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1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's doubles

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Women's doubles
1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships
Final
ChampionsFrance Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Japan Rika Hiraki
Runners-upAustralia Kerry-Anne Guse
United States Corina Morariu
Score6–4, 6–2
Details
Draw16
Seeds4
Events
Singles men women
Doubles men women
← 1996 · Japan Open Tennis Championships · 1998 →

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

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Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.

  1. Japan Naoko Kijimuta / Japan Nana Miyagi (semifinals)
  2. United States Amy Frazier / United States Kimberly Po (quarterfinals)
  3. France Alexia Dechaume-Balleret / Japan Rika Hiraki (champions)
  4. Chinese Taipei Janet Lee / Chinese Taipei Shi-Ting Wang (quarterfinals)

Draw

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Key

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First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1 Japan N Kijimuta
Japan N Miyagi
6 6  
  Japan H Mochizuki
Japan K Takuma
3 1   1 Japan N Kijimuta
Japan N Miyagi
6 6  
  Italy R Grande
United States G Helgeson-Nielsen
6 6 6   Italy R Grande
United States G Helgeson-Nielsen
4 3  
  South Korea S-H Park
Thailand T Tanasugarn
2 7 3 1 Japan N Kijimuta
Japan N Miyagi
6 1 3
3 France A Dechaume-Balleret
Japan R Hiraki
6 6   3 France A Dechaume-Balleret
Japan R Hiraki
3 6 6
  Japan T Hotta
Japan Y Yamagishi
1 2   3 France A Dechaume-Balleret
Japan R Hiraki
6 6  
  Japan M Saeki
Japan Y Yoshida
6 6     Japan M Saeki
Japan Y Yoshida
2 1  
Q Japan H Inoue
Japan M Inoue
1 3   3 France Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Japan Rika Hiraki
6 6  
  Japan S Asagoe
Japan A Sugiyama
7 6     Australia Kerry-Anne Guse
United States Corina Morariu
4 2  
  Germany S Haas
Ukraine E Tatarkova
5 1     Japan S Asagoe
Japan A Sugiyama
6 6  
  Australia A Ellwood
Austria K Kschwendt
2 3   4 Chinese Taipei J Lee
Chinese Taipei S-T Wang
3 3  
4 Chinese Taipei J Lee
Chinese Taipei S-T Wang
6 6     Japan S Asagoe
Japan A Sugiyama
4 3  
  Australia K-A Guse
United States C Morariu
6 6     Australia K-A Guse
United States C Morariu
6 6  
  United States M Tu
India N Vaidyanathan
1 3     Australia K-A Guse
United States C Morariu
4 6 6
  Japan Y Hosoki
Japan K Nagatomi
5 3   2 United States A Frazier
United States K Po
6 2 2
2 United States A Frazier
United States K Po
7 6  
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