# 1997 du Maurier Open – Women's doubles

Larisa Savchenko and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Savchenko with Helena Suková and Sánchez Vicario with Mary Joe Fernández.
Fernández and Sánchez Vicario lost in the quarterfinals to Yayuk Basuki and Caroline Vis.
Savchenko and Suková lost in the semifinals to Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf.
Basuki and Vis won in the final 3–6, 7–5, 6–4 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.
* Mary Joe Fernández / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (quarterfinals, retired)
* Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf (final)
* Larisa Savchenko / Helena Suková (semifinals)
* Alexandra Fusai / Nathalie Tauziat (second round)
* Conchita Martínez / Patricia Tarabini (second round)
* Yayuk Basuki / Caroline Vis (champions)
* Naoko Kijimuta / Nana Miyagi (quarterfinals)
* Lisa Raymond / Rennae Stubbs (quarterfinals)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking

### Final

| Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 6 | Yayuk Basuki Caroline Vis | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | Nicole Arendt Manon Bollegraf | 6 | 5 | 4 |

### Top half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | | | 1 | M J Fernández A Sánchez Vicario | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Appelmans L Wild | 6 | 4 | 6 | | S Appelmans L Wild | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | S Farina B Rittner | 3 | 6 | 4 | | | | | | 1 | M J Fernández A Sánchez Vicario | 1 | 0 | r | | | | | |
| | M Babel A Lettiere | 6 | 2 | 3 | | | | | | 6 | Y Basuki C Vis | 6 | 1 | | | | | | |
| | A Grossman K Habšudová | 3 | 6 | 6 | | A Grossman K Habšudová | 4 | 6 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | F Labat M Paz | 3 | 3 | | 6 | Y Basuki C Vis | 6 | 2 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | Y Basuki C Vis | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | Y Basuki C Vis | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I Gorrochategui I Spîrlea | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| | | | | | 4 | A Fusai N Tauziat | 6 | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | M Drake J Nejedly | 1 | 4 | | | I Gorrochategui I Spîrlea | 2 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | I Gorrochategui I Spîrlea | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | I Gorrochategui I Spîrlea | 3 | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | R Dragomir I Majoli | 5 | 2 | | | | | | | 8 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 6 | 3 | 3 | | | | | |
| Q | C Cristea L Montalvo | 7 | 6 | | Q | C Cristea L Montalvo | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Coetzer M Pierce | 2 | 4 | | 8 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | L Raymond R Stubbs | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| 5 | C Martínez P Tarabini | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Huber T Tanasugarn | 4 | 3 | | 5 | C Martínez P Tarabini | 6 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Saeki Y Yoshida | 7 | 0 | 6 | | E Callens R Grande | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | E Callens R Grande | 6 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | E Callens R Grande | 3 | 4 | | | | | |
| | K Po B Schultz-McCarthy | 2 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | 3 | L Savchenko H Suková | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | S Jeyaseelan R Simpson | 6 | 2 | 6 | | K Po B Schultz-McCarthy | 6 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | L Savchenko H Suková | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | L Savchenko H Suková | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | N Kijimuta N Miyagi | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | N Arendt M Bollegraf | 6 | 7 |
| | A Dechaume-Balleret S Testud | 4 | 1 | | 7 | N Kijimuta N Miyagi | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| | M de Swardt M Murić | 4 | 4 | | | E Likhovtseva A Sugiyama | 6 | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | E Likhovtseva A Sugiyama | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 7 | N Kijimuta N Miyagi | 6 | 3 | 2 | | | | |
| | Å Carlsson P Hy-Boulais | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 2 | N Arendt M Bollegraf | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| | C Barclay C Wood | 4 | 4 | | | Å Carlsson P Hy-Boulais | 7 | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | N Arendt M Bollegraf | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |

## Qualifying
### Qualifying seeds

* Jill Hetherington / Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel (first round)
* Cătălina Cristea / Laura Montalvo (qualified)

### Qualifiers

* Cătălina Cristea / Laura Montalvo

### Qualifying draw

| First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition | Qualifying competition |
| 1 | Jill Hetherington Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel | 5 | | | | | | |
| | Joannette Kruger Marion Maruska | 8 | | | | | | |
| | Joannette Kruger Marion Maruska | 8 | | Joannette Kruger Marion Maruska | 2 | | | |
| | | | | Olga Barabanschikova Louise Pleming | 8 | | | |
| | Olga Barabanschikova Louise Pleming | 8 | | Olga Barabanschikova Louise Pleming | 8 | | | |
| | Andrea Glass Sandra Kleinová | 2 | | | | | | |
| | Andrea Glass Sandra Kleinová | 2 | | | | | Olga Barabanschikova Louise Pleming | 8 |
| | | | | | | 2 | Cătălina Cristea Laura Montalvo | 9 |
| | Nathalie Dechy Sarah Pitkowski | 8 | | | | | | | 2 | Cătălina Cristea Laura Montalvo | 9 |
| WC | Renata Kolbovic Vanessa Webb | 3 | | | | | | |
| WC | Renata Kolbovic Vanessa Webb | 3 | | Nathalie Dechy Sarah Pitkowski | 1 | | | |
| | | | 2 | Cătălina Cristea Laura Montalvo | 8 | | | |
| | Rebecca Jensen Danielle Jones | 2 | 2 | Cătălina Cristea Laura Montalvo | 8 | | | |
| 2 | Cătălina Cristea Laura Montalvo | 8 | | | | | | |