1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles

Doubles
1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships
1996 Champions	Chanda Rubin Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Champions	Lindsay Davenport Jana Novotná
Runners-up	Nicole Arendt Manon Bollegraf
Final score	6–3, 6–0

Chanda Rubin and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Rubin with Brenda Schultz-McCarthy and Sánchez Vicario with Larisa Savchenko.

Rubin and Schultz-McCarthy lost in the quarterfinals to Savchenko and Sánchez Vicario.

Savchenko and Sánchez Vicario lost in the semifinals to Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf.

Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotná won in the final 6–3, 6–0 against Arendt and Bollegraf.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

Draw

Key

Final

Final
4	Nicole Arendt   Manon Bollegraf	3	0
3	Lindsay Davenport   Jana Novotná	6	6

Top Half

First Round							Second Round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
							1	L Savchenko   A Sánchez Vicario	6	6
	O Lugina   E Wagner	6	6					O Lugina   E Wagner	4	4
	F Labat   E Likhovtseva	4	3											1	L Savchenko   A Sánchez Vicario	1
WC	W Probst   P Schnyder	w/o												8	C Rubin   B Schultz-McCarthy	1	r
	A Huber   M Seles						WC	W Probst   P Schnyder	2	2
LL	P Langrová   S Pitkowski	3	2				8	C Rubin   B Schultz-McCarthy	6	6
8	C Rubin   B Schultz-McCarthy	6	6																		1	L Savchenko   A Sánchez Vicario	6	6	2
																					4	N Arendt   M Bollegraf	4	7	6
							4	N Arendt   M Bollegraf	7	3	7
	P Hy-Boulais   M Murić	2	1					M Grzybowska   S-T Wang	5	6	5
	M Grzybowska   S-T Wang	6	6											4	N Arendt   M Bollegraf	6	6
	A Grossman   T Whitlinger-Jones	6	6											6	C Martínez   P Tarabini	2	4
	L McNeil   R Simpson	3	3					A Grossman   T Whitlinger-Jones	3	4
	L Montalvo   H Nagyová	6	1	4			6	C Martínez   P Tarabini	6	6
6	C Martínez   P Tarabini	0	6	6

Bottom Half

First Round							Second Round							Quarterfinals							Semifinals
7	A Lettiere   N Miyagi	5	4
	R Dragomir   I Majoli	7	6					R Dragomir   I Majoli	6	6
	A Fusai   M Paz	6	7					A Fusai   M Paz	4	4
	C Cristea   C Papadáki	4	6												R Dragomir   I Majoli	0	3
	T Križan   N van Lottum	7	1	6										3	L Davenport   J Novotná	6	6
Q	T Ječmenica   K Kschwendt	5	6	1				T Križan   N van Lottum	1	1
							3	L Davenport   J Novotná	6	6
																					3	L Davenport   J Novotná	6	5	7
5	K Adams   C Vis	7	4	6																	2	G Fernández   M J Fernández	3	7	5
	S Farina   B Schett	5	6	3			5	K Adams   C Vis	7	6
	L Pleming   C Wood	1	2					A Coetzer   I Gorrochategui	6	3
	A Coetzer   I Gorrochategui	6	6											5	K Adams   C Vis	1	6	2
	E Martincová   R McQuillan	6	6											2	G Fernández   M J Fernández	6	1	6
	S Meier   P Schwarz	2	4					E Martincová   R McQuillan	2	3
							2	G Fernández   M J Fernández	6	6

External links

• 1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships Doubles Draw