# 1997 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles

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.
* Larisa Savchenko / Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (semifinals)
* Gigi Fernández / Mary Joe Fernández (semifinals)
* Lindsay Davenport / Jana Novotná (champions)
* Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf (final)
* Katrina Adams / Caroline Vis (quarterfinals)
* Conchita Martínez / Patricia Tarabini (quarterfinals)
* Angela Lettiere / Nana Miyagi (first round)
* Chanda Rubin / Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (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 |
| 4 | Nicole ArendtManon Bollegraf | 3 | 0 | |
| 3 | Lindsay DavenportJana Novotná | 6 | 6 | |

### 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 | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | | | 1 | L SavchenkoA Sánchez Vicario | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | O LuginaE Wagner | 6 | 6 | | | O LuginaE Wagner | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | F LabatE Likhovtseva | 4 | 3 | | | | | | | 1 | L SavchenkoA Sánchez Vicario | 1 | | | | | | |
| WC | W ProbstP Schnyder | w/o | | | | | | | | 8 | C RubinB Schultz-McCarthy | 1 | r | | | | | |
| | A HuberM Seles | | | | WC | W ProbstP Schnyder | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| LL | P LangrováS Pitkowski | 3 | 2 | | 8 | C RubinB Schultz-McCarthy | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 8 | C RubinB Schultz-McCarthy | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | L SavchenkoA Sánchez Vicario | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | N ArendtM Bollegraf | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| | | | | | 4 | N ArendtM Bollegraf | 7 | 3 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | P Hy-BoulaisM Murić | 2 | 1 | | | M GrzybowskaS-T Wang | 5 | 6 | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| | M GrzybowskaS-T Wang | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 4 | N ArendtM Bollegraf | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| | A GrossmanT Whitlinger-Jones | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | 6 | C MartínezP Tarabini | 2 | 4 | | | | | |
| | L McNeilR Simpson | 3 | 3 | | | A GrossmanT Whitlinger-Jones | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | L MontalvoH Nagyová | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | C MartínezP Tarabini | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | C MartínezP Tarabini | 0 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| 7 | A LettiereN Miyagi | 5 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | R DragomirI Majoli | 7 | 6 | | | R DragomirI Majoli | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A FusaiM Paz | 6 | 7 | | | A FusaiM Paz | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | C CristeaC Papadáki | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | R DragomirI Majoli | 0 | 3 | | | | | | |
| | T KrižanN van Lottum | 7 | 1 | 6 | | | | | 3 | L DavenportJ Novotná | 6 | 6 | | | | | | |
| Q | T JečmenicaK Kschwendt | 5 | 6 | 1 | | T KrižanN van Lottum | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | L DavenportJ Novotná | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | L DavenportJ Novotná | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | K AdamsC Vis | 7 | 4 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | G FernándezM J Fernández | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| | S FarinaB Schett | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | K AdamsC Vis | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | L PlemingC Wood | 1 | 2 | | | A CoetzerI Gorrochategui | 6 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A CoetzerI Gorrochategui | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 5 | K AdamsC Vis | 1 | 6 | 2 | | | | | |
| | E MartincováR McQuillan | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 2 | G FernándezM J Fernández | 6 | 1 | 6 | | | | | |
| | S MeierP Schwarz | 2 | 4 | | | E MartincováR McQuillan | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | G FernándezM J Fernández | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |