1997 Lipton Championships – Men's doubles
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Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde were the two-time defending champions and won in the final 7–6, 7–6 against Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor.
Seeds
All sixteen seeded teams received byes into the second round.
- Australia Todd Woodbridge / Australia Mark Woodforde (champions)
- Netherlands Jacco Eltingh / Netherlands Paul Haarhuis (third round)
- South Africa Ellis Ferreira / United States Patrick Galbraith (second round)
- Zimbabwe Byron Black / Canada Grant Connell (quarterfinals)
- The Bahamas Mark Knowles / Canada Daniel Nestor (final)
- Canada Sébastien Lareau / United States Alex O'Brien (third round)
- United States Rick Leach / United States Jonathan Stark (quarterfinals)
- Sweden Jonas Björkman / Sweden Nicklas Kulti (third round)
- Argentina Luis Lobo / Spain Javier Sánchez (semifinals)
- Belgium Libor Pimek / South Africa Byron Talbot (second round)
- Australia Sandon Stolle / Czech Republic Cyril Suk (third round)
- United Kingdom Neil Broad / South Africa Piet Norval (semifinals)
- n/a
- United States Donald Johnson / United States Francisco Montana (second round)
- Netherlands Stephen Noteboom / Sweden Peter Nyborg (second round)
- Czech Republic Jiří Novák / Czech Republic David Rikl (third round)
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