Rika Hiraki (champions)
- Janet Lee / Shi-Ting Wang (quarterfinals)
Draw
editKey
edit- 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 |