1997 Danamon Open – Doubles
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Rika Hiraki and Naoko Kijimuta were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Hiraki with Alexia Dechaume-Balleret and Kijimuta with Nana Miyagi.
Hiraki and Dechaume-Balleret lost in the first round to Lenka Němečková and Yuka Yoshida.
Kijimuta and Miyagi lost in the semifinals to Kerry-Anne Guse and Kristine Radford.
Guse and Radford won in the final 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 against Nemeckova and Yoshida.
Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
- Japan Naoko Kijimuta / Japan Nana Miyagi (semifinals)
- France Alexia Dechaume-Balleret / Japan Rika Hiraki (first round)
- South Korea Sung-Hee Park / Chinese Taipei Shi-Ting Wang (first round)
- Australia Kerry-Anne Guse / Australia Kristine Radford (champions)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- ITF = ITF entry
- PR = Protected ranking
- SR = Special ranking
- SE = Special exempt
- JE = Junior exempt
- JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
- CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
- NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted