*** Welcome to piglix ***

1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles

Women's Doubles
1997 Japan Open Tennis Championships
1996 Champions Japan Kimiko Date
Japan Ai Sugiyama
Champions France Alexia Dechaume-Balleret
Japan Rika Hiraki
Runners-up Australia Kerry-Anne Guse
United States Corina Morariu
Final score 6–4, 6–2
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.

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


...
Wikipedia

...